There's just something about puppets, and ventriloquism that's always freaked me out. Dolls talking, and people making them talk. It's fucking creepy. I recently watched two horror films Dead Silence, and Hatchet II. I'll talk about Dead Silence today, and hopefully tomorrow toss up a review of Hatchet. We'll see what happens. Dead Silence is a 2007 horror film, directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, the creators of Saw. The film stars Ryan Kwanten as the main protagonist, Jamie Ashen, Judith Roberts as Mary Shaw, Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Jim Lipton, and Amber Valletta as Jamie's fathers third wife, Ella. This film centers around a children's poem about Mary Shaw, and her puppets. The poem goes as such "Beware the stare of Mary Shaw. She has no children, only dolls. If you see her in your dreams, Be sure you never, ever scream, Or she'll rip your tongue out, at the seam".
Yeah, it's quite the morbid poem and honestly when I kept hearing it get recited I honestly felt a little creeped out, and was like "Jesus, that's fucked". Either way, the film is about this couple Jamie Ashen and his Lisa who receive a package from an unknown person and the package turns out to be a ventriloquist's dummy with the name "Billy". After some talking, and Lisa recites the poem, Jamie heads out to get take-out and meanwhile in the apartment everything goes quiet, and Lisa is found dead with her tongue ripped out. It's morbid, and honestly seeing her corpse made me a little creeped out. You don't forget that kind of thing.
The film then revolves Jamie heading to his old home town of Raven's Fair, and finding out more about Mary Shaw and her puppets. Seeing as that was her town as well. He finds out some creepy information, and finds out why Mary Shaw has come back from the dead to kill everyone, and killing them by ripping out their tongue. It's extremely morbid, and I'll admit I got creeped out a couple of times.
If you're into films that psychologically mess with you, and scare you that way you'll like this film. Sure, they use a ton of jump scares but the psycho-logic scares are in there as well. Puppets, morgues, that kind of stuff are my major things that creep me out so I was pretty much on the edge of my seat a couple times. Sadly, you can tell James Wan and Leigh Whannell have made this film because it has Saw plot-twists tossed around inside of it, which made me automatically know that they were putting some saw-esque plot-twists into the film.
Over-all it was a fun, and extremely creepy experience and I recommend you all check it out. If you're into horror films, and over-all creepiness you'll enjoy everything Dead Silence has to offer. Plus, there's a a cameo in the puppet room if you can notice it at the end of the film. Either way, this film extremely surprised me and I was expecting a stupid, gore-fest like Saw. This film get's a solid THUMBS UP.
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