Review for Dead Silence
March 28th 2010 14:45
I decided to watch this movie when I was flipping channels one day. It was in the evening, at my old apartment, which was a VERY big, double house and NO-ONE was home! Big mistake! This movie will scare the bee-gees out of you (and no, NOT the singing group!) The only "stars" in this movie are, Donnie Wahlberg as Det. Lipton, who probably got this role due to the fact that he was in "Saw," and this movie is from the makers of that franchise (there are two cameos of the "infamous" Saw doll in this movie as well!) Bob Gunton (who is Jamie's rich dad, Edward Ashen, he played the warden in "Shawshank Redemption") and Amber Valletta (who is Jamie's step-mom, Ella, and in real life, a former supermodel).
This movie starts very innocently on a rainy afternoon, a young couple Lisa and Jamie Ashen, anonymously receive a mysterious package with a weird dummy inside. When Jamie leaves the apartment to buy Chinese food, Lisa hears the apartment become dead silent (no more ticking of the clock, even the tea kettle becomes silent!) Then, she starts to hear voices coming from the room where they left the doll (Oh, hell no, time to GO!) She creeps in there slowly, pulls back the sheet that they had used to cover up the doll, and the doll murders Lisa.
When Jamie returns, he finds Lisa dead, totally disfigured and without her tongue (so gross!) The snoopy detective Jim Lipton blames Jamie as the prime suspect (Of course, who will believe a DOLL did it?) Doing his own investigation at home, Jamie finds in the dummy's box, a reference to their hometown. Since he was going back home for the funeral services of Lisa, he decides to investigate the legend of the ventriloquist Mary Shaw. His father, Edward Ashen and his young wife Ella, disclose that Mary was a ventriloquist who was accused in the glorious days of Ravens Fair in the 40's of abducting and killing a boy that yelled out she was a fake while on stage (BIG mistake! This is one, and there are a LOT, of the coolest and creepiest scenes in the movie!) The locals, including his father, chased Mary Shaw, cut out her tongue, and killed her. Over the following years, the now-cursed families and descendents of the killers had mysterious and creepy deaths, with their tongues removed and faces disfigured. Jamie goes to the old theater, where Mary lived in Lost Lake, trying to find evidence and discovers that Mary Shaw was constructing the perfect doll, and that the spirits have long memories.
I liked this movie. And it has a surprise ending that you never see coming (So surprising that, you may have to watch the whole movie again, just to piece it together!) I love movies that tell a background story, a REASON for the murders or strange occurrences, not just killing for no reason! The background story was very detailed (you really have to pay attention) and included "footage" to the story as well, not just dialogue. I feel that they could have made several sequels to this but they chose not to do that based upon this ending. Now, if they wanted to be creative, the writer's could keep it going but I believe since the general public didn't like this movie, it will be unlikely for a sequel. Check out the creepy trailer!
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