Stars: Kamia Benge, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, Tessa Munro | Written and Directed by Alex Noyer
As a young child Alexis (Kamia Benge) lost her hearing in an accident. At age ten she regained it while bashing her murderous father’s head in with a meat tenderizer. Not only did her hearing come back, she now has a euphoric response to some sound. A sinister form of Synesthesia that is triggered by the sound of violence and pain.
Now grown up Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown; The Leftovers) teaches music to college students. She’s also a musician, converting sounds such as a session between a Dominatrix and her client into electronic music. Unfortunately not only are these sounds not triggering a reaction, she’s beginning to lose her hearing again. And it will take more death to bring it back again.
Sound of Violence starts out like a...
As a young child Alexis (Kamia Benge) lost her hearing in an accident. At age ten she regained it while bashing her murderous father’s head in with a meat tenderizer. Not only did her hearing come back, she now has a euphoric response to some sound. A sinister form of Synesthesia that is triggered by the sound of violence and pain.
Now grown up Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown; The Leftovers) teaches music to college students. She’s also a musician, converting sounds such as a session between a Dominatrix and her client into electronic music. Unfortunately not only are these sounds not triggering a reaction, she’s beginning to lose her hearing again. And it will take more death to bring it back again.
Sound of Violence starts out like a...
- 8/30/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
It’s the silence that hits you. Right there at the start, when you’re waiting for the musical cue that will carry you into the world of the film. You wonder for a moment, if something is wrong, if the film is playing properly – and you get just a tiny hint of how traumatic it must be to experience sudden hearing loss.
Alexis (played as a child by Kamia Benge) lost her hearing in an accident. We meet her some time later, when she and her mother have learned to sign and begun to develop the habits they need to communicate in day to day life. Alexis’ father, however, is not a part of that. The kid is nervous about seeing him. He’s been away at war, come back with psychological problems, as so many people do. A tense family dinner follows, a situation that would be difficult enough for a.
Alexis (played as a child by Kamia Benge) lost her hearing in an accident. We meet her some time later, when she and her mother have learned to sign and begun to develop the habits they need to communicate in day to day life. Alexis’ father, however, is not a part of that. The kid is nervous about seeing him. He’s been away at war, come back with psychological problems, as so many people do. A tense family dinner follows, a situation that would be difficult enough for a.
- 8/28/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Musically-minded villain doesn’t really make this a feminist film, or bring much coherence to the mayhem she orchestrates
Another entry to chalk up in the neo-giallo wave currently being led by Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor, this also flips the misogynistic precepts of the genre – in this case making the murderous point of view very much female. Kamia Benge plays music student Alexis, a young deaf girl who is far from being traumatised by an incident of terrible violence in her home, and instead finds that a meat tenderiser’s squelchy impact causes her to see a constellation of hallucinogenic lights – along presumably all the feels.
Years later, her hearing returned, Alexis (now played by Jasmin Savoy Brown) and fellow student Marie (Lili Simmons) are recording in an S&m dungeon when the flesh-strikes start tickling her dormant synaesthesia – and she tries pushing the gimp beyond his limits. Out walking...
Another entry to chalk up in the neo-giallo wave currently being led by Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor, this also flips the misogynistic precepts of the genre – in this case making the murderous point of view very much female. Kamia Benge plays music student Alexis, a young deaf girl who is far from being traumatised by an incident of terrible violence in her home, and instead finds that a meat tenderiser’s squelchy impact causes her to see a constellation of hallucinogenic lights – along presumably all the feels.
Years later, her hearing returned, Alexis (now played by Jasmin Savoy Brown) and fellow student Marie (Lili Simmons) are recording in an S&m dungeon when the flesh-strikes start tickling her dormant synaesthesia – and she tries pushing the gimp beyond his limits. Out walking...
- 8/24/2021
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Experimental musician, DJ and teacher’s assistant Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown) is working on a seriously killer track. But the high she is chasing, in writer-director Alex Noyer’s uneven but often inventively grisly feature debut, is not that of pop stardom or peer admiration. Instead Alexis, due a condition whereby she experiences the sounds of human pain as a glorious starburst of color and pleasure, is attempting to knit her disorder into a sonic artpiece, no matter the rising bodycount of her “instrumentation.”
With its themes of creative obsession and trauma recycled as psychopathy, not to mention Alexis’ synesthesia giving license for lurid, semi-abstract, technicolor visual sequences, “Sound of Violence” boasts perhaps the greatest giallo premise that Dario Argento never dreamed up. It’s just a shame that Noyer decides that it isn’t enough. The spectacularly gruesome and grotesquely elaborate murder scenes do ample justice to even the...
With its themes of creative obsession and trauma recycled as psychopathy, not to mention Alexis’ synesthesia giving license for lurid, semi-abstract, technicolor visual sequences, “Sound of Violence” boasts perhaps the greatest giallo premise that Dario Argento never dreamed up. It’s just a shame that Noyer decides that it isn’t enough. The spectacularly gruesome and grotesquely elaborate murder scenes do ample justice to even the...
- 5/20/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Sound of Violence Review — Sound of Violence (2021) Video Movie Review, a Gravitas Ventures movie written and directed by Alex Noyer, and stars Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, Tessa Munro, Dana L. Wilson, Kamia Benge, Wes McGee, and Mataeo Mingo. In this video review, I talk about the new horror film [...]
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- 4/8/2021
- by Alex Srednoselac
- Film-Book
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