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Dead SilenceReviewed by Alicia Glass
“Beware the stare of Mary Shaw Jamie Ashen returns to his home town of Ravens Fair after his wife’s strange murder, suspecting it’s linked to the legend of the ghost of Mary Shaw. Back some time ago in the town of Ravens Fair, Mary Shaw was a ventriloquist who loved her dolls as if they were her own children. When a small boy goes missing in the town, the angry villagers decide Mary Shaw is the culprit and violently execute her. Shaw is buried with all of her ‘children’, and, of course, a curse is born. Years later, Jamie Ashen receives one of Shaw’s dolls in the mail. He goes looking for answers back home, all the while trailed by the disbelieving cop, Detective John Lipton. Towards the end of the movie, during the culminating scenes where the cop and Jamie are searching Shaw’s house, there’s an easter egg: hidden in the shadows of a pillar is the Billy doll from Saw! Despite being a huge fan of the Saw series, I was a tad disappointed in this movie. (Dead Silence was made by the same people who did Saw.) It’s a lovely story about demonic dolls and a vengeful ghost and so on and so forth, but well, it’s entirely predictable, with the exception of the very end (I won’t spoil it for you fans). It should be said, however, that if you can sit through the movie and pay attention, the surprise ending does make it worthwhile. When the final scenes culminate, they go through a whole minute-long montage that explains everything right down to the last detail, in true Saw fashion. That makes it somewhat easier if there were things you weren’t clear on as far as the movie plot goes. Special thanks to San Diego’s chapter of http://www.myspace.com/gothhelpus for the free tickets!
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Director:
James Wan
Despite being predictable, this is a stylish and very cool horror film, worth seeing.