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Dead Silence
Directed by
James Wan
R
2007
89m
Horror
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6.2
22%
51%
6.4
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After his wife meets a grisly end, Jamie Ashen returns to his haunted hometown of Ravens Fair to find answers. His investigation leads him to the ghost of a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw who seems to have ties to his entire family tree
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Cast of Dead Silence
Ryan Kwanten
Jamie Ashen
Amber Valletta
Ella Ashen
Donnie Wahlberg
Det. Lipton
Bob Gunton
Edward Ashen
Laura Regan
Lisa Ashen
Michael Fairman
Henry Walker
Joan Heney
Marion Walker
Dmitry Chepovetsky
Richard Walker
Judith Roberts
Mary Shaw
Steve Adams
Police officer
Keir Gilchrist
Young Henry
Shelley Peterson
Lisa's Mom
Steven Taylor
Michael Ashen
David Talbot
Priest
Enn Reitel
Billy (voice)
Julian Richings
Bos
Fred Tatasciore
Clown (voice)
Austin Majors
Michael Ashen (voice, uncredited)
James Wan
Director / Story
Leigh Whannell
Writer
Dead Silence Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Wan and Whannell have a carnivalesque sense of fun and a sure instinct for recycling classic horror tropes, but their characters are so flat and their plotting so listless that this low-budget feature fails to generate much suspense.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
It's awful. It eats your soul, it's so awful.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
All Wan and Whannell know is shock-and-awe tactics. They may shock, but there's no awe.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Somehow operates under the assumption that a dumb nursery rhyme, a colorless visual palette punctuated by deep reds, and some creaky dolls will frighten anyone over the age of five.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Even without the mechanized death that made the Saw movies such a sensation, it doesn't take long to realize that director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell are merely trying to replace one twisty, gimmicky franchise with another.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A kicky exercise in spook-show atmospherics that manages to hit all the right notes while never quite coalescing into the Dario Argento-esque aria of creepiness it so clearly aspires to.
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Terrified of puppets? Enjoy being scared? Then you'll be half-satisfied with Dead Silence, a rote horror pantomime.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
Dolls are innately unnerving, but the movie's semi-menacing Charlie McCarthys never live up to their potential.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Armed with a decent budget, director James Wan and co-screenwriter Leigh Wannell fashion at least a dozen sequences that are spooky even while they defy logic.
Los Angeles Times
Ed Gonzalez
The movies have always asked us to suspend our disbelief, but Dead Silence demands our ignorance of its own derivations. A conflation of the horror genre's laziest tropes, plot angles and shorthands.
Variety
John Anderson
Formulaic and rather lazy exercise in booga-booga scare tactics.
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
While one might wish to commend Wan and company for making a horror pic that's less reliant on gore and gross sadism than the ones that they're normally associated are, what they're serving up as an alternative really lacks.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Director Wan demonstrates that he's equally effective working in a more classical vein, especially with his skillful use of chilling low-key sound effects and silence in several scary sequences.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This new movie is a more credible, less grisly act of filmmaking , but it's a less compelling exercise. It doesn't have the ruthless moral reasoning of the first two Saw pictures, however grotesque and specious that reasoning was.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Saw creators Leigh Whannell and James Wan know scary: all that stuff that heebie-jeebied you when you were a kid. (Or as Entertainment Weekly would say: Dead Silence is awash with atavistic horror tropes.)
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
There's no attempt at humor in Dead Silence, but the biggest sin in the film is the lack of scares.
Slant Magazine
Rob Humanick
Wan lays it on thick, for sure, but without feeling and (even worse) without reason.
New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
The film's playfully self-aware touches (like a grand old theater named the Guignol) distract from its leaden pacing, three too many final twists and various behavioral idiocies.
UGO
Brian Tallerico
Fans coming from the Saw franchise are going to be bored to death by Dead Silence.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
There is little wit and even less ingenuity here, the film lacking suspense, shocks and scares almost the entire way through.
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Dead Silence Scene: Mary Shaw Is Heckled
Dead Silence Scene: Mary Shaw Is Heckled
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Dead Silence Scene: Lisa Gets Attacked By Billy
Dead Silence Scene: Lisa Gets Attacked By Billy
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Dead Silence Scene: Jaimie Talks To Detective Lipton
Dead Silence Scene: Jaimie Talks To Detective Lipton
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Dead Silence Scene: Jaimie And Lisa Talk About The Doll
Dead Silence Scene: Jaimie And Lisa Talk About The Doll
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Dead Silence Scene: Billy Scares Jaimie In His Hotel Room
Dead Silence Scene: Billy Scares Jaimie In His Hotel Room
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Dead Silence Scene: Jaimie Asks His Father About An Old Poem
Dead Silence Scene: Jaimie Asks His Father About An Old Poem
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