Silence – spoiler alert

May 16, 2019
Horror / thriller
PG-13
Germany / United States
More direct: John R. Leonetti

“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.” – Charles de Gaulle

On a section of the Appalachian path in Pennsylvania, two scientists dig in a cave. For what purpose is not clear, but they get much more than they have negotiated. They hear a sound, a bit like a cry, in the distance from the cave. They try to strive to hear exactly what it is, but before knowing it, a swarm of flying creatures surrounds them and begins to eat their flesh.

Ally Andrews (Kiernan Shipka) is a girl in high school who, three years earlier, was in a car accident that cost her grandparents on the side of his father and his hearing. She can speak normally and read the lips, but everyone still uses sign language. Even her “just friend” Rob (Dempsey Bryk), who learned to sign just for her. Their knowledge of the signature will later be rather vital for their survival.

The Andrews family consists of Hugh (Stanley Tucci), his wife Kelly (Miranda Otto), the mother of Kelly Lynn (Kate Trotter) and the two Jude (Kyle Breitkopf) and Ally. There is also a family dog ​​(more like Ally’s dog); A rottweiler named Otis which is very protective. And yes, because I know everyone will want to know, the dog dies.

The news comes out of creatures resembling bats escape the cave, and everyone is said to stay at home and stay silent. Ally realizes that cities are the worst places to be, so they decide to leave with Hugh’s best friend, “uncle” Glenn (John Corbett) who is a rough man with an intense desire to help ensure family security.

As they all start to leave, they realize that almost everyone in the city is trying to do the same thing and that all the roads are completely blocked. Glenn, who opens the way, tells Hugh to follow him and cuts himself off in a field, breaks a chain connection fence and arrives on a side dirt road. They are surrounded by trees, so nobody sees the herd of deer who rushes, where they crash into Glenn’s car and send it rolling on a hill. Hugh rushes to check Glenn. His friend is alive, but bloody and his leg is stuck. Hugh tries to open the door to help Glenn get out, but Glenn tells Hugh rather to get his weapons. Hugh obeys on demand, but wants to know why. Glenn then told Hugh that he will shoot him if he does not leave with his family. Hugh agrees, but says they will come back soon with the help.

This is not what is happening. Remember how I said the dog dies? Otis feels the danger coming in the opposite direction to creatures resembling bats (at this stage known as Vesps), and as most dogs are starting to barge. Out of despair to save his family, Hugh lets go out, who takes off while running. Ally is devastated by this, even if she understands, and although she is now calm in the car, the damage has been caused. Vesps strike in the windows, claws, trying to enter.

Glenn hears that this is happening where he is pinned in the car and makes a heroic decision. He begins to shoot his weapon, effectively removing the Vesps from the Andrews family, but in doing so, ensures his own painful disappearance. The family understands what is happening and sit down helpless by listening to Glenn Scream.

When everything is silent, although some Vesps can still be seen, Hugh gets out of the car to grasp something to distract the Vesps. There is an iron iron that he had used to try to release Glenn that he had thrown on the side. As he heads quietly to him, Lynn (who suffers from asthma) begins to cough until Kelly can get his inhaler, which attracts the attention of one of the Vesps. They are completely blind, but have an audience, and it goes down on the car, so Hugh tries to hurry to go to the tire. He does it and throws it further from the car. The click that causes Vesp.

After sunset, they come across a house with a very high fence made of something that looks like chicken wire. Hugh tries to open a door, but it is locked with bells tied at the top. The noise not only brings out the Vesps, which attack the bells, but also the owner. This woman had clearly watched the news, and she is starting to cry out to the family to leave her property. As you can imagine, the VEPS get lost for the bells and start their party on the elderly woman.

There is a kind of storm drain that leads from his court outside the fence, so Hugh signs to everyone that he will cross it first, and when it is sure that it is sure, will signal that the rest will follow. What he does not realize, however, is that his foot bothers a mound of dirt while he crawls, where a bell snake emerges.

Hugh checks the house, and when he sees that there is no one else there, motions for his family to join him. Jude goes first, followed by Ally, Lynn and finally Kelly. Jude stops when the snake shakes its rattle and says to the rest of what it is. The sound of the snake attracts the vesps, where you know involuntarily from the snake by taking it off, but the others go down on Kelly’s legs. As they attack him and start screaming in pain, Hugh realizes that he has to do something. Its solution is rather ingenious: a wooden shredder. He turns it on and the Vesps fly to be cut.

Once they are clear, they go inside and go up Kelly on a sofa so that they can check the damage. It’s quite serious, to the point where if it does not get antibiotics, infection will kill it. Naturally, there are none in the house, so Hugh and ally volunteer for the mission of chasing some.

The next day, the two go to the city towards a pharmacy, and while Hugh is taking medication, Ally discovers that Vesps use human remains dug to lay eggs. As you can imagine, it’s pretty rude to watch. But that’s the least of their problems.

Hugh and Ally start home again, but are arrested by the Reverend (Billy Maclellan) who takes out a notebook and shows them a page that arises and asks them to join his herd called The Hushed. They refuse, are a little frightened by the guy and continue on their way.

Kelly gets antibiotics and is cured, and Ally (who always has her tablet on her to stay up to date) discovers that Vesps hate cold, and people who live above the Arctic circle do not have as much problems, because the Vesps are all dying. They decide that the North is the direction they need, but before they can leave, the Reverend manifests with some of its supporters.

Hugh goes out to speak to him, and the Reverend continues his insistence so that the family joined him. Hugh begs them to leave him himself and his family, and is ready to return to the house, but the Reverend clearly explains why he wants them so badly. He writes: “The girl is fertile.” Hugh turns to grab a hunting rifle and the point towards the Reverend. This, for any reason, opens the mouth and shows that his tongue has been cut. They finally leave, but looking at, you may have the impression that it is not the last that the family will see them, and it does not take long before revenge.

At night before the family begins their hike to the north and everyone sleeps, Hugh is woken up by a noise he hears outside, as if someone moves. He wakes up Kelly and the two descend, where Kelly obtains Lynn, who then wakes up Jude, who had both slept on sofas. When they look through the window, they see a young girl, then they let her in. They start to ask her questions as she is and if she is alone. When Kelly notices a bruise on the girl’s jaw. Hugh opens his mouth to see that his tongue has disappeared, but it is not the only thing that is wrong. The girl is attached to mobile phones, and all alarms are starting to trigger. Ally, who had woken up in a bed upstairs, shouts when a ves rushes through his window, and Kelly rushes to find her. Hugh brings together all the phones and puts them in a water bath, which silenced them immediately.

But no more phones glued to the windows around the house are triggered. Hugh cries out to enter the basement, but as they do, two men grab the ally and carry it outside. Kelly tries to stop them, but is rejected in certain shelves. With the knocked wind of her daughter, Lynn rushes to save Ally. When Ally sees her grandmother, she bites the hand of one of the men wearing her, which makes him fall, and Lynn grabbed the two and drags them to the ground. When Ally is a sufficiently safe distance, Lynn shouts at the top of her lungs. Although she died from the attack on Vesp, the men who had taken ally.

But it doesn’t stop there. The rest of the Silets come out and a fight against the family bursts. The whole herd dies, with the exception of a woman and the girl. The last death is the Reverend, where Hugh beats him in the head with the hunting rifle butt.

The next day, they are able to go north towards a place called the refuge, where Ally is particularly happy because it is there that she is able to end up with Rob. Vesps are still there, but rarer, and they must continue to remain silent, but everything seems good.

Overall, I thought the film was good, but the end was quite weak. It is a film where there are pretty rooms aboard your seat, and you expect something to happen, but the end comes and it’s almost nothing. The film is only an hour and a half, so if your curiosity is stung, I would say to give it a blow. Or if you like thrillers with a little happy ends, you could really appreciate it.

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