"Automatonophobia" is what we call a fear of ventriloquist dummies, a phobia unlikely to be induced by "Dead Silence," an ostensible exercise in horror from the writing-directing team behind "Saw." ...

It’s not the frightfest it was intended to be, but 'Dead Silence' is an entertaining foreshadowing of the director’s later successes. Reading time 4 minutes In 2007, James Wan was a horror ...

There was only one time I felt true horror while watching Dead Silence (2007) and I am positive it is not something the filmmakers intended. The opening of the film sees a ventriloquist dummy ...