Writer Maddie lives alone in a lovely house in the middle of the woods. She is deaf and mute from a childhood illness but totally self-sufficient and her nice neighbors, Sarah and John, walk over now and again to check on her. One night, as Maddie is cleaning up after dinner, she fails to notice a screaming, crying Sarah pounding on her door, trying to get away from a masked man who then guts her, right there on Maddie's porch. After dispatching his prey, the killer is fascinated that Maddie has shown no sign of hearing him. He can't stand not having her attention so he sneaks into her house, steals her cell phone and alerts her to his presence by sending her photos of herself while she is on her computer, struggling with the seven possible endings to her latest draft novel. When he goes out of the house to cut her power and wifi and slash her car tires, she locks him out. Then begins the cat and mouse game, as he stalks and torments her - both of them know he could break a window and get into the house at any time. Plus, she can't make a run for it because he has a crossbow, giving him a range advantage.
Hush seems to unfold real-time once the killer makes himself known to Maddie. Even so, 82 minutes seemed to drag a bit, although there isn't any lull in the action once it gets going. The ending is seriously telegraphed right from the first act - so totally obvious that even I picked up on it, and I'm usually oblivious to such things. This is a straightforward horror movie: a little suspenseful with no cheap jump scares (for which I was grateful), with brutal violence combated by some serious girl power (nevertheless, Maddie persisted). It isn't really scary and the outcome is obvious but you could certainly do worse.
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