In writer/director Johannes Grenzfurthner’s first horror feature Masking Threshold (2021), the shut-in protagonist P.T. Alcorn (played by Grenzfurthener himself) may have been the principal and constant focus, and his narrative commentary (voiced by Ethan Haslan) may have pervaded everything, but his face was never fully shown, as the camera, primarily using a macro lens, only…
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Masking Threshold (2021)
Masking Threshold UK première at Soho Horror Film Festival 2022 Johannes Grenzfurthner’s Masking Threshold, which he co-wrote with Samantha Lienhard, is named for an acoustic phenomenon: if two sounds are played concurrently but one is louder than the other, it can mask the softer sound from the human brain, reducing it to inaudibility. Likewise the…