30 Days of Halloween Horror Nights: What’s Your Favorite “IP” or License-Based House or Scarezone?
I don’t think anyone would put “Dead Silence” on a list of the best horror films of all-time, but its house, “Dead Silence: The Curse of Mary Shaw” was one of the better “IP”-based (“intellectual property”) houses I’ve seen.
The film tells the tale of Mary Shaw, a once-famous ventriloquist obsessed with finding “the perfect doll.” During a performance in the town of Raven’s Fair, Shaw is taunted by a child in the audience. The child later goes missing, and the suspicious townspeople storm her theater and murder Shaw by ripping out her tongue. Unfortunately, Shaw doesn’t stay dead for long and she soon begins to exact her vengeance.
I don’t have any idea if or how “Dead Silence: The Curse of Mary Shaw” is part of the ‘Mary Shaw’ canon, but it did utilize one of film’s primary plot devices: though the house normally featured background music and loud sound effects, it would go completely silent when an attack from Shaw was imminent. There were also creepy ventriloquist puppets galore, as well as a fascinating raised catwalk/mirror effect most recently seen in 2012’s “Gothic” house.
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Photo by HHN Yearbook, video by UniversalFreak.