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Mood:
- SuspensefulScaryAtmosphericRoughTense
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- GhostVengeanceHaunted By the PastMurderDangerDeadlyMind and SoulSupernatural more...
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Genres:
- HorrorMysteryThriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- USASmall Town
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Audience:
- TeensDate Night
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- Twists and TurnsGory
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- SeriousSemi Fantastic
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- ProfanityViolent Content
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Dead Silence, 2007
English
USA
Profile of Dead Silence
The mood of Dead Silence is scary, suspenseful, and tense. The plot centers around ghosts, being haunted by the past, and vengeance. It is a thriller, horror, and mystery movie. Stylistically, Dead Silence involves twists and turns and is gory. In approach, it is serious. It takes place, at least partly, in a small town. Dead Silence is set in the USA. It happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for teens and a date night. Note that Dead Silence includes profanity and violent content.
Summary of Dead Silence
Old ladies, ventriloquist dummies, decrepit small-towns, and dolls are all exploited for their full creepy potential in DEAD SILENCE, a relatively innocent but thoroughly scary horror feature from the makers of SAW. After a heavily stylized black-and-white opening credit sequence that shows the story's central ghost, Mary Shaw, constructing her beloved ventriloquist dolls back in her heyday, the film transports viewers to the present. As newlyweds Jamie (Ryan Kwanten) and Lisa Ashen putter lovingly about their apartment far from their hometown of Raven's Fair, it is clear that something bad is about to happen. This dread is only further cemented when a knock on the door leads the lovebirds to discover an unmarked box containing a worn but eerily lifelike ventriloquist's dummy. Lisa is all too friendly towards the doll and gets what's coming to her when Jamie goes out to pick up some takeout, returning to find his wife's mangled body (minus her tongue) propped up like the dummy seemingly responsible for her death.
With detective Jim Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg) on his heels, and a very guilty dummy in his passenger seat, grieving Jamie returns to Raven's Fair with the hunch that his wife's death is linked to the town's murdered ventriloquist, Mary Shaw. Once grand, Raven's Fair is now in a state of decay, and many of its inhabitants have died mysterious and brutal deaths in the years since Jamie was last home. Jamie arrives at his wealthy father's home, only to find a young new bride (Amber Valetta) by his side. No one wants to talk about Mary Shaw, let alone whisper her name. If Jamie is going to get to the bottom of the Mary Shaw legend, he'll have to face the town's past on his own. Arriving in the midst of the gore/torture trend (SAW, HOSTEL), DEAD SILENCE comes as a breath of fresh air. It's nice to see that a horror movie can still use gore with discretion and deliver a fright through old-fashioned scare tactics and a premise as simple as a ghost story.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 16 March 2007 |
| Runtime: | 89 min |
Cast and Crew
as Jamie Ashen
as Ella Ashen
as Det. Lipton
as Edward Ashen
as Lisa Ashen
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Critics Reviews
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Scott Tobias
TV Guide
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- by: Ken Fox
Users Reviews
- 30.March.2009
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- by: Parker in MN
- Parker in MN rated this movie
4/10Disappointing
- 22.March.2009
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- by: ElQuimico
- ElQuimico rated this movie4/10Disappointing
