dead silence;

so this actually a horror movie, so there was no 'horror' category, so i'll make due with whats here. can i just say that dead silence is one of the scariest movies i have ever seen. and i dont get scared by movies at all. the fact that i probably have a subconscience hatered of dolls (thanks, chucky series!) coming alive adds fuel to that fire, but i digress.

anyways, the movie starts off as any normal scary movie -- slightly dull at first, but keeps your interested enough to watch to see whats going to happen next. the fact that ella (the blonde) is actually the person you would least expect it to be kind of mind blowing. but what was even more mind blowing is that jaime's dad is actually - in fact - dead throughout the entire movie. jaime's wife also only makes it through the first ten minutes, if that but the sad thing is she was pregnant -- she just hadn't told jaime about it yet.
i must say though, tat the scene where his wife is found in a toppled over position on the pillows with her mouth open is definitely going to send chills down your spine.

that creepy poem going on throughout the entire definetely helped out, and centered around the movie:

beware the stare of mary shaw
she had no children, only dolls
and if you see her in your dreams,
be sure you never ever scream.

so what happens in the movie, you might ask? well i'm not telling you. you should watch it for yourself. but lets say that jaime (the main character, other then mary shaw) has his great-great uncle to thank for a family curse put upon the family, thanks to the uncle's bratiness as a kid; thus pissing off mary shaw enough to have her go after every male (or soon enough every female) in his family and having her way with them.

you start to catch the drift that mary shaw is way into this doll making/collecting thing during one of the scenes where theres over one hundred dolls nicely placed in glass containers on a long wall, one right after the other. how they got there? who knows considering mary shaw was buried with them after she died, when the townspeople cut out her tounge for supposedly kidnapping their children, killing and turning them into dolls for her collection.

the detective (who was also in the SAW series) makes an apperence in this movie; and to be perfectly blunt, he annoys me in it. hes the dillhole detective who doesn't mind his own buisness and thinks hes the most amazing thing you grace the small town jaime lived in.
he does give comic relief to a certain extent, but at times i just wanted to reach into the screen and slap that electric razor that you see him with 95% of the time out of his hand.

the ending is actually VERY suprising, and might make you scratch your head a bit. theres an alternative ending which is even creepier (and i kind of wish they had used that, instead of the original ending) but mary shaw gets her revenge, and a long drawn out mystery is revealed in the process.

the movie itself is worth watching obviously. maybe a second or third time as well; but you probably wouldnt want to watch it repeatitively within a six month time span.