Review of Hush (2016) by Charles B — 03 Dec 2016

I cannot see what the fuss about this is. Utterly conventional home invasion thriller, plodding predictably towards the inevitable ending (helpful corkscrew at fingertips as final strangulation begins).

A dull, mostly incompetent antagonist running in circles around a house apparently fully glazed with safety glass and with no particular geography. And unlike the recent, excellent 'Don;t Breathe' the heroin's deaf-muteness does abolutely nothing to advance the plot of complicate the circumstance beyond making her slightly more vulnerable than she would be, completely alone in an isolated location with a murderer.

Stylistically dull, by-the-numbers, and the only tension comes from yelling 'Oh why the f**k did you do that?!' at the screen. Plus a ludicrous 'inner voice' sequence that does nothing but add pointless exposition to an already obvious situation.