As the result of a bout of meningitis at the age of 13, author Maddie Kate Siegel is now unable to hear or speak. One evening, while struggling to write the ending to her latest book, she comes face-to-face with a psychopath John Gallagher Jr.
She's not alone in her idiocy, though, because the men in this film make equally bad decisions—choices that prove very costly indeed. The attacker frequently allows opportunities for his victims to gain the upper hand, despite supposedly being experienced at the killing game, while neighbour John Michael Trucco , who comes looking for his missing girlfriend Sarah Samantha Sloyan , clearly possesses the IQ of a potato: he actually believes that the bad guy is a cop, despite him looking more like a textbook criminal than a lawman unshaven, wearing a hoodie and sporting a neck tattoo.
Although directed with style by Mike Flanagan Absentia, Oculus , and well acted by its limited cast, Hush is still plot-hole ridden, derivative dreck that delivers very little in the way of innovation, save for a single scene where Maddie uses her analytical writer's mind to run through the potential scenarios and come up with a plan. She opts to fight, which leads to the inevitable bloody showdown that, once again, offers nothing new to the home invasion genre.
I had no expectations to "Hush" because I hadn't even heard about it prior to happening to find it in the horror section. I read the synopsis and found that it sounded interesting enough. So I decided to give the movie a go. The movie was fast paced and well-told, although it did suffer from being generic and predictable, as many movies in this particular genre tend to be.
The ensemble of acting performers on the cast list was fairly limited, so there was a bit more of a performance pressure on their shoulders. It should be said that the actors and actresses in the movie did carry themselves and the movie quite well.
Kate Siegel was really outstanding with her performance in the movie, and she was the one doing most of the lifting. This is more of a thriller than it was a horror movie, so don't expect to be scared out of your seat.
This is the type of movie that slowly sinks in and creeps under your skin. This movie is actually well worth taking the time and effort to sit down to watch if you have the opportunity. But I have to say that I hardly see myself returning to watch the movie a second time, because it just doesn't really have that repeated viewing quality to it. My rating for "Hush" is six out of ten stars. Kate Siegel stars in "Hush" from , a thriller co-written by Siegel and her husband, the director of the film, Mike Flanagan.
The main character, Maddie Siegel , has been a deaf mute since she contracted meningitis in her teens. An author, she lives an isolated life in a house off the beaten track, and at the moment, she's working on a new book. A masked intruder cuts off her electricity and terrorizes her. This isn't a horror movie, which is the reason I watched it. It's very exciting in spots, and I was very happy when she finally did what I had been screaming mentally for her to do the entire film.
Normally in any film of this kind, I don't ask for realism, but despite an excellent premise and a wonderful performance by Siegel, it doesn't hold up under scrutiny. First off, why is a deaf mute living in a place with so little civilization? Her lifelines are her phone and her computer and without them, she's without help.
Second, who is this guy? We don't know. He's a murderer, and I guess he's just out seeing who he can kill tonight. We get no background. And he takes his mask off too early - it would have been eerier if he'd kept it on.
What would possess the neighbor to believe this maniac is a cop? Finally, Maddie and the killer's cat-and-mouse game is strange.
I don't know where she was planning to go the times she left the house - somehow that seemed unwise. The killer made some unwise choices himself, and either one of them could have killed the other many times and did not. This film had unrealized potential had the script been better. I give it points for keeping me on the edge of my seat. Quinoa 17 May As with the first major film from director Mike Flanagan, Absentia, and to an extent Oculus, the originality of a set-up isn't the most concerning thing.
Everything for him comes down to storytelling, storytelling, g-ddamn visual storytelling. How are you going to set up your shots, get your actors to connect with the audience, to make sure that past the set up that he knows we've seen before - a man comes back after years being 'missing' but what he missing; two adults fight back against the demonic entity that took their parents; a woman who is deaf has to stop a home invader-killer - and make it CINEMATIC?
I put the emphasis on that last word because many horror movies tend to forget that last part the most awful and excruciating example being Unfriended, but I don't want to crap on Blumhouse getting something right here so I'll let that go for now. It can't just be the situation, and a director has to keep that in check when putting forward all of the dots together.
This doesn't mean a movie like Hush is anything perfect - in fact it almost falls apart in the last five to ten minutes, and I wish they had used the fact that this protagonist is deaf a little more, at least as something dramatic that could be used against her it does happen, just not enough - but that's not the point I'm trying to make here.
Why should you stop what you're doing and check this out on Netflix? Well, the larger question is why didn't this get a theatrical release? This is shot as something that really should be experienced in a theater, or at least in the dark with awesome sound and a bright, large screen. For lack of a better term, Flanagan's canvas is sharp as a tack, and as much as I can praise the cinematography and I do , the writing from Flanagan and Siegel is what's sharpest of all. All of these actions that the characters take, whether it's Maddie or the killer, have to be written out and thought out.
In this sense it's closer in scope to No Country for Old Men for major portions, with those set pieces where the characters face off, go from one part of the house to the other, and there's barely a word if any at all, usually there isn't in the space of five, ten, fifteen minutes at times.
I felt in the grip of this film not because its concept was anything mind-blowing though, for once in I don't know how long, it makes sense and is logical to be set in a rural environment surrounded by trees , but because I get caught up in what each figure, hero and villain, will do next, and the vulnerability of her position made me think what I would do in that position, deaf or not.
Are there some contrivances? And in the time this evening since I've seen the film I've thought of some things that can be nitpicked or taken apart. It's not as complex as Absentia or as visually warped as Oculus. If you like honest to goodness ie Halloween 78' slasher flicks, or when a home invasion movie has reasonably solid logic note: this isn't The Purge in case you're wondering, there's no politics or any big questions like that and just want to get completely scared out of your minds, this is the thing to watch right now, and Flagan is one of the dependable young filmmakers working in horror.
In some ways not your ordinary horror movie. Director Mike Flanagan is also credited as co-writing with star Kate Siegel, who plays a deaf writer secluding herself in a home in the woods. She has learned to live with her disability; but how is she to tell when a killer is peeping in her windows.
Not a lot of sound cues to warn you of shocking moments The psychotic killer's motives are pretty hushed. Flanagan hasn't revised how to tell a home invasion story, but sure gives you enough wiggle room. Calicodreamin 29 October This movie ticks the suspenseful box for sure, I've never screamed at the tv so many times. Now that being said, most of the times were due to the complete idiocy of the main character.
She takes forever to get a weapon, wanders around the house with no plan, lays on the floor crying But it had some great moments and the cinematography and special effects were well done.
Home invasion horror movies aren't even worth making anymore unless there's going to be a gimmick that sets them apart. In "Hush," the gimmick is the deafness of the protagonist, a young woman who lost her hearing to meningitis as a teenager and now lives in a secluded cabin in the woods of course.
The man who wants to kill her wants to kill her just because, and he enjoys terrorizing her first. Her deafness is portrayed as both a hindrance and an advantage. On the one hand, she can't hear her stalker but he can hear her; on the other hand, she's forced to think creatively and act in ways that her attacker isn't necessarily expecting.
The film's set up is handled well. In an opening scene, we're almost overwhelmed by the snap, crackle, and pop of the heroine making dinner, sounds we would normally take for granted thundering at us over the soundtrack.
This primes us to pay attention to aural cues throughout the rest of the movie, and indeed one finds himself cringing at each little squeak and rustle the protagonist makes as she runs and hides from place to place. At one point, she realizes the only way to beat this dude is to do the one thing he won't expect, and that's to fight back and kill him.
And while I agreed wholeheartedly with this sentiment, I also found that the air goes out of the film a bit from that point forward. The filmmakers make such a point of establishing her deafness early on that I wish that condition had played more of a role in her actually triumphing over her attacker. But in the end, her deafness becomes beside the point and she deals with him much the same way as anyone would.
It's refreshing to find a heroine in a horror film who doesn't act as a ninny, but by the end, gimmick aside, there wasn't much to distinguish "Hush" from any number of similar films. The film it most reminded me of in recent memory is "You're Next," which wasn't a great film either but did a better job of sustaining its gimmick premise all the way through the film.
Hush review JoeytheBrit 16 April A young deaf-mute woman in a remote cabin in the woods is terrorised by a psychopathic killer with a crossbow. No doubt we're supposed to admire the feisty heroine in Mike Flanagan's Hush, but there's definitely something distasteful about the sadistic way Kate Siegel's character is treated that makes the movie both unpleasant and irritating. The script by Flanagan and Siegel focuses on the situation and pays little attention to fleshing out its characters, but at least it resists having her ex-boyfriend arrive at the last minute to save the day.
As time passed the only thing that I would hear about Flanagan's next project was it being caught up in studio issues with the resulting offering Before I Wake finally coming out now after a long delay. Which led to me deciding to speak up.
The plot: Attempting to come up with a fitting ending for her new novel,deaf author Madison "Maddie" Young is visited in her quiet woodland cottage by Sarah,who talks to Maddie about how much she has enjoyed reading her latest book. As Maddie sits writing her novel completely unaware later that night,Sarah rushes back hammering on the door,which is stopped when a masked wearing man kills her.
Soon realising that Maddie is deaf,the killer starts making plans to use Maddie's silence for the sound of death. Taking place in the "real world" Flanagan retains his supernatural Horror roots in close collaboration with cinematographer James Kniest and sound editor Joshua Adeniji,as long drawn shadows of the killer are scatted across the outside of the house in dazzling crane shots coiling up the tension, unleashed in bursts of ultra-stylised violence that seep under the shaking floor of the porch.
Dicing the Home Invasion Thriller with the blood dripping Slasher,the writers brilliantly link both genres via the merciless attacks from killer who is only one of five characters! Ripping up his nice guy looks, John Gallagher Jr. Spending 70 minutes of an 81 min film without a single line of dialogue to react from, Kate Siegel gives a superb performance as Maddie.
Spending time with people in the deaf community,Siegel subtly expresses the horror waving outside Maddie's house with her care-free body language hardening into a mould of horrified anxiety,as the killer tries to hush Maddie up. Wizard-8 13 July The Blumhouse production "Hush" may have got a little inspiration from the 60s movie "Wait Until Dark", though this time around it involves a woman who is not blind, but is deaf.
And probably due to the low budget, the woman this time around is only threatened by one intruder instead of several. Despite the low budget, the movie does not really come across as cheap, as is usual for Blumhouse productions. And the whole package overall comes across as watchable As I indicated in my subject line, there are some elements in the script that really scream for a rewrite. The bad guy's motivation is basically that of a masked killer from a s slasher movie - namely no motivation or real personality at all.
Usually the best Hush runs are more focused on tears rather than damage yes, this includes Soy Milk runs , which is helpful thanks to the boss armor.
Also, if you seriously think Hush is the hardest boss, wait until you fight Delirium. Your opinion will change drastically. Originally posted by Why do people hate me so much? Originally posted by The Hush :.
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View mobile website. So yea I thought it was terrible and I'm really hoping that there aren't people in this world that are like these characters. Victoria Jul 18, PM 0 votes. Hush hush was awful.
Becca Fitzpatrick definitly tried to make it into a kind of mystery. But honestly it was just a pile of crap. I mean who could possibly fall for Nora. She's just so incipide and has not an ounce of independence in her body.
With that said, I respect everyone's opinion : The movie will surely be even worse! God it will make such a bad impression of YA to the world. Greselley Jul 03, PM 0 votes. I don't hate this book and I also don't like it. Neha Jan 29, PM 0 votes. Marce Jul 19, PM 0 votes. Okey, to start with it is terribly bad written. The novel is creepy and Nora Grey is like, the most stupid stereotype of a teenage girl.
I just hate her, she is like increadibly lucky to count with Scott, who is just so sweet, and of course, absolutely misterious and sexy patch, he is a bit of a stalker tough. I read the complete saga, and Hush Hush is the best of the fourth by far, in my opinion at least.
Cecily Jul 09, AM 0 votes. Another hater over here :D That book was idiotic! Triscia C. Jan 29, AM 0 votes. Ally Jul 09, AM 0 votes. I hated this book passionately. Nora was just too stupid to care about.
Jenny Jul 09, AM 0 votes. This series was good but then after not reading it for a while, it just died down on me. The series was good up until the last book. It would have been better if she ended the series at Silence. Finale seemed a bit too rush and it wasn't a good read. The only problem I had with this series was Nora. She was annoying. I hated her.
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