Dead Silence is a guilty pleasure, especially if you have a gottle of geer beforehand.

Wan and Whannell have a carnivalesque sense of fun and a sure instinct for recycling classic horror tropes, but their characters are so flat and their plotting so listless that this low-budget feature fails to generate much suspense.

For the love of Chucky, avoid this insipid attempt at reviving the killer doll horror.

‘…the result plays like a Twilight Zone/Outer Limits short story, and one with a punch-line…’