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More tasteful than recent slasher flicks, but Dead Silence is undone by boring characters, bland dialogue, and an unnecessary and obvious twist ending.
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Wan and Whannell have a carnivalesque sense of fun and a sure instinct for recycling classic horror tropes, but their characters are so flat and their plotting so listless that this low-budget feature fails to generate much suspense. Dec 3, 2007 | Full Review…
Wan and Whannell have a carnivalesque sense of fun and a sure instinct for recycling classic horror tropes, but their characters are so flat and their plotting so listless that this low-budget feature fails to generate much suspense.
J. R. Jones
It's woefully flat and not nearly as scary as it thinks it is. It almost makes one yearn for Saw. But not quite. Jul 6, 2007 | Rating: 2/5
It's woefully flat and not nearly as scary as it thinks it is. It almost makes one yearn for Saw. But not quite.
Derek Malcolm
I admit that I didn't see the daft last-minute twist coming, and sort of admired it, but for the rest you'd need an extravagant love of hokum not to feel mildly bored. Jul 6, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
I admit that I didn't see the daft last-minute twist coming, and sort of admired it, but for the rest you'd need an extravagant love of hokum not to feel mildly bored.
Anthony Quinn
there's something about its overblown stormy-night atmospherics and reliably dismal dialogue that's bad in almost a fun way. I'd rather laugh through this kind of harmless, rickety schlock, any day, than grimace through Saw III. Jul 6, 2007 | Full Review…
there's something about its overblown stormy-night atmospherics and reliably dismal dialogue that's bad in almost a fun way. I'd rather laugh through this kind of harmless, rickety schlock, any day, than grimace through Saw III.
Tim Robey
A reasonable shocker. Jul 6, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A reasonable shocker.
Peter Bradshaw
The sensual pleasure in watching this kind of horror movie depends entirely on your tolerance for ear-splitting jolts of shock. In the end, though, the film sags like a David Lynch pudding. Jul 6, 2007 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The sensual pleasure in watching this kind of horror movie depends entirely on your tolerance for ear-splitting jolts of shock. In the end, though, the film sags like a David Lynch pudding.
James Christopher
Mediocre and illogical retro horror pic about a malevolent dummy. Sep 12, 2017 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Mediocre and illogical retro horror pic about a malevolent dummy.
Dennis Schwartz
If you're in the mood for a Saturday afternoon-ish throwback thriller, you could certainly do a hell of a lot worse than this one. Aug 28, 2015 | Full Review…
If you're in the mood for a Saturday afternoon-ish throwback thriller, you could certainly do a hell of a lot worse than this one.
Scott Weinberg
A very creepy little ditty that works once it rears up to the second half. Jun 26, 2013 | Full Review…
A very creepy little ditty that works once it rears up to the second half.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
A Nightmare on Dummy St. from Saw creators. Dec 14, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A Nightmare on Dummy St. from Saw creators.
Charles Cassady
All dolls are inherently freaky, but there's something seriously bent about a little wooden man with bulging eyes, shiny cheeks, and perfect chompers. Jul 6, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
All dolls are inherently freaky, but there's something seriously bent about a little wooden man with bulging eyes, shiny cheeks, and perfect chompers.
Steve Newton
Plodding and bereft of suspense, "Dead Silence" is an irredeemable jumble of cliché genre fragments. Apr 26, 2009 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
Plodding and bereft of suspense, "Dead Silence" is an irredeemable jumble of cliché genre fragments.
Cole Smithey
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