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2022
Directed by Guy
Synopsis
In the relentless heat of the gruelling summer, temperatures soar to blistering levels as cicadas emerge to sing their ear-shattering song. Months of continued exposure is enough to make anyone start to feel a little off. Anyone, that is, except that oddity the locals call ‘the Cicada Man’. Who is that strange man and why is he always walking around with boxes full of live cicadas? More important, what does he do with them? As the heat starts to get to our heroine, and her sanity depletes, real life and delusion begin to mix. Her darkest nightmares seep into our world and she fears the Cicada Man has planted his swarm of insects inside her. She must get them out – at all costs. Thus begins her downward spiral into extreme paranoia and self-mutilation. She just needs to make it through the summer.
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Kaori Hoshino Shinya Hankawa Keita Kusaka Kiyomi Kametani Kuromi Kirishima Yuina Nagai Shiori Kawai
DirectorDirector
Guy
WriterWriter
Guy
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Guy
Studio
Sculpting Fragments
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Alternative Titles
夏バテ女, 夏日疲劳少女, 中暑少女
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Horror
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28 Aug 2022
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Review by Dave Jackson ★★★★★ 7
I have a few cheeky caveats about this review. The director, Guy, is a very good friend (we even do a podcast together, you should listen to it). Not only that, I helped out (in a very small way) as second camera on a couple of days. That said, I am completely removed from this film creatively, and I think I'm generally quite good at disconnecting personal relationships to my viewing experience. Also, I watched Guy's short films before meeting him and I loved those. And with that...
... The Sound of Summer is FUCKING GREAT. Yes, this is an independent film, made on a low budget. But Guy is the perfect independent filmmaker. He is not out to make…
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Review by Bob McCully ★★★★ 8
Guy Fragment's debut feature film is one gnarrrrly body-horror nightmare. Following up on his excellent short, Difficulty Breathing, he expands that descent into madness till it bursts like a festering scab. Hell. Yes.
True to the name, we are smack dab in the hottest stretch of summer in a Japanese city. We follow a plucky woman in her day to day life, complaining about the heat, but more importantly - complaining about the cicadas. The insect's incessant chorus produces a non-stop buzzing that gnaws at her psyche, robbing her of sleep and eventually pushing her over the edge. There's also a mysterious man who keeps these cicadas as pets skulking around the periphery of her life. It's just a matter…
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Review by Aberrant Ghoul ★★★★★ 4
So, Jozlyn mentioned that she has the Blu for this, from Unearthed Films. And like, I remembered hearing about this somewhere. Where the fuck was that again? Oh that's right, it was from an episode of this bangin' podcast by these two cool dudes I happen to be acquainted with. Anyway, I had to check this out, you dig?
Well, this shit went from Yotsuba&! to Junji Ito in a fuckin' hurry (and if you got that Yotsuba reference, you're either a six-year-old Japanese girl or you're learning to read Japanese). This thing vibes like Boku no Natsuyasumi (My Summer Vacation) filtered through Cronenberg and Lynch. Or perhaps you would prefer I say Tsukamoto and Satō. Me, I love summers…
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Review by Bob McCully ★★★★ 4
NEW EPISODE OF SPLIT YOUR HEAD IS LIVE!
This time Jeremiah and I interview Guy! Director of Difficulty Breathing, The Rope Maiden, and The Sound of Summer, which just got it's blu-ray debut via Unearthed Films.
This was a fun chat but full disclosure: due to the time difference of Guy residing in Japan and us being in N.A., we had to conduct this around 6am. So we are sleepy boys, trying to get our brains cooking. I believe it's noticeable, but you be the judge...
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Review by More_Badass ★★★★ 1
The Sound of Summer is Guy Pierce (not that one) amplifying all the suffocating strengths of his Difficulty Breathing short into a real skin-crawler of a horror feature. Beguiling normalcy and Kaori Hoshino’s naturalistic day-to-day are economically established, the summer heatwave swelter as much a looming presence as the enigmatic “Cicada Man” lurking these city streets. Tsukamoto/Fukui-influenced delirium soon ensnares the poor woman and Guy’s direction: an unnerving escalation of scratching, peeling, tearing self-mutilation whose invasive paranoia is backdropped by an ear-boring soundscape of insect chittering. It’s a visceral audiovisual experience whose writhing clawing grisliness gets under the skin thanks to effective practical effects and Hoshino’s superb performance. Shinya Hankawa as the clammy bug-eyed Cicada Man brings his own nightmare…
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Review by Bob McQueen ★★★★ 1
Ya know, cicadas are like my favorite insect and of course I was gonna love this. Just a weirdo good time about a quiet dude who likes his pet cicadas, feeding them human flesh, and creeping out the girls at the coffee shop he goes to. The third act gets bonkers as cicada man really turns into a cicada/human hybrid. Some decent gore and practical effects.
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Review by mdfmdf ★★★★
There is something inherently sinister about a guy having a hobby
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Review by JacobGreen ★★★½
One of the newest underground hits changes up the pace a bit from your usual extreme cinema fair and goes in a more body horror-oriented direction. The story follows a woman who works at a restaurant where a strange cicada-collecting man frequents who rather freaks her out. And between that, the never-ending singing of aforementioned cicadas, and a grueling heat wave, our main character slowly begins to lose her mind and develops a strange rash which she can’t help but to scratch… and scratch.. and scratch and- you get it. Anyway, before long we begin to realize this itch is just not in her head and something more bizarre is going on.
The film, directed by Guy S. Fragments, or…
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Review by Sarah MacPhee ★★★★
Hooptober X: Film 11/31
The opening lulled me into a false sense of security and, during this time, I made a decision. A decision to heat up a bowl of chili. Do not eat a bowl of chili while watching this. Learn from my mistakes.
There is a wrist sequence in here that rivals the one in Guinea Pig 3: He Never Dies. Why is it always the wrists? Too many important things in there! Then, after cycling through a few other extractions she eventually moves on to a different body part, at which point I was like; "go back!! More wrist excavation, please!!" And then more stuff happens. Oh, does more stuff ever happen. The most stomach-turning thing in here, though, may just be the kerning of the cursive credit text. That being said, I'm fully committed to taking that as a very suitable creative choice that just contributes to the film's uncomfy oddball gestalt, tbh. Committed!!
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Review by Lucinda ★★★★
A huge step-up in terms of craft and concept from DIY writer-director Guy. Guy's previous feature Difficulty Breathing is tense and claustrophobic, and The Sound of Summer is tense, claustrophobic, and absolutely excruciating, with some of the most squirm-inducing body horror I've ever seen from a micro-budget film. The scene where Kaori Hoshino digs deep into her skin to try to pull out the "cicada fragments" she's convinced have burrowed into her flesh had me full-on yelping, writhing on the couch, and wishing I could look away from the screen. The special effects are really top notch and Hoshino is a very believable and sympathetic protagonist, an unassuming young woman who just wants to be free from whatever it is…
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Review by Rozugami ★★★★★
The Sound of Summer 2022 is a masterpiece of indie horror, Japanese cinema. The director Guy, who made one of my all time favorite short films - “Difficulty Breathing” - directed this, and is also a very pleasant person to talk with. My name is even in the credits as a supporter, which I really appreciate…
As for the movie itself, it captivates you right from the beginning. The score by Microchip Terror fits perfectly in place with all the scenes. A bit nauseating and long lasting in a specific part near the end in the apartment section but for all good reason. And a film about cicadas, there sure are a lot and it’s inspiring to see real-life outside…
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Review by ☥ skylar ☥ ★★★★
ok, so this fucking ruled. what starts out as an easy going, summer drenched slice of life morphs into a truly depraved, buggy and gory little piece of body horror. the sfx work was superb and fresh, and not only was this film quite pleasing to look at, but again, absolutely amazing performance from our lead! it’s hard to believe these actors haven’t been in anything else besides guy’s films, such a display of natural talent. this left me pretty damn excited to see what’s next from guy. i urge you to pull this up on tubi immediately and try to go into it as blindly as you can!
