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Dead Silence (2007) 6.0
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Metascore: 34/100
Reviews: 276 user | 141 critic | 15 from Metacritic.com A widower returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife's murder, which may be linked to the ghost of a murdered ventriloquist. Director:James Wan |
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Cast
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Joan Heney | ... |
Marion Walker
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Dmitry Chepovetsky | ... |
Richard Walker
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Michael Ashen
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Shelley Peterson | ... |
Lisa's Mom
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Billy
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Every town has it's own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. However, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths around them after Mary Shaws collection has returned from their graves and have come to seek revenge on people that killed her and their families. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen thought they had established a fresh start, until Jamie's wife is grotesquely killed in their apartment. Jamie returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa's death. ... Written by Christopher Hernandez
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
16 March 2007 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$20,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$7,842,725 (USA) (16 March 2007)Gross:
$16,545,445 (USA) (13 April 2007)Company Credits
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Henry Walker: Ever since she was buried, Raven's Fair has been plagued by death. Families murdered. They were found without their tongues.
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The film was made into a haunted house at Universal's "Halloween Horror Nights" in 2007 in Florida. See more »Goofs
When Henry's father is recreating Mary Shaw's body, Billy the doll is clean in one shot but dirty and broken in the next. See more »Quotes
[about Mary Shaw]Henry Walker: Ever since she was buried, Raven's Fair has been plagued by death. Families murdered. They were found without their tongues.
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This movie helped me regain my faith in horror movies to scare me. Also, faith that there are still directors out there waiting for there chance to scare us again. When I was younger, I got scared watching horror movies. When I got older, except for Nightmare on Elm Street and John Carpenter's The Thing, I haven't really been scared. I enjoy the movies, but not scared. This movie re-instated the fact that I "can" be scared.
Then there are the creative transitions in the movie. Awesome! Those and the atmospheric lighting and musical score created a most eerie atmosphere. Sometimes the slightest of tension before the storm.
The triumph being the director's choice of sound editing. Shhh! I won't give this away. But I extremely appreciated that gem. (RE: the title of the movie)