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An interesting thriller thats directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus) and has a nice limited cast. While the setting is nothing beyond familiar, a house in the woods, the premise is very interesting, a deaf woman stalked by a psychotic killer.
While Mike is a favourite director of mine, Oculus was beyond terrifyingly good, his work here is average as some of the characters are pretty stupid at times. There are two characters who come screaming for help of our lead heroine, who is DEAF!!! They seemingly forget this. Our lead also does some stupid things, like "SPOILER" the lead shoots the bad guy in the shoulder, does nothing, and she whines up loosing an arrow and getting a broken hand.
The character building is good and the intensity and visual flare is great, the characters are just stupid sometimes.
The Newton Brothers (composers) provide a good score, but slightly down from their excellent score for Oculus.
Sadly, while Hush has an interesting premise Oculus provided more of the scares and horror and Hush is an above average thriller which starts out good but gets silly when the lead is seemingly stuck in one spot and the characters start acting stupid.
Mike's second horror film is a good thriller just not as good as Oculus.
Rating: B
P.s The killer only wears the mask until the lead says something that leads him to getting rid of it. If the characters didn't act so stupid and the killer kept silent and wore the mask I would of liked the film a lot better.
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