Sound of Silence

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.

It is not a horror movie, not even 1 scary scene.

Eveyone in the theatre were amazed and angry how can someone do such a silly and bad horror movie . We enter this movie after seiing his 6.2 rating such a scam.

We always trusted the imdb rating but in this movie i don't know what happen.

It's seem like a horror movie from the 18 century not scary at all and makes you angry because the director thought that people are so stupid to even accept such low quality of a movie.

After finishing the movie we went to the cinema superior and ask him to remove this movie from the watch list because it is really a scam and no descent cinema should put it on her screen to watch.

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!!

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.

First, let's address the elephant in the room. This film doesn't have Oscar worthy performances. The acting isn't so bad that it takes away from the overall movie but it certainly leaves something to be desired. Now that we've got that out of the way. The remaining aspects of the film where actually quite good. I'm a horror fan and I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. While this film was obviously done on a smaller budget, at least compared to today's blockbuster standards, the effects are modest but well done. What starts as a simple ghost story soon leads to a film that is a commentary about people who are trapped in abusive relationships, or in situations in which they have no power. If your a horror buff looking for something that is lightly thought provoking and not the standard blood and guts fair. This was a very enjoyable film. The bonus horror short at the end, while not directly related to the events of the main feature, adds a nice surprise.