History Recap / MastersOfHorrorS2E4SoundsLike

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Larry arguably crosses the line when he murders his wife in her sleep, to silence the sounds her body creates and his hearing enhances. But by the end, everything he's been through leaves him completely broken. So much that he graphically deafens himself and wanders absentmindedly to the beach with his son's boat, where he'll presumably be caught and arrested by the police.]]

* EarAche: [[spoiler: Larry eventually frees himself from the burden of his enhanced hearing by carving his ears off, leaving him completely deaf]].
* HopeSpot: Larry hopes that with his sense of hearing becoming superhuman he may finally be able to "hear" his son's ghost. Near the end, he thinks he's heard it, [[spoiler: but it turns out to be a tree branch scraping against his son's bedroom window.]]

* MessyMaggots: In the otherwise psychological horror-themed episode, the main character's wife disappears halfway through the episode. In the end, the cops burst into his house when he goes fully mad, finding [[spoiler: her rotting, maggot-eaten corpse in the bedroom.]]

* TheNothingAfterDeath: [[spoiler: Larry's main source of angst is that while he only keeps hearing better and better he never manages to hear his son's soul.]]

* SinisterScrapingSound: After a while, literally everything. This effect leads to Larry slaughtering a nest of baby mice and [[spoiler:murdering his sleeping wife.]]

Directed by Brad Anderson (''Film/{{Session 9}}'', ''Film/TheMachinist''), and based on a short story by Mike O'Driscoll. Larry Pearce (Chris Bauer) is a supervisor in a tech support company that descends into madness as his fine sense of hearing keeps getting better and better.

* MadnessMantra: Larry keeps telling himself “Be still.”

Directed by Brad Anderson, the director of ''Film/{{Session 9}}'' and ''Film/TheMachinist'', and based on a short story by Mike O'Driscoll. Larry Pearce (Chris Bauer) is a supervisor in a tech support company that begins to descend into madness as his fine sense of hearing only gets better.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Larry arguably crosses the line when he murders his wife in her sleep, to silence the sounds her body creates and his hearing enhances. But by the end, everything he's been through leaves him completely broken. So much that he graphically deafens himself and wanders absentmindedly to the beach with his son's boat, where he'll presumably be caught and arrested by the police.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Larry's superhearing makes him discover that his son has a cardiac affliction, but only too late to save him; it also makes him better at his job, but not good enough to meet his boss' expectations, while his subordinates hate him for it; and finally, it drives him crazy as it just keeps getting better, and better, and better...

* HopeSpot: Larry hopes that with his sense of hearing becoming superhuman he may finally be able to "hear" his son's ghost. Near the end, he thinks he's finally heard it, [[spoiler: but it just turns out to be a tree branch scraping against his son's bedroom window.]]
* JerkAss: Larry comes as this several times.
* MadnessMantra: “Be still.”

* NoAntagonist: There's no antagonist in this episode; the conflict revolves entirely around the main character's acute sense of hearing becoming [[BlessedWithSuck increasingly unbearable]].
* TheNothingAfterDeath: [[spoiler: Larry's main source of angst is that while he only keeps hearing better and better he never manages to hear his son's ghost]]
* PsychologicalHorror: This is probably one of the creepier episodes due to the slow-paced source of the horror. There are no monsters or killers to run away from, it's just the main character slowly growing mad because his sense of hearing keeps getting better and better and everything around him becomes intolerable.
* SinisterScrapingSound: After a while, literally everything. [[spoiler: This effect leads to Larry slaughtering a nest of baby mice and murdering his sleeping wife.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Larry arguably crosses the line when he murders his wife in her sleep, to silence the sounds her body creates and his hearing enhances. But by the end, everything he's been through leaves him completely broken. So much that he graphically deafens himself and wanders absentmindedly to the beach with his son's boat, where he'll presumably caught and arrested by the police.]]

* HopeSpot: Larry hopes that with his sense of hearing becoming superhuman he may finally be able to "hear" his son's ghost. Near the end he thinks he's finally heard it, [[spoiler:but it just turns out be a tree branch scraping against his son's bedroom window.]]

* MessyMaggots: In the otherwise psychological horror-themed episode, the main character's wife disappears halfway through the episode. At the end, the cops burst into his house when he goes fully mad, finding [[spoiler:her rotting, maggot-eaten corpse in the bedroom.]]