Spoonixel
Amateur movie with Big budget
Helllins
It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
Fleur
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
cinemajesty
Movie Review: "Dead Silence" (2006)After the immense success of a low-budget short-film-turns-feature production "Saw" (2004), director James Wan gets the engagement with Universal Studios to realize his follow-up picture, again written together with fellow Leigh Whannell. The screenplay concerns a female ventriloquist in a U.S. small town who gets marked on stage in front of a major audience by a boyish audience member in the 1930s, who then disappears to forge a curse that will haunt a family of main character Jamie Ashen, performed uneventful, no memorable-beat-given by miscast leading actor Ryan Kwanten. Director James Wan creates some decent shots of ambiance horrors with cinematographer John R. Leonetti, which then gets completely disarranged by editor Michael N. Knue in an editorial that just does not want to balance itself; too pretentious seem the super-imposing, double-layering, fast-zoom push-ins and repetitious slow eyeball-pull outs that not one scene seems to interconnect with the next. Nevertheless the talent of the director, who made fair use of his promotional-raised production budget from 1, at the "Saw" production in Season 2003/2004, to 20 Million U.S. Dollar with Universial Pictures in Season 2005/2006, lets unmistakably underline the fact that the filmmaking Horror genre also needs a director's final cut decision-making to maintain the intended suspense-screw-driving to maximize high-tension shocker effects.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
nicolettescott
Wow, where to begin with this movie... I took my two kids, Leliana and Tony, to see it in theaters and we were not disappointed!This movie was perfect for my kids, cause they love dolls and stuff like that. It was very family-friendly, taught good lessons about being nice to old people, and it even inspired my daughter's new hobby of collecting dolls! Billy is just so charming, with his little tuxedo and red bow-tie. I think it's funny that this movie got misplaced in the "horror" genre.Anyways, 10/10! Very cute movie.*Ok, but seriously, this movie scared the crap out of me...
snperera
Creepy, creepy, creepy. This movie is what nightmares are made of! I will always love this movie because it is not only scary but I believe it's original in a way. I know scary movies with ventriloquist dolls have probably been around before...but this movie I believe added something new to it. The acting is great and you really feel like you are on this journey with the main character to find out what's going on. The enemy in this movie is very good as well. Her face is terrifying and the song that goes along with it is equally as terrifying. I would say the only thing that I don't like about the movie is the ending and at times the movie has it slow and boring parts but overall it is a great horror movie.
view_and_review
The movie begins with a quote: "In the 6th Century B.C. it was believed that the spirits of the dead would speak through the stomach region of the living.From the Latin VENTER for 'belly' and LOQUI 'to speak' Hence the word VENTRILOQUIST" Hollywood is always looking for a new vessel for evil spirits. The doll project has already been done but apparently not in this manner. Not long into the movie a ventriloquist doll is delivered to the doorstep of Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) and his wife Lisa (Laura Regan). Shortly after that the wife dies a horrible death and Jamie looks like the main suspect.The story was essentially about a woman named Mary Shaw who wrought havoc upon the people of Ravens Fair after her death. There was even a poem about miss Mary, "blah blah blah Mary Shaw. Something or other don't scream." It was there as a poor attempt to drum up more intensity and fear.The whole story, as well as the characters, was stale. For some reason we were supposed to care about Jamie and his quest to find out about the doll and the death of his wife. Donnie Wahlberg, clearly in the movie for comic relief, played a Columbo style detective (sloppily dressed and everything) investigating Jamie for the murder of his wife. His character adds nothing to the movie except a paltry attempt at believability--in other words a woman can't wind up dead with no tongue without someone having committed the murder.The movie meanders on with Jamie pursuing answers and Det. Lipton pursuing him. There's some spooky stuff, jump scares, deaths and mercifully the movie ends. In the end there is a bit of a twist. The twist was kind of cool but because I didn't particularly like the story it was wasted. Dead Silence was a dud.
