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* HumiliationConga: The killer thought an isolated deaf-mute woman would be the perfect victim. He was wrong. [[spoiler: Despite his much greater advantage, he spends most of the film getting his ass kicked by her. She eventually defeats and kills him.]]
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* HumiliationConga: The killer thought an isolated deaf-mute deaf and non-verbal woman would be the perfect victim. He was wrong. [[spoiler: Despite his much greater advantage, he spends most of the film getting his ass kicked by her. She eventually defeats and kills him.]]
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* TraumaCongaLine: Oh boy, does Maddie have a bad night. [[spoiler: She is psychologically tormented by a killer who knows she is deaf and mute and exploits it as cruelly as possible. She is faced with the vicious killings of her neighbors Sarah and John, and the knowledge that their deaths are partially her fault. She is also horribly wounded throughout the night, getting an arrow shot into her thigh, her hand smashed and stomped, badly kicked and beaten, nearly strangled, and losing a lot of blood.]] This is all on top of her tragic backstory in which she lost her ability to speak and hear as a girl.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Oh boy, does Maddie have a bad night. [[spoiler: She is psychologically tormented by a killer who knows she is deaf and mute non-verbal and exploits it as cruelly as possible. She is faced with the vicious killings of her neighbors Sarah and John, and the knowledge that their deaths are partially her fault. She is also horribly wounded throughout the night, getting an arrow shot into her thigh, her hand smashed and stomped, badly kicked and beaten, nearly strangled, and losing a lot of blood.]] This is all on top of her tragic backstory in which she lost her ability to speak and hear as a girl.
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* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler: As the killer is making his way into the house for the final showdown, Maddie quickly types up a final message in the script she's working on.]]
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* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler: As the killer is making his way into the house for the final showdown, Maddie quickly types up a final message in the script book she's working on.]]
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* AutomaticCrossbow: The killer's WeaponOfChoice is this.
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* ChekhovsGun: The smoke detector that goes off at the beginning of the movie [[spoiler: is used later by the protagonist to disorient her attacker.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The Multiple, the smoke detector that goes off at the beginning of the movie [[spoiler: is being used later by the protagonist to disorient her attacker.]]the killer]] is the most expected, but the can of bug spray and [[spoiler: the corkscrew]] are harder to catch.
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* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler: As the killer is making his way into the house for the final showdown, Maddie quickly types up a final message in the script she's working on.]]
-->[[spoiler: male 5'9 green eyes brown hair short\\
tattoo on side of neck\\
love you mom dad max\\
died fighting]]
-->[[spoiler: male 5'9 green eyes brown hair short\\
tattoo on side of neck\\
love you mom dad max\\
died fighting]]
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* BringIt: [[spoiler: After the killer horrifically smashes her hand and tells her that he's coming in, Maddie stops crying and slowly rises to face the killer standing behind the screen door. She then dips her finger into her arrow wound and uses the blood to write on the words "DO IT COWARD" on the glass.]]
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* BringIt: [[spoiler: After the killer horrifically smashes her hand and tells her that he's coming in, Maddie stops crying and slowly rises to face the killer him, standing behind the screen door. She then dips her finger into her arrow wound and uses the blood to write on the words "DO IT COWARD" on the glass.]]
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* BringIt: [[spoiler: After the killer horrifically smashing smashes her hand and telling tells her that he's coming in, Maddie stops crying and slowly rises to face the killer standing behind the screen door. She then dips her finger into her arrow wound and uses the blood to write on the words "DO IT COWARD" on the glass.]]
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* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler: John]] meets his end. [[spoiler: Also a slight subversion in that the killer clearly expects John to just lie down and die as soon as his windpipe is cut, but he puts up a good long fight before he expires.]]
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* HumiliationCongaLine: HumiliationConga: The killer thought an isolated deaf-mute woman would be the perfect victim. He was wrong. [[spoiler: Despite his much greater advantage, he spends most of the film getting his ass kicked by her. She eventually defeats and kills him.]]
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* AnnoyingArrows: Annoying in that they shock the hell out of you and leave you to slowly bleed.
* BaitTheDog: The film does this to Maddie and the audience, showing us an early close-up of Sarah tucking her phone into her back pocket. Maddie remembers this later in the movie and tries to retrieve the phone [[spoiler: from Sarah's body. Unfortunately, the killer reveals that he already had it after he nearly catches her.]]
* BringIt: [[spoiler: After horrifically smashing her hand and telling her that he's coming in, Maddie stops crying and slowly rises to face the killer standing behind the screen door. She then dips her finger into her arrow wound and uses the blood to write on the words "DO IT COWARD" on the glass.]]
* BaitTheDog: The film does this to Maddie and the audience, showing us an early close-up of Sarah tucking her phone into her back pocket. Maddie remembers this later in the movie and tries to retrieve the phone [[spoiler: from Sarah's body. Unfortunately, the killer reveals that he already had it after he nearly catches her.]]
* BringIt: [[spoiler: After horrifically smashing her hand and telling her that he's coming in, Maddie stops crying and slowly rises to face the killer standing behind the screen door. She then dips her finger into her arrow wound and uses the blood to write on the words "DO IT COWARD" on the glass.]]
* EvilGloating: The killer ''loves'' taking his time and watching people suffer slowly. [[spoiler: It screws him over multiple times.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Maddie, [[spoiler: by the end of the movie.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: John]] shows up at Maddie's house looking for Sarah and is confronted by the killer. [[spoiler: John]] quickly sees through the killer's wounded policeman act, tricks him into turning his back, and grabs a large rock. [[spoiler: Just when it looks like he's about to save the day, Maddie frantically bangs on the glass to warn him, not knowing he's already figured out. Before John can turn his attention back to the killer, he's stabbed in the throat.]]
* HumiliationCongaLine: The killer thought an isolated deaf-mute woman would be the perfect victim. He was wrong. [[spoiler: Despite his much greater advantage, he spends most of the film getting his ass kicked by her. She eventually defeats and kills him.]]
* HumiliationCongaLine: The killer thought an isolated deaf-mute woman would be the perfect victim. He was wrong. [[spoiler: Despite his much greater advantage, he spends most of the film getting his ass kicked by her. She eventually defeats and kills him.]]
** She also uses a hammer, a kitchen knife, a can of pesticide, and even a smoke alarm.
* RedHerring: The beginning of the film makes it seem as if Maddie's needy ex-boyfriend Craig will enter the picture at some point later in the film. He never shows up. [[spoiler: Sarah's boyfriend John does, though.]]
** Also [[spoiler: Sarah's cellphone.]]
** Also [[spoiler: Sarah's cellphone.]]
* SerialKiller: This is clearly not the killer's first time. When Maddie manages to take away his crossbow, she notices twelve notches carved into the side.
** [[spoiler: It's also how the killer dies at Maddie's hands.]]
* SmugSnake: The killer is very full of himself. Though not so much that he won't acknowledge his own lack of strength or fighting skills [[spoiler: after John nearly chokes him to death.]] Even his mask has a wide smirk for a mouth.
* TheSociopath: The killer, obviously.
* StopHelpingMe: The movie might have ended a lot sooner and a lot less bloody if [[spoiler: Maddie hadn't tried to warn John of danger just as he was about to get the jump on the killer.]]
* TooDumbToLive: The killer, surprisingly. He treats the situation like a game and has little to no sense of caution. His willingness to write off Maddie or [[spoiler: John]] as mere victims he could play with nearly gets him killed more than once. [[spoiler: His random decision to steal one of Sarah's earrings as a trophy is what gives him away to John later. Near the end, he actually stops to smoke a cigarette and have a conversation with Maddie's cat. If he wasn't so concerned with describing to the cat how he intended to nail it to the door, he might have avoided that arrow to the chest.]] His SuicidalOverconfidence hinders him every step of the way.
* TraumaCongaLine: Oh boy, does Maddie have a bad night. [[spoiler: She is psychologically tormented by a killer who knows she is deaf and mute and exploits it as cruelly as possible. She is faced with the vicious killings of her neighbors Sarah and John, and the knowledge that their deaths are partially her fault. She is also horribly wounded throughout the night, getting an arrow shot into her thigh, her hand smashed and stomped, badly kicked and beaten, nearly strangled, and losing a lot of blood.]] This is all on top of her tragic backstory in which she lost her ability to speak and hear as a girl.
* SmugSnake: The killer is very full of himself. Though not so much that he won't acknowledge his own lack of strength or fighting skills [[spoiler: after John nearly chokes him to death.]] Even his mask has a wide smirk for a mouth.
* TheSociopath: The killer, obviously.
* StopHelpingMe: The movie might have ended a lot sooner and a lot less bloody if [[spoiler: Maddie hadn't tried to warn John of danger just as he was about to get the jump on the killer.]]
* TooDumbToLive: The killer, surprisingly. He treats the situation like a game and has little to no sense of caution. His willingness to write off Maddie or [[spoiler: John]] as mere victims he could play with nearly gets him killed more than once. [[spoiler: His random decision to steal one of Sarah's earrings as a trophy is what gives him away to John later. Near the end, he actually stops to smoke a cigarette and have a conversation with Maddie's cat. If he wasn't so concerned with describing to the cat how he intended to nail it to the door, he might have avoided that arrow to the chest.]] His SuicidalOverconfidence hinders him every step of the way.
* TraumaCongaLine: Oh boy, does Maddie have a bad night. [[spoiler: She is psychologically tormented by a killer who knows she is deaf and mute and exploits it as cruelly as possible. She is faced with the vicious killings of her neighbors Sarah and John, and the knowledge that their deaths are partially her fault. She is also horribly wounded throughout the night, getting an arrow shot into her thigh, her hand smashed and stomped, badly kicked and beaten, nearly strangled, and losing a lot of blood.]] This is all on top of her tragic backstory in which she lost her ability to speak and hear as a girl.
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**[[spoiler: Despite the killer's face not being shown in any promotional material, he actually removes the mask very early in the film and never puts it back on.]]
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**[[spoiler: Despite the killer's face not being shown in any promotional material, he actually removes the mask very early in the film and never puts it back on.]]]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: The killer pulls this on [[spoiler: John when he arrives,]] pretending to be a police officer who was knocked out while investigating an emergency call. Given the killer's very apparent sketchiness, [[spoiler: John]] doesn't buy it for long.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: The killer pulls this on [[spoiler: John when he arrives,]] pretending to be a police officer who was knocked out while investigating an emergency call. Given the killer's very apparent sketchiness, [[spoiler: John]] doesn't buy it for long.
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* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Maddie experiences this when [[spoiler: the killer strangles her until she was close to dying, causing her life to flash in front of her eyes.]]
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* SilenceIsGolden: The movie is about 90 minutes long, and has less than 15 minutes of dialogue.
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**[[Spoiler: Despite the killer's face not being shown in any promotional material, [[SubvertedTrope He removes the mask very early in the film]] and never puts it back on.]]
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**[[Spoiler: Despite the killer's face not being shown in any promotional material, [[SubvertedTrope He removes the mask very early in the film]] and never puts it back on.]]
**[[Spoiler: Despite the killer's face not being shown in any promotional material, [[SubvertedTrope He removes the mask very early in the film]] and never puts it back on.]]
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Downplayed. During the climax, [[spoiler: Maddie uses her "writing voice" to consider multiple scenarios which all end in her death.death, before figuring out what she has to do.]]
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: John gets his throat slashed by the killer. As the killer investigates, John leaps forward and puts him in chokehold, yelling for Maddie to run. She can't run because of the possibility of her death, but it's the thought that counts.]]
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Downplayed. During the climax, [[spoiler: Maddie uses her "writing voice" to consider multiple scenarios which all end in her death.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Maddie gets shot by an arrow, loses a lot of blood, two friends, and is almost strangled to death, but still keeps on going and ends up killing the killer in the end.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Maddie gets shot by an arrow, loses a lot of blood, two friends, and is almost strangled to death, but still keeps on going and ends up killing the killer loses her life at several points in the end.film, first from massive blood loss and then from strangulation. She manages to be the only onscreen character to survive.]]
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* Determinator: {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Maddie gets shot by an arrow, loses a lot of blood, two friends, and is almost strangled to death, but still keeps on going and ends up killing the killer in the end.]]
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* WhiteMaskOfDoom: It's right there in the poster.
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* ChekhovsGun: The smoke detector that goes off at the beginning of the movie [[spoiler: is used later by the protagonist to disorient her * attacker.]]
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''Hush'' is a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Mike Flanagan (''Film/{{Absentia}}'', ''Film/Oculus''), ''Film/{{Oculus}}''), and stars co-writer Kate Siegel (Flanagan's wife).
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* CellPhonesAreUseless: Subverted; the killer confiscates all of the phones [[spoiler: and cuts power to the house so Maddie can't even call 911 over Skype.]]
* ChekhovsGun: The smoke detector that goes off at the beginning of the movie [[spoiler: is used later by the protagonist to disorient her * attacker.]]]]
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Maddie's hand gets totally mangled when the killer traps it in a sliding door and gives it several stomps.]]
* ForTheEvulz: The unnamed killer has no apparent motivation.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Maddie [[spoiler: finishes off the killer by shish-kebabing his throat with a corkscrew.]]
* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler: John]] meets his end.
* ChekhovsGun: The smoke detector that goes off at the beginning of the movie [[spoiler: is used later by the protagonist to disorient her * attacker.
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Maddie's hand gets totally mangled when the killer traps it in a sliding door and gives it several stomps.]]
* ForTheEvulz: The unnamed killer has no apparent motivation.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Maddie [[spoiler: finishes off the killer by shish-kebabing his throat with a corkscrew.]]
* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler: John]] meets his end.
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''Hush'' is a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Mike Flanagan (''Film/{{Absentia}}'', ''Film/Oculus''), and stars co-writer Kate Siegel (Flanagan's wife).
A deaf novelist living in a secluded woodland home finds herself terrorized by a masked killer.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Look behind you!]]
''Hush'' is a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Mike Flanagan (''Film/{{Absentia}}'', ''Film/Oculus''), and stars co-writer Kate Siegel (Flanagan's wife).
A deaf novelist living in a secluded woodland home finds herself terrorized by a masked killer.
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ChekhovsGun: The smoke detector that goes off at the beginning of the movie [[spoiler: is used later by the protagonist to disorient her attacker.]]
