- published: 10 Jan 2012
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Dead Silence is a 2007 supernatural psychological horror film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, the creators of Saw. The film stars Ryan Kwanten, Judith Roberts, Donnie Wahlberg, and Amber Valletta.
Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) and his wife, Lisa (Laura Regan) receive an anonymous ventriloquist doll called "Billy". While Lisa is playing with Billy, all sounds are suddenly muted as a figure approaches her, causing her to scream. Jamie, who was out buying dinner, finds her dead with her tongue cut off. After Jamie is released from custody by Detective Jim Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg) due to a lack of evidence, he spots inside Billy's box a writing of "Mary Shaw", a ventriloquist from his hometown, Raven's Fair.
At Raven's Fair, Jamie visits his estranged, wealthy, and wheelchair-bound father, Edward (Bob Gunton), and his much-younger wife, Ella (Amber Valletta), for information regarding Mary Shaw. Dismissing them as superstitions, Jamie arranges for Lisa's funeral with the help of a local mortician, Henry Walker (Michael Fairman). While wandering around the cemetery, Jamie meets with Henry's senile wife, Marion (Joan Heney), who tells him of the danger of Mary and her puppet, Billy. After burying Billy, Jamie is confronted by Lipton, the latter still doubting Jamie's innocence, and forces him to dig up Billy.
[Music: Harrington / Esquivel / Adams]
[Lyrics: Esquivel]
You say one thing and do
another
Heard the same thing a thousand
times
Merry go round in reverse going
nowhere
We'll never know what's
becoming of you
[Chorus:]
Dead silence
What now, who's got the last
laugh
Dead silence
You play your games, you've
gone insane
We never know what you want to
Day after day live live your life
Wishing you were just like me
Dead silence
What now, who's got the last
laugh
Dead silence
You think you see but
You can't see what's in my mind
Time turns around you still
Can't seem to realize
Sometimes I feel no sorrow
Sometimes I feel no pain
Say what you will, my last laugh
Say what you will while I laugh
[X2]
Time goes by but you never
change
You're always hearing the same
thing day after day
In your mind still you wish to be
Image of hatred, trying to be like
Sometimes I feel no sorrow
Sometimes I feel no pain
You live your life for tomorrow
Yeah that's right, I live mine for
today...
[Repeat first verse, chorus, second verse]