Hush Movie Review
Director: Mike Flanagan
Writers: Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel
Starring: Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr, Michael Trucco,
Samantha Sloyan, Emma Graves
Synopsis: A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live
a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears
at her window.
Review: In a genre that is now reduced to cheap pops to
scare audiences rather than tell an actually story, Hush is a nice break from
the current day horror movie stereotypes. The reality of the situation that takes place
during Hush is both bone chilling and terrifying, even more so because this
movie could absolutely happen in real life. Maddie, played by co-writer Kate
Siegel, is a deaf writer who is living on her own in the woods working on
finishing her next book. John Gallagher
Jr, who plays the killer, gives a great performance as a man with no other goal
then to slowly destroy his victims.
The simplicity of this movie is what makes it work so well. While
this is a story that has been told several times, Flanagan structured the movie
perfectly for the audience to feel exactly what Maddie is going through. It is
very cat and mouse, but getting to see how Maddie plans her next move really is
the most relatable part of the film. The scene where Maddie has to decide her
next move literally puts the audience in her head, she knows she can’t run, but
if she tries to hide she wont make it. Knowing that flight is not an option,
Maddie realizes she must fight to survive this. She is going to have to kill this man before
he kills her if she wants to survive.
I’m not sure who’s idea it was, but kudos to who ever
decided not to give the killer a name. With a story so realistic, what is
scarier than leaving the villain as a mystery? He could be anyone. Also, the
soundtrack, or lack there of sometimes, made this movie. I’m a sucker for a good
soundtrack, but being a movie that revolves around a deaf character, taking out
the loud sound effects really contributed to this movie. The suspense in the
silence did more for the movie than any soundtrack ever could have.
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Nice review. I agree about the great use of silence in this one.
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