Hush is a home invasion thriller starring Kate Siegel as Maddie, a deaf mute writer who lives in seclusion in a house in the woods where her main contact with the outside world are visits by her nearest neighbour Sarah (Samantha Sloyan) and conversations via social media outlets on her phone and laptop.

A masked stranger (John Gallagher Jr.) appears outside of Maddies house one night and becomes intrigued by the lack of response he receives when knocking on the doors and windows. After sneaking into her home and stealing her phone he starts to send pictures of herself to Maddie and she slowly begins to realise what is going on but the power is cut and her car sabotaged so she is stranded in the house with the masked man just waiting outside armed with a knife and a crossbow. Although similar movies have recently been made in the past (The Strangers & You’re next come to mind) the lack of dialogue and sound, when we are looking at things from the protagonists point of view, makes for an intriguing premise in impossibly trying to defend a house using only vision when there are so many missing lines of site for most area of the house at any one time.  Director Mike Flanagan has plenty of experience in the horror genre and he sets up the stranger very well by not giving any reasoning for his stance or even naming him which dehumanises him and gives a better maniacal feel to his actions while but Gallagher and Siegel both do a good job as the stalker who goes about his business with emotionless ease and the prey that gives as good as she gets respectively.

It is not going to set the world on fire but as thrillers so its a good movie that only now and then falls back into the tropes of it’s genre which gives it a certain novelty.

DJ Speaks Rating: 6 Out Of 10