Dummies scare the be Jesus
out of me. No not the dummies I worked for at The Marketing Store and Burrell.
As creepy as they were I am actually talking about ventriloquist dummies. Remember Magic? I
find them more frightening than clowns. The most terrifying of all is a clown
dummy, which appears in the horror movie Dead Silence.
So going into this movie
alone, in the dark and in my bedroom left me with one thought – I’m nuts.
Dead Silence is the story
of Mary Shaw, a famous ventriloquist, who apparently went nuts in the town of
Raven’s Fair and kidnapped a rude child...for the sole purpose of turning him
into a new dummy.
Gotta love a woman who
knows what she wants!
Well the town got wind of
this and naturally killed her - only to have Mary and once-buried dummies come
back and terrorize the town.
It all starts when young
husband and wife, Jamie and Ella Ashen (Ryan Kwanten & Amber Valletta)
receive a creepy dummy on their apartment step. Apparently receiving a dummy in
a box on your doorstep is bad luck.
Remember that as you go
through life.
While Jamie heads out to
get carry out, Ella is not just mysteriously murdered – her tongue is ripped
out and her mouth is dislodged.
Mmm.
Pass the popcorn.
Enter Detective Jim
Lipton, played by Donnie Wahlberg. Of course Lipton thinks Jamie off’d his
wife. We know better.
The mystery leads to
Jamie’s hometown of Raven’s Fair, a mostly deserted town, where his father, Bob
Gunton, lives with his second wife, played by Laura Regan in a gi-hugic
mansion.
James Wan, director of Saw
and the upcoming Death Sentence (this is a sick dude), has crafted a slick,
creepy horror movie, that is kind of a throwback to Italian horror movies of
the 60s.
Watching Dead Silence, I
found chills going up my spine, and myself jumping more than once. And there is
a surprise at the end that I did not see coming.
As for the DVD extras,
they were okay. There is an alternate ending and beginning that aren’t really
better than what made it into the final picture. But it’s worth looking at. The
“making of” feature is slightly interesting, just to get a good look at the
lunatic behind the Saw movies as well as this one.
MOVIE: THREE
BALL POINT PENS