Dead Silence is a movie by horror maestro James Wan. He's given us the following classics (or at least well known franchises):
And of course, the project I most recently saw, Dead Silence.
If you can't tell, Mr. Wan seems to have issues with dolls. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Dead Silence, where 101 evil ventriloquist dummies are featured.
There are spoilers ahead, so be warned!
Essentially the plot boils down to this: Mary Shaw was a ventriloquist in the olden days obsessed with making the perfect doll. Her attempts included her abducting and murdering a child who heckled her performance. So the townsfolk murdered her and ripped out her tongue. All these years later she's killing the members of the family that the heckler belonged to, including THE UNBORN. She rips out your tongue if you scream, and then you die. Simple. Ish.
What put most people off was the unnecessary and confusing twist at the end: the protagonist's step-mother had turned his father into a ventriloquist dummy AND WAS HERSELF a perfect doll possessed by Mary Shaw.
Oh, and the ghost murders everyone. The end.
The twist, while well hidden (the second viewing shows the stepmother's hand is ALWAYS behind her husband's back, etc), was just pointless. Originally Stepmommy was a real woman who the husband pushed downstairs to force her to miscarry, and then she became obsessed with/possessed by Mary Shaw. It made a LOT more sense, and I have no idea why it was changed. Maybe James Wan got cold feet. Maybe the studio did. Either way, we still have 90% of a good James Wan film, and I recommend it.
And of course, the project I most recently saw, Dead Silence.
If you can't tell, Mr. Wan seems to have issues with dolls. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Dead Silence, where 101 evil ventriloquist dummies are featured.
There are spoilers ahead, so be warned!
Essentially the plot boils down to this: Mary Shaw was a ventriloquist in the olden days obsessed with making the perfect doll. Her attempts included her abducting and murdering a child who heckled her performance. So the townsfolk murdered her and ripped out her tongue. All these years later she's killing the members of the family that the heckler belonged to, including THE UNBORN. She rips out your tongue if you scream, and then you die. Simple. Ish.
What put most people off was the unnecessary and confusing twist at the end: the protagonist's step-mother had turned his father into a ventriloquist dummy AND WAS HERSELF a perfect doll possessed by Mary Shaw.
A couple of dummies.
Oh, and the ghost murders everyone. The end.
The twist, while well hidden (the second viewing shows the stepmother's hand is ALWAYS behind her husband's back, etc), was just pointless. Originally Stepmommy was a real woman who the husband pushed downstairs to force her to miscarry, and then she became obsessed with/possessed by Mary Shaw. It made a LOT more sense, and I have no idea why it was changed. Maybe James Wan got cold feet. Maybe the studio did. Either way, we still have 90% of a good James Wan film, and I recommend it.
Geek tested. Slappy approved.
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