Hush Movie Analysis

Hush is a horror movie about a woman named Madison Young. Maddie is a mute author, who temporarily lost her hearing and her speaking ability when she contracted bacterial meningitis when she was 13. She ended up losing both her hearing and her speaking ability after she had a surgery that went wrong. Due to Maddie’s disabilities, Hush presents an emphasis on isolation and the importance of existential awareness that other horror movies fail to provide. Hush is different because most of the movie there isn't much noise and dialogue, especially when we’re in Maddie’s point of view. "To represent Maddie's world, various ambient sounds were used, such as the sound of ultrasound machines. Flanagan did not want to use pure silence for these scenes, as he still felt it would make …show more content…
There are some iconic ones like zombies, possessed things/spirits, abandoned place, evil kids/dolls, science gone bad, none or bad cell service, etc. Hush does have some of these classic horror movie cliques like Maddie trips a couple times, the serial killer cuts off the electricity and takes her phone, which is kind of like no service, Maddie’s house is in the middle of nowhere woods. Maddie also fends for herself while being deaf, and living alone. She starts to get bold instead of scared. unlike most of the girls in other horror movies, they usually die, somehow end up living to see the end of the movie, they usually fall and trip especially while they’re running. Hush as great reviews, like a tweet from Steven King, and of course there are some didn’t like it.
Maddie lives isolated in the woods with her cat and her neighbors; Sarah and her boyfriend, John. Sarah comes to visit, to talk about Maddie’s book; Maddie can lip read. Maddie explains “writer’s brain”, how she entertains all endings to stories in her head. Maddie has a smoke alarm that not only flashes bright, blinding, white light, the alarm is so loud it