Dead Silence is a really good old school themed horror movie which contains no sex, drugs or strong language, whoever there are quick shots of violence where the vengeful ghost Mary Shaw rips out her victims tongues if they see her and start to scream. The main reasons to know and let your children know before watching this movie is that there are very creepy and disturbing images of people being made into real human ventriloquist dummies, family portaits of parents and their children with their tongues ripped out, and of course, Billy the Dummy. He's the creepy-looking doll which opens his mouth and tells the viewers that Mary Shaw is going to appear. Definitely not a movie for younger children, because of the intense frightening sequnces of the ventriloquist dummies, humans made into dummies, and Mary Shaw herself.