Hush (2016)

Well Deserved Praise

Great Film overall

Best movie of this year hands down!

A Brilliant Conflict

Yeah. We have a competent person in the lead role. And she's... Deaf. This movie really, truly is a creative home invasion flick and I don't see that a lot of the time. Our killer, using her lack of hearing to it's fullest advantage, to mentally torture a lonely woman in an isolated home. But, she's much more clever than you'd think, so it does turn into a battle of wits rather than jumpscare after jumpscare. But, don't be mistaken, it's still tense. If you've got time to kill, and want quality horror, this is a damn good pick.

Please DO NOT read this review until after you've watched the movie!!! Ok, Maddie makes it clear a couple of times that she has 7 different endings to the book she is writing but can't decide which she wants to use. At a critical point in the film she manages to get to her laptop and write a goodbye note to her Mom and using the phrase "I died fighting". Later on there is a scene where the killer is on on top of her and choking her on the floor. Everything goes silent EXCEPT for the sound of her pounding heartbeat getting slower and slower until...there is no sound at all and she closes her eyes. This is the point at which she DIES in the film. Everything after that is just a fantasy of her overtaking and killing the killer. Now, when she is sitting on her front porch and you can see the approaching police cars, notice her eyes are closed with a slight smile on her face...THAT was Maddie's ending. Loved the movie!

I hope you haven't watched this movie yet. I was like you once "hey this looks pretty good, ive been looking for another good thriller to watch on Netflix, and woah the IMDb ratings not bad either, why not?"... I'll tell you why not. I saw this movie a week ago, and for a week this movie has haunted my dreams. How are there so many good reviews for this film? I feel like I'm loosing my grip on reality. It just makes no sense. Pretty early on in the movie I found myself rooting for the antagonist (who had absolutely no back story nor motivation whatsoever) simply because if you are not even going to arm yourself or get some semblance of a plan together then apparently you didn't care to be alive that much in the first place. Early on she had the knife hammer combo going on and it worked for her, then she ditches weaponry all together. some how she manages to get the crossbow from this friggin murderous boy scout and wastes her time trying to load it for like 20 minutes where she just stops caring about keeping an eye on the guy. All this could have been overlooked because I was pretty baked, but why in God's name would you not finish the dude off when he was being held in the dying chokehold of maybe the most gullible man in the world? He used his last dying breaths to try and strangle this man, has him completely immobilized and she just sits inside watching like a helpless dumb dumb. I mean stab that dude, help out just a little. I'm not mad I'm just disappointed get it together guys.

This movie is a mistake. Waste of time. So many dumb scenes, didn't make sense.