Johannes Grenzfurthner’s new film Masking Threshold is a tale of madness told through extreme close-ups and macro lenses. It’s a contemporary take on the mad scientist through in-world camera and found footage techniques. What starts as a man searching for answers becomes a bloody and horrific spectacle.
Frustrated by a constant ringing in his ears, a paranoid data analyst documents his obsessive attempts to cure his own debilitating tinnitus through a series of home experiments conducted in a make-shift lab. But as his research becomes increasingly dark and macabre, a horrifying secret behind his maddening condition is revealed with a potential cure more sinister than he could have ever imagined.
Dread Central spoke with Grenzfurthner about madness, messy queer characters, cosmic horror, and more.
Masking Threshold is out now on digital.