Dead Silence

Dead Silence is a 2007 supernatural psychological horror film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, the creators of Saw. The film stars Ryan Kwanten, Judith Roberts, Donnie Wahlberg, and Amber Valletta.

Returning to Ravens Fair to make arrangements for his wifes funeral, Jamie asks his wealthy father, Edward, what he knows about Mary Shaw. Edward is wheelchairbound with a new, much younger wife, Ella, who takes care of him. Edward writes it off as a local superstition. Before leaving, Jamie warns Ella that Edward is a monster, but she assures him that he has changed. Meanwhile, the towns elderly mortician, Henry, is shocked when he opens Lisas body bag, because he recognizes a pattern in the way she was murdered. After Lisas funeral, Jamie wanders around the cemetery and finds Marion, Hanks senile wife, who warns him of the danger of Shaws puppets and he realizes he should rebury Billy. He does so, but Detective Jim Lipton had followed him to Ravens Fair and had seen him bury it. Lipton digs it back up, unconvinced of Jamies innocence in Lisas death and believing that hes trying to conceal evidence. Jamie tells him about the poem, but Lipton is skeptical. The next morning, Jamie brings Billy to the mortician, Henry, who finally tells him about Mary Shaw.Shaw was a famous ventriloquist whose ambition was to make the perfect puppet. At one performance, a young boy named Michael heckled her, saying that he could see her lips moving when performing with Billy, upsetting Mary, and the boy went missing shortly after. Shaw was blamed for the disappearance, and the boys family killed her. Her final wish was to have her body turned into a ventriloquists puppet and to be buried with her 101 puppets. A young Henry wandered into his fathers mortuary and accidentally knocked over her coffin. Shaws body briefly came to life and approached Henry, but he survived by covering his mouth to keep from screaming, as Shaw can only kill her victims when they scream. ........

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