Mia Farrow and Audrey Hepburn have both played blind women terrorised in their homes (in See No Evil and Wait Until Dark, respectively) but Hush's heroine-in-distress, Maddie, is mute and deaf...and she's a writer, and this rather hilariously means when a crossbow-wielding psychopath appears at the window of her remote cottage-in-the-woods and tells her he is going to pace about outside until the end of the movie - or until something happens, whichever comes first - she can play out in her author's mind all the possible outcomes of this scenario just like she would were she plotting one of her own novels, and it is funny how deliberately this plot device is set-up, prefaced as it is with pointed conversations at the film's outset and during an extended sequence mid-film, given Maddie only realises with this far-too-great fanfare what anyone in the audience knows very well from watching other iterations of the tired, distasteful "deafblind or mute woman-in-a-home-invasion film" (or, let's face it, any psycho slasher film ever): that she'll have to kill or be killed.
★★☆☆☆
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