Gabe Reviews Horror

This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #51: Hush (2016) I was kind of dreading watching this movie, to be perfectly honest. I've seen it before, a few years ago. I was dreading it because while I remembered it being very good, I remembered it being TERRIFYING. And it 100% was terrifying on this re-watch. Hush is a movie by Mike Flannigan, who's made several other fantastic horror films (including Oculus, one of my top ten horror films of all time). It's about a woman named Maddie who gets stalked and attacked by a masked serial killer, with the encounter made all the more difficult by the fact that Maddie is deaf and mute. As such, this film is almost entirely without dialogue- there's apparently only fifteen minutes of it in the entire film- and several scenes are without any soundtrack or ambient noise as well, imparting the experience of Maddie's lack of hearing onto the viewer. (I will say, I think it's int...

This review was originally written in October 2016. Day 23: Hush This movie was very, very well made. I always applaud any writer who is willing to give themselves some significant handicap when writing- having to make a compelling movie, then, about a deaf person and without being able to rely on dialogue is a big step and forced them to work that much harder to make a compelling story. It's a breath of fresh air every time a slasher film comes out that doesn't rely on the main characters being stupid- I always say, if your story is ruined by a character acting intelligently, then your story was ruined from the start. That said, one thing I don't understand is, why did the main character never go back to get the friend's phone? She tries to get it at first, then the killer taunts her by placing it within reach right outside the window. In the many times when she knows he's somewhere else, why did she not nip over, grab the phone, and call the police? I suppose it...