I enjoyed it, too. It helped establishing the atmosphere in the movie. From the sense of a slow burn creeping dread, it builds up tension to full-fledged terror. Great movie overall!
shareMy only complaint, and more than one movie has done this, is that during the tense scenes there was this high pitched whine/buzz that went along with the music. It's way to high pitched and hurts my ears, to the point it pulls me out of the movie.
shareI can't hear those ringtones that allegedly only teens can hear, but I hear sounds in this film as well as others that nobody else hears, including teens, and it drives me nuts.
Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.
I completely agree! The high-pitched-'ringing in your ears' noise that played so often about drove me crazy! I hated it!
shareI almost turned it off when it kept doing those high-pitched rings. That sound gives me a headache pretty much instantly. I had to mute YellowBrickRoad and turn on the captions for long stretches in some parts for the same reason.
shareThe audio in YellowBrickRoad is really the only thing that movie has going for it. There wasn't much to it. The plot was about the characters hearing strange things in the woods; if you didn't listen to the audio then you missed out on the majority of the film. It was definitely a style over substance type of movie.
shareI have to agree. I understand it adds to the whole atmosphere of the film, but it really just made my head hurt, and made it hard to concentrate on the story.
shareI liked the SD. But agreed, I had to check system to see if the ringing was on my end. Good film!
shareI liked the SD. But agreed, I had to check system to see if the ringing was on my end. Good film!
shareYeah I thought the sound design was one of the best things about the movie, very immersive and effective
shareit was really well done. the father singing lovely molly was scary as sh!t
shareThe sound design was one of the key factors that made this one of the best recent horror movies for me.
shareI just watched this and really enjoyed it - if 'enjoy' is the right word - well I thought it was a very well made psychological horror movie that also successfully felt and looked like an indie movie - unlike the disastrous The Inkeepers which came out around the same time and received a lot more attention.
I really enjoy the multiple ways this film can be read and 'deciphered' and have been thinking a lot about it. There has been some talk on some of the other threads about the father/spirit actually being a demon (or the father originally being inhabited by this demon, which would explain/excuse his actions towards Molly) with someone very interestingly going as far as to name a particular demon which has the appearance of a horse (or has a horses head).
schizophrenia and schizoid states are commonly associated with the trauma of child sexual abuse and I was really interested in what people were saying about the sound design on this - I watched it on a laptop so couldn't really appreciate it and could not hear the high pitched sound (though it may have affected me on some level), it made me think of the state of suffering from a Psychogenic Fugue which is when literally becomes (in their mind) another person. This is a rare and rarely recorded psychological condition and one which also fits nicely into theories behind David Lynch's Lost Highway (he was unaware of the condition at the time of making the filming). Anyway, one of the significant effects of this is of the sufferer hearing high pitched whines upon 'fuguing' from one state to another, which is partly why it has been associated with alien abduction.
Anyway, i'd be interested to watch it again and see if the whining correlates with the 'appearance' of the father/spirit/demon which might support a theory that she is 'fuguing' between mental states.
However none of that explains the 'thing' in the cupboard (which I interpreted as somehow Molly herself or the personification of her trauma) and if it was all in Molly's head did the sister then reach out for it in the end.
Anyway...