Hush
Short description
Hush is a horror thriller about Maddie, a writer who lost her hearing as a teenager and now lives alone in an isolated house in the woods. While she works on her second novel, a masked stranger appears at her window and begins to torment her. Cut off from the outside world and unable to call for help, she has to find a way to survive against an intruder who grows crueller once he realises she cannot hear him.
The film was directed by Mike Flanagan, who wrote the screenplay with Kate Siegel, who also stars as Maddie. It was released in 2016, the third of the nine films Flanagan has directed, following Absentia and Oculus, and arriving the same year as Before I Wake and Ouija: Origin of Evil. John Gallagher Jr. plays the man stalking her, with Michael Trucco and Samantha Sloyan in supporting roles. Trevor Macy and Jason Blum produced for Intrepid Pictures and Blumhouse Productions. Made for about one million dollars, the film runs eighty-two minutes.
On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.7 out of ten from nearly five thousand votes, a solid response for a low-budget thriller that centres on a single location and a small cast.
What's left behind the scenes
- The entire film was shot in one location (in and around the house). There are only five characters in the film, one of whom is shown only on a computer screen.
- Before including any scene in the plot, Kate Siegel and Mike Flanagan acted it out to better understand how their characters would react to danger.
- The main character, Maddie, and her sister, Max, are named after Kate Siegel's niece and nephew.
- Dialogues take up only 15 minutes of screen time. For more than 70 minutes, the characters in the film do not utter a single word.
- Filming took 18 days.
- Among the books owned by the main character are several novels by Stephen King: "Under the Dome" (2009), "Revival" (2014), and "Mr. Mercedes" (2014).
- Director Mike Flanagan and actress/screenwriter Kate Siegel came up with the plot for the film "Hush" (2016) during a dinner date in 2014. They married in February 2016.
Auditions in India
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