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Dead Silence

Na het overlijden van zijn bruid moet de rouwende kersverse bruidegom Jamie terug naar zijn geboortestad om de geest van een buikspreker te bestrijden

Na het overlijden van zijn bruid moet de rouwende kersverse bruidegom Jamie terug naar zijn geboortestad om de geest van een buikspreker te bestrijden

Onze opinie:
Een B-horrorfilm die het puur lijkt te moeten hebben van de naam James Wan als regisseur maar reken dit absoluut niet als een referentie voor de man zijn werk. De regisseur van Saw en Insidious levert hier een saaie brok met slecht acteerwerk en en zo mogelijk nog slechter script. Het énige dat enigszins origineel is aan de film is de plotwending op het einde, maar dan moet je het wel volhouden tot dan. En dat is niet makkelijk…

Dead Silence (2007) Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 89min | March 16, 2007 (United States) 6.2
Director: James WanWriter: Leigh Whannell, James WanStars: Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie WahlbergSummary: Every town has its 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. Once reunited with his ill father, Edward, and his father's new young bride, Ella, Jamie must dig into the town's bloody past to find out who killed his wife and why. All the while, he is doggedly pursued by a detective who doesn't believe a word he says. As he uncovers the legend of Mary Shaw, he will unlock the story of her curse and the truth behind the threat from a rhyme in his childhood: if you see Mary Shaw and scream, she'll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die...is your own voice speaking back to you. —Christopher Hernandez

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