Dead Silence

Starring:Kristy Swanson, Vincent Spano, Vladimir Kulich, Bruce Boxleitner, Tony Todd, Daveigh Chase, Jason Allen Hardiman, Lee Look, Walter Coppage, Jim Petersmith, Timothy Patrick Klein, Craig Benton, Bruce Heinrich
Director: Tom Whitus
Studio: Allumination
Product Type: DVD

Customer Reviews:

Well the town is creepy.......2007-07-05

Just like House of Wax, good set but not so great of a movie. I rented this movie instead of buying it and im glad I did. I have a habit of buying movies before viewiing them. Dvds can be purchased for the price of seeing one in theaters or a rental at the video store. On to the movie, story is pretty weak. I dont see how people enjoyed this been there, done that story that had alright speical effects. Overall, its a renter and not buyer.

Dead on arrival.......2007-07-05

Dead Silence is from director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannel; the same duo who crafted the first Saw film and oversaw their sequels. Dead Silence also marks a departure in terms of changing the pace from the torture horror sub-genre to a more typical slasher fare which we get here. The change isn't necessarily for the better either, even though Dead Silence has more going for it than you may think it does. For starters, it's pretty safe to say that many people think of ventriloquist dolls as being creepy by themselves, and here the film doesn't disappoint. Besides the overly creepy atmosphere though, Dead Silence doesn't do much else right in the horror department, and isn't scary or remotely suspenseful one bit. The gore effects aren't much to write home about either, and the film as a whole just feels lazily put together. In the end, you've just got to feel sorry for Donnie Wahlberg (Saw II and III, Band of Brothers) who gets no help as a detective here. All in all, Dead Silence isn't a total turkey, but there's nothing overly redeeming about it either.

A scary horror film for the first time in forever.......2007-07-03

I'm a big fan of horror movies.cheap ones that make you laugh,gory ones that gross you out,and suspencefull ones that make you jump.I like them all!But I love this one.For the first time since In years I was actually scared.There were some funny parts but unlike most of the time I did not need to pick apart this movie and laugh.The plot was beautiful not to simple or to complicated.Some of the dolls were scary and the lady villan was very scary.Not to mention the scenes were absolutely beautiful.This movie was top notch

Dead Silence.......2007-07-02

I just bought the movie and I also went to see it at the movies. I have to be honest with you. This is the SCARIEST FRIGGIN MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN in theatres! and yes I do watch alot of scary movies, but none of them have ever scared me like Dead Silence. all the scary movies I've ever seen only scared me when something pops out out of nowhere or something happens really fast but in this movie they had like every scary element to keep you scared the whole way. Especially when the dead silence starts and every noise goes quiet, it that feels like when you are about to drop down a rollercoaster really fast, it's like they warn you that something really scary is gonna happen and it does. I still haven't seen it at home but I don't think it's going to be as scary anymore cause I'll just watch it on normal TV with no surround sound

This Movie Sucks BIG WOOD .......2007-07-02

Wow I couldn't believe how crappy this movie turned out to be. They should have shown more of that old creepy looking lady when she was doing her little vaudeville act with her dummy. She was the scariest looking thing in this movie. Forget the dummy. Very boring story. We were laughing and clowning this movie while we sat in the near empty theater. I was more dissapointed from the aspect of I love horror movies and this was a waste of what cold have been pretty cool. When I can't appreciate the movie and when the movie turns its back on me I start the jokes and the comedy. Making fun of this crappy movie was the only thing that got us through this flick.

All I know is Puppet Master would wear his little wooden a#% out.

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You get what you pay for?

Dead Silence (Unrated) [HD DVD]
Starring: Michael Fairman , Julian Richings , Joan Heney , Bob Gunton , and Donnie Wahlberg
Director: James Wan
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B000PMLJN0
Release Date: 2007-06-26

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You get what you pay for?.......2007-07-02

I gave this one star only because O is not a given choice. Thank you for pointing out that this DVD is only playable on an HD DVD. I would run right out a buy one if only you had included a synopsis of the movie. An HD DVD would cost a lot more than my ordinary DVD, but not as much as spending money on a DVD of which one knows nothing.

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Dead Silence (Rated Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Michael Fairman , Julian Richings , Joan Heney , Bob Gunton , and Donnie Wahlberg
Director: James Wan
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ASIN: B000PMLJMG
Release Date: 2007-06-26

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NEGOTIATING THRILLS
Dead Silence
James Garner is priceless!

Dead Silence
Starring: Kim Coates , Lolita Davidovich , James Garner , Marlee Matlin , and James Villemaire
Director: Jr. Daniel Petrie
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ASIN: B000A2XAP0
Release Date: 2005-08-30

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This unusually taut thriller features James Garner playing against type as John Potter, a humorless FBI agent negotiating with an escaped convict, who, along with two cronies, has kidnapped a school bus full of deaf students and their teacher (Marlee Matlin). Stashed in an abandoned slaughterhouse, which is as much a character as the people in this HBO movie, the convicts and their prisoners sweat out Potter's refusal to give in to demands, despite the fact that he lost hostages--and the public's faith--his last time around. Garner gives his usual sterling performance, Kim Coates is an evil surprise as the ringleader of the convicts, and Matlin is fine, but underused, in a wordless performance. Lolita Davidovich comes in late in the game to tie up the loose ends and give the ending its punch. Director Daniel Petrie Jr. sets up the action during opening credits, an efficiency mirrored throughout the movie and capped off by an unexpected, but not out-of-the-blue ending. Donald Stewart (Missing) based his tightly written screenplay on Jeffrey Deaver's novel A Maiden's Grave. --Kimberly Heinrichs

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Three killers, eight hostages and only one man - Senior Agent John Potter - who can get them out alive. But what stands between him and their freedom, is more than just the criminals holding them hostage. Can he save the mission from ending in DEAD SILENCE. ' 'A really good action movie that fits James Garner to a T.' ' - Seattle Times

Customer Reviews:

NEGOTIATING THRILLS.......2004-02-21

DEAD SILENCE is based on Jeffery Deavers' excellent "A Maiden's Grave," and as is in most instances, the book is better than the movie. But to screenwriter Donald Stewart's credit, his script maintains much of Deavers' plotting and nuances to be a credible adaptation.
A busload of deaf mute students is held hostage by a notorious bankrobber, played with effective and cold mania by the underrated Kim Coates. The schoolteacher (Marlee Matlin) is heroic in trying to come up with ways to get her kids out of this mess. But FBI negotiator John Potter (played with controlled excellence by the ever dependable James Garner) has his own way of dealing with the hostage situation.
There are some nifty plot twists (a norm for the crafty Deavers) and the cast plays them out well. Director Daniel J. Petrie, Jr., focuses on the characterizations with minimal over-wrought histrionics. Charles Martin Smith plays the swarmy assistant attorney general; Scott Speedman in an early role plays the heroic Stevie; and Lolita Davidovich comes on late as a hostage negotiator who has had her turn with Coates.
A sharp, intelligent thriller.

Dead Silence.......2003-06-29

After escaping from prison and crashing their car, three psychopathic killers hi-jack a bus full of deaf children and their teacher and take them hostage in a slaughter-house. The FBI arrive at the scene and it's up to the tired cheif (James Garner) to negotiate with the criminals over a cell-phone.

Although it begins promisingly, the comunication between Garner and the criminals becomes tedious after some time, and the action doesn't pick up until the lone twist is reveiled. Lack of surprises and action doesn't help either. Garner is good in the role he plays.

If you like this film, I also recommend "The Taking Of Pelem 123".

Overall: 3 stars

Rated R for some graphic violence, language, and explicit sexual dialogue.

James Garner is priceless!.......2003-03-31

James Garner is priceless in this movie! It was hilarious to see some of those 4-letter words coming out of his mouth! My husband & I got the biggest kick out watching him in this role and the movie itself was really good. We enjoyed it and I am waiting for it to come out on DVD.

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Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) heads an all-star cast in this riveting political thriller about a desperate race to save the only witness to a crime with ties to a sinister conspiracy. After young Rachel Pressman (The Rings Daveigh Chase) witnesses a brutal murder in a Kansas City parking garage, homicide detective Steve Banks (Vincent Spano) and his ex-lover, beautiful police psychologist Dr. Julie Craig (Swanson), work together to help the child identify the killer. But when an FBI agent (Bruce Boxleitner) gets involved, it appears that what looked like a simple mugging gone awry may actually be part of a deadly cover up engineered by a corrupt Washington power broker (Tony Todd). Will the truth be discovered in time to protect Rachels life& or will she be silenced permanently?

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kept my interest.......2004-04-07

Kristy Swanson,Vincent Spano and Bruce Boxleitner headline this thriller about a girl who winesses a murder that is more than it appears.

kept my interest.......2004-04-07

Kristy Swamson,Vincent Spano and Bruce Boxleitner headline this thriller about a girl who winesses a murder that is more than it appears.

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Ultimate Killer DVD Collection

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This giftset includes 14 edge-of-your-seat thrillers including: Silence of the Lambs, Misery, Fargo (Special Edition), Manhunter, Hannibal (Special Edition), Kalifornia, Eye of the Needle, House of Games, Gangster No. 1, The January Man, Malice, Perfect Strangers, Special Effects and Dead Man Walking.

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Let's see if we can get this straight guys
WACKY WILBUR FALLS

Dead Silence
Starring: Danny Aiello , Sally Kirkland , Shanee Edwards , Suzanne Cryer , and Jeff Daurey
Director: Juliane Glantz
Manufacturer: Mti Home Video
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ASIN: B00005LP3N
Release Date: 2001-08-21

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Renata Deveroux is a small town girl with big time problems. Always the butt of vicious jokes, she's pushed to the breaking point and decides enough is enough. Someone must pay for what they've done. Her own prank on a brutal jock turns shockingly fatal. There's only one problem: Where's the body? As the police close in, only her stepfather Phil (Danny Aiello), a former sheriff, knows the true secrets that lie submerged in Wilbur Falls.

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Running Time 95 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Let's see if we can get this straight guys.......2007-04-11

I know I'm just as guilty, and believe me I paid for it a long time ago; well 18 years ago is more like it. What I'm talking about is the fact that a poor girl was the victim of a creul joke. I know what all you guys are thinking: "It's only a joke; she should just get over it....WRONG!!!!" I know this one girl in school who was called every name in the book because she always had a boy's haircut, and she was tall and skinny, and was told she reeked. I saw her 8 years later at the age of 20, and she was good looking, but it was a couple of days before she was to marry. I know that I regret not having been more of a friend to her when I knew her. The first relevant scene is where the main character is 12, and she goes to her first dance, and is humilated by a drawing of her masturbating, and this was shown by a boy who she had a crush on, and 5 years later she's looking rather hot, and the boy starts to notice her, and wants her, so she takes him down to the boat dock, and tries to get him in a boat, so they could do some extremely heavy petting. She does a masturbating ritual to get him going before she dives off into the water, but the boy ends up falling in, and is drowned because he's obviously afraid of water, and can't swim. This is the actual meat of this slop, and I do mean slop. Two scenes, and that's all. The rest is all crap in which it has the girl trying to cover up, and make it sound like the boy ran away, and it just has all the makings of a Lifetime movie loser. It just has alot of stupid things in here that just drug the movie through the muddy water that the girl loved to swim in. This film however, did teach me one thing, and that's the importance of remembering the old song from that television show "The Electric Company" where it has the boy and girl doing the old ditty "That's what little girls are made of", and they start taking shots at each other, and finally cooler heads have to prevail, and the song becomes "What little boys and girls are made of". I feel that the latest commercial about teaching little boys not to begin hitting girls is very relevant, but I feel that it also needs to go even further to where we teach the little boys to treat little girls respectfully, and that way we can keep trashy movies like this from seeing the light of day.

WACKY WILBUR FALLS.......2006-07-05

DEAD SILENCE (original title: Wilbur Falls) is one of those movies that doesn't seem to know if it's a comedy or a drama, but it's unique enough to entertain in an odd sort of way. Shanee Edwards plays Renata, a high school valedictorian who leads us back to four years earlier and a nasty stunt played on her by her high school comrades. Four years later it leads her to plot revenge against the jock (Charlie Newmark) which leads to his accidental death. She tries to cover it up, with the help of her best friend. Meanwhile the jock's girlfriend Jodie is pregnant and asks Renata to help her get an abortion, which leads them to Renata's older sister who is involved with a second rate gangster named Johnny Handsome. It all gets pretty strange with some bizarre twists. Danny Aiello plays her father, a former cop who is married to spiritually inclined Sally Kirkland. David Anthony Marshall plays Aiello's replacement, a redneck kind of sheriff who never buttons his shirt. They all do well with Edwards very effective in her complex role. Not a great film but enjoyable.

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Going Against The Grain . .
GO TO ANOTHER MOVIE INSTEAD!
Just bad.
Slick Style Ghost Story !!!!! ( I am not a child just easier to do reviews)
dead garbage

Dead Silence
Starring: Ryan Kwanten , Enn Reitel , Steve Adams , Keir Gilchrist , and Taylor Masamitsu
Director: James Wan
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ASIN: B00005JPMN

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Billy in Dead Silence inevitably recalls other possessed dolls such as those in Devil Doll, but he is an entertaining dummy nonetheless. As a variation on evil-doll films like Child's Play or Puppet Master, Dead Silence stars a dummy who isn't a killer himself but a vehicle for a vengeful ghost. Previously owned by Mary Shaw, a ventiloquist who was murdered by local Ravens Hill villagers for kidnapping a boy to turn him into a human puppet, Billy houses Mary Shaw's spirit while she gets revenge on all those who killed her. Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) unravels Billy's mystery after Billy is delivered to his door to claim Jamie's wife's life, since she is pregnant with Jamie's son. Mary Shaw aims to obliterate his entire Ashen clan, since they were partially responsible for her death. Plot, from there, teeters on the ridiculous, as Mary (via Billy) rips peoples tongues out left and right. Jamie's futile attempts to stop Shaw's ghost result in his discovering a gruesome secret about his brutal, abusive father. Writer Leigh Whannell and director James Wan, of Saw, made this almost comical film about 101 dummies, all relatives of Billy's, who are slaves to their sadistic creator. With many direct references to '80s horror films, and a soundtrack theme song almost exactly like Phantasm's, Dead Silence's charm banks on its lack of computer-y special effects rather than its originality. Billy's sly violence is creepy but funny, making for a relatively lighthearted horror film that won't traumatize as much as it makes one chuckle. —Trinie Dalton

Customer Reviews:

Going Against The Grain . . .......2007-05-08

I'm going to go against the grain with this one. I found DEAD SILENCE to be an enjoyable movie. Sure it's done by the same guys that brought us the 'SAW' trilogy, but here they're showing us that they have versitility. I really liked the gray wash on this movie, and I had read that it was a tribute to the Hammer films. Now the film did have a little suspense, but did anyone expect the ending of it?

GO TO ANOTHER MOVIE INSTEAD!.......2007-04-23

DEAD SILENCE WAS A VERY SLOW AND BORING MOVIE WHICH WASTES THE TALENTS OF ALL INVOLVED! MAYBE WORTH A RENTAL...BUT NOT WORTH A THEATRICAL VIEWING!
I BELIEVE THAT WITH A LITTLE WORK,HOWEVER, THE FILM COULD HAVE BEEN GOOD!
IT'S OBVIOUS THAT THE FILMMAKER'S HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO!

Just bad........2007-04-12

This movie is irritating as soon as it begins. The tacky post-production looks like something a highschool student who just learned how to use filters would do to make their movie look "cool." The stop-motion and excessive use of very unrealistic "old-movie" grain overlays in the introductory credits and in transition scenes throughout the movie draws attention to itself in a way that completely distracts from anything they're actually showing on screen, and makes the images themselves more abstract and much less scary. The fifteen-year-old who edited this REALLY needs to learn some restraint.

Aside from that, the plot really isn't worth commenting on. It's filled with holes, and the ending defies the little logic that was there.

A few of the scenes of the dummies, particularly the ones set in the past, are genuinely creepy. That's pretty much the extent to which this movie is any good.

Slick Style Ghost Story !!!!! ( I am not a child just easier to do reviews).......2007-04-05

I must say i really enjoyed this movie and found that it held my attention for the 90 so mintues of running time - which in my books is enough to give the film 3 stars.

I am sick of hearing people state that this " isn't like SAW" or "this proves that SAW was a fluke". I mean it's a different movie and to be honest there are enough SAW movies that i didn't feel like watching a clone (though SAW 4 is stupidly on it's way - leave it with 3).

With the perfomance: I live in Australia so most of us will remember the main male charater as Vinnie from a series here called Home and Away. I have to say he was bland in his performance on that show and he was bland in this. His reaction to some of the going -ons around him such as his wife being brutally murdered didn't click but maybe the directors were looking for a somber performance and not a dramantic performance and blame can be centred on them for not providing the actor with some range.

But then as i alluded to - he was crap on Home and Away too.

You would think if your partner was murdered in a ghastly way you would react for some weeks after (maybe he had post-tramatic stress). As others have said, the imagery in this film was great and the backstory of the villan Mary Shaw was a highlight (this woman is damn creepy). I did enjoy Donnie Walburg's performance but i can't help but feel that if i am identifying him as the best actor in this then it shows how woeful the other's were.

The movie has been promoted as more of a killer doll movie but it isn't. The main villan is a ghost not a doll. She just uses the doll to keep herself from slipping into the afterlife for good. She needs an instrument to hold her in the real world and that just happens to be the 101 dolls she created (her children). So don't expect any doll massacre action cause it's not there. Infact i would say the dolls don't kill anything they just allow the sprirt of Mary Shaw to come through.

The movie did remind me alot of Darkness Falls, which i will go on record as saying is damn good though most people hate it. Personally i feel that Darkness Falls is a little more superiour than Dead Silence but Dead Silence has a more Hollywood feel to it which some like.

Have to say the sound dropping out (hence Dead Silence) whenever there is going to be some supernatural mayhem was good and quite effective and the lavish scenery suited this type of gothic like ghost story.

Overall, Dead Silence is a decent little horror flick more in the style of a suspense ghost tale than an action packed horror film with gore. If you go in thinking SAW, you are gunna be disappointed. Enjoy it for what it is, a decent yarn and a entertaining 90 minutes. The movie really is quite tame.

I will be buying this on DVD simply cause i love horror movies and like the backstory of Mary Shaw and the fairytale like quality of both the scenery and overall feel of the film. For most though, it's a rental at the most.

dead garbage.......2007-03-24

by this movie being rated r, it was very corny! a complete waste of money at the movies! please people, wait for the dvd realease!

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Going Against The Grain . .
GO TO ANOTHER MOVIE INSTEAD!
Just bad.
Slick Style Ghost Story !!!!! ( I am not a child just easier to do reviews)
dead garbage

Dead Silence
Starring: Ryan Kwanten , Amber Valletta , Donnie Wahlberg , Michael Fairman , and Joan Heney
Director: James Wan
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Customer Reviews:

Going Against The Grain . . .......2007-05-08

GO TO ANOTHER MOVIE INSTEAD!.......2007-04-23

Just bad........2007-04-12

Slick Style Ghost Story !!!!! ( I am not a child just easier to do reviews).......2007-04-05

dead garbage.......2007-03-24

by this movie being rated r, it was very corny! a complete waste of money at the movies! please people, wait for the dvd realease!

Murder On the Orien Express/Sworn to Silence/Dead By Midnight

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Murder On the Orien Express/Sworn to Silence/Dead By Midnight
Starring: Ardustry Combo
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