Masking Threshold

One of those "the director had a smart idea" movies. You can smell the pretentiousness even during the opening credits with that "is recursive" slapped on to the quote about man being created in the image of god. Wow, so deep. The narration is annoying and pretentious - constantly dropping 'clever' factoids, like lychen being a symbiosis between fungus and algea, Bart Simpson having had to have been Homer's age by now, etc - like scrolling through Buzzfeed... The driving force is ostensibly the intensification of the protagonist's mental condition and the slow buildup of gore, culminating in human body parts all over the place. But I felt no intensification of any feeling except boredom and disgust. And this disgust had no depth to it, nothing beyond it to support and contextualise it narratively and/or emotionally. The experience is more like flipping through a graphic dissection book, an experience I have no interest in, certainly not artistically, and certainly not while listening to that constant annoying narration. So yea maybe in an ingenious way the film is recursive in that we cannot escape the annoying speech sounds of the guy researching an annoying sound in his head...

First things first, this isn't really horror per se, but I suppose going insane would be considered horror. This film focuses on senses in every way possible, sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. It's those senses that intensifies over time and for some, becomes a crutch into self isolation as it turns into psychological paranoia. The film introduces you into each of these senses with spiraling inner thoughts spoken out as the film goes on, and then leads to full blown insanity that ends in surrender. If you focus on the underlying context without feeling bored, you'll understand why this film plays out this way. Complete insanity in doses.

After watching the first 12 minutes I realized that the rest of the film followed the same pattern. The movie is characterized by repetitive disgusting close-ups. It accompanied by an intense and overwhelming audio track consisting of a mentally ill person's mutterings . It's made as a collection of short, gross videos that might appeal to some but did not resonate with my personal preferences. While the initial minutes of the film were enough to gauge the entire movie's tone, I decided to watch a few random moments close to the end to confirm my suspicions. In conclusion, the movie may suit those who enjoy short, shocking visual experiences, but it might not be a good fit for those who prefer more varied and nuanced films.

I know it's been said a lot but I've never left a review on here. After seeing the positives I decided to give it a try. A try for something different in the horror genre because I've watched a lot of horror movies. This was literally the most boring thing I have watched. Nothing happens except a guy talking and close ups of nothing the entire time. And i understand what it was, he could hear the sound of death and became obsessed with death but non of this happened until the end. It just tried sounding smart the entire movie then they realized something was supposed to actually happen at the end. I'm really not someone who likes traditional slasher flicks. I like a good story and for it to lead somewhere. But let me sum it up so you don't waste over an hour and a half. That is how annoyed I am at the existence of this movie and the time wasted. He has a ringing in his ears and it annoys him. He does experiments to see what variables changes the ringing. Finds out he can basically hear death and becomes obsessed and kills a couple people. Sounds kind of interesting at the end but you have to literally suffer through nothing for 95 percent of the movie and even the payoff isn't great.