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Excellent but underrated film

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

DEAD SILENCE is a film about a cursed town plagued by the ghost of an evil woman out for revenge. First of all, the ghost was NOT an innocent in life, she deserved what she got, being a child murderer and using their body parts, so the premise is morally wrong on every level. Second, the town seems to have suffered murders and economic depression which should've brought publicity from every news outlet, because it's not like the town was sealed off or is in another dimension, so the "unreal" meter is on 11 here.Third, Donnie Wahlberg as the wisecracking cop is wasted opportunity, since his demeanor is all wrong, serious one minute, humorous in the wrong places the next, like a piano that plays a familiar song but makes you cringe from being out-of-tune. In fact, all the acting is overdone, and as far as I can tell not deliberately for laughs. Fourth, the tense scenes are way too long and the jump-scares not worth all the waiting. If you've never seen horror movies before, I suppose this will be OK with you, but not for anyone who's been to the movies. Even so, it doesn't excuse the long walks through halls which are completely unnecessary except to show there are no more ideas.Fifth, there WAS a good idea, which was a human puppeteer (Ella) manipulating human bodies (Mr. Ashen), and this would've been brilliant if it weren't submerged in all the overacting and bad writing.As for bad logic, here's one. Both boats are at the dock of Lost Lake, but Jamie doesn't think "how did Henry get across?" I hate gaping holes like that, especially when the characters can't see them. OK, so Jamie is dense - that doesn't really make me root for him, not like Hud from CLOVERFIELD.So overall, not really much to recommend here.

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)

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...

Out of all of the creepy doll movies I've seen, this is one of the better ones thus far. This one really defines creepy to a whole new level. What makes the movie shine, for me, is the sound design or lack thereof. The suspense is definitely the main factor of the film; it really keeps you on the edge of your seat, for the majority of the time. The director, James Wan, really does show that he can direct a really good, effective horror movie. Take a look at Insidious and The Conjuring; two excellent horror movies! Dead Silence is a very underrated supernatural horror movie; not amazing, but not mediocre. If you have any desire to watch this movie, I recommend you watch the unrated version because it's way more horrifying than the theatrical version.