The audio to this opening has a lot of Enigmatic elements to it, which help to confuse and unnerve the viewer, creating the desired suspense. When you first start to listen to the opening music you believe that it's simply a random mess of sounds and beats, but what most don't actually realize is it's actually a song by the alternative rock band Nine Inch Nails, and the song is called Closer (Precursor)
This is in fact perfectly worked, because the title of the album is " Closer To God " and the whole film is about the seven deadly sins.
There is a large variety of imagery in this opening sequence. It is edited in a very quick-fire fashion, one image/short piece of footage after another, so that we're never paying attention to something for any longer than a few seconds. It makes the opening very eerie and spooky especially as they flicker. This creates a very ghostly effect. Another part of the sound in this part of the opening is the evident scratching noises which sound very animalistic. Also, this is an indication of the violence that may or may not unfold later on in the film. There's a drumbeat to ensure that a rhythm is kept in the audio, as it is a music piece. But, this Drumbeat only kicks in later on in the sequence, speeding up the action and helping to build up suspense.
Disgusting imagery, such as the photographs of bodies, the drawing of the mangled hands and the sequence of the person in focus shaving skin off their fingers, all disgust and unnerve the viewer. The images of the bodies highlights that this person has a fascination with the death of others. As for the music and sound during this there is a lot of mechanical sounds, such as Gears, Creaking, Tape Rewinds and Electricity. The nature of these sounds are used in unison with the images which to some viewers can be very disturbing. This also can add a unnatural sense to the audio. It ties in to one piece of imagery, the old razor blade, to give a sense of atmosphere of what's going on in the footage.
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