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Hush is a movie directed by Mike Flanagan. It
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came out in 2016. You might know from Dr. Sleep,
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The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass. He's
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been fairly prevalent within the horror genre
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lately. I've seen a few of his things on television,
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but I haven't watched a lot of his feature films.
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I think the only feature that I've watched aside
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from this is Dr. Sleep. And I have to say, it's
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a great movie. It's a great little nasty horror
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movie. It's a slasher movie. It's about a deaf
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and mute woman that has to survive the night
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when she's stalked by a cruel murderer who decides
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to toy with her. And damn it if it's not a tight
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90 minutes and it's very lean. As I said before,
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I watched a lot of his serialized television
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output from Netflix. And I realized that outside
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of Dr. Sleep, I hadn't really checked out a lot
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of his feature film work. So I sort of dove into
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a little bit of his filmography and I saw a lot
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of recommendations for Hush. Also, considering
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it was 90 minutes, I always find 90 minute movies
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to be a little bit more interesting than the
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full like two, two and a half hour ones. Just
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as like a concept, you know, taking as much taking
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as many elements in the film as possible and
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sort of paring it down to his bare essence and
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then trying to create something that is within
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that 90 minute mark. I'm pretty sure a lot of
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directors, a lot of creators don't try to create
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a movie under 90 minutes just because. But I
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find it is a as somebody that calls himself creative.
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I think it is a huge display of restraint to
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produce something under 90 minutes, produce a
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movie under 90 minutes. But it's a great movie.
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I really enjoyed Hush and I highly recommend
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it. Something that I do appreciate about Mike
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Flanagan is that he knows how to build emotional
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investment with the characters that you want
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to care about. A lot of his television output,
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because it is a serialized format, his televised
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output does give a little bit more time to delve
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into characters and as well as their backstories
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and, you know, how they act and how they, you
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know, respond to certain things happening in
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the plot. But this movie does take about, I would
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say like the first quarter of this movie, sort
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of like layering in a lot of those emotional
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and personal elements so that you do feel for
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these characters. We meet Maddie, played by Kate
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Siegel. I believe that's Mike Flanagan's wife.
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And she is a deaf and mute writer. The way we're
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introduced to her is through a lot of sounds.
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There's a lot of food sizzling. Spoons scraping
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the pan as she stirs a risotto. Her cat meowing
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and she's shaking cat food in a bowl. We're sort
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of... bought into this world where you know this
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these are sounds that we can hear but she can
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obviously not hear um and i really enjoyed the
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sound design in this movie um the movie spends
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that first 15 minutes giving us a well -formed
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insight into her life but it doesn't really tell
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us everything and i think it's just enough that
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we need because we learned so much through her
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interaction with you know her friend who lives
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nearby And her sister over a FaceTime call, even
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a phone call that she ignores because it's from
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her ex -boyfriend. It tells a lot about her as
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a character. And what I really love about the
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way that they portray Maddie as deaf and mute
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is that they sort of, like I said, they sort
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of intersperse certain elements. of that into
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the story as well as into the sound design and
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even some of the visual design but the viewer
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sort of immersed in her world they don't just
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treat the deaf and the muteness as a plot device
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as like an external plot device that we might
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feel distant from when i was younger i grew up
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watching you know television shows and movies
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and i remember being introduced to a woman named
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marley matlin who is deaf And that was the first
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time I ever had an experience or at least some
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sort of exposure to a person that had been deaf,
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especially on television, because how do you
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portray that? You know, and it really opened
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my eyes to it. So I sort of thought about her
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as I watched this movie and that they sort of
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taken that entire, you know, experience. And
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not only just created a really well -crafted
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thriller horror movie about it, around it, but
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they also really punctuates just how vulnerable
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somebody can be in that situation. But I really
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enjoy the way that they also just sort of portray
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her world around her. When we meet her and her
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friend, there is an entire conversation that
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they have strictly through American Sign Language.
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you get to see some of that element sort of like
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be played with on the screen. And that's really
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interesting to me. And we see that people have
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adapted to her lifestyle. It's not treated as
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if it's some sort of like disability or something
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that is, has to be overcome in some way. She
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has clearly adapted her life to it. And it feels
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empowering. It looks empowering the way that
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they portrayed it. But it's an interesting perspective
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to be introduced to in a horror movie, at least.
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So the killer played by John Gallagher is kind
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of funny because, you know, if you're familiar
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with him, he's a fairly friendly looking guy.
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He was I think he played this guy named Jim on
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the newsroom. And when he first saw when I first
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saw him, his face, I was like, oh, shit, that's
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the newsroom guy. Like, this is very much against
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type, I think. Um, I'm not sure if he's played
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bad guys in previous, uh, movies or television
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shows, but it worked for me. Um, he was very,
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he's very charming in that role, but he's also
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just a straight up psychopath. Um, and it is
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also just sort of like, you know, goes against
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type because he has a very wholesome looking
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face and a friendly demeanor in his other works.
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So when he takes his mask off, I laughed kind
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of hard because it was like, hey, is that Jim
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from the newsroom? But he's menacing and he's
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sadistic and he has a spooky neck tattoo. I mean,
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what do you want from him at this point? But
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knowing who he is as an actor didn't really distract
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me that much. It was only momentarily because
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once the murder starts to kick up and once the
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menace starts to tune in. you really get a sense
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of just how vulnerable Maddie is as she has to
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navigate this world. And we see that the killer
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has, you know, finds out that she is deaf and
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starts to use that against her. Deaf and mute.
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He muses both of those against her. And it's
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pretty frightening. But he plays a really good
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role in it, even though he's a straight -up psychopath.
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Yeah, it's a bloody good time. At its core, Hush
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is a smartly plotted thriller about a home invasion.
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It's not deep. It's not complex. The suspense
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is as thick as the premise is simple. The concept
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doesn't go too far. And I can respect a movie
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that can close within 90 minutes and just leave
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it there. So I highly recommend it. Some notes
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here. This is a movie that takes place mostly
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at night. So again, like I mentioned before,
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when I reviewed The Descent, I had a note there
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basically saying, hey, turn down all of your
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lights wherever you're watching this because
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you're going to be able to see exactly what's
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happening on the screen. That goes double if
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you have a 13 -year -old television and the darks
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aren't as dark as you want them to be. So I would
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highly recommend Hush. Also, I just overall side
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note, I recommend most things Mike Flanagan.
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I have not watched a lot of his movies. Everything
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I've seen from him television wise has been a
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knockout. I've loved it. I think he, if I can
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flourish a little bit about Mike Flanagan, Mike
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Flanagan has a really good gift at humanizing
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horror. He also has a really good gift at characterizing
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people in the midst of horror. So I highly recommend
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watching Hush. If it's like your first time watching
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a Flanagan film, that's cool. But I also do recommend
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Dr. Sleep. That's a movie that came out of nowhere.
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I did not expect it to be good. That was actually
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my first Michael Flanagan thing I've ever seen.
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And when I saw it, I was highly surprised. And
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it made me a fan immediately. um yeah sit down
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watch hush it's somewhere on streaming i'm sure
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you can find it and you don't even have to set
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aside a lot of time for it it's under 90 minutes
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long so uh enjoy and i'll be covering p2 fear
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and i'm still working on what other horror movie
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i'm going to touch on before uh the end of october
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but the theme is women in peril and uh hush is
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definitely one of them it's a banger
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Hush is a movie directed by Mike Flanagan. It
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came out in 2016. You might know from Dr. Sleep,
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The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass. He's
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been fairly prevalent within the horror genre
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lately. I've seen a few of his things on television,
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but I haven't watched a lot of his feature films.
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I think the only feature that I've watched aside
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from this is Dr. Sleep. And I have to say, it's
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a great movie. It's a great little nasty horror
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movie. It's a slasher movie. It's about a deaf
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and mute woman that has to survive the night
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when she's stalked by a cruel murderer who decides
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to toy with her. And damn it if it's not a tight
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90 minutes and it's very lean. As I said before,
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I watched a lot of his serialized television
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output from Netflix. And I realized that outside
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of Dr. Sleep, I hadn't really checked out a lot
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of his feature film work. So I sort of dove into
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a little bit of his filmography and I saw a lot
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of recommendations for Hush. Also, considering
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it was 90 minutes, I always find 90 minute movies
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to be a little bit more interesting than the
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full like two, two and a half hour ones. Just
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as like a concept, you know, taking as much taking
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as many elements in the film as possible and
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sort of paring it down to his bare essence and
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then trying to create something that is within
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that 90 minute mark. I'm pretty sure a lot of
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directors, a lot of creators don't try to create
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a movie under 90 minutes just because. But I
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find it is a as somebody that calls himself creative.
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I think it is a huge display of restraint to
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produce something under 90 minutes, produce a
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movie under 90 minutes. But it's a great movie.
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I really enjoyed Hush and I highly recommend
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it. Something that I do appreciate about Mike
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Flanagan is that he knows how to build emotional
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investment with the characters that you want
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to care about. A lot of his television output,
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because it is a serialized format, his televised
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output does give a little bit more time to delve
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into characters and as well as their backstories
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and, you know, how they act and how they, you
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know, respond to certain things happening in
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the plot. But this movie does take about, I would
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say like the first quarter of this movie, sort
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of like layering in a lot of those emotional
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and personal elements so that you do feel for
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these characters. We meet Maddie, played by Kate
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Siegel. I believe that's Mike Flanagan's wife.
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And she is a deaf and mute writer. The way we're
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introduced to her is through a lot of sounds.
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There's a lot of food sizzling. Spoons scraping
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the pan as she stirs a risotto. Her cat meowing
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and she's shaking cat food in a bowl. We're sort
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of... bought into this world where you know this
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these are sounds that we can hear but she can
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obviously not hear um and i really enjoyed the
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sound design in this movie um the movie spends
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that first 15 minutes giving us a well -formed
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insight into her life but it doesn't really tell
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us everything and i think it's just enough that
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we need because we learned so much through her
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interaction with you know her friend who lives
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nearby And her sister over a FaceTime call, even
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a phone call that she ignores because it's from
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her ex -boyfriend. It tells a lot about her as
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a character. And what I really love about the
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way that they portray Maddie as deaf and mute
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is that they sort of, like I said, they sort
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of intersperse certain elements. of that into
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the story as well as into the sound design and
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even some of the visual design but the viewer
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sort of immersed in her world they don't just
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treat the deaf and the muteness as a plot device
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as like an external plot device that we might
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feel distant from when i was younger i grew up
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watching you know television shows and movies
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and i remember being introduced to a woman named
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marley matlin who is deaf And that was the first
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time I ever had an experience or at least some
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sort of exposure to a person that had been deaf,
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especially on television, because how do you
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portray that? You know, and it really opened
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my eyes to it. So I sort of thought about her
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as I watched this movie and that they sort of
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taken that entire, you know, experience. And
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not only just created a really well -crafted
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thriller horror movie about it, around it, but
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they also really punctuates just how vulnerable
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somebody can be in that situation. But I really
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enjoy the way that they also just sort of portray
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her world around her. When we meet her and her
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friend, there is an entire conversation that
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they have strictly through American Sign Language.
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you get to see some of that element sort of like
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be played with on the screen. And that's really
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interesting to me. And we see that people have
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adapted to her lifestyle. It's not treated as
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if it's some sort of like disability or something
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that is, has to be overcome in some way. She
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has clearly adapted her life to it. And it feels
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empowering. It looks empowering the way that
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they portrayed it. But it's an interesting perspective
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to be introduced to in a horror movie, at least.
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So the killer played by John Gallagher is kind
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of funny because, you know, if you're familiar
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with him, he's a fairly friendly looking guy.
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He was I think he played this guy named Jim on
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the newsroom. And when he first saw when I first
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saw him, his face, I was like, oh, shit, that's
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the newsroom guy. Like, this is very much against
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type, I think. Um, I'm not sure if he's played
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bad guys in previous, uh, movies or television
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shows, but it worked for me. Um, he was very,
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he's very charming in that role, but he's also
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just a straight up psychopath. Um, and it is
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also just sort of like, you know, goes against
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type because he has a very wholesome looking
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face and a friendly demeanor in his other works.
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So when he takes his mask off, I laughed kind
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of hard because it was like, hey, is that Jim
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from the newsroom? But he's menacing and he's
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sadistic and he has a spooky neck tattoo. I mean,
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what do you want from him at this point? But
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knowing who he is as an actor didn't really distract
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me that much. It was only momentarily because
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once the murder starts to kick up and once the
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menace starts to tune in. you really get a sense
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of just how vulnerable Maddie is as she has to
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navigate this world. And we see that the killer
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has, you know, finds out that she is deaf and
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starts to use that against her. Deaf and mute.
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He muses both of those against her. And it's
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pretty frightening. But he plays a really good
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role in it, even though he's a straight -up psychopath.
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Yeah, it's a bloody good time. At its core, Hush
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is a smartly plotted thriller about a home invasion.
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It's not deep. It's not complex. The suspense
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is as thick as the premise is simple. The concept
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doesn't go too far. And I can respect a movie
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that can close within 90 minutes and just leave
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it there. So I highly recommend it. Some notes
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here. This is a movie that takes place mostly
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at night. So again, like I mentioned before,
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when I reviewed The Descent, I had a note there
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basically saying, hey, turn down all of your
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lights wherever you're watching this because
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you're going to be able to see exactly what's
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happening on the screen. That goes double if
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you have a 13 -year -old television and the darks
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aren't as dark as you want them to be. So I would
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highly recommend Hush. Also, I just overall side
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note, I recommend most things Mike Flanagan.
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I have not watched a lot of his movies. Everything
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I've seen from him television wise has been a
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knockout. I've loved it. I think he, if I can
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flourish a little bit about Mike Flanagan, Mike
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Flanagan has a really good gift at humanizing
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horror. He also has a really good gift at characterizing
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people in the midst of horror. So I highly recommend
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watching Hush. If it's like your first time watching
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a Flanagan film, that's cool. But I also do recommend
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Dr. Sleep. That's a movie that came out of nowhere.
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I did not expect it to be good. That was actually
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my first Michael Flanagan thing I've ever seen.
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And when I saw it, I was highly surprised. And
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it made me a fan immediately. um yeah sit down
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watch hush it's somewhere on streaming i'm sure
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you can find it and you don't even have to set
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aside a lot of time for it it's under 90 minutes
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long so uh enjoy and i'll be covering p2 fear
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and i'm still working on what other horror movie
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i'm going to touch on before uh the end of october
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but the theme is women in peril and uh hush is
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definitely one of them it's a banger
