Mainly because the producer of "Dead Silence" Gregg Hoffman passed away before the film was completed, director James Wan added this line of subtitles to commemorate Hoffman's death.
It is worth mentioning that Gregg Hoffman's representative works include "Chainsaw", and his last movie was called "silence". Hoffman died at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. The cause of death was natural. Death, he had complained of neck pain before hospitalization, which also added a mysterious color to his death.
"Dead Silence" can still be regarded as an excellent suspense movie with horror overtones. The town has a legend that centers on Mary Shaw, the greatest ventriloquist of the 1940s who was said to have gone mad and was accused of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Because the boy accused her of being a liar. Mary Shaw was captured by the angry town residents, brutally cut out her tongue and killed. The people of the town buried her with her dolls, thinking that she would be quiet forever.
Unexpectedly, those buried dolls would appear in someone's house in the town from time to time, and then someone would be brutally killed. The victim, like Mary Xiao, had her tongue cut out. Tired of the curse, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ash decide to leave their hometown and start a new life somewhere new. However, the life they expected did not come, because Lisa was murdered in the apartment. Jamie decided to take his wife's body back to the town for burial, and at the same time he also wanted to find out the truth about Lisa's murder.
This is where the story enters the puzzle-solving stage. The story is not that scary, but the director is a master of creating a suspenseful atmosphere. The whole movie is shrouded in a weird and frightening atmosphere. Coupled with the well-made props and various bluffing tricks, I finished watching this movie. It's really "frightening". After reading it at 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, I became more frightened of dolls. It's really weird that humanoid things have souls. I'm thinking, if a child who likes to collect dolls watches this film, what would it feel like to look back at his pile of dolls?
Take a look at the manipulator behind the scenes, director James Wan. James Wan, the director of "Dead Silence", is a Chinese director, screenwriter, and producer. In 2004, James Wan, who had never directed or starred in a feature film before, was spotted by Hollywood and directed the horror thriller "Saw", which made him famous in one fell swoop. What a series of scary and disgusting movies. In March 2007, James Wan and Leigh Whannell jointly designed the script for "Dead Silence".
In the process of writing the story, the two people also tried their best to distinguish the film from the style of the "Saw" series. This time they decided to return the new film to the style of a traditional horror film, similar to their My favorite Italian horror film style is that it does not rely on bloody scenes to scare people, but only relies on the story and atmosphere to create this horror film. Wan Ziren's request for the story was to scare himself first, and he put all the scenes that he thought were the scariest into the script. Judging from the finished film, Wan Ziren did scare himself first, and by the way, he also scared the global audience. A handful.
Wan Ziren's most famous works include "Fast and Furious 7" and the recent hit "Aquaman". As a Malaysian of Chinese descent, he has not spent many years in Hollywood, but his meticulous thinking and rich imagination are amazing, and he can fully attack the audience visually, intellectually and emotionally. What's even more commendable is that in addition to carefully laying out the plot and making every detail, James Wan is also good at hiding the revelation of the good and evil of human nature and questioning the philosophy of life behind the blood.