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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

The Silence Review (Spoilers)

     The Silence is 2019 horror film released on Netflix. The movie stars Kiernan Shipka; Sabrina Spellman as most of y'all might know her from. I would describe the movie as 'The Birds' meets "A Quiet Place'.
     A cave research team unearths prehistoric creatures called Pterosaurs called 'vesps'. They attach the research team and head out into the open sky.
     Ally is walking near school looking at her tablet. She is deaf and her classmates are behind her making fun of her. Her dad and best friend are apparently construction workers from what I can tell from the movie. Her brother may be a soccer player based on the soccer balls rolling out of the car. The grandmother has terminal cancer.
     The mom wakes Ally up in the middle of the night to watch the news of what's going on. They are to stay indoors and silent, but that ain't what the family does. Ally suggests they head to the countryside.
     A woman with an infant kid gets kicked off an underground subway.
     They stop at a gas station to fuel and let the dog pee. A man tries to highjack Hugh's car, but Glen shoots him.
     The gang hits a traffic jam. No surprise there.
     Some bucks run out in front of Glenn on an old dirt forested road. Yeah, um, should have known to be careful. Jeep rolls down an embankment. Hugh tries but just can't free Glenn.
     The dog goes to barking. Not a good time to own a barky dog. Glenn fires his gun to attract the vesps to him. I thought Hugh was gonna strangle the dog but lets him out instead. He just a well should have strangled him. He's as good as dead anyway. A barky dog like him won't last too long.
      Hugh gets out after a period of time has passed and probably a bad time for grandma to go into coughing fits. Hugh throws a tire iron and finds out they can't see, only hear.
     Hugh sets Glenn car on fire and the family heads out on foot to find shelter. The family comes across a house in the woods with a very high fence who is unaware of the vesps. They enter the house through a storm drain which is occupied with a rattlesnake which must have slithered in after Hugh went through and into the house.
      Ally contacts her friend and tells her his parents are dead.
      By morning grandma's leg has gotten worse from the vesp bite from the storm drain. Hugh and Ally leave to find antibiotics.
      Hugh tries to get the TV to work, but Ally comes in the living room from her tablet to tell him vesps can't survive the cold.
     A reverend and some of his followers are standing outside the house just smiling. I'd be creeped just by that.
     A little girl appears on the porch in the middle of the night. That ain't weird at all. The girl was a trap set by the reverend and his followers who strapped phones to the girl and the house. They go off attracting the vesps and that's when the followers abduct Ally. Grandma runs outside to save her granddaughter. The vesps attack grandma and followers, but the perverted reverend still gets Ally, but he don't get very far.
     The family trecks north to a refugee camp. Ally and Rob are hunting vesps with bows and arrows.