Birds singing their high pitched songs, children laughing as they find the simplest things hilarious, and your neighbor getting murdered outside your glass door.

    Complete silence, the only voice you can hear is the one in your head. The world around you is much like a black and white 1890’s silent film, moving lips and a lot of confused faces.

    Surrounded by walls of trees that hide you from civilization, their colors a ranging of greens.

    Maddie Young, a young author who has retreated from society living in total seclusion, is captured in Hush, directed by Mike Flanagan.

    She lives in a world of silence due to bacterial meningitis at age 13, rendering her deaf. Young exists in a completely silent world.

    One night the silent film is shattered when the masked face of a psychotic murder appears in her door, violently stabbing her neighbor. Being deaf, she can’t hear the terror-stricken screams.

    Throughout the movie Young has to overcome inner challenges to defeat the serial killer.

    I found the Netflix original an astonishing waiting game that keeps you on your toes.

    It’s action-packed with just the right amount of storyline. While action movies are riveting, they can often get lost in special effects and stray away from the plot.

    But in Hush, you get a full grasp on what the three main characters are truly like. You’re never lost or wondering what just happened.

    The 1 hour and 27 minutes movie encapsulates the petrifying reality of being alone with a sinister man and a weapon.

    The movie leads us to believe that the man’s modus operandi is to hunt his victims like prey, due to him using a hunting bow as his weapon of choice.

    The last 30 minutes is shocking and unexpected, leaving you with a good taste in your mouth to wrap up this murderous adventure in the deep dark woods.

     I found it much like a life lesson, it teaches the viewers about overcoming yourself to reach a desired goal. I think it really hits home because in many cases the only one hindering you, is yourself.

    While in the movie, Young has to physically fight her dangerous problem, we can all learn from her when it shows her talking to herself in her own head throughout the movie to benefit her.

    Hush is a horror movie but maybe it has a lesson to the ending. Maybe the true message isn’t about blood and guts, perhaps it’s about fighting your inner demons.