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Alexis Reeves is the main protagonist villain of the 2021 thriller Sound of Violence. A partially deaf young woman, Alexis embarks on a campaign of violence and murder after learning that the sound of other's pain causes her to experience great euphoria.
She was portrayed by Jasmin Savoy Brown who also voiced the Tinkerer in Spider-Man and Taissa Turner in Yellowjackets.
Biography[]
In 2002, deaf ten-year-old Alexis Reeves witnesses her father, a combat veteran afflicted with PTSD, brutally murdering her mother. Alexis uses a meat tenderizer to fight back and kill her father. The experience inexplicably restores Alexis’s hearing, and gives her an ability to euphorically experience sounds produced during acts of violence.
In the present day, Alexis experiments with music while pursuing a teaching career. She also harbors a secret crush on her roommate Marie Sotker, a fellow musician. After experiencing sporadic bouts of deafness, a doctor confirms Alexis is losing her hearing again. Marie accompanies Alexis to record sounds of a dominatrix whipping a man. The aural sensation she receives from the session compels Alexis to try pushing the couple further, which they refuse to do. Marie worries about Alexis insisting on making the sounds more intense. Alexis begins incorporating the audio into her music.
A drunken man accosts Alexis on a sidewalk. Alexis reflexively pushes the man into the street where he is struck by a speeding car and killed. Alexis flashes back to her father’s death as she experiences the euphoria again. Later, Alexis is disappointed to discover Marie has a new boyfriend named Duke, whom Alexis becomes resentful towards. Realizing that the audio stimulates her sense of hearing, Alexis continues incorporating sounds of pain into her experimental music.
Alexis builds a torture device connected to a drum machine. She then kidnaps a homeless man and uses a synthesizer to augment the sounds of her brutally torturing him to death. Alexis plays her work-in-progress composition for classmates. The students are disgusted by the strange sounds of pain. Alexis momentarily loses her hearing when several students angrily question her mental stability. Alexis hires amateur singer Jarod Korkansky for a recording session. Alexis has Jarod sing with electrodes attached to his head. Alexis channels Jarod’s cries into an electronic instrument while administering electric shocks, horrifically killing Jarod. When Marie and Duke attend an art gallery opening, Alexis secretly drugs a harpist performing at the event. Entranced by the drug, the harpist hypnotically slices her fingers on the harp strings while Alexis records. The sight horrifies onlookers. After giving statements to the police, Duke tells Marie he saw Alexis hiding in the crowd.
Marie worries about Alexis becoming obsessed with her music. Marie also tells Alexis that Duke saw her during the harpist’s ordeal. Alexis lures Duke to a garage she uses for storage. Worried he will stop her from completing her composition, Alexis attacks Duke and kills him, recording the audio of his last moments. Marie listens to one of Alexis’s recordings. Disturbed by the sounds of a boy being punched while a little girl laughs, Marie confronts Alexis over the audio. Alexis explains she recorded herself taking revenge on a deserving bully in her orphanage. Alexis admits she is losing her hearing again. Marie comforts Alexis, which leads to brief kissing. Marie becomes horrified when she discovers Duke’s body. Alexis claims Duke isn’t dead because he now lives in her music.
Alexis takes Marie captive. Alexis mutilates Marie to install speakers throughout her body. Alexis drives her RV to a public beach where Marie staggers onto the sand. Marie’s bloody appearance stuns onlookers as Alexis plays her music through Marie’s body. Alexis dances to the euphoric sounds from Marie’s pain while sobbing with remorse. In a subplot, Detective Sonya Fuentes identifies Alexis as the killer after connecting clues from the crime scenes. When Sonya arrives at the beach with other police officers, Marie dies in her arms. Emotionally devastated, Alexis staggers across the beach aimlessly before presumably being arrested for the murders.