Dead Silence (originally titled Shhhh... and Silence, with alternate title suggestions such as The Doll and Mary Shaw) is a 2007 supernatural psychological horror film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, the creators of Saw. The film stars Ryan Kwanten, Judith Roberts, Donnie Wahlberg, and Amber Valletta.
Jamie Ashen and his wife Lisa receive a mysterious ventriloquist doll, "Billy", in an unmarked package. Wondering who sent the doll, Lisa recalls a poem about a woman named Mary Shaw. Jamie disregards this and leaves to get dinner. Lisa plays around with Billy and poses in the mirror. Then all the sounds disappear and Billy comes to life, attacking Lisa. later Jamie finds Lisa dead with her tongue ripped out, and Billy lying near her body. Jamie discovers that Billy belonged to Mary Shaw, a ventriloquist from his hometown of Ravens Fair.
Returning to Ravens Fair, Jamie confronts his wealthy, estranged father, Edward, about Mary Shaw. Edward is wheelchair-bound with a new wife, Ella, who takes care of him. Edward and Ella remind Jamie of the poem, "Beware the stare of Mary Shaw. She didn't have children, only dolls. If you see her in your dreams, make sure you never ever scream", regarding Shaw and her penchant for cutting out her victims' tongues. Before leaving, Jamie warns Ella that Edward is a monster. After Lisa's funeral, Jamie wanders into a cemetery and finds Shaw's grave and those of her puppets. Marion, the mortician's senile wife, warns him of the danger of Shaw's puppets, and he realizes he should rebury Billy. He does so, but Detective Jim Lipton digs it back up, unconvinced of Jamie's innocence in Lisa's death and believing that he's trying to conceal evidence. Jamie tells him about the poem, but Lipton is skeptical. The next morning, Jamie brings Billy to the mortician, Henry, who finally tells him about Mary Shaw.
Shaw was a famous ventriloquist whose ambition was to make the perfect puppet. At one performance, a young boy named Michael heckled her, saying that he saw her lips moving when performing with Billy and went missing shortly after. Shaw was blamed for the disappearance, and the villagers killed her. Her final wish was to turn her body into a ventriloquist's puppet and to be buried with her 101 puppets. A young Henry wandered into his fathers mortuary and accidentally knocked the coffin over. Shaw's body briefly came to life and approached Henry, but he survived by covering his mouth to keep from screaming; Shaw can only kill her victims when they scream.
At the theater, Jamie finds Shaw's dressing room and discovers an old book with plans to make the perfect puppet. Jamie confronts Edward and learns that Michael was his great-uncle—with help from the other villagers, Michael's family murdered Shaw by forcing her to scream and then cutting out her tongue. The men involved were then killed off one by one, found with their tongues ripped out. Their wives, children, and children's children all suffered the same fate; Edward deliberately drove Jamie away to spare him, but Shaw will now come back for them. Lipton tells Jamie that Shaw's puppets are all missing from their graves. Jamie receives a phone call from Henry, telling him to go to the theater. In truth Henry has been murdered by Mary Shaw when searching for his wife after yelling at her for talking to Billy; when she takes her victims' tongues, she acquires their voices.
Jamie and Lipton go to the theater and Shaw's living quarters. In a hidden back room, they find the body of Michael Ashen, kidnapped and murdered by Mary Shaw, strung up like a marionette, and 100 of Shaw's puppets. Unable to have children, Shaw treated Michael as her "son" by turning his corpse into a puppet. A clown doll, possessed by Shaw, tells them she wants to silence those who silenced her, and that she killed Lisa because she was pregnant with the last of Jamie's family line. Lipton shoots the doll, but Shaw begins materializing through the other dolls. Realizing they must destroy all the dolls, they set the room on fire and try to flee the theater. Shaw's ghost chases them, and kills Lipton after he screams. Jamie escapes as the theater burns down, destroying the dolls.
Billy is the only remaining puppet, and the only way to get rid of Shaw is to destroy him. After Marion tells Jamie that Edward took the doll, he returns to his father's house to destroy Billy. When he arrives, Shaw reappears, but is forced to retreat when Jamie throws Billy into the fireplace. Jamie finds Edward in his wheelchair, but is horrified to discover his father is dead, his entire back hollowed out and replaced with a wooden shaft used in ventriloquist dummies. Jamie realizes Edward has been wearing the same suit, and that Ella has been at his side the entire time with her hand behind his back. Ella, Mary Shaw's "perfect doll", appears. Jamie screams, and Shaw materializes through Ella and kills Jamie. The films ends with Jamie saying the poem and looking through the human puppets including Ella then Mary closing the book.
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