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Dead Silence
DVD/APPROX. 91 MINS/2007/USA R18+
DVD/APPROX. 91 MINS/2007/USA R18+
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Within every town there is a ghost story, back in the 1940's in the small town Ravens Fair, an old lady named Mary Shaw (Judith Roberts) who
used to be a ventriloquist was viciously murdered by a group of towns people who believed she kidnapped and murdered a young child who yelled
out in one of her stage performances one night that she was a fraud. Days after her death, those who took part of cutting out her tongue, before
they murdered her in cold blood, began to die the same way as she did, and so did their loved ones . The town folk believed the ghost of Mary
Shaw was back to seek revenge on the cursed hometown, and she will not stop until she has tracked down everyone who was responsible for her
death.
Newlyweds Jamie (Ryan Kwanten) and Lisa (Laura Regan) have just started their new lives and got an apartment, when one day a strange
mysterious package is left outside their door addressed to Jamie, he soon opens the package and finds a vaudeville doll neatly placed inside. Late
that night, when Jamie heads out of the apartment to get takeout, he comes home to find his wife brutally killed in their apartment. Jamie soon
finds himself back in Ravens Fair for his wife’s funeral, and begins to dig into the town's hidden past to find out who exactly sent him the cursed
doll. He then stumbles on the old urban legend of Mary Shaw, in form of a nursery rhyme he can vaguely remember from his childhood that his
mother use to sing to him before bed "If you see Mary Shaw and scream, she'll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die. Is
your own voice speaking back to you". Mary is back, and she has wants Jamie's tongue before he is dead.
I am a huge fan of director James Wan when it comes to his Saw trilogy, each and every one of those films is fucking off the wall, and I look
forward to seeing the next Saw film. But unfortunately Dead Silence is one of the films that you'll either going to love or hate to death, for me it
was kinda both. There were times that I loved the film and thought the doll was going to become like Chucky and go on a killing spree, but nar,
instead the friggin thing just sat around eyeballing those in the room or occasionally its mouth would pop open. This film was more about the ghost
of Mary Shaw that really possessed the doll and hid in it until the time was right, and then lunged our of the doll and scared whoever was in the
room. If they screamed, then she was able to rip out their tongue and turn them into a human size vaudeville doll look-a-like. That is basically
what this whole film is about....
Yeah it had a few good scares every now and then, a creepy atmosphere to the film, and alright looking CGI effects. But the storyline of the film is
what kinda spoiled the whole film. For example Jamie had the doll a number of times, and Mary could of killed him at any point, but she didn't? The
guy just ran around the town, carrying a friggin doll and tried to find out what happened to his wife. It just didn't make too much sense to me, and
I know director James Wan (Saw trilogy) wanted to up the scare factor a bit in this film. But I just feel it would of looked better if the doll actually
got up and grabbed a butchers knife and stabbed someone at least once. Apart from the slow building suspense script, the film does make up for it
once Mary rocks up…
This film is like fifty fifty when it comes to the gore and scare factor. Yes, you do see a number of cool scenes such as Jaws being ripped open and
tongue's ripped out, a bit of blood splatter here and there, but that's about it for the gore. As for the scare factor, it’s slow building, can be rather
intense and make you sit on the seats edge at times.
Overall, Dead Silence is a film that doll killer fans will probably end up loving or hating. I can't really recommend that you buy this film on DVD
straight away, just play it safe and rent the film on DVD before digging deep into your pockets. I just hope to fucking Christ’s sake we don't see
spin offs of this film, lets just hope director James Wan isn't going to do a sequel to this film later down the track.
used to be a ventriloquist was viciously murdered by a group of towns people who believed she kidnapped and murdered a young child who yelled
out in one of her stage performances one night that she was a fraud. Days after her death, those who took part of cutting out her tongue, before
they murdered her in cold blood, began to die the same way as she did, and so did their loved ones . The town folk believed the ghost of Mary
Shaw was back to seek revenge on the cursed hometown, and she will not stop until she has tracked down everyone who was responsible for her
death.
Newlyweds Jamie (Ryan Kwanten) and Lisa (Laura Regan) have just started their new lives and got an apartment, when one day a strange
mysterious package is left outside their door addressed to Jamie, he soon opens the package and finds a vaudeville doll neatly placed inside. Late
that night, when Jamie heads out of the apartment to get takeout, he comes home to find his wife brutally killed in their apartment. Jamie soon
finds himself back in Ravens Fair for his wife’s funeral, and begins to dig into the town's hidden past to find out who exactly sent him the cursed
doll. He then stumbles on the old urban legend of Mary Shaw, in form of a nursery rhyme he can vaguely remember from his childhood that his
mother use to sing to him before bed "If you see Mary Shaw and scream, she'll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die. Is
your own voice speaking back to you". Mary is back, and she has wants Jamie's tongue before he is dead.
I am a huge fan of director James Wan when it comes to his Saw trilogy, each and every one of those films is fucking off the wall, and I look
forward to seeing the next Saw film. But unfortunately Dead Silence is one of the films that you'll either going to love or hate to death, for me it
was kinda both. There were times that I loved the film and thought the doll was going to become like Chucky and go on a killing spree, but nar,
instead the friggin thing just sat around eyeballing those in the room or occasionally its mouth would pop open. This film was more about the ghost
of Mary Shaw that really possessed the doll and hid in it until the time was right, and then lunged our of the doll and scared whoever was in the
room. If they screamed, then she was able to rip out their tongue and turn them into a human size vaudeville doll look-a-like. That is basically
what this whole film is about....
Yeah it had a few good scares every now and then, a creepy atmosphere to the film, and alright looking CGI effects. But the storyline of the film is
what kinda spoiled the whole film. For example Jamie had the doll a number of times, and Mary could of killed him at any point, but she didn't? The
guy just ran around the town, carrying a friggin doll and tried to find out what happened to his wife. It just didn't make too much sense to me, and
I know director James Wan (Saw trilogy) wanted to up the scare factor a bit in this film. But I just feel it would of looked better if the doll actually
got up and grabbed a butchers knife and stabbed someone at least once. Apart from the slow building suspense script, the film does make up for it
once Mary rocks up…
This film is like fifty fifty when it comes to the gore and scare factor. Yes, you do see a number of cool scenes such as Jaws being ripped open and
tongue's ripped out, a bit of blood splatter here and there, but that's about it for the gore. As for the scare factor, it’s slow building, can be rather
intense and make you sit on the seats edge at times.
Overall, Dead Silence is a film that doll killer fans will probably end up loving or hating. I can't really recommend that you buy this film on DVD
straight away, just play it safe and rent the film on DVD before digging deep into your pockets. I just hope to fucking Christ’s sake we don't see
spin offs of this film, lets just hope director James Wan isn't going to do a sequel to this film later down the track.
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