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MUTE WITNESS

1995 DE HMDB
September 15, 1995

When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film. Thus begins a night of terror.

Directors

Anthony Waller

Cast

Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, Igor Volkov, Sergei Karlenkov, Alec Guinness, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Nikolai Pastukhov, Aleksandr Bureyev, Yuriy Sherstnyov
Horror Thriller Crime

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A deaf-mute girl is accidentally locked inside the film studios where she works. During the night, she notices movements in one wing of the warehouse, decides to go see what is happening, and discovers that two men and a girl are filming a movie. At first, it seems like a usual amateur pornographic film, but soon things change: one of the two men begins to hit the girl until he kills her. The poor deaf-mute girl watches everything without the strength to react, then she is discovered but manages to escape from the studios before the two tormentors take her. But now she knows too much, and many want her dead. An intriguing story for a film that starts off very well (watch the opening sequence, when the protagonist witnesses the filming of the alleged snuff film) but then inexorably loses its way, taking on a strange, albeit inappropriate, comic vein in the second part. It is not clear why the director wanted to insert semi-comic elements in a film with absolutely dramatic content. What a shame, because if well developed, it could have been a great film.