I’m definitely not a fan of wooden dummies, so why I chose to watch Dead Silence is beyond me. I did, I made it through…barely. It was very well done and completely creeped me out. Here is what happened in the movie and my reactions.

For any True Blood fans, Ryan Kwanten stars as Jaime (he played Jason Stackhouse) and Donnie Wahlberg plays Detective Lipton, directed by James Wan. I put the trailer at the bottom.

Watching a dummy being made does not make it less creepy, in fact it makes it more creepy. Bravo on starting this movie out creeping me the hell out.

Who the hell sends scary ass dummies as gifts? Insane people that’s who.

After receiving a dummy in the mail from an unknown source, a man, Jaime, and his new wife, Lisa, don’t do the smart thing and throw that freaky looking thing away, instead they keep it. As Jaime heads out to the store, Lisa puts Capt Termite Head to bed. She throws a sheet over the doll and hears music coming from the living room. Thinking her husband is home, she goes  out to greet him, only he’s not there. Everything goes dead silent. For some god awful reason she goes back to the doll, then some freaky ghostly insaneness happens.

Jaime returns home to music blasting, tea kettle whistling, and his wife calling him from the bedroom. As he heads to his wife, he slips and slides through blood, thinking she’s playing a cruel joke. He reaches the bed and finds his wife in the most awkward position, dead.

As he sits in the police station  being questioned, Jaime states that receiving a ventriloquist dummy is a bad omen, local legend is the dummy brings death. My thinking right here is, ok so if you knew this then why keep this deranged little thing. I guess it wouldn’t make for much of a movie if he had done that.

He goes back home and  finds the dummy on the floor. Jaime grabs it and returns to the box it came in. He checks all around the box and discovers that the doll is Billy from Mary Shaw and Billy.

Jaime returns to his hometown to bury his wife and talk to his father. Jaime and his father don’t have a very good relationship. Jaime asks his father  if he remembered a scary poem about Mary Shaw. Jaime’s step mother knew it and said it was just something parents told their kids to keep them in line. Jaime disagreed stating it was more than that.

That night at his hotel, Jaime laid down to sleep. Suddenly everything went dead silent, Jaime rolled over and Billy’s creepy wooden self was right there but then he was on the other  side of the room. This is the point where I’m not sure if I was going to continue to watch this movie. It has already fully creeped me the hell out of me at this point, and it’s only 25 mins into it with an hour left. These dolls are seriously one of the scariest things ever made!!

When Lisa’s body arrives the funeral home guy knows exactly what’s going on. And so does his senile wife…..

After the funeral, Jaime walks through the woods. The senile wife of the funeral home director finds him and asks if he saw her kill his wife.  He questions seen who. The woman repeats the scary poem to him. (Watch the movie to hear the poem. Come on guys, I’ve got to leave some stuff out) Before he can find out just what the woman is talking about, her husband comes and quickly hurries her away. Jaime continues on his path and stumbles across Mary Shaw’s headstone. Dun dun dun….

Jaime heads back to his motel room, gets Billy and heads back to the graveyard. All around Mary Shaw’s headstone are tiny little headstones for all her dolls. This lady was seriously disturbed. He finds the headstone for Billy and digs up the grave. Guess what, it’s empty. A little silence in the air. Billy is put back in his grave, Jaime returns to his car. Hearing some laughter  Jaime looks around out of the windows. When he looks out his window that crazy Billy is there. Of course Jaime’s not gonna book it out of there, as  I would have done, no he’s going to get out and  investigate. He find a nothing and returns to his motel. After washing up, guess who’s sitting in his room. Yep, that’s right, Billy.

Jaime calls the cops, he gets in trouble for leaving the city, and burying the doll as it is evidence in his wife’s murder and he is the number who suspect. The cop stupidly takes the doll with him and books a room next door to Jaime. When the cop leaves to do some investigating, Jaime breaks into his room and takes  the doll back.

He takes it to the funeral home to get some answers. I think the director and his wife are more scared than anyone. The director told the story of Mary Shaw, the ventriloquist, who was very popular in her time. During one of her shows, a little bratty kid Michael, called her out saying Billy was  fake and he could see  Mary’s lips moving….He was called up on stage……He didn’t go but a few weeks later he disappeared, no traces of him left. A little bit after that, Mary Shaw was murdered.  No one knew by who. Mary’s will called for her to be buried with all her dolls, she referred to as her children, all 101 of them. She also wanted to become a doll….yea there’s a  startling scene there.

Ever since she was buried, murders matching Lisa’s have been happening. The whole town never speaks her name or even goes near her grave….

Jaime goes on a mission to figure this out.

Meanwhile detective dumbass is digging up Mary’s graves.

Jaime goes to the old falling apart theatre Mary Shaw use to perform at. He goes exploring and  comes across her room. Still haven’t figured out why I’m still watching this movie, I am truly creeped out, skin crawling, knowing I’m going to have nightmares. I said to myself several times, I must keep going, there’s only 30 minutes left, I can do this. Ok back to the movie. Jaime begins looking through her room. In a trunk, he spots an old book. He picks it up and starts flipping through it. It’s hand written designs on how to make dolls. The perfect doll. Oh was that a clipping from an old newspaper regarding the missing boy Michael that embarrassed Mary as she was performing with Billy all those years ago. Oh I believe it is. This is the part where I nearly jumped out of my skin, was that his freaking dead wife in the mirror. Why must I continue to torment myself watching this. I’m going to be sleeping with the lights on, checking for sadistic little Billy under my bed. Jaime finally got reasonable and booked it out of there.

Oh no, we’re back at the funeral home director’s house. The director heard his wife talking to someone, so he goes to check out who it is. Where the hell did he come from?? She’s talking to Billy, swearing she didn’t talk to no one. This really upsets the old man. He grabs the doll and tells it he’s going to put it back where it belonged. He goes to get a shovel, sits Billy down, those beady little evil eyes follow the old man’s every move…..the director hears his wife crying from her hiding spot, under the house. He grabs a flashlight and goes looking for her, Billy’s still watching the man. He gets trapped under the house, hears Mary, then sees her…..he’s dead, and that’s another creeptastic murder. By now I’m cursing myself for still watching this movie.

Jaime returns to his father’s house asking more questions about Mary Shaw. It’s revealed that the little boy Michael is Jaime’s great uncle. When the boy went missing it really ticked off Michael’s family as well as other town members and they hunted her down. When they found her, they made her scream and cut out her tongue and killed her. Only she didn’t stay dead, she came back and got revenge. One by one each of the men who helped murder Mary and their wives, and children were murder, all with their tongues ripped out. And this cycle continues. Jaime’s father explains this is why he distanced himself from Jaime and sent him away, to get him away from the curse. Jaime vows to find a way to stop the curse.

As Jaime tries to leave Detective Digs-Up_Graves comes up and questions Jaime about the dolls. Seems all 100 of them were dug up because they’re all missing. The cop isn’t buying the Mary Shaw story and thinks the town is protecting Jaime. Just as the cop is about to arrest Jaime for taking the Billy, his step mother enters the room saying Jaime has a phone call. Jaime goes to the phone and it’s the funeral director, and now I’ve finally caught his name, been so freaked out the whole movie. Henry, the director, tells Jaime he can prove Jaime didn’t kill his wife, he asks Jaime to meet him at the old theater. Jaime breaks away from the cop and  goes to the theater.

The detective follows Jaime to the theater, shotgun in tow. Jaime begins searching  for Henry, he hears Henry call for him from Mary’s room. The detective catches up with Jaime. After a few words they both start looking for Henry. Jaime disappears behind a wall, but not before warning the detective, whatever happens don’t scream. Mr Detective catches up with Jaime again. They come upon a room and find all the dolls, all in their cases. The only one missing is Billy. They see a red sheet with something under it. Jaime pulls the sheet off and it looks like another doll, except it’s not, it’s a boy turned to a doll. It’s Michael.

Oh my Lord, oh my Lord all of these freaking dolls are moving their heads and their eyes. Back and forth, over and over. My skin is crawling. Oh there’s a sadistic clown doll rocking in the corner. Mary began speaking through the creepy clown. She said she wants to silence all those who silenced her. She says it’s so hard to make the perfect doll, what she tried to do with Michael. Jaime asks why she took Lisa, she says come closer I’ll tell you. The cop starts shaking his head, no no no don’t go over there. The detective does have brain! Jaime unfortunately does not and walks on over to creepy clown. She says come closer I’ll whisper it to you, this crazy guy actually bends his face down in front of this thing. She tells him he was the last of Michael’s family and apparently the wife was  pregnant. He falls back and the clown laughs and  laughs. Bony ghostly hands cover the clowns eyes….come on man, haven’t they had enough creepiness…..of course not. Jaime whispers don’t scream.

Mary’s living through the dolls and  they set out to destroy all the dolls. They set them on fire and desperately try to make it out. Mary’s ghost is hot on their trails. Trying to cross a catwalk, Mary loosens some bolts and the detective goes down, and oh my tongue ripped out dead, with a bit of a jumping out of your skin factor. Jaime’s hanging on for dear life, he tries to pull himself back up….Mary’s face is right there, he covers  his mouth as not to scream and falls, down, down, down through a floor, into water surrounding the theater. He swims away, watching the place burn. Then he remembers, Billy wasn’t in the burning house. He rushes to Henry’s house. He finds a dead Henry in the arms of his wife. He asks her where the doll is. She says over and over his father came and got it. He hauls butt back to daddy’s house. By the pitch blackness and dead silence, I know some crazy things are about to go down.

Jaime hears Henry telling him where Billy is. I literally had to restart my heart, Jaime picks up Billy and crazy ghost lady comes out of the shadows after him. He throws Billy in the fire and she disappears. He notices his father in his wheelchair and goes over to him. His father  is dead and has been turned into a puppet…..it was his step mother, she was begin  it all, it all starts getting put together in his head. His step mother is standing behind him, she says now who’s the dummy, her face twists into Mary’s and finally Jaime screams……

This movie is truly creepy. I’m a big huge sissy. I will never watch it again! I love horror movies but dolls, nope, nope, nope. If you want a good fright, watch this movie. If you don’t like dummies, DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!

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