Dead Silence (2007), dir. James Wan
“Beware of the gaze of Mary Shaw, instead of children she had a hundred dolls, and if you see her in a dream, may God protect you from screaming,” says a gloomy and ominous nursery rhyme that scares unruly children in one of the small American towns. Dead Silence is the story of a man named Jamie who receives a ventriloquist doll one day, and his wife dies shortly after. Conducting his own investigation and trying to find the recipient of the mailing, the man comes across the legend of Mary Shaw – a ventriloquist from almost 70 years ago, with whom children were missing in the area. The creator of the Presence with this film opened the gate to world horror. The production itself is a must-see in James Wan’s repertoireand at the same time the perfect choice for a Halloween horror marathon.