Dead Silence is a 2007 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, the creators of Saw. The film stars Ryan Kwanten, Judith Roberts, Donnie Wahlberg, and Amber Valletta.While the movie did receive negative reviews at its release, it has since gathered a cult following.
Cast
Ryan Kwanten as Jamie Ashen
Amber Valletta as Ella Ashen
Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Jim Lipton
Bob Gunton as Edward Ashen
Judith Roberts as Mary Shaw
Michael Fairman as Henry Walker
Keir Gilchrist as Young Henry
Laura Regan as Lisa Ashen
Joan Heney as Marion Walker
Shelley Peterson as Lisa's Mom
Steven Taylor as Michael Ashen
Dmitry Chepovetsky as Richard Walker
Enn Reitel as Billy (voice)
Fred Tatasciore as Clown Doll (voice)
Plot
Jamie Ashen and his wife, Lisa, receive an anonymous gift of a ventriloquist doll called "Billy". While Lisa is playing with Billy, a figure approaches her, causing her to scream. Later, Jamie returns home and finds her dead with her tongue cut out. After Jamie is released from custody by Detective Jim Lipton due to lack of evidence, he spots inside Billy's box a mysterious message about "Mary Shaw", a deceased ventriloquist from his hometown, Raven's Fair.
At Raven's Fair, Jamie visits his estranged and wealthy father, Edward, who uses a wheelchair, and his much-younger wife, Ella, for information regarding Mary Shaw. Dismissing them as superstitions, Jamie arranges for Lisa's funeral with the help of a local mortician named Henry Walker. Jamie meets Henry's senile wife, Marion, who tells him of the danger of Mary and her puppet, Billy. After burying Billy, Jamie is confronted by Detective Lipton in his motel room, the latter still doubting Jamie, and digs up Billy, after Jamie leaves the cemetery where Mary Shaw and the rest of her dummies are buried.
Henry tells Jamie that Mary Shaw was a famous ventriloquist who was publicly humiliated when a young boy named Michael rudely claimed that he could see her lips moving during one of her performances. Some weeks later, Michael disappeared, and his family blamed it on Shaw and lynched her. Mary's last wish was to have her body turned into a dummy and buried with her 101 dolls. Henry, then the young son of the local mortician, saw Shaw (after she was turned to a dummy) rise up, but was spared thanks to his having kept his mouth shut, because Shaw takes her revenge by killing only those who scream. Jamie then finds out that Michael, who was indeed the first victim, was his great-uncle. Since the Ashen family were the ones who killed Mary by making her scream so they could cut her tongue out, she has been seeking revenge against their entire bloodline by killing them in the same way.
While crawling under the house after discovering Marion with the Billy puppet, Henry is killed by Shaw, who steals his tongue. Detective Lipton discovers that all of Shaw's dolls have been dug up, and informs Jamie, who receives a call from "Henry", asking him to go to Shaw's theatre. There, both Jamie and Detective Lipton discover 100 of the dolls lined up with Michael's body, which has been turned into a marionette. Through a clown doll, Shaw reveals to Jamie that she killed Lisa because, unbeknownst to Jamie, she was pregnant with his son, thereby killing any potential newborn of the Ashen family. Jamie and Lipton then burn the theatre and all of Shaw's dolls, though in the process, Shaw successfully makes Detective Lipton scream and kills him.
Back at his father's residence, Jamie is confronted by Mary Shaw, but he repels her by throwing Billy (the 101st and last of the remaining dummies) into the fireplace. He then learns, much to his horror, that his father had already died long ago; the current "Edward" is actually a doll converted from his corpse and controlled by Ella, who is the "perfect doll" for Shaw, created just before her death. Jamie then screams as Ella, possessed by Mary Shaw, lunges at him.
The film ends with Jamie reciting a nursery rhyme about Shaw and a photo album with human puppets is shown: Lisa, Henry, Detective Lipton, Edward, Ella, and Jamie himself.
Categories:
2007 films,English-Hindi language films,2007 horror films,American films,American supernatural horror films,Films scored by Charlie Clouser,Films directed by James Wan,Mannequins in films,Films with screenplays by James Wan,Ventriloquism,Universal Pictures films,Films about spirit possession,2000s supernatural horror films
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