The Sound Of Madness (2021 film)

The Sound of Madness is a 2021 adult musical comedy animated coming-of-age film loosely based on the 2008 album by Shinedown of the same name. It is about a few middle/high school and college students who befriend each other and plan to make a low-budget comedy movie, but also have to deal with their own troubles and encounter chaos on the way.

In 2022, it got a sequel, Stupid Movie. It also got a spin-off that takes place 10 years before this film and has Leroy Juarez (who is a minor character in this film) as the protagonist.

Scene 1
In late 2017, two cousins, LEON and Leonie Galán are freshmen at a public high school in a fictional neon-themed town in Utah. On the first day, they both get ready for school and catch the bus, constantly getting sidetracked as they walk to the bus stop ("Devour").

However, when they get on the bus, they realize how rowdy the students are, and Leonie is mocked by a few girls for having "tiny bitch disease" due to her height. When they get off, she is followed by the "mean girls".

The "mean girls" are then attacked by a blonde freshman girl who appears to be the same height as Leonie. After they leave, the blonde girl introduces herself as Laveer. Leonie realizes she has to go to class and checks out her schedule, only for Laveer to realize they have the same first period. They then walk to class together.

After school, LEON is walking to school when a group of 7th-8th graders and one 5th grader playing paintball accidentally hit him multiple times. LEON sighs and and continues to walk home annoyed.

The players notice him and two of them takes off their helmets. One asks "did we make him mad?". The other then replies "it looks like we did. Let's just hope he doesn't chew us out if we ever cross paths again".

Scene 2
The movie then shifts focus on Jermaine Vega, a community college student. After he finishes playing the last song with his band, sbeve (whom he is the drummer of), he goes backstage and somehow comes across his girlfriend, Abby. They have a conversation, but it quickly becomes an argument.

It then cuts to a drunk Jermaine stumbling into the band's van while Abby leaves. Jermaine wakes up in the band's condo with a hangover, then takes a cold shower to sober up. After he gets out, Leroy scolds him for drinking again, reminding him that they are closer to staging an intervention and that he's still below the legal drinking age. ("Breaking Inside").

Scene 3
(W.I.P)

Scene TBA
Jermaine realizes his two-year long romantic relationship with Abby is getting more stale ("The Crow & The Butterfly") and reminisces the times the good memories they had together as he takes pictures of them together off of his dorm room's wall.

Production
The characters come from a story that Alma wrote when she was in 9th grade and attempted to adapt into a web series, but the attempt was shelved. She reused most of the plot from said story for this film.

Songs
Credit for the songs goes to Shinedown.

The songs from the album do not play in the same order they were in the original album (i.e: "If You Only Knew" and "Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)" is the last 2 songs that play instead, and "Breaking Inside" plays earlier in the film instead of later).