Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Rainey Dawn 'Shattered Silence' AKA 'When Michael Calls' (1972) Craig (M. Douglas) has lost his brother Michael 15 years prior to the beginning of the story. Michael begins to call Helen (E. Ashley) on the phone, seemingly in distress every call. Doremus (B. Gazzara) is Helen's ex-husband or soon to be ex - but he is there to help Helen through this terrible nightmare and to solve the mystery of Michael.Micheal calls Helen "Auntie" which is odd. Craig and Michael are brothers and if Michael is Helen's nephew then Craig would be Helen's other nephew. *In reality Helen and Craig are just close to one another, friends - according to the Wiki article.* Why we are lead to believe that Helen and Michael are related/family and not Craig is strange in itself. Most every source says Michael is Helen's nephew or A woman (Helen) receives phone calls from a relative. - when he is not.A good thriller - bizarre. Worth watching if you get a chance to see it. Those phone calls from Micheal will have you shivering. :) 8.5/10

Cristi_Ciopron 'Shattered Silence', a suspense movie with Gazzara and M. Douglas, gives a strong sense of the unconscious' power over our consciousness, over what we acknowledge and what we deny, also like the everyday struggle between acknowledgment and denial.I liked the girl, and the carved pumpkin, and believe we deserved to see those pumpkins at the harvest festival; I also enjoyed the '70s casualness, if one likes thinking in terms of decades, and perhaps most of all I enjoyed M. Douglas' glamor, his father had been, 25 yrs earlier, also into torn youth, yet the two have very different styles, with the son able to delve into neurosis and hysterical behavior.M. Douglas gives a good role, and he upstages Gazzara; 'Shattered Silence' is an enjoyable '70s horror for the TV. The movie is a scary whodunit, and atmospheric, with the masks and the suggestions of impersonation, even visual gags (the fatso copper: a pumpkin; the shattered pumpkins, as these were only the '70s, when pumpkins were still shattered, not smashed); there are a few nice views of the setting, the mentioned pumpkins, and the daughter is very funny. Less good seems the quirk of the hypnosis and remote control, a plunge into '30 silliness that makes the denouement look explained away. Both murders, with the bee venom that prompts the swarming, and at the harvest festival, are unlikely, laborious and too staged. After a couple of such nerdy murders, the psychotic arrives at his aunt's home with a bat ….After having exported so many players and people in the showbiz, Canada rented these two actors, and a likable TV movie has been made. M. Douglas improves very much upon the script, and looks almost too urbane for the modest setting; on the other hand, Gazzara is too convincing as a ne'er do well cur (or marten …).In the early '90s, I remember being very keen on M. Douglas, '90-'93.

Sirsharp ***CONTAINS SPOILERS***Ben Gazzara, Michael Douglas in the same movie. What more do you need to know!?This is a movie about Helen (Elizabeth Ashley), a single mother going through a difficult divorce. She lives on a small new england farm with her daughter and grandparent. Her generally peaceful life becomes filled with terror, when some one claiming to be her dead son Michael who had run away fifteen years ago and was believed to be killed in a blizzard.This movie starts out a little slow, until the phone calls start. It then builds into a frantic conclusion with Michael Douglas giving an all-star performance as a psychiatrist who should be a patient.I give this movie a 6.5 out of 10. Yes I have seen better, but for goodness sake I have seen a lot worse.

jonpd This 1972 TV movie is one of those few TV films from those days that is still broadcast today. Well, I taped it back in 1991, but anyway, the film is so corny, with a very "Okay, sure" plot, but it still has good suspenseful moments (in a strange way, you never know where the caller is or if he's watching the answerers---spooky), and Douglas is quite unique in an early role. Well worth a watch, or a few watches.