MR. HUSH is the kind of horror movie that make me want to stop watching horror
movies. The film opens with a 10+ minute introduction to the family.
A husband, a wife and a young daughter. The filmmakers are trying, I
guess, to make you feel sympathy towards this family, but instead I just got
weirded out cause the father is so goddamn Ned Flanders-style creepy that I
thought he was a serial killer that had maybe kidnapped this woman and child and
brainwashed them into happy slaves or something. Dialogue example:
Husband: "Honey, sometimes you're a wigwam and sometimes you're a teepee."
Wife: "What?"
Husband: "You're two tents!"
Wife: "How can a doof be so cute?"
Husband: "Well I'm blessed."
Good grief. Imagine an entire movie with that caliber
writing.
Anyway, so eventually the doorbell rings and it's a vampire dressed as a priest
wanting to use the telephone. After being invited into the home, he kills
the wife and kidnaps the daughter. So for like the next 30 minutes we get
to watch this no acting loser (the husband) mopes around crying about his dead
wife and missing daughter. Eventually he finds a woman desperate
enough to put up with his bullshit and, hey, check it out, the doorbell rings
again and ol' boy runs out into the living room to find his gf dead and her
daughter missing. It just gets worse from there.
I'm sure the filmmakers mean well, but unfortunately it didn't turn out
well. Zero budget, zero action, zero gore, zero scares, zero tension, zero
fucks given about the audience, long dialogue scenes, long scenes of people
talking to themselves, dream sequences with people talking, Billy Ray Cyrus
hair, a long scene of a dude walking down a dirt road whistling "99 Bottles of
Beer on the Wall", probably the worst looking vampire of all time and honestly
some of the worst dialogue I've heard in a long time.
Skip it.