Taste in Music
A cosmic storm heads towards Earth, baffling astronomers and worrying meteorologists who say the effects upon the atmosphere cannot be predicted, governments warning citizens to remain calm, avoid travel and stay safe by staying inside, no problem for musician Thomas Lomax who had no intention of going out anyway.
Composing in his coastal cabin above the rocky shore, the storm arrives, dazzling him and rendering him unconscious, but it is his keyboard which absorbs the energy, Thomas waking to find it has transformed into a hungry biomechanical monstrosity which no longer shares his taste in music, playing a different tune in the consuming key of madness.
Written and directed by Kyle Sevenoaks, Taste in Music is a short horror comedy dramatically lit in the lurid Argento style by Per Kristian Ingebrigtsen and featuring a synthesiser soundtrack also provided by Sevenoaks, its slapstick shenanigans pressing hard on the reverb pedal of Evil Dead II but coming across as little more than a rough demo tape.
The premise basic, the dialogue minimal and both the soundtrack and the plot a single riff played over and over with no progression or counterpoint, Christopher Wiborg is given little to do other than half-heartedly scream “get away from me” as he is repeatedly soaked in fake blood, Taste in Music leaving little impression even as it plays, the splatter horror equivalent of elevator muzak.
Taste in Music screened at the Ramaskrik Film Festival
