Ci sono registi che azzeccano un film per puro sedere, per poi non fare più niente di neanche lontanamente decoroso:
James Wan - già autore di
Saw - mi sa che rientra nella categoria.
Dead Silence, visto mesi fa e mai recensito (né digerito), è uno di quei filmacci che altro non meritano se non un pietoso oblio.
Quello che sembra essere un pupazzo assassino viene recapitato a casa di due novelli sposini; la mogliettina muore in fretta, ed al marito non resta che indagare sulla strana marionetta, finendo per incappare sui torbidi segreti della propria famiglia e della sua città natale.
In passato, infatti, una ventriloqua avrebbe accoppato gente varia, trasformandola in pupazzi (atrocemente simili a quelli dell'Enigmista...), ed ora sembra tornata dall'oltretomba o forse no.
Film fatto coi piedi, non c'è un minuto di tensione, la trama è risibile e la recitazione agghiacciante. Pura noia stupida.
Il cast si pregia di uno degli attori-feticcio di Wan: quel
Donnie Wahlberg già fratello di
Mark nonché ex-new-kids-on-the-block. Peccato sia stato trascinato in mezzo anche una leggenda come
Michael Fairman.
Voto: 2. Trashometro
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James Wan
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Fairman, Michael (I)
Nome di battesimo: Fairman, Michael Eugene
Data di nascita: 25 February 1934
Altezza: 5' 9½" (1.77 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Michael Fairman is a veteran of film, stage and television, with a career spanning more than 40 years. He has portrayed Adlai Stevenson in the political thriller Thirteen Days (2000) starring Kevin Costner, was featured in David Lynch's Academy Award-nominated Mulholland Dr. (2001) and played Ben Affleck's father in Dreamworks' Forces of Nature (1999). This versatile actor can be seen regularly on television, having guest appearances on popular shows such as "ER" (1994), "The Practice" (1997), "The X Files" (1993), "Boston Public" (2000), "Family Law" (1999) and "Dharma & Greg" (1997), to name just a few. He started out his career as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force. While stationed at Tachikawa Air Force Base near Tokyo, he joined a theater group and has been acting ever since. After the Air Force, he enrolled in the Dramatic Arts Department of New York University. Beginning with Oedipus in Sophocles Oedipus Rex, he played leads throughout college, including a series of classical roles at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. He has played everything from Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" to Pozzo in "Waiting for Godot" to his critically acclaimed "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" and was in numerous productions off-Broadway. This extensive stage experience led Michael to numerous recurring roles in such hit TV shows as "L.A. Law" (1986), "Hill Street Blues" (1981) and "Cagney & Lacey" (1982), and extended runs on the soap operas "General Hospital" (1963), "Ryan's Hope" (1975) and "Love of Life" (1951). Fairman is in the soon-to-be-released feature film comedy Wheelmen (2002).
Trivia random: He has a son, Jeremy (34), and a daughter, Sky (8).
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Saw (2004)
Enigmista, L'
Regista: James Wan Scrittore: Leigh Whannell,
James Wan Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Valutazione: 7.7/10 (79133 voti)
Durata: 103 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn't. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn't work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn't unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn't. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn't actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire 'game' out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.
Trivia random: James Wan and Leigh Whannell wrote the script and submitted it to their manager. The manager then sent it to an agent in L.A. who summoned the two of them for a meeting. They were encouraged to shoot a scene from the script as a short film which they started passing around to studios.
Citazione random: Adam: You want to know what I do? I'm paid to follow rich guys like you who go to seedy, out-of-the-way motels to fuck their secretaries.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Wahlberg, Mark (I)
Nome di battesimo: Wahlberg, Mark Robert Michael
Data di nascita: 5 June 1971
Altezza: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Son of Alma and Donald. Brother of 5 brothers and 3 sisters. Born in Dorchester. High-school dropout, later got GED. Did various jobs including bricklayer and was convicted of several minor felonies. Recorded two albums and toured as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. "Music For the People" (Interscope, 1991) and "You Gotta Believe" (Interscope, 1992). Won Best Dance Single for "Good Vibrations" Still tours in Europe. Best known for dropping his pants onstage. Modeled underwear for Calvin Klein beginning in 1992 with supermodel Kate Moss in a widely-distributed campaign photographed by Herb Ritts.
Trivia random: December 2001 - Bought a 5 million dollar mansion in Beverly Hills, and moved his mother in.
Citazione random: [His reaction to his Oscar-nomination for The Departed (2006)]: Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.
Salario massimo: $10,000,000, per Planet of the Apes (2001)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Dead Silence (2007)
Regista: James Wan Scrittore: Leigh Whannell,
James Wan Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Valutazione: 6.0/10 (12325 voti)
Durata: Argentina:91 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:Every town has it's own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. However, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths around them after Mary Shaws collection has returned from their graves and have come to seek revenge on people that killed her and their families. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen thought they had established a fresh start, until Jamie's wife is grotesquely killed in their apartment. Jamie returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa's death. Once reunited with his ill father, Edward, and his father's new young bride, Ella, Jamie must dig into the town's bloody past to find out who killed his wife and why. All the while, he is doggedly pursued by a detective who doesn't believe a word he says. As he uncovers the legend of Mary Shaw, he will unlock the story of her curse and the truth behind the threat from a rhyme in his childhood: if you see Mary Shaw and scream, she'll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die...is your own voice speaking back to you.
Trivia random: During the climax, in the storage area with all 101 dolls, you can see Jigsaw's doll from the Saw films sitting on the floor.
Citazione random: Lisa Ashen: [to Doll] If you scare Jamie I'll give you 7 minutes in heaven with my barbie.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Wahlberg, Donnie
Nome di battesimo: Wahlberg, Donald Edmond
Data di nascita: 17 August 1969
Altezza: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Coniuge: Kimberly "Kim" Fey::(20 August 1999 - 2007) (divorced) 2 children
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:He was born Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr. on August 17, 1969 in Dorchester Massachusetts, into a Swedish/Irish-Catholic family, the eighth of nine children of Donald Sr. and Alma Wahlberg. His parents eventually divorced and Donnie, finding himself already in trouble, found a positive outlet performing in school plays and became involved in varied aspects of theater -- acting, writing, and directing. At the age of 15, he became a member of the teen vocal group originally called "NYNUK." Donnie's younger brother, Mark Wahlberg, was originally one of the Boys but balked at the direction the group was taking and backed out. Following a false start with their debut album "New Kids on the Block," the teens persevered with a sophomore record and proceeded to hit #1 with the single "Please Don't Go Girl" in 1988. They continued to bombard the market with one-after-another "Top Ten" hits including "The Right Stuff" and "I'll Be Loving You Forever." Leaving the young girls panting for more, they became one of the hottest young singing/line-dancing groups to hit the late 80s/early 90s. The Boys went on to sell over 70 million albums worldwide, and provoke the spawning of other five-member harmony groups such as Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. During its heyday, Donnie played up his resident "bad boy" persona by tallying up several run-ins with the law, including an alleged arson at a Kentucky hotel (charges were dropped). He also delved into "body art" with numerous tattoos and body piercings in an effort to buck their already-cloying image. Amid intergroup dissension and Milli Vanilli-like charges of not contributing all the vocals to their albums, the pop band finally disbanded in 1994 -- partly out of frustration but also having outgrown the group's juvenile moniker. Unsure of his direction while attracting more trouble in the tabloids, Donnie, who helped write, arrange and produce brother Mark's Funky Bunch group's first two albums a few years earlier, switched gears. He rapped some and modeled some, then transformed himself into an actor, a route taken earlier by his talented bro. While Mark has turned out to become the bigger film star over the years, Donnie has stepped out of his shadows to receive raves and renewed respect for his own tense and compelling character work. He first showed up in big screen action. Making his debut as a "tough guy" thug in the Mickey Rourke urban outing Bullet (1996), the filmed was made in 1994 but not released until two years later. Usually cast as an amoral heavy, Donnie moved up the quality ladder with director Ron Howard's thriller Ransom (1996) as part of a gang of kidnappers who nab Mel Gibson's son, to their eventual regret, of course. His next repellent took the form of a drug dealer in the goth indie horror Black Circle Boys (1997), but the film came and went. After a couple of TV movies, he finally nabbed a starring role in the film Southie (1998) playing more or less himself as an Irish-American prodigal son who returns to the mean streets of his native Boston. The movie also featured another brother Robert Wahlberg who also was testing the acting waters. Ironically, one of Donnie's most powerful roles during this period was also one of his briefest. Seen in the opening sequence, he is nearly unrecognizable (having dropped an alarming amount of weight) portraying a deranged former patient of psychiatrist Bruce Willis whose sudden explosion into unfathomable violence sets up the clever twists and turns that turned M. Night Shyamalan's classic psychological thriller The Sixth Sense (1999) into a critically-acclaimed box office hit. Donnie's opening bit was mouth dropping and jarring in its horror. He also proved he wasn't a flash in the pan by backing up this perf with a major role as a WWII paratrooper in the critically-hailed ten-part epic "Band of Brothers" (2001), which won multiple Emmy awards (6). This TV role directly led to his casting as a gritty L.A. detective in the NBC dramatic series "Boomtown" (2002), an acclaimed series that didn't survive a second season. Since then Donnie has patented his unrefined intensity into a number of other films such as Triggermen (2002) and Saw II (2005). He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Kim Fey, and sons Xavier and Elijah. As a former teen heartthrob seemingly headed down a troubled and dangerous path after his initial success, he somehow managed to avoid the traditional pitfalls of drugs and self-destruction, and has since proven himself an actor with "the right stuff."
Trivia random: Was always seen as the free-spirited, more earthy urban member of New Kids on the Block.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb. 
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