OH MY GOD this is dang scary.THOSE stupid ass dolls they rip out your tounge.IT scared the heck out of me. THAT night i watched it i could not sleep.
Dead Silence
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Common Sense says
A Nightmare on Dummy St. from Saw creators.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 15–16
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Dead Silence was written by Charles Cassady Jr.
Parents need to know that this horror movie shows grotesque image of corpses with mouths open and tongues torn out. The violence is shown in quick, nightmarish flashes (it's a ghostly curse doing it, after all, not human handiwork), and is very intense. A young boy is prominent among victims. Other imagery plays on people's worst fears of creepy ventriloquist dummies, dolls, mannequins, marionettes, and clowns -- this could definitely give smaller kids and other sensitive viewers nightmares.
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- Families can talk about the movie's retro horror style with the use of dry-ice fog, nearly black-and-white cinematography, the exaggerated cop character -- even the absence of swearing and sex in the film. Ask your kids why they think the filmmakers decided to hearken back to this more innocent era? How does the movie compare to old Universal Pictures horror movies with Frankenstein's monster, the Wolf Man, Dracula, and others? Why are people creeped out (or not) by dummies and dolls?
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What’s the Story?
A young wife is murdered, with her tongue torn out. Police detective Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg) immediately suspects the husband, Jamie (Ryan Kwanten), of the crime, mocking the young man's story that back in the town of Raven's Fair, where the couple grew up, there was a legend of a twisted lady ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. Her ghost supposedly pulls your tongue out if you scream when you see her in a nightmare. And Jamie and his wife had just received a mysterious package from Raven's Fair containing an antique dummy. To prove his innocence and bury his late spouse, Jamie goes back to Raven's Fair. Jamie tries to break the curse by burying the dummy in the cemetery with Mary Shaw, but it's not that simple.
Is It Any Good?
The filmmakers behind the grisly hit Saw and its sequels also made DEAD SILENCE. Even with intense scenes of hideous corpses, the violence isn't as nasty as Saw's sadistic torture. Expect gruesome makeup effects and digital hauntings in an otherwise old-school chiller, complete with smoke-machine fog and cobwebs that look like they came straight from a magic shop. Even the Universal Pictures logo at the beginning of this is the black-and-white antique one, not the modern version.
If your teens are already watching and loving horror movies, Dead Silence is probably OK for them. The big question is whether horror-hardened youth will forgive a fairly predictable "trick" ending. Not to mention a ghost who's an obvious takeoff on the more interesting dream-haunting demon Freddy Krueger. Some of the scary stuff is just fleeting glimpses of Mary's ghost, reflected in a mirror or in deep shadow. Dead Silence actually gets less frightening when the filmmakers apply the fancy CGI special-effects or reveal Mary Shaw in full. It's far more ominous just to show the dummy's staring eyes or grinning face suddenly turned in a different position than the last shot.
Movie Details
Studio: Universal Pictures, Director: James Wan
Run time: 90 minutes
Theatrical release: 3/16/2007, DVD release: 6/26/2007
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence and images
Run time: 90 minutes
Theatrical release: 3/16/2007, DVD release: 6/26/2007
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence and images
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I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Negative role models
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I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Negative role models
- My highlights are:
OH MY GOD this is dang scary.THOSE stupid ass dolls they rip out your tounge.IT scared the heck out of me. THAT night i watched it i could not sleep.
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I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Negative role models
- My highlights are:
OH MY GOD this is dang scary.THOSE stupid ass dolls they rip out your tounge.IT scared the heck out of me. THAT night i watched it i could not sleep.
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I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
those frigin dolls scared me they are SOOOOOOOOO creepy.
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I rate this title on for age 14 and give it
Great Movie
I really enjoyed this movie, as did my teenage daughter. No swearing, nudity, or sex. The movie is violent, but most of the violence is done by "supernatural" forces and is payback for the vigilante violence that is seen in the beginning of the flick. I thought it was great, very scary, and could have well been rated PG-13.
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I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give it
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- Excessive violence
Age 11 - Great!
Age 11 kid reviewer Loved this movie so much! there was such atmoshpere and a great soundtrack! There was hardly and violence and some quite a bit of gore. Corpses are shown with rippped out tounges. There is though, only 7 seconds worth of footage of them and that is 4 shots only. The ghost in the movie is quite frightening though. The most scary scene jumps out above all others though. A man is locked in a tiny basement which is very dark. This scene incorporates fear of darkness and tight spaces. The man then sees the ghosts hand, turns arounds and she is behind him. With a face lit from underneath by a torch, he screams. the ghosts grins evilly and rushes towards him then there is a shot of him falling out of the basement. With his tounge ripped out. This movie is not too scary though and not as violent as it sounds (you never see her rip out anyones tounges) it is really great!
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I rate this title on for age 14 and give it
I screamed so many times!
That movie was so scarier than I thought it would have been! This one seen where an old man is looking for his wife, because he heres noises in the basement, he goes down into the basement and still heres crying but its not her, so he is on his knees holding a flashlight searching. When he finally gives up the door slammed shut really hard! He started freaking out. When he turnes around he sees Mary's hand all white and stuff and bloody, thats when his panic attack starts. Then the hand disappears. The old man gets scared, oh and by the way its really quiet too, so he turns his head to the left and sees the dead woman who rips peoples tongues out! She is smiling at him and then rips his tongue out really fast but you can still see it and the afterpart.
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
i would deflinty buy this movie
really good movie
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
One of the milder.
Other than a few intense images, it didn't warrant an R rating.
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
THIS MOVIE WAS VER BORING
When I went to see this movie I thought it was going to be good but I slept the whole time in the theatre.Boring. Go watch another movie. Not woth the R rating.
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
Ahhh, sort of
OK, a couple things id say. One, IT IS Definitley scary, make sure your kids know that it is fake and it could never happen. If you have a mature child and knows that its fake than yes take him or her to see it. But, its definintley scary be sure. Take a second and think.
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
Why does junk like this make into theaters?
Oh, I remember...because producers are greedy and could care less about the damage they do to children. Stay away.
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I rate this title off for age 0 and give it
Come on common sense!!!!
Of course this is not a childs movie people need to grow up and watch what there kids are doing and its rated R for a reason,
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
AWESOME
This was a fantastic movie!The vilonce was not bad at all!This deserved a PG-13 Rating i think
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
AAAAHHHAAAA! DUMMIES! :D
Ok, so I had to sneak into the theatre with my friends to see it, bt it was worth it... I was so scared, I actually had to slep with a NIGHTLIGHT on! LOL. I'll never look at dolls/dummies the same way ever again... Gory and very nightmarish, but it's supposed to be scary, right?
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
Very good!
Great movie! I never was bored. Stuff happened right from the start. It was a really good movie. But not for kids.
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
Suspenful
This movie will have you on the edge of your seat it isnt that bad with nudity or violence.It has very little sware words in it. A Must see film for all ages
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
best movie!
i went to see this with some of my friends and i thought it was great! i love bloody, horror, actiony movies, but if you dont, then this isn't the movie for you
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