![]() ![]() What a novel idea Flanagan uses to impart Maddie’s disability directly on to the audience. Turning down the volume in Hush will simply put you in Maddie’s shoes. It is usually the sound in a film that creates and instills fear (or any other emotion desired) and when you turn down the volume, the scary factor of a scary movie goes away. Typically, I would not look at the horror/thriller genre, but your description of the film piqued my interest. Your review of Hush is so appealing that I have added it to “my list” of films. A recommendation means you don’t have to search for the needle in the haystack. The breadth of the content is overwhelming and you can spend an inordinate amount of time perusing the categories, hunting for something to watch. Netflix is a treasure trove of movies and television shows, not to mention its own productions. Watch the film to see just how wrong he was. The killer in this film thought Maddie would be an easy kill because she is deaf. This concept of making the viewer deaf to help them understand what Maddie is going through is ingenious but also completely horrifying. All you can hear is the things that she feels vibrations from, her heart’s beat, the killer’s footsteps and that is about it. You the viewer cannot hear, you are experiencing Maddie’s disadvantage in the situation. The portion of this film that gets your heart racing the most, is that director Mike Flanagan mutes the film at certain points. She has to rely on her sight and the vibrations her killer makes in order to know where he is, what he is doing and how she can get away. She has to outwit her killer without being able to hear him. The main character, Maddie (Kate Siegel), is deaf. Now I would like to point out the difference this film holds over other films of its genre. Watching it kept me on the edge my seat, gave me anxiety and even had me cheering on the character at one point. Hush is probably one of the best horror/thriller films I have seen in a long time. The film came out last month and has already been on Netflix for a good week. Most of these films are the type that never reach theaters and go straight to DVD and streaming services. It is common knowledge Netflix holds a lot of hidden gems from the horror/thriller genre. ![]()
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