Review of Mr. Hush

Mr. Hush (2010)
1/10
"Throwback," indeed
16 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Do not waste your time on this one. Characters are cardboard, the story takes 45 minutes to really get started (except for one quick kill, it's really dull to that point), and even then it doesn't amount to much.

I'm not sure why the villain is called Mr. Hush. There's some kind of multi-generational revenge theme that isn't even mentioned until the last 15 minutes or so,and a dream sequence -- which comes out of nowhere -- is filmed exactly like everything else in the movie. That is, there's no transition, no fuzzy lens, no mist, no indication that it *isn't* just footage that was spliced in at the wrong place. And let's not forget the tedious halfway-through-the-credits epilogue that makes no sense whatsoever.

I streamed this one, and the online description referred to it as "a throwback to '80s slasher films." It isn't. As another reviewer posted, "Mr. Hush" lacks a fearsome villain, has absolutely no jiggle factor, includes no over-the-top gore or imaginative kills...all things that are staples of the genre.

"Throwback," indeed. This one should have been thrown back where it came from.
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