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The scale of "Dead Silence" is indeed very large.

Many very scary scenes have not been cut, and there are too many killings, and the killing methods are horrible and bizarre, which is enough to make audiences with low psychological acceptance flee.

At the end of the movie, the audience still in the theater only accounted for 40% of the total seats, and almost half of them left early, and most of them were couples.

Think about it, you don’t have to take your girlfriend to watch works of this theme if you want to find excitement. In other words, it’s too exciting to stick to.

Midwestern United States.

Maywood City under the jurisdiction of Chicago.

It's almost half past nine in the evening, and Bella, who has to prepare a column, has been quite busy recently.

However, she took the time to watch the new work "Dead Silence" released by Firefly Pictures.

As a film critic, with a professional and responsible attitude, she should have watched the whole film, but unfortunately, she didn't do it.

When the movie was halfway through, she fled with the flow of people leaving the scene, and she didn't know how to evaluate the work for a while.

Is this a good movie?

Maybe, but Bella herself doesn't like this kind of subject matter. Compared with the convergence, the ending is surprising, and there are some brain-burning reasoning clues. The structure of "Saw Cry", "Dead Silence" is undoubtedly structured. It's much simpler, except for the nightmare created by Mary Shaw, Bella is reluctant to recall any details of the film.

But is this a bad movie?

No, although many people left the scene, those who did not leave the scene were watching with gusto, with a focused expression and keeping their eyes on the screen for a moment.

There is no doubt that "Dead Silence" has a deep appeal to certain audience hobby groups. The plot of the film is relatively complete, with links to each other. First, Lisa's tragic death leads to Billy the puppet, and then the puppet delivers it. The address, leading to Johnny, the cursed town of Fair, and then the ample hatred like Mary Shaw, leading to the grievances she suffered.

Finally, foreshadowing at the end...

To put it simply, "Dead Silence" is more extreme than "Saw Cry", and it is also less friendly to the average passer-by audience. The intuitive lens expressiveness in it is estimated that you don't like to watch horror themes, and it is difficult to accept.

Of course, this is all from a relatively objective standpoint.

Those who like to watch may be very complimented, but for Bella personally, I basically don't want to watch it a second time, and I don't want to go back.

perhaps.

Director Wen Ziren is determined to take this path of in-depth description of the atmosphere, and does not deliberately reduce some too scary scenes and blur shots.

Bella was thinking that, the movie seemed to be over, and a large crowd of spectators walked out of the cinema.

"This movie is really cool, it's really exciting to watch. Tomorrow I will bring Will's guy over to see it, let him know what a horror movie is.

"At the end, why did Jamie put the puppet back in Mary's house?"

"Who knows, Mary's soul hasn't dissipated anyway."

"Why didn't Mary kill Jamie?"

"It's not easy. Jamie is not cursed. His parents are not residents of Fair Town."

"Haha, those who use words to force Mary to death will lose their tongue when they die. The design of this bridge section is really interesting."

"Tsk tusk, James Wen is really a genius, now I have decided, I will watch every horror movie of his in the future."

"..."

Listening to these people dancing and discussing each other, excitedly discussing the plot, Bella obviously felt that something seemed to flash in her mind, but she could not catch it.

Unconsciously, Bella returned to the rented apartment.

She thought, perhaps this movie was made for those who like to watch it, and it didn't try to please passers-by fans, and even took the initiative to bridge the gap.

In this way, perhaps the voice of criticism can be much weaker.

So, she opened the computer file and wrote: "...as the warning at the beginning of the film: If the heart is not good, please don't watch "Dead Silence", the weird and realistic puppet Billy and the mysterious Mary Shaw, in this September will become a nightmare for many people."

Yes, nightmare.

Just as the iconic symbols like Chu Renmei and Zhenzi have become a kind of valve in the depth of memory.

The excellence of "Dead Silence" also successfully shaped "Mary Shaw."

At night, when a person sleeps on a bed, it always feels like someone is watching you secretly. This is a nightmare similar to a psychological suggestion.

With the release of "Dead Silence" on the first day, various film reviews of the film began to appear on a large scale on various media platforms.

The movie scored 7.4 points in IMDB at this time, of which more than three components are less than 5 points, and more than 2 components are given 9 points. It is considered that the polarization of comments is quite serious; while Rotten Tomatoes gave "Dead Silence" percent The freshness of 89, the film review score is not as good as IMDB, maintained at around 7.1 points.

As for the film critic group, most of them sang "Dead Silence".

"Wen Ziren used blood and violence to make a movie that he didn't know so-called."-"Entertainment Weekly"

"No one can appreciate this boring clip, plus a boring performance combined work."-"San Francisco Metropolitan News"

"Perhaps, Director Wen Ziren has not learned a lesson from the increasingly unpopular market of "Chain Saw". Instead, he has added naked and intuitive shots and undisguisedly promotes terror."-"The New York Observer"

Of course, if you don't like it, you like it.

"Compared with other film works that rely on large quantities of inferior blood plasma to portray horror, "Dead Silence" is very outstanding. Isn't a horror movie, scary enough, is not the best word of praise?"-"Los Angeles Times"

"From this film, it can be seen that Director Wen Ziren has a good level of shaping the atmosphere of horror. Whether it is sound effects or just the right close-up shots, it seems to lead the audience to visit this place in person, and in the invisible places, there are also With such a pair of stiff pupils staring intently, thinking about it this way is enough to start a cold sweat."-"Chicago Evening News"

"A work that best explains the Uncanny Valley effect. It is worth recommending. The theme is revenge. After watching it, it will be heartily."-"Hollywood Variety Show"

"..."

It was in this mixed evaluation that Wen Ziren and Ray Warner, who were the parties, were a little bit uncomfortable.

Although the "Chain Saw Fright" series is a small gold mine, it has brought them a lot of income, so two years, roughly made more than 30 million US dollars.

But if you want to survive in luxurious Hollywood, it is not easy to enjoy life such as banquets, cocktail parties, and mansions.

Therefore, the box office performance of "Dead Silence" is still very important for their future career development in Hollywood, and there are not too many opportunities for failure.

Furthermore, Wen Ziren's studio has invested money in it, and he doesn't want the film to not recover the cost.

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