tedobaer
04-21-09, 03:26 AM
Beware the stare of Mary Shaw
She had no children, only dolls
And if you see her in your dreams
Be sure you never, ever scream
Dead silence has it all, darkness, silence, dummies, ghosts, graveyards, fog and smart-ass detectives. How can you go wrong?
It's about a ventriloquist called Mary Shaw who does a show at the town of Ravens Fair. A boy in the audience shouts out that he can see her lips moving, and then, a few weeks later he goes missing. The family suspect it was Mary Shaw and murder her. Her ghost responds to that with revenge by ripping out the tounges of her murderers and their families.
Years later, a local from Ravens Fair is sent a dummy to his doorstep, goes to get his wife some yummy chinese takeaways and when he comes back, she is dead, with her tounge ripped out. He returns to Ravens Fair to try and solve the mystery of Mary Shaw.
The acting in this movie isn't too bad. Donny Whalberg does a great job of the sarcastic detective :p, whom Jamie (Ryan Kwanten) has a hard time putting up with. Judith Roberts is the one and only Mary Shaw her self, and she is so scary!:eek:
Buts its the atmosphere of the movie that really makes it, it's so dark and spooky. It really comes down to the elements of classic horror. The audio of the movie jumps out too. The music theme is great, its a piano melody that sounds like a lullaby with a nightmare twist. Silently played it works as a mystery or suspence sound and played loudly and quickly with lots of pounding bass notes like drums it works in chase scenes too. Also, the movie incorporates scenes without audio. Before the ghost attacks, all ambience, sounds and music cease, making it really creepy and quiet. The only breaker of the silence being a scream.
Director James Wan gives us a great horror flick. His previous movies like SAW are splattery torture films, though he changes track to something less tense and bloddy to a more subtle, creepy movie. There is such a difference between R18 rated SAW and M rated Dead Silence. There is not much gore in this movie, a woman coughs up bloods and people are seen without their tounges :sick: but that is about it. I've obsessivly timed how long the toungless corpses are seen in the whole movie. There are the toungless bodies in this movie and we only see 7 seconds worth of them in total. I'm glad to get something different out of James Wan with Dead Silence
He really brings us something great.
She had no children, only dolls
And if you see her in your dreams
Be sure you never, ever scream
Dead silence has it all, darkness, silence, dummies, ghosts, graveyards, fog and smart-ass detectives. How can you go wrong?
It's about a ventriloquist called Mary Shaw who does a show at the town of Ravens Fair. A boy in the audience shouts out that he can see her lips moving, and then, a few weeks later he goes missing. The family suspect it was Mary Shaw and murder her. Her ghost responds to that with revenge by ripping out the tounges of her murderers and their families.
Years later, a local from Ravens Fair is sent a dummy to his doorstep, goes to get his wife some yummy chinese takeaways and when he comes back, she is dead, with her tounge ripped out. He returns to Ravens Fair to try and solve the mystery of Mary Shaw.
The acting in this movie isn't too bad. Donny Whalberg does a great job of the sarcastic detective :p, whom Jamie (Ryan Kwanten) has a hard time putting up with. Judith Roberts is the one and only Mary Shaw her self, and she is so scary!:eek:
Buts its the atmosphere of the movie that really makes it, it's so dark and spooky. It really comes down to the elements of classic horror. The audio of the movie jumps out too. The music theme is great, its a piano melody that sounds like a lullaby with a nightmare twist. Silently played it works as a mystery or suspence sound and played loudly and quickly with lots of pounding bass notes like drums it works in chase scenes too. Also, the movie incorporates scenes without audio. Before the ghost attacks, all ambience, sounds and music cease, making it really creepy and quiet. The only breaker of the silence being a scream.
Director James Wan gives us a great horror flick. His previous movies like SAW are splattery torture films, though he changes track to something less tense and bloddy to a more subtle, creepy movie. There is such a difference between R18 rated SAW and M rated Dead Silence. There is not much gore in this movie, a woman coughs up bloods and people are seen without their tounges :sick: but that is about it. I've obsessivly timed how long the toungless corpses are seen in the whole movie. There are the toungless bodies in this movie and we only see 7 seconds worth of them in total. I'm glad to get something different out of James Wan with Dead Silence
He really brings us something great.