The film stars Jasmin Savoy Brown as a formerly deaf girl who goes on a killing spree after witnessing the murder of her family.

[2] Alongside the initial announcement, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, and newcomer James Jagger were cast in main roles.

The site's consensus reads, "The consistency isn't always smooth, but Sound Of Violence's blend of character study and horror marks writer-director Alex Noyer as an ambitious, visually distinctive filmmaker".

[7] Variety's Jessica Kiang said that, "With its themes of creative obsession and trauma recycled as psychopathy, not to mention Alexis' synesthesia giving license for lurid, semi-abstract, technicolor visual sequences, "Sound of Violence" boasts perhaps the greatest giallo premise that Dario Argento never dreamed up."

[8] In a more positive review, Kristy Puchko of RogerEbert.com describes the film as a "true midnight movie", writing that "Noyer bathes the screen in pulsing blues, reds, oranges, and greens.