Best friends and lifelong recording junkies Michael Carnegie (Timothée Chalamet) and Noah Apollo (Lakeith Stanfield) have spent their lives chasing “authentic sound.” As kids, they recorded everything — parents fighting, trains screeching, strangers yelling — anything that felt real. But one day, they miss the sound of someone dying on the tracks, and it changes them forever.
Years later, as professional engineers, they’re hired to produce a record for the indie band Pineapple Mouse. What starts as a normal session becomes an unholy pursuit — the search to capture something real, raw, and horrifying.
Front of House is Sound of Metal meets The Vanishing, wrapped in the lo-fi dread of a studio haunted by its own recordings.
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00:00 Cold Open
00:10 Welcome Back to Pitchin’ Movies With The Sound Off
00:35 Guess the Episode Number
01:15 The Glasses Fund & Donation Plug
02:18 The Warmup Pitch: “The Guy Who Needs Glasses”
02:34 Transition to Horror: Today’s Genre
03:15 Building a Horror Formula
03:40 The Sound Obsession Begins
04:33 Brothers of Noise
05:20 Recording the Perfect Car Crash
06:05 Marcus’s Vampire on Trial Pitch
07:26 Vampire Politics & Jail Forever
08:07 Scorsese Writes Himself Into the Episode
09:30 Vampire Law & Order
10:37 True Blood Memories
11:20 Eternal Jail for a Vampire
12:07 Living Forever in a Cell
13:00 Nightcrawler Vibes
14:06 Building “Front of House” Characters
15:37 The Foggy Childhood Setup
16:27 Childhood Friendship & Sound Bond
17:22 Subway Upbringing
18:08 Fear of Balloons & Trauma
19:09 “Boys Being Dudes Pretending to Be Men”
20:22 Parents Arguing: The Noise Origin
21:04 Subway Inspiration
22:14 Haunting vs. Lurking Debate
23:08 Political Tangent (Ranked Choice Voting!)
23:56 Early Sound Experiments
25:05 The Band “Pineapple Mouse” Is Born
26:00 “Totally Real Bands” Ad Break
27:11 Pineapple Mouse Merch Tutorial (TotallyRealBands.com)
28:11 Back to the Pitch – Band World-Building
30:00 The Horror Sound Escalates
31:21 Introducing Michael Carnegie & Noah Apollo
32:47 Casting the Leads
34:11 Timothy Chalamet as Michael / Lakeith Stanfield as Noah
36:07 Pete Davidson Enters the Picture
37:04 Pineapple Mouse Recording Begins
38:07 The Band Becomes Central
40:22 Casting the Band Members
41:22 Liam, Julie, Brady & the Crew
42:46 Building the Story Timeline
44:07 The Obsession With Authentic Sound
48:15 Childhood to Career Montage
50:12 Meeting Pineapple Mouse
51:35 Recording the Album
52:14 Crossing the Line – Secret Recordings
53:20 The Fatal Car Crash Recording
54:07 “Hollywood Recordings” Gone Wrong
55:18 The Fallout & Album Success
56:04 Obsession Grows
57:06 The Second Album
58:03 Inviting Liam to the Studio
59:10 The Murder Recording Scene
01:00:20 The Final Album
01:01:19 Subway Jump Finale
01:02:00 Title Reveal: “Front of House”
01:03:13 Wrap-Up & Pineapple Mouse Merch Plug
01:03:42 Outro: “Pitchin’ Movies With The Sound Off”
