[Jake.]

12/02/2017

Hush (2016)

After Don't Breathe, the bar for home invasion films was set high. Hush was released on Netflix to rave reviews, so it was time to see if it was a good as I'd been hearing (lol).

In a twist on traditional films in this particular genre, a woman who has been deaf from the age of 13 gets a shock when a mysterious man wearing a plain (but effective all the same) mask appears at her window. As you can guess, terror ensues for the next hour and a half, with enough blood and jumps to shake a stick at; but, the film uses the sense of sound to really create terror and heck, does it work. Going from the main characters "world" of lack of hearing to the one we live in, noise suddenly becomes something to fear. The effect this has on the viewer has to be credited; the more tense parts of the film usually consists of vulnerability and the dread of not knowing what we're going to hear next. It also benefits from having a lead who you want to champion and do well, something "Don't Breathe" perhaps lacked. Either way, this is a film you need to see.

Rating: 8.5/10