Hush (2016)
October 22, 2018 6:49 AM - Subscribe
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home. Co-written by Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) and Kate Siegel (who plays Theo on THoHH). Directed by Flanagan and starring Siegel.
This is more of a thriller than a straight horror pic and the plot may sound familiar, but it's a smart little B picture worth seeing. It's less a revisiting of the disabled-woman-in-peril trope than a story about a killer who decides to enact that trope and has underestimated his would-be victim. Co-stars Jim Gallagher, Jr. (The Newsroom, The Belko Experiment, the original stage production of American Idiot) as the would-be killer.
This is more of a thriller than a straight horror pic and the plot may sound familiar, but it's a smart little B picture worth seeing. It's less a revisiting of the disabled-woman-in-peril trope than a story about a killer who decides to enact that trope and has underestimated his would-be victim. Co-stars Jim Gallagher, Jr. (The Newsroom, The Belko Experiment, the original stage production of American Idiot) as the would-be killer.
Wow, this movie is good. I can usually handle suspense films pretty well but I had to take a break about 30 minutes in. Nothing groundbreaking, but incredibly well executed.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 8:49 PM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Pater Aletheias at 8:49 PM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
I started watching this and had to turn it off about thirty or so minutes in (right when she realizes that the guy is watching her and has her phone). Kate Siegel is wonderful, of course, and I loved her friend (who is Steve's wife Leigh from THOHH!). The guy who is playing the killer is doing really good work with his body language. He radiates a kind of gleeful menace with just his head and shoulders. It's impressive.
posted by Aquifer at 7:28 AM on November 27, 2018
posted by Aquifer at 7:28 AM on November 27, 2018
I really hate to say this as a fan of Mike Flanagan, but I wish he had never made The House on Haunted Hill because now everything is seen through that lens. I really enjoy his work like Absentia and Oculus (not so much Before I Wake). For those who liked House on Haunted Hill please watch his other works. PLEASE.
posted by miss-lapin at 10:39 PM on December 1, 2018
posted by miss-lapin at 10:39 PM on December 1, 2018
I just saw this. I have been avoiding it awhile because I am just too terrified of this kind of thing, and I was expecting kind of unrelenting grimness because of Absentia and Oculus. And it was still pretty hard for me to take.
It does something I really like, like Scream, where the bad guy can be harmed and even clowned on a little.
posted by fleacircus at 9:28 PM on January 11, 2019
It does something I really like, like Scream, where the bad guy can be harmed and even clowned on a little.
posted by fleacircus at 9:28 PM on January 11, 2019
This is FINALLY streaming again.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:53 AM on August 29
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:53 AM on August 29
Just caught up with this today and really enjoyed it. It's taut and well-written; in a lot of thrillers and horror movies I find myself counting how many times the characters do the obviously-wrong thing and past a certain point I sigh and mutter "ffs" and settle in for a mediocre predictable ride. In this one it happened only once (she stabbed him in the leg then ran away when she already had evidence she was dealing with a serial killer).
On the whole, though, yeah: good film. Nothing groundbreaking, but well-made and consistently entertaining.
posted by johnofjack at 11:57 AM on October 5
On the whole, though, yeah: good film. Nothing groundbreaking, but well-made and consistently entertaining.
posted by johnofjack at 11:57 AM on October 5
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posted by Aquifer at 6:59 AM on October 22, 2018 [3 favorites]