The Quiet (2005)
Directed by Jamie Babbit
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.
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The most captivating parts are when the touchy relationship between Jennifer and Needy takes center stage; the death scenes and more typical fright moments of walking through dark houses alone or being startled when something pops up are moodily shot by cinematographer M. David Mullen (2006's " The Quiet "), but pretty standard just the same.
Hush isn’t the first thriller to focus on a deaf woman — The Quiet, Hear No Evil, and the supernaturally-infused Avenged all precede it — but director/co-writer Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Absentia) captures Maddie’s perspective and experience with a precision that makes her terror that much more palpable.
Having previously directed the 1999 comedy "But I'm a Cheerleader," you'd think prolific TV director Jamie Babbitt might try some pitch-black comedy that cuts while it tickles.
Director Jamie Babbit ("But I'm a Cheerleader") blows out of the gate with a bad choice, opening narration from Belle which instructs us in basic fractional arithmetic in lieu of real character insight.
Babbit's previous film, the funny But I'm a Cheerleader (2000), was a John Waters-like, pastel-colored satire about a camp that specialized in "erasing" lesbian tendencies, finding instead that getting a group of repressed lesbians together under one roof only aggravates their sex drives.