Judith Roberts as Mary Shaw with Billy the Puppet in Dead Silence
The Big Picture James Wan and Leigh Whannell are the Aussie duo who took Hollywood by storm with two popular horror franchises. 2004's Saw was deemed an early entry in the torture porn subgenre, despite this directorial debut by Wan and screenwriting debut by Whannell being closer to a psychological thriller than a gory shocker. In 2011, Insidious saw the director and writer duo have fun in supernatural terror with a focus on intense jump scares over grisly violence.
Leigh Whannell and James Wan Weren't Happy With 'Dead Silence' Inventive scares like this are a telling sign that Wan and Whannell had the best of intentions, but the making of Dead Silence hit bumps in the road. When it was released, it made $22 million against a $20 million budget, and critics and audience reactions weren't favorable. In 2011, Whannell credited the movie as “the worst experience I’ve ever had in this craaaaazy town of tinsel.
James Wan Was Inspired by Giallo and Hammer Horror Movies Dead Silence isn’t a traditional giallo, the color scheme being a "dead" giveaway. Films in that Italian genre and titles inspired by it are saturated in color, with red representing the bloodshed that will be unleashed. Dead Silence is primarily a sullen blue-gray, except for spots of bleeding red from the bow tie around Billy's neck, the shade of Jamie’s car, and a truly frightening scene in a hotel room at night.
There’s the slow creak of the eyes as it peers at passing characters that will make viewers relive the nagging feeling that someone is watching them. In the Hollywood Reporter interview, Wan revealed Poltergeist as a defining movie in his life, especially when it came to its clown doll, saying, “It definitely scarred me for life and made me terrified of dolls and clowns, but since then, I’ve become extremely fascinated by creepy dolls, as you can see in all my work.
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