illiam Fichtner Just Went Full “Vertical Exorcist”—and the Climbing World Is LOSING IT.
This isn't just another VOD horror flick—it's a countdown to carnage. Brendan Devane's The Sound drops June 27th, 2025, promising vertigo, ghosts, and a cast that includes actual rock climbers dangling for their lives. Forget green screens. Forget CGI cliffs. This is the real deal: ropes, calluses, and a supernatural force that's more than just a bad echo.
Let's get the wildest detail out of the way: The Sound isn't just about climbing, it's by climbers, shot on actual rock faces—not a soundstage in sight. That's like if The Revenant made DiCaprio fight a real bear. The supernatural element? It's not some overcooked CGI banshee. It's subtler, more insidious—think The Descent meets Free Solo, but with the threat coming from the void between holds.
Savage comparison time: This is Cliffhanger for the TikTok era—if Stallone had to battle ghosts instead of goons. Or, more accurately, The Ritual with carabiners. The trailer's tagline—“It's not always what you can see, it's what you can hear…”—isn't just a tease, it's a warning: in The Sound, silence kills.
Here's the deep cut: The Forbidden Wall isn't just a plot device. It's a callback to decades of real-life climbing lore—places closed off after tragedy, whispered about in climber forums. The film's protagonist, Sean (Marc Hills), has family history with this wall—a failed ascent 63 years ago. That's pure horror gold: generational trauma meets vertical terror.
And let's talk casting: William Fichtner brings gravitas, but the real flex is Alex Honnold—yes, that Alex Honnold, the Free Solo legend—making a cameo. It's like casting Michael Jordan in a Space Jam reboot, but if the Monstars were poltergeists.
This isn't even the first time horror's gone vertical. Remember 2022's Fall? Two women trapped atop a radio tower, all nerves and nausea. But The Sound raises the stakes: it's not just gravity you're fighting, it's something ancient, unseen, and very, very pissed off.
Genius or garbage? Is The Sound the next genre-defining horror—or just a gimmick with ropes? Would you rather watch this or burn $20? (…Okay, some judgment.)
