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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Salesrank: 82045
Released: September 18, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
For call center supervisor larry pearce listening is a way of life. But in the months following his young sons tragic death larrys hearing intesifies until its virtually superhuman. As larry slowly loses his grip on reality he must take violent action to find the ultimate apradise of absolute silence. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 09/18/2007 Starring: Laura Margolis Chris Bauer Run time: 58 minutes
Masters of Horror - Sounds Like Reviews:
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2007-12-07 - *contains spoilers*
not as bad as The Damned Thing or The V Word, this episode has a main character who isn't totally one dimensional, i guess it's conceptually a little reminiscent of Falling Down or Taxi Driver, but there are so many monotonous scenes of the guy contorting his face from all the little sounds that bother him, and all it leads up to is a contextless anticlimactic murder when a suicide would have made a lot more sense.
may be the best MOH episode
2007-12-01 - Brad Anderson, while still very young, is proving himself to be truly a master of horror. "Session 9", "The Machinist" and now this. Dang. It's great. Don't expect a balls-to-the-wall horror extravaganza, and you will like what you get. This is more Alfred Hitchcock than Lucio Fulci. Paced well, cerebral, and sounds great. Highly recommended.
A Not-So-Perfect Pitch
2007-11-04 - Working at a call center can be a drag, and more so if you are a call supervisor that finds himself continually segregated from the crowd because of your "abilities." That seems to be the problem for Larry Pearce (Chris Bauer), who listens to hundreds of calls a day and starts to notice the "little things." Changes in tones, little pieces that show just how a call will go; he even notices someone texting just because of the sound of it.
And it goes on and on.
As the days rattle on he finds that his sound becomes intensified, to the point of superhuman and beyond. And to stop it - o, to stop it.
As the Masters of Horror series trudges on and continues to explore new concepts, there are continually more middle-ground episodes than there used to be. In the first season most of the tales were complete hits or sad misses, but many of the newer tales are something in-between. As far as Sounds Like goes it was something like that, with episodes like this not really bad and not really good. To be frank, it didn't seem as though it tried too hard to be something out of the ordinary.
It began well enough, setting up a character that had an understandable problem. The episode delved into his personal issues, too, showing exactly why the happenstances were happening. The middle of the episode was much of the same, and the conclusion - well, I laughed a bit at the it and I was saddened a bit by it but I didn't think it really examined the issues at hand.
And, considering this is Masters of Horror, I expected it to be a be more horrific than it was.
If you are new to the episodes, you might want to try a better starting point. If you are are a fan of the series, then you'll probably buy and you'll notice the middle ground I was talking about. I personally like most of the episodes because I look at them for what they are, a horror series that isn't really a movie and isn't really a series. It is a show cutting out the filler, trying to be purely horror.
And the verdict on Sounds Like - it was like a B movie without a lot of boredom. The price is always good and, if needing something to pass some time, you might find it appealing.
HEARING PROBLEM
2007-10-18 - This dark episode plays like more of a TWILIGHT ZONE than most of the other entries, but it's disturbing in its portray of massive grief and man's tendency not to really listen. Chris Bauer stars as Larry Pearce, a supervisor at a software support call in center, whose loss of his young son to heart disease has left him surly, cold and insensitive. Laura Margolis plays his submissive wife who is eager to have a son to replace their loss. Unfortunately, another component of Pearce's grief is his supersensitivity to sound where in any noise is overwhelming, leading him into a gradual maelstrom of madness.
Bauer is quite good in assaying the difficult role, very convincing as he descends into violence and madness. A good entry in the uneven series.
