Hush (2016)

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   NoShower

   Not bad, especially for only four actors and one small setting. The lack of jump scares was appreciated too. Worth watching. 7 years 10 months ago
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   PrinceJax

   Really liked this one. Everything important and that comes up later is set up in the first half hour. I love a clean thriller/horror like that. It's gripping all the way through, which is impressive when you're not relying on jumps to get a reaction out of the viewer. Minimalistic and wonderful. Watch it ! 7 years 5 months ago
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   Siskoid

   After Oculus, director Mike Flanagan offers Hush, a tight thriller about a deaf writer, working on her novel's ending, besieged by a masked serial killer in her country house. It's an intriguing idea, and the third act delivers on the theme of finding a good ending, but at times, the movie is so relentless dark, lighting-wise, that its action is obscured, and I felt like I was staring at black abstracts. I can't decide if it's meant to take away one of our senses the way the main character can't access sound, or what, but given that the film is necessarily light on dialog as well, there was too much sensory deprivation. The sound design is mostly for our benefit, of course, but I would have liked more soundless moments to put us into the character's head than we did, if only to see how much tension could have been gleaned from fleeting, silent movement in the frame. Beyond the stylistic choices, the story is rather thin, the villain especially. I really wanted to like this picture after the likable opening scenes, but alas, I got lost in the murk. 7 years 8 months ago

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