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Oct 4, 2023 · The Silence was a popular streaming choice among horror fans in 2019. Horror fans flocked to watch The Silence on Netflix, making it a popular streaming choice when it was released in Its unique take on the genre and strong performances resonated with viewers.
The Silence is a 2019 horror film directed by John R. Leonetti and starring Kiernan Shipka, Stanley Tucci, Miranda Otto, and John Corbett. The screenplay by Carey and Shane Van Dyke adapts the 2015 horror novel of the same name by Tim Lebbon. The film depicts a world under attack by creatures who hunt by sound.
Apr 10, 2019 · The Silence, a new horror film starring Kiernan Shipka and Stanley Tucci, is about a family under attack by bat-like monsters that find their prey via sound. The only way to survive is by being...
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May 1, 2019 · The first trailer for the upcoming film, Thunderbolts*, confirms that the Marvel Cinematic Universe's superhero civil war never really ended. Netflix's The Silence and A Quiet Place may have similar themes and plot beats, but there are some major differences as well.
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- Imagine A Quiet Place, but deeply mediocre.
- Netflix Spotlight: April 2019
- Verdict
By Kristy Puchko
Updated: May 26, 2019 6:28 pm
Posted: Apr 10, 2019 8:33 pm
It's impossible not to compare The Silence to A Quiet Place (or even to another Netflix film, Bird Box). Coming out nearly a year to the day after John Krasinski's widely praised and wildly popular horror-thriller film, Netflix's latest boasts a startlingly similar premise: A family that includes a deaf daughter struggles to survive once America is overrun by ravenous monsters who hunt by sound. It'd be unfair to call it a rip-off, as The Silence is based on a Tim Lebbon novel that predates A Quiet Place. But considering the masterful suspense, strong performances, and thoughtful visuals of that film, The Silence suffers by comparison at every turn.
Directed by John R. Leonetti (Annabelle, Wish Upon), The Silence follows the Andrews family as they seek salvation from a looming terror. The once quiet skies of upstate New York crackle with the threat of a massive flock of man-eating creatures. Set loose from a deep, subterranean cave, these killer bats swiftly overtake big cities. Being twenty miles away from Manhattan, the Andrews clan makes a hasty plan to abandon their home and head north. Where specifically? They haven't thought that through.
They also haven't considered how bringing the family dog might be bad strategy. But lucky for them, their daughter's traumatic accident from three years back struck her deaf. So at least they know how to communicate without audible conversation that might attract the homicidal mega-bats. Unlucky for the audience, The Silence isn't interested in translating sign language conversations. Unlike in A Quiet Place, there are no subtitles, so again and again swaths of exchanges might be lost in lack of translation, leaving us wondering what is going on!
In Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Shipka has brought an effervescent moxie with an edge of brooding. Here, she seems on cruise control, save for a stray furrowed brow or silent scream. Her Chilling Adventures co-star Miranda Otto, who has brought a snapping verve to the man-eating vamp Aunt Zelda, is hobbled by a paper-thin mom role here, all her charisma buried alive under chunky sweaters and uninspired nagging.
Then Stanley Tucci, a character actor who has stolen scenes in everything from The Devil Wears Prada to The Hunger Games to Transformers: The Last Knight, is somehow sanitized into a bland dad. Of course, he's played dads before, perhaps most enjoyably in Easy A where his earnestly hip father casually recounted, "I was gay once. For a while. No big deal." But in The Silence, no time is made for humor, personality, or character depth. Instead, Leonetti uses screen time to unfurl close-ups of underwhelming gore, sinister scribblings ("Shhhhhhh"), and a finale so anti-climactic it'll have you wondering, 'Is that all there is?'
The Silence is the poor man's A Quiet Place. Its plot is meandering. Its scares are cheap. Its tension is non-existent. And the script's disinterest in its characters seems to have spread to its typically terrific stars. Where A Quiet Place thrilled by presenting a fleshed out family under a precise and horrifying threat, The Silence is satisfied t...
A family struggles to survive after deadly creatures that hunt by sound invade the planet.
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- Horror, Sci-Fi
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With Stanley Tucci, Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto, Kate Trotter. When the world is under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound, 16-year old Ally Andrews (Kiernan Shipka), who lost her hearing at 13, and her family seek refuge in a remote haven.
