"The Unspoken" is another horror (yawn) movie about, well, ghosts (I guess). It has an overall effect of cold mush okra. It is so hackneyed, so predictable, so non-scary it should be used as an example in an undergraduate course on how to bore an audience instead of scaring them.
It opens with a story of what would become legend "The Briar House." It seems that an entire family vanished from the face of the earth never to be heard from again. If my thinking serves me correctly, I would say the cat scared them. Watch this movie, and you'll get the connection.
Anyhoo, flash forward to the present, and a single mother and mute son move into the house. Immediately, things begin to go bump in the night. Angela is then introduced as the movie's protagonist. She is played by Jodelle Ferland ("Silent Hill" and "Case 39"). Nearly every word she utters is barely above a whisper, yet she manages to bond with the mute boy. Along the way, however, she is tormented by some local thugs--right out of the Hardy Boys High School--and tries to have a faux lesbian relationship with some boyish girl. The boys need to get back in the house to get their "stash" (I'm sure it was a limitless end of Lego blocks), but I digress.
This movie was just plain bad. And the completely unbelievable ending left me stupefied. As in many other movies of this genre, it was as if the writer, director, and producer sat down and said, "Okay; I have NO idea how to end this, so let's just do this." Rated "R" for violence and language.
It opens with a story of what would become legend "The Briar House." It seems that an entire family vanished from the face of the earth never to be heard from again. If my thinking serves me correctly, I would say the cat scared them. Watch this movie, and you'll get the connection.
Anyhoo, flash forward to the present, and a single mother and mute son move into the house. Immediately, things begin to go bump in the night. Angela is then introduced as the movie's protagonist. She is played by Jodelle Ferland ("Silent Hill" and "Case 39"). Nearly every word she utters is barely above a whisper, yet she manages to bond with the mute boy. Along the way, however, she is tormented by some local thugs--right out of the Hardy Boys High School--and tries to have a faux lesbian relationship with some boyish girl. The boys need to get back in the house to get their "stash" (I'm sure it was a limitless end of Lego blocks), but I digress.
This movie was just plain bad. And the completely unbelievable ending left me stupefied. As in many other movies of this genre, it was as if the writer, director, and producer sat down and said, "Okay; I have NO idea how to end this, so let's just do this." Rated "R" for violence and language.