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A widower returns to his hometown to unearth clues about his recently departed wife's untimely death, which may be linked to the ghost of a murdered ventriloquist.
Armed with a decent budget, director James Wan and co-screenwriter Leigh Wannell fashion at least a dozen sequences that are spooky even while they defy logic.
Dolls are innately unnerving, but the movie's semi-menacing Charlie McCarthys never live up to their potential.
March 20, 2007
Chicago Reader
Wan and Whannell have a carnivalesque sense of fun and a sure instinct for recycling classic horror tropes, but their characters are so flat and their plotting so listless that this low-budget feature fails to generate much suspense.
Even without the mechanized death that made the Saw movies such a sensation, it doesn't take long to realize that director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell are merely trying to replace one twisty, gimmicky franchise with another.
April 05, 2007
Entertainment Weekly
Terrified of puppets? Enjoy being scared? Then you'll be half-satisfied with Dead Silence, a rote horror pantomime.