ahmernajam23
But there is one thing that concerns me :p
How come she did'nt have a landline phone in such a house
laurie-86667
Although I loved the lead actress in this film, and she is very beautiful, I wanted to kill her myself through most of the movie. I hate movies where the female protagonist runs around helpless while some male attacker hunts her down. This whole movie would have been over in 5 minutes if that dude had come to my house. 38 special. Need I say more?She repeatedly leaves the house without a weapon. If she had grabbed a knife and hidden under the stairs and waited for him to walk by, she could have at least cut his achilles tendon and run.And if you're handicapped and live alone in the woods, you'd better have some way of contacting police, or protecting yourself. Then, she gets her friend's husband killed. Urgh. That was really maddening. What is the whole moral of the story? Call your ex back when you get that urge and invite him over? If she had done that, none of this would have happened? What was the story with him anyway? There wasn't enough background to the plot. What was the motive of the killer? Why the mask, if he was going to take it off so early on? I give it 7 stars because it had a decent ending, and it was definitely a nail-biter.
Platypuschow
The slasher genre was at it's peak in the 80's, when the 90's came it began to struggle and in this guys opinion it's never fully recovered. Sure every once in a while a high profile slasher movie pops up but the interest never seems to last.I'd say a primary reason is that they're all the same but that could be said about a lot of horror sub-genres.Here we have the story of a mute/deaf author who lives out secluded in the forest and you guessed it she falls foul of a masked killer.The fact she's deaf actually adds more of an element to the movie than you'd imagine and though Hush suffers from the same Slasher tropes as every other it manages to stay fresh regardless.Well shot, well written and well acted by both little known leads I came away from Hush very satisfied. Sure it's nothing revolutionary but it didn't need to be, it's a demonstration that slashers still have life left in them.The Good:Cat survived!Some well crafted momentsBoth leads were excellentThe Bad:Slasher tropesThings I Learnt From This Movie:Sometimes lack of motive makes a killer that much scarierIf anyone tried to hurt my cats the arrow would be going up their butt not in their shoulders
Paul Evans
I've skimmed past this film several times and paid it little attention, a few minutes in after the opening pleasantries the film switches in tempo, and what follows is a gripping, unnerving and at times uncomfortable watch. I think because the victim is initially unaware of the perpetrator, the film is given a different twist, plenty of thrills follow. Listed as a horror, I suppose the premise fits it into that genre, but in reality it's very much a psychological thriller. Don't get me wrong there were some scares, like the bath scene, but generally it's a thriller.Kate Siegel and John Gallagher Jr. are just incredible, two particularly good and contrasting performances. Perhaps because the film features less dialogue then the norm you are encouraged to watch it without looking away at phones and tablets etc, you are forced into a greater concentration.So much more then the usual house invasion film.
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