Masters of Horror - Sounds Like | 
| Director: Brad Anderson
Actors: Laura Margolis, Richard Kahan, Michael Daingerfield, David Pearson, David Lovgren
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 74407
Format: Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: ANBDN9908D
UPC: 013138990884
EAN: 0013138990884
ASIN: B000S1MMCK
Theatrical Release Date: November 17, 2006
Release Date: September 18, 2007
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Product Description
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
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 One of the best MOH stories! December 5, 2008
John Lindsey (Socorro, New Mexico USA.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Larry Pearce (Chris Bauer) is just your average computer tech supervisor who just lost his son. He has a special supernatural kind of hearing that lets him hear from very far away especially when he listens to conversations on the phone by his staff at work. However this kind of ability is driving him to the brink of insanity as he can't stands no more especially his griefstruck over his son's death.
A stirring and disturbing psychological horror thriller from Brad Anderson (Director of "Session 9" and "The Machinst") is a smart and startling story. It's one of the more "Twilight Zone"-ish stories on the TV Show as it gives us a character and social study about what it is to be someone else's own world of noise. The acting is quite good and has one hell of a disturbing ending.
This DVD includes two featurettes, photo gallery, script and audio commentary.
Wonderful Product April 10, 2008
Sarah Resser
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Product came in perfect condition, looked like it had never been touched, shipping was very fast. Thank you!!
 Please enter a title for your review December 7, 2007
pancake_repairman (gfjdhgfjhgj)
*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 November 30, 2007
Jason A. Greeno (San Diego, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 November 3, 2007
TastyBabySyndrome ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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