Dead Silence

Dead Silence (Shhhh.../Silence with alternate titles The Doll/Mary Shaw) was released in 2007 as a supernatural psychological horror and created by the makers of Saw.

Plot

Happily married husband/wife duo Jamie and Lisa one day find a mysterious ventriloquist doll named Billy at their front door in a package. Playing on the note of a poem named "Mary Shaw", Jamie disregards Lisa's comments and leaves to grab dinner leaving his wife and the mysterious doll at home alone.

Lisa - not phased by the outlook of Billy - plays and poses with him in the mirror before setting him on their bed. Strange occurrences slowly start to force Lisa into thinking the worst. In one instance, all sound within the atmosphere goes out which usually indicates that Billy is coming alive. In another, Billy is placed in a different position than the one Lisa put him in.

Jamie later comes home to a horrifying sight of his wife murdered in bed with her tongue ripped out, Billy not too far from her body. It is later after the police begin to question Jamie as a suspect that the man finds out Billy was once the puppet of a ventriloquist by the name of Mary Shaw which leads him to his old town of Ravens Fair.

There Jamie slowly starts to uncover many secrets that begin tying this murder case, cursed puppet and Mary Shaw to his family background.

Overall

I typically get creeped out by anything involving a cursed object such as a doll but this is the first movie I've seen where a ventriloquist dummy has really bothered me. Though the plot was a bit hard to follow, it was nice to see things playing out right from the introduction of the story. Far from a slow start and more so fueled with questions while watching, Dead Silence is a pretty decent horror film. Least to say it's like the majority, but with an exciting plot twist at the end, I really had to give it some props.

I probably wouldn't watch this again. It's not the best movie I've ever seen concerning a horror, but it's rather decent. I would recommend it to someone whose interested in seeing more of a thriller. I think at the most, Dead Silence is just that and far from a horror.