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Sound of Horror

aka El sonido de la muerte

Poster of Sound of Horror
  • Photo of Jonathan Rigby

    Here was a rarity twice over — not merely a Spanish monster movie but, in deference to a conspicuously threadbare budget, a Spanish invisible monster movie. It’s the standard Americanised siege situation, very vaguely recalling The Thing from Another World as a group of boorish treasure-seekers disturb an age-old amorphous entity in a Greek cave. Manuel Berenguer’s classy monochrome photography, some surprisingly grisly clawings inflicted on the expedition members, another early role for Soledad Miranda, and a first ever appearance from the Polish actress Ingrid Pitt — none of these things quite compensates for the turgid pace and the swelling tide of verbal diarrhoea in the dialogue.

    Jonathan Rigby, Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema (Signum Books, 2016)
  • Little actually happens in this low-budget exercise in tedium. Plenty of slow poking about in the cave eats up some running time; while [Ingrid] Pitt dances the twist at one point, followed by female lead Soledad Miranda’s slooow Greek-style dance interpretation, in order to pad the picture further. … The picture tries for that trapped/besieged feel, but only manages to produce hokum, clichés and ultimately ennui, as the underdeveloped characters mope about and experience “revelations” about their wasted lives and time misspent.

    Mark Clark and Bryan Senn, Sixties Shockers: A Critical Filmography of Horror Cinema, 1960-1969 (McFarland, 2011)

Selected disc options for Sound of Horror

Extras
Alpha box art
Alpha DVD-R-1/US 2003
Theatrical Trailer (1:32) has extra

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Presentation Alpha DVD-R 2003
  • Video
    • File 1
      • Codec: MPEG-2
      • Resolution: 480i
      • Overall bit rate: 6.00 Mbps
      • Aspect ratio: 1.30:1
      • Length:1:29:36.571
      • File size: 3.88 GiB
  • Audio
    • File 1
      • Language: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
      • Sampling rate: 48 kHz
      • Bit rate: 192 kbps
      • Bit depth: 16-bit
  • Subtitles
    • None
Extras Theatrical Trailer (1:32, 480i) Alpha DVD-R