Dead Silence is a creepy movie about a creepy ventriloquist with a creepy vent figure named Billy. From the opening credits to about half-way through the movie it keeps your interest. It does bog down in the middle but picks up in a predictable but satisfying ending for horror movie fans. The plot is simple. A young fellow, Jaime, receives a package on his doorstep- it is an old vent figure named billy. Jaime goes out for dinner for him and his wife and he comes back to find his wife slaughtered. When he goes to his (dying) home town he speaks with his rich father to uncover why this dummy is now his. The cop following him wants to know who killed the wife and dogs Jaime through the movie. The pre-ending is great: 100 plus vent dummies all inhabited by a spirit. I did NOT see the ending coming.
All round, it was an entertaining flick if you like horror and vent dummies. The best movie to date though still remains Magic, with Anthony Hopkins and Fats. Interesting for ventriloquists who know their history: in the scene where all the figures are discovered one can note that several of them are "Danny O'Day" Juro "dolls" that are still sold today. There is at least one Charlie McCarthy doll. Why is this significant? It is obvious that the prop people took the low road because the movie supposedly is about a vent lady who made her dolls at the turn of the 20th century and Danny O'Day dolls were not made until the 1960's.
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