IFC Midnight has acquired U.S. rights to writer/director Peter Strickland’s psychological horror film Berberian Sound Studio, which will screen at the upcoming Toronto and New York film festivals.
The film, which stars Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, Fatma Mohamed, Tonia Sotiropolou and Salvatore Li Causi, takes place in a sleazy post-production facility in Italy in 1976. Jones plays an introverted sound engineer from England, hired to do the mix on a horror film.
“Berberian Sound Studio is a dazzling cinematic tour-de-force that brings to mind Hitchcock, Argento and De Palma featuring a brilliant performance by Toby Jones. Peter Strickland is one of the most exciting new directors we’ve come across,” Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, said.
