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Published: 5 July 2007

Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) in Dead Silence

Tight-lipped tension: this dummy’s no ordinary doll

DEAD SILENCE
Directed by James Wan
Certificate 15

THERE'S something unsettling about a ventriloquist’s dummy, even funny ones.
But the wooden star of this creepshow is no Archie Andrews, though the little fellow reminds you of him when Jamie (Ryan Kwanten) finds him in a package on his doorstep in Toronto.
With his dinner-jacket, red bow tie and slicked back hair, the doll looks friendly enough – apart from those huge saucer-blue eyes with their unnerving stare. Especially when
they move by themselves…
It’s only when Jamie finds his young wife (Laura Regan) dead in bed, with her tongue gruesomely ripped out (“Someone has stolen her voice!”) and the doll sitting next to her, that his nightmare begins.
He remembers childhood stories of a psychotic female ventriloquist in his home town who (yes) cut out people’s tongues before being lynched by an angry mob.
Now the spectral puppeteer is back to haunt him in a grisly nerve-shredder from the director of the Saw series.
You have been warned.

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