Movie Title: Dead Silence

Director: James Wan

Rated: 15 (UK) R (US)

Genre: Horror/Thriller

Runtime: 90 Minutes

Viewed: In my chair on the TV screen

Trailer: Dead Silence Official Site

Synopsis: The story takes place after Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) comes home to find his wife Ella (Amber Valleta) disfigured and dead in their apartment just minutes after a mysterious, not to mention creepy, package was left on their doorstep containing an old ventriloquist dummy. With no alibi, a detective (Donnie Wahlberg)is left to assume Jamie as the prime suspect. Driven by an old ghost story, Jamie returns to Ravens Fair, his old hometown to prove his innocence. The story leads him to believe that the vengeful ghost of Mary Shaw was the real murderer. But when Jamie returns to Ravens Fair, he finds out more than he bargained for.

Opinion: Okie Dokie, I hadn't heard of this Movie and only came across it after Kelly saw a music video for the song "We Sleep Forever" by the band Aiden and she said it looked interesting from the clips in the video.

Well, I suppose if you took a pinch of the Child's play Movies, added a dash of Puppet Master with some of Anthony Hopkins "Magic" thrown in and topped it off with a sprinkle of the Freddy Krueger back story...then what you get is Dead Silence.

Not the fastest paced of movies, but as it's from the writers and Director of the Saw movies I was kinda expecting a twist at the end as seems to be the hallmark of their films..and I wasn't wrong, although I have to be honest...I didn't see the twist until it was revealed. Kelly, however, had given up on the movie and returned to the new Harry Potter book long before we reached that stage of the movie.

It wasn't a particularly gory movie as you may come to expect from these movie makers, but there was just enough of it in there, and the movie had a sort of "washed out" feel to it and the music helped to heighten the drama/tension. I suppose you could say it was quite a formulaic horror movie, but if you approach it as such, then there's enough in there to keep you entertained.

It's a movie that seems to have a little bit of everything thrown in, gore, dummies, kids, nursery rhymes, a mystery, dead relative and a twist at the end. The acting was a little...stiff, I guess would be the word, but if you like horror movies, there's enough in here so you won't be too disappointed.


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My Overall Rating (Scale from 1 to 5): & 1/2..not quite a three.