She interferes with Sophie's intentions of trying to recover from depression, and frightens Sophie's young daughter Rebecca by taking her drawing of her family and inserting herself into it as a stick figure while rubbing out her father. The creature latches onto Sophie, staying with her for years, and kills anyone who tries to help or be with her. ĭiana then turns into a demonic, malevolent creature that can act only in the darkness.
Doctors began performing experiments on Diana, but inadvertently killed her by exposing her to intense surgical-suite spotlights, instantly reducing her body to ashes. They take a picture together outside where she is covered in shadow by an umbrella. She befriends teenaged Sophie, who is hospitalized for depression.
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It is revealed she was once a teenager committed to a mental hospital, suffering from a serious skin condition that prevented her from being exposed to any light. And like the overall story itself, the audience is left with the feeling that this was a lost opportunity.Diana is a mysterious figure that attacks people only in the dark. The dynamic between the killer and Maddie could have been so much more than what it is, since the filmmakers are clearly trying to make something more than a gratuitously violent one-dimensional slasher film. Yes, he gruesomely murders innocent victims, but he could have been so much worse and so much more memorable in the pantheon of horror movie murderers. Ultimately, the shortcomings of Hush are attributable to the unnamed psychopathic crossbow-wielding killer. There's depth, backstory, and, unlike so many other horror movies, much more to Maddie than a screaming and traumatized woman trying not to die in a gory manner, but all that effort to create a three-dimensional character reduced to primal violence feels unsatisfying within the limitations of the "monster in the house" story formula. While there's certainly blood and gore and death, even these moments feel like they could have been heightened so much more. The lead character, Maddie, a strong and independent deaf female novelist living alone in the woods, could have been a truly memorable character with a director like Hitchcock or DePalma, but here her character and the premise itself feel unfulfilled. This movie attempts to put a new spin on the familiar "trapped alone and isolated with a monster" horror movie, but any possibilities for true originality are restrained by the formulaic storyline.
But as all attempts to escape the killer fail, and Sarah's boyfriend is unable to stop the killer, Maddie realizes that the only way she will survive is by finding a way to outsmart the killer and stop him before she's the next victim. The killer then cuts off the power to the house, slashes her car tires, and proceeds to play a cat-and-mouse game with Maddie, taunting and tormenting her, even as she fights back and stabs him in the arm with a hammer and tries to trick him by setting off the car alarm and by throwing a flashlight deep into the woods. The masked killer realizes that Maddie is deaf, and decides to stalk her by stealing her phone and sending her pictures and texts while inside the house.
But her tranquility is shattered when a masked killer ( John Gallagher Jr.) wielding a crossbow kills Maddie's neighbor Sarah as she is trying to get into Maddie's front door. In HUSH, Maddie Young (Kate Siegel) is a deaf novelist who lives alone in the middle of the woods so she can work on her next book and get some perspective after breaking up with her boyfriend.