Sound of Silence

When I stumbled upon the 2023 horror movie titled "Sound of Silence", of course I had to watch it, given my love and admiration of the horror genre. I had not heard about the movie prior to watching it, so I had no idea what I was in for, aside from it being a horror movie. But the movie's synopsis seemed fair enough.

I am amazed that four writers could collectively manage to come up with something as dull, slow paced and uninteresting as the script for "Sound of Silence". Writers and directors Alessandro Antonaci, Daniel Lascar, Stefano Mandalà and T3 really failed to concoct anything worthwhile watching here.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Sound of Silence", and while it definitely felt like the actresses and actors put on fair enough performances, they virtually had nothing to work with in terms of anything remotely interesting in the script, character gallery or dialogue.

"Sound of Silence" was a swing and a miss of a horror movie, and it is not one that I will ever return to watch a second time. I didn't even make it through it the first time; I simply gave up on the movie out of sheer and utter boredom. Don't waste your time, money or effort here.

My rating of "Sound of Silence" lands on a generous two out of ten stars, and it is the production level of the movie that lands the movie on a two star rating instead of a single star.

This movie stank its so bad i wanted to cry while watching it DONT watch it with his freaking screaming and twitching like dang what's happening the jumpscares are so bad like a 3 year old is acting sorry but neva seen a movie that stank this bad like what even was all dat screaming for nothin disgusting movie ever so bad i wanted to fart in my seat like i wished i was sleepin rather than watching this even the ending Sucked like dang how bad can u make a movie jumpscares from 1992 just dont make a movie if u dont know how like dont watch it ever cause not worth it so bad and horrible movie im disgusted.

After Emma's father ends up critically incapacitated, in what she deems a freak accident.

She returns home to investigate.

Only to discover that it has something to do with a haunted radio.

The radio isn't just haunted by one ghost - but three.

A young girl, who repeatedly turns the radio on.

Her mother, who repeatedly turns the radio off, and incessantly hushes anyone making noise.

And an extremely violent man, who tries to strangle anyone who makes, even the slightest, sound.

After realizing that she can only see the entities when the radio is turned on.

She attempts to make contact with them, to learn more about who they are, and what exactly it is they want.

At first, it's hard to understand why she puts herself through the torment...instead of just leaving the house.

Or getting rid of the radio, for that matter.

But, to the credit of the writers, they do offer an explanation as to why the violent man demands absolute silence.

And why she can't just destroy the radio.

Even if the process to get there is relatively frustrating.

Mainly, because the acting is really, really bad.

The ambience is overwhelmingly dark.

You can tell they were trying to establish a symbolic atmosphere - about darkness having taken over the house.

But it comes off a bit forced, if not alienating.

Though, I imagine they felt they had to do this, because there isn't a whole lot of dialogue in the film.

Another problem the film suffers from, is that it plods on rather slowly, especially at the beginning.

And, when things do start to actually happen- after the ghost of the violent man possesses her boyfriend- the acting is way too over the top.

Rendering it more laughable, than it is scary.

I will give it to them, though, that they, at least, managed to tie up all the loose ends.

Which is it's only redeeming quality.

Though, they use this as an oppoutunity to set themselves up for an, arguably unwanted, sequel.

I'm actually surprised to hear (pun intended) that this actually made it to theatres.

As it seems more like a straight to Shudder - or even TubiTV- type feature.

So it's understandable to see so many paying viewers leaving notably upset - and feeling ripped off.

Because, as I previously mentioned, the acting is really really bad.

Which is hard to get over.

That being said...it's definitely not the worst horror film of 2023 (so far).

But it does suffer from a number of fatal flaws, which make it a struggle to sit through.

3 out of 10.

This movie should be banned from all cinemas. It's not even a movie. Got scammed big times.... the actors aren't even from the acting college let alone the director if there is one in this movie.... even if all the staff, their friends, their relatives and neighbors give this movie 9 stars, it wont save it from hitting a Guinness record of the lowest rating movie.

The movie lacked all the coherence between all its parts. At some point, even the music didn't fit the scene. Its not even stupid to consider it junky entertaining horror, it was serious, which is so sad. I have no idea how this trash got a place in the Cinema box. It seems like everyone can make a movie nowadays!!

This might have been made on someone's hand held video cam. Just fyi I hate most found footage films that aren't Japanese flicks from the early 00s or Hell House LLC. I walked out of The Blair Witch. So I'm not going to sit through something that looks like a very talented home movie, first of all.

It is hands down the worst cinematography I've ever seen in an Italian film. Some American trends aren't worth copying, folks.

The terrible cinematography can't even be saved by convincing acting that would allow even a slight suspension of disbelief that is IS a home movie. The acting is so bad and that's not all.

The director has to point out that the flick begins in America by waking the main character up to the most obnoxious 1992 sounding radio talk show host mentioning that it's America.

Then laughably the scenes of Italy almost could be the US. Of course I live in California and we have some of that Tuscan architecture here with the Spanish tile, but the opening Italian parts are about as distinctively Italian as having a mouth or a nose. There's a hospital, a street and a food truck that appears to be in a sprawling Walmart parking lot that says Bar in English!

I just gave up. I really wanted to see this flick too because I've had a fear of haunted radios since I was like 4 and I thought dead people were talking through my grandma's bedroom radio when it turned to static.