Dead Silence
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
James Wan
Michael Tawton
Amber Valletta
Shelley Peterson Boyle
Mark Crocker
Bob Gunton
Film Details
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Synopsis
Every town has its own ghost story--a local folktale that's whispered around campfires or an incantation chanted by nervous kids at a sleepover that can summon the victim of a brutal murder. And when those kids get old enough, they share the tale with the next generation, passing along the legacy of terror and keeping alive that town's own myth of massacre and the ghosts it leaves behind. Except, in some towns, those scary stories aren't just imaginative tales told to amuse adults and terrify children. Sometimes, they're real. In Ravens Fair, the story is about Mary Shaw, a ventriloquist who went mad in the 1940s. Accused of the kidnapping and murder of a young boy who labeled her a fraud, she was hunted down by angry townspeople who--in the ultimate act of revenge--cut out her tongue and killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. Since that time, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths. The ghastly dolls from Mary Shaw's collection have gone missing from the grave and reappeared over the decades in the most unlikely of places. In the still of night--wherever her children are glimpsed--families are found gruesomely murdered--with their tongues torn out at the seam. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen thought they had established a fresh start. But when his wife is grotesquely killed in their apartment, Jamie cautiously returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa's untimely death. Once reunited with his ill father, Edward, and his father's new young bride, Ella, Jamie must dig into the town's bloody past to find out who killed his wife and why. All the while, he is doggedly pursued by a detective who doesn't believe a word of Jamie's alibi. As he uncovers the legend of Mary Shaw, the town's wayward son will unlock the story of her curse and the truth behind the threat from a rhyme in his childhood: if you see Mary Shaw and scream, she'll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die is your own voice speaking back to you.
Director
James Wan
Cast
Michael Tawton
Amber Valletta
Shelley Peterson Boyle
Mark Crocker
Bob Gunton
Enn Reitel
David Talbot
Michael Fairman
Laura Regan
Joan Heney
Steve Adams
Keir Gilchrist
Judith Roberts
John Subotich
Donnie Wahlberg
Fred Tatasciore
Steven Taylor
Ryan Kwanten
Dimitry Chebovetsky
Crew
Wendy Akerboom
Kevin Alakas
Gerry Alfonso
Mongo Andrews
Warren Appleby
Tim Barraball
Robert Batha
Lisa Baylin
Mike Becki
David R Beecroft
Troy Begnaud
Carlo Bellini
Barb Benoit
Mark Bensi
Dennis Berardi
Julie Berghoff
Leigh Bianco
Kristy Blackwell
Jason Board
Patricia Boulden
Gord Brown
Jeanette Browning
Roman Buchok
Roman Buchok
Mark Burg
Kelly Cabral
Sarah Campbell
Fiona Campbell-westgate
Paul Carden
Michael Carella
Dan Carnegie
Robert Carr
Catherine Cavadini
Andrew Chang
Dennis Chapman
Erik Charlebois
Greg Chown
Cyril Frederick Chu
Adam Chuckryk
Ken Clark
Charlie Clouser
Sean Cohen
Chad Cole
David Collard
Yvonne Collins
Robin D. Cook
Shelley Cook
Scotty Cooke
Melissa Corns
Patricia A Cowmeadow
Denise Cronenberg
Frank A Cuomo
Francois Dagenais
Subha Dasgupta
Tim Davis
Rob Del Ciancio
John Demita
Cylvan Desrouleaux
Bonnie Dickson
Avril Dishaw
David Joseph Doblinger
Donovan Drummond
Judi Durand
Maria Fermo
Mike Filipov
Mike Filipov
Samantha Finkler
Barbara Fiorentino
Jeff Fischer
Peggy Flood
Neil Floyd
Neil Fraser
Peter Freeman
Mel Friedman
Howard Galbraith
Michael Galbraith
Douglas Ganton
Ben Gervais
Michael Gibson
Philip Giglio
Anneliese Goldman
Robert Greb
Mark Greenberg
Annu Gulati
Charmaine Hamp
Brian Hanish
Paulina Harcus
Christopher Hargadon
Barbara Harris
Barbara Harris
Lauren Hassard
Joel Hay
Alex Heffes
Zoe Raye Hegedus
Jeff Helgason
Brian Hill
Gregg Hoffman
Sean Hollis
Amber Horn
Dawn Howat
Gord Ionson
Andy Jekabsons
Blair Johannes
Matt Jones
Fina Kahn
Doc Kane
John Keenan
Kyle Kitagawa
Jason Klein
Cheryl Kloner
Michael N Knue
Ken Kobett
Oren Koules
Daamen Krall
Jim Krauter
Christina Kuhnigk
Candace Kunderman
Jeff Laiddlaw
Linda Lamontagne
Marcel Laporte
Joanne Leach
John R. Leonetti
Alexandra Leviloff
Halina Lewandowski
Joe Libanio
Francis Livingston
Danny Lohner
Nicolas Lopez
Arlene Lott
Jim Lovisek
James Maccammon
Chris Macdonald
Jo-ann Macneil
Rod Macneil
Bob Mair
Bob Mair
Elliot Mallon
Rebecca Mangieri
Fedrico De Marco
Patrick Mark
Taylor Masamitsu
Anastasia Masaro
Jim Maxwell
Ian Mccleod
Terry Mcgauran
Darin Mcleod
Sarah Mcmurdo
Kenny Meinzinger
Nancy Melo
Luis Mendoza
John J Miralles
Daniel Mizuguchi
Andrij Molodecky
Beverly Morgan
Layton Morrison
Martin Mueller
Ron Muise
Michael Mulock
Orest Muz
Gabrielle Nadeau
Johnette Napolitano
Johnette Napolitano
John Nicolard
Beth Nobes
Dan Norton
Doug Novis
David O'neill
Michael Ohorodnyk
Peter Oillataguerre
Billy Oliver
Michael Olman
Joacim Orton
Sarah Payan
Carol Pears
Monica Perez-gelbman
Michael Plant
Kim Porter
Chris Power
Lori Pumputis
Ed Queffelec
Matt Ralph
David Randolph
Herbert Reischl
Kathryn Remlinger
Ron Renzetti
Jane Rogers
Charles Ryan
Avi Salem
Arlene Savan
Leslie A. Sebert
Andrew Shea
David Sheridan
Susan Silo
Dino Soldo
Dino Soldo
Tom Starnes
Robert Stecko
Edward Steidele
Lauren Stephens
Michael Stewart
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video June 26, 2007
Released in United States Spring March 16, 2007
Literary Sale Date: 01/13/2004
Released in United States Spring March 16, 2007
Released in United States on Video June 26, 2007
