Dead Silence-Supernatural Horror Movie

Dead Silence is a supernatural horror movie set in modern day times (albeit 2007). It focuses on the main character by the name Jamie Ashen, a young man just recently married to an equally young woman named Lisa. The movie starts off with the sequence of an old woman building (and planning) a doll. The one she physically builds is simple, one of those creepy, strange, ventriloquist 'dummy's'. It looks similar to the puppet Stan in R.L. Stine's "Night of the Living Dummy" which is the seventh book in the original Goosebumps book series, witch, perhaps, is intentional by the producers to remind people of the little series from their childhood. The movie did not receive good reviews the best it received was on IMDB with only a 6.3 out of 10 and The director James Wan (of the saw franchise) stating that it was not a well constructed movie and that he would never be working the same way he did with Dead Silence. It only received in total 17 million at the box office even with the 20 million budget in total.

Once the movie starts Jamie Ashen and his wife Lisa talking about how it would be a better idea to buy take out than to wait for Jamie to finish fixing the sink. The doorbell rings and Jamie goes and answers it, the hallway is empty and all that is there is a package in brown paper with only his name scrawled on the top, Jamie bring it inside to their couch and him and his wife open it, after tearing away the paper what is revealed is a strange worn chest about two feet in length. When opened Lisa exclaims that Jamie had gotten them a child a proceeds to speak to Jamie with the doll mocking a ventriloquist. Lisa then asks Jamie if he remembers the old poem from their childhood when Jamie fails to reply Lisa starts reciting "Beware the stare of Mary Shaw, She had no children only dolls" and having forgot the rest of the poem. She gives up and after some joking claims that there is no reason for Jamie to be scared of the doll and that she would protect him.

In the next scene Jamie has gone out to get the take out and Lisa prepares a kettle on the stove; she then heads to their bedroom and sets the doll on the bed and turns her back on it looking in the closet. Behind her the doll turns its head to face her and she notices this when she turns around again but thinks nothing of it and proceeds to hid it under a sheet, sitting upright, as a prank set for Jamie. She looks at herself in the mirror and turns her body to the side and adds a pillow under her shirt, just over her stomach and starts touching her stomach delicately. The music coming from the living room starts to become distorted before turning off entirely, during this Lisa assumes it is Jamie messing with her and she turns off the light in the room and goes to check only to be confused when he is nowhere in the room. The clock on the bookshelf then slows to a stop and the kettle starts to 'scream' the sound as well distorting before becoming silent. Lisa, looking confused and alarmed, turns her head and proceeds to return to the bedroom with shaky breath, there is a flash of light in the dark room and Lisa slowly makes her way toward the bed with the doll still under the sheet. When Lisa attempts to remove the sheet it flies off suddenly and you hear what sounds to be a growl, the sheet covers Lisa and you hear a knife being unsheathed, Lisa is thrown to the doorway by an invisible force. Landing on her stomach and she then coughs up blood and attempts to crawl away in vain and looks behind her and fear slowly creeps its way onto her face. Then the unknown being grabs her legs and pulls her back into the room the last scene being her mouth open, screaming.

After returning with the take out Jamie calls out to Lisa asking is she was trying to burn down the house by keeping the kettle on the stove and then asking where she is, Lisa responds that she is 'in here' and Jamie comes into the hallway and Lisa says that she has a surprise of him and you hear another voice repeat the last words 'for you Jamie'. In panic and fear Jamie rushes into the room to here the sheet is and removes it only to be horrified with the sight of his wife's dead body strung up similarly to how you would with a marionette and her mouth hanging open, Horrified Jamie staggers back and bumps his foot against the 'dummy' lying now in the floor.

The movie then goes through Jamie returning to his home town of Ravens Fair, for Lisa's funeral, where they had both lived in childhood trying to figure out what happened to his wife and trying to keep distance from the cop taking up his wife's case who thinks her murdered her. He ends up discovering that the childhood poem was more that a tall tailed ghost story to keep children in line

The movie is filled with horrifying images of various characters without toughs and decaying bodies. It has an interesting lore and the poem from the movie has brought on a following with quite a bit of creative juice.

ORIGINAL POEM: Beware the stare of Mary Shaw She had no children, only dolls and if you see her in your dreams Make sure you never ever scream… Or she'll rip your tongue out at the seam. And if you see her remember this, The only thing that can stop her is…Shhhh

FULL POEM WITH EXTRAS: Beware the stare of Mary Shaw She had no children only dolls And if you see her in your dreams You must never, ever scream For she is taking revenge upon all Who had silenced her and made her fall Sending out 101 dolls to rip out their tongues So none of them will utter a single word again Beady little eyes, turning every way you go Leave them in the dark and you never know Forever they will place you down, in eternal sleep With a picture of horror, your own blood will seep And gone forever, she will take All your loved ones and family Beware of Mary Shaw

She's very angry And whatever you do, don't appear scared For she will murder you and leave your blood there Her ghost is kept inside one doll Dug from her grave, you will lose it all Just don't say her name Don't ask her why She'll take your loved ones and she won't cry Beware of the stare of Mary Shaw Her spirit lives on

(Rights to the poem go to http://crazysis64.deviantart.com/journal/Mary-Shaw-Poem-from-Dead-Silance-218055158 and the writers and producers of Dead Silence)

Overall despite its reviews I enjoyed the movie and still got quite a few jump scares and creepy chills despite watching it in broad daylight and a well lit room.

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