-Written by Kyle Bain.
When a cosmic storm barrels toward earth in an unprecedented way, music producer Thomas’ (Christopher Wiborg) life is turned upside down. His keyboard has grown teeth and turned evil, and Thomas’ life is in danger. Taste in Music is a campy horror flick, one that both works in its favor but also hinders it.
If you like campy horror films, you’ll likely enjoy Taste in Music. It’s plagued by wonky, but effective cinematography, ridiculously silly antagonists, an unbelievable (literally not believable) story, and more than you may consider a staple of the horror subgenre. Much of the film is laughable, and intentionally so–and it seems that Writer-Director Kyle Sevenoaks understands the genre and his potential audience. He effectively captures just what viewers would be looking for, and he tells a tale that is easy to access and relatively easy to buy into if you’re looking for a film like Taste in Music.
Sevenoaks struggles to develop effective dialogue, however. I’m not looking for something Shakespearean, but the fact of the matter is that Thomas speaks far too formally. His dialogue feels inauthentic, and that steals from Taste in Music, even if Sevenoaks is attempting to create something cheesy. Even with a narrative so intentionally ridiculous, viewers have to be able to suspend disbelief–and the dialogue makes that incredibly difficult. When Thomas isn’t speaking it becomes easier to follow Taste in Music, but as soon as he opens his mouth, viewers are pulled from the narrative and the film as a whole.
The opening seconds of Taste in Music are brilliant. Viewers are quickly pulled into the film via bright, vibrant colors and powerful electronic music. While the use of color continues throughout the rest of the film, the use of music is mostly abandoned after the film’s opening scene. This is what most appealed to me, but it quickly fades away. Had Sevenoaks used music more effectively throughout the course of Taste of Music, I believe that this film could potentially find more success–even branched off into other avenues, enticing more viewers along the way.
There’s some good, there’s some bad–and with that Taste of Music falls somewhere in the realm of average. Is it great? No, but there are aspects of the film that are great, that appeal to cinephiles, and to those who love campy horror flicks. Is it bad? No, but there are moments in which Sevenoaks fails to ride the high of certain moments (i.e. the badass music at the start of the film). Had Sevenoaks tightened up the dialogue and used music more to his advantage (especially because the title of the film is Taste of Music), he could have strengthened his film. Without those things, however, Taste of Music remains a film that will appeal to a niche group of individuals. That’s certainly okay, but I’m not sure that it reaches its full potential.
Written & Directed by Kyle Sevenoaks.
Starring Christopher Wiborg, Justin Dorey, & Mirisha Lottich.
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