Metacritic Movie Ratings
Dead Silence Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown

  Terrified of puppets? Enjoy being scared? Then you'll be half-satisfied with Dead Silence, a rote horror pantomime.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck

  Boasts nothing new under the sun, but it does provide a few decent scares.

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• 40

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  Dolls are innately unnerving, but the movie's semi-menacing Charlie McCarthys never live up to their potential. As creaky nonsense goes, though, this is chock-full of corny goodness down to its hilarious sense-shredding "twist," which the movie reveals like a magician proudly unveiling a dead rabbit.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York Times

  The director, James Wan, and the writer, Leigh Whannell (the team behind the controversially brutal "Saw" series), deliver the mandatory shocks and gross-outs, backed by dissonant bursts of music and made almost elegant by the cinematographer John R. Leonetti's desaturated images.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Variety

  Only those in a cold sweat for their weekly horror fix will bother with this formulaic and rather lazy exercise in booga-booga scare tactics.

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• 0

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  A conflation of the horror genre's laziest tropes, plot angles and shorthands, this inept creation isn't so much a film as it is a smorgasbord.

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