Rotten Mango - Deaf Author Gets Stalked By Serial Killer In The Woods (BAM)

Episode Date: January 13, 2021

A deaf & mute horror writer is staying isolated in the cabin so that she can focus on her manuscript.  A serial killer happens upon her house and decides to make her his next victim. Can she outsmart him? How will she escape?  After all, he has the advantage. He can hear her.  Today's episode is part of the Baking A Mystery series and is a completely fictional story! But it's got an intense mystery for you!   If you are only interested in true crime, no worries we will be back every Wednesday!  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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...good. Okay, sorry. I just feel like any time that this mic is on, I'm gonna give you some more briacary action. I'm not gonna give you some Michael Boob's sleigh Hi, welcome to today's back in a mystery. I obviously cannot pick a background to save my life Like I don't know what's going on. It used to be the Christmas tree. Please give me some advice I should I do like a whole setup, but then also like we're moving soon or are we? I don't even know welcome to today's baking of three where we will be talking about the movie Hush. Hush was an intense movie it has been highly requested on the mukbang channel and let me freaking tell you it

really forked with my fear because one of my biggest anxieties is having a home invasion and a serial killer breaks into my house and murders me in the comfort of my own home and I was like you know what I will watch this and I watched it last night at home nights. So I do want to spread the horror to you, Bates. This movie was so intense. This is kind of like a quiet place on crack. We are dealing with a protagonist who is deaf and mute. And so I feel like I should have probably done more research on it, but I'm just like gonna go into the story because I'm telling you about the movie and if there's something incorrect about the movie or the incorrect about the portrayal of the

movie I'm sorry I didn't make the movie I'm just telling you about the movie anyways continue we got so the main character of the story she her name is Maddie Young and she is a horror writer she writes a lot of like mystery novels and on top of that she is death and mute so she lives in this isolated cabin in the woods now it's not necessarily like the most isolated area so she does have neighbors around but they're kind of far apart. Like they're not gonna be immediately right there like next door neighbor was pop in and so it starts with the scene of her in her kitchen cooking lamb and in the beginning you're kind of confused if you don't read the synopsis of the plot because you're like wait what's going on. They did an

amazing job so anytime that they show her cooking the lamb or making the mashed potatoes, you can hear the sizzling of the noise, you can hear the ticking of the timer. But immediately when it looks like the camera is showing you from Maddie's perspective, everything's quiet. So that's when you're like, okay, obviously, you know,

this is trying to imply something is going on here because suddenly it just gets dead quiet. You don't hear any sizzling no background noise whatsoever And so she's cooking this beautiful lamb dish. She's got lamb chops in the oven She's googling how to make some she's making the mashed potatoes a Glaze like the whole shabam and I'm like, who are you cooking for miss? Am I invited and not when her friend keeps texting her her friend's name is Sarah and we find out later that Sarah is her next door neighbor as well as a friend

and she says like what time should I come over and she's like oh I'm making dinner you can come right now and I have some extra food for you. So then she starts like rattling her food bowl on the ground and it's obvious that she has some sort of pet and then we see a cat run from outside to the inside because she keeps like her door open and the cat just roams around.

And her cat's name is actually beach. Because she's a strong independent beach. Yeah, so she named her cat beach. Yeah, I like it. So she just rattles the cat's food bowl and when the cat hears that the cat's like, I'm getting fed. So this becomes pertinent. Oh, because, you know, unlike the tags.

And yeah, yeah. And so she rattles the cat bowl so that the cat comes and eats the dinner. So the cat comes and then Sarah comes over and you can tell that she walked there so obviously, you know, next door neighbor and she's holding a book. So when Sarah comes, she puts down the book

so that she can do sign language to communicate with Maddie. However, Maddie is trying to communicate with her through sign language. You know that I can lip read and she's like, I know I know, but I just, I want to practice. I think I'm getting so much better at sign language. So then they sit down in the front porch and they start talking about the book. So we find out that the book was a pre-release of Maddie Young's newest novel and she had given it to Sarah to get her opinion on the plot and all of these things and she's like, I freaking love it.

I don't know how you do it. I love your books so, so much. How do you think about these endings? Like, how do you get from like, I didn't even expect that. Normally when I read mystery novels, I know what's gonna happen, but I don't know what was gonna happen.

And Maddie explains to her that it's almost like she has this voice in her head. And she, every little thing that she writes she sees like nine different outcomes of what that one action could do and it just kind of plays out in her head and Sarah asks her kind of a sensitive question she's like you know is the voice young you know and she's like no it's a sweet kind of older like maybe it sounds like my mom like she was saying like it's kind of like my mom's voice And her friend is like oh, sorry I just wondered if the voice was young because you said you got into an accident when you were 13, right?

And then all of a sudden her friend looks back and starts going oh my gosh And Maddie looks back and they're smoke inside the house So they both rush in together and the fire alarm is going off. And again, this is amazing filming because they go from, you know, Sarah's perspective with a fire alarm is horrendously loud. Then you go to Maddie's perspective where she's just turning it off and it's completely silent. So it's very fascinating. Now Sarah, during this entire time she's trying to help take the Liam out of the oven, the lamb has been burnt, but she keeps covering her ears, which I know smoke detectors are loud,

but they're not that loud, so I'm like, is there really a little bit? But Maddie explains, you know, after she turns off the fire alarm, she explains, sorry about that fire alarm. I had to get this special one because if I'm asleep and a fire happens, I can't hear anything,

so I have to be able to feel the vibration, so that's how loud it is for there to be vibrations that she can literally feel and obviously she's gonna have heightened senses, you know, but that's why the fire alarm is the way it is and Sarah's like yeah, that's one hell of a fire alarm. Now this becomes pertinent in the story later So she is just like man, I'm so sorry about dinner I'm so sorry that you know you came over and I broke the legum. And so Sarah's like, well, why don't you come over to my house, John's home, we can order some pizza,

we can watch some movies. And Maddie's like, well, I can, I have to work, I have to write. So Sarah's like, okay, we'll take it easy and I'll see you later. And they also talk about the cat momentarily because the cat was gone again and she's just like, yeah, she's just kind of that bitch. Sarah leaves. Now we start seeing like kind of Maddie's day today. A guy by the name of Craig keeps blowing up her phone and it seems like she's a little hesitant. It feels like an ex boyfriend honestly. That's what I

think it is and she doesn't pick up the phone. She puts her phone like face down. I'm like oh my god for shadowing. She puts her phone face down, she goes onto her laptop, and that's when the camera pans over to one of Maddy Young's books, and on the back it says, you know, like about the author. And that's how we found out that at 13 years old, she contracted bacterial meningitis, and through a botched surgery,

she lost her hearing, and she lost her ability to talk. So she is considered death and mute. I don't know if those are the proper terminologies, but that's like the ones that the movie used. And so that's when she said in an isolated world, she was like, what do I do? Like, what do I do? I feel so, you know, losing your hearing at 13 is completely different from being born death. And so she said that she just felt so alone that she turned to writing and she made

her own world where she wasn't isolated anymore and it was just I mean holy cow beautiful and so that she gets onto our laptop and she starts typing away. Now immediately we can see what she was talking about in terms of like the writer's voice. She had the same book with nine different outcomes because this is a mystery novel so there could be so many different outcomes at the end right? So she had ending one ending two ending three ending like all the way to nine and she would skip back and forth and she would think and in her head we can hear her voice thinking all of the possible scenarios and how they wouldn't work because that would be a plot hole in this

part of the book you know and all of these things and she gets a face time from crack and so she's like oh no so she slams a shot her MacBook and she gets a FaceTime from Craig. And so she's like, oh no, so she slams a shot of her MacBook and she's like, and you can see that she's like, should I pick up, should I not pick up? And she decides to be a productive human instead and she walks over to her kitchen and she starts cleaning and already the action is about to start happening.

So as she starts cleaning, she has this kitchen door, which is a full on like double doors right next to her kitchen, but then she also has a front door. She's got a lot of doors and windows in this house. So there's really pertinent to the story, okay. So there's kitchen doors and she's not looking at the window because I guess there's no reason to. So she's just cleaning up everything, but we can see from the outside in and someone slams across onto the kitchen windows banging on it and it's Sarah. Now this is not the same Sarah as before

because she's bloodied up and she actually has a crossbow in her back, like someone had shot her with a bow and arrow, type situation like a hunting bow and arrow. And so you can see that sticking out of her back, she's wearing the same clothing, she's screaming and she's screaming, Maddie, please see me, please see me and she's banging on the window and Maddie does not see her and I was screaming Maddie and And then at the same time there was a masked killer like a masked dude and this is a very scary mask

I'm gonna put the picture right here a holy cow and he shows up right behind Sarah and Turns her round and he's facing into the house staring at Maddie and Sarah is now facing out so like Sarah her back is towards Maddie's window and he just starts stabbing her in the stomach and he's staring at Maddie the whole time while he's doing this because I think he thinks that this is really odd you know like what is going on like this is really odd how is she not calling the police why is she not calling the police? Why is she not even caring? What's happening? So he stabs her and then Sarah drops to the ground and the killer gets closer to the window

and he taps on it and Maddie doesn't turn around and we don't know what the emotions of the killer art, because he's completely masked up except for his eyes. And then you just see him grab and drag Sarah's body out of the way. And you can already tell that he's about to fork and mess with Maddie. And so Maddie finishes cleaning up her kitchen.

She looks out the window, no one's there. She goes back to the living room and she sits down on her couch and I don't know how she does this, but she doesn't close any of the blinds. I guess because it's an isolated area, she just leaves them all open. I am the number one. Once it gets a little bit darker, I'm going to close them blinds because I feel like everyone's staring at me.

But she doesn't do that. She gets onto our laptop and Craig calls again, she denies it. So she's trying to write to the endings of her book. Now she seems like she's having a little bit of writer's block like she's not necessarily going at it. She's just kind of like, man, what do I do? What do I do? And she had left the front door open because we can see the killer slide open her front door, walk into her house. Now the mask killer is standing right behind Maddie as she's thinking about the ending to her book and she's typing some bulls.

She's typing la la la la la la. The end, please pay me my advance now. He he, like you know, just like when you have writer's block, you're just like forking around. And so it almost seems like it's just an odd situation, right? And so the killer, he starts tapping on his knife onto the table behind her. And she doesn't turn around. his knife onto the table behind her and she doesn't turn around. So he's like, huh, but he immediately has to jump out of the frame because her sister facetimes her. And you know when you get a face time, your camera shows up behind, right? So she doesn't see him.

She picks up the call and she's doing sign language to her sister and her sister is doing sign. But I believe also just talking because she's really good at lip reading. And she's doing sign language to her sister and her sister is doing sign, but I believe also just talking because she's really good at lip reading. And she's just talking about life, they're just talking about like what's going on, how's your book going, and her sister keeps saying, you know, I wish you would just come live with me, like I don't like the idea of you being so alone in the woods. And she was like, what about what about being like getting a boyfriend? Have you tried that? And she said, no, I haven't. I don't know why. I signed up for like this dating website for deaf people and everyone sucks

there, but whatever. Also Craig called and her sister's like, Craig? Wow, it's been like a year since you guys broke up and she's like, yeah, I know, I didn't pick up and she's like, well, all right, Squid. So it seems like her sister calls Maddie Squid, like that's the nickname. And she says, all right, Squid, I just really wish she would think about coming back to the city. I just don't like the idea of you living there. And she goes, wait, what's that? Does something move behind you?

So while this conversation was taking place, the killer had actually taken Maddie's phone off the counter with his hand so that she can't call 911, you know? So he had taken the phone and her sister was like, wait, Matty, I thought I saw something move. And Matty explained to her, oh, I think that's my cat, the cat probably came back. And she's like, oh, okay, well, call me later and they hang up the phone. So at this point, Matty walks back

and the door had been closed. So the killer when he had come in, he had closed the door, you know? So Matty, she goes to the cat bowl and she starts rattling it because her sister had seen some movement inside the house and cats like they like jump onto tables and stuff. So she now assumes that the cat is inside

because in the beginning frame, she had opened the door to rattle the bowl. So you see her go from room to room, just rattling the bowl and the cat is nowhere to be found. So she's like, that's so hot, right? You can tell that she's kind of like, huh, weird. And so she sits down the bowl and she opens the front door

and puts on a jacket and she's just waiting for her cat. And I think it has to do with the fact that like maybe she wouldn't hear the cat if the cat like showed up. So she just left it open so that the cat could come in. She puts on a jacket, she leaves the front door wide open, and she goes back to her laptop and starts typing away. Now at this point, she's typing, and she gets a text message from her phone,

and she opens it up. And one is a picture of her earlier when she was on the phone on FaceTime. Then there's another picture of her earlier when she was on the phone on FaceTime. Then there's another picture of her that was taken from an outside the house perspective when she was walking through the house looking for the cat. So the killer had already left the house. And then as she's getting these pictures,

there's a new one. Now it's her with her jacket on and she's looking around. And it's from the perspective of that front door wide open like through there. Like someone's standing on the other side of that wide open front door. So she gets up from her chair and she goes into the frame of the front door and she sees the mast killer and he's waving her phone. So she books it. She runs to the front door. She manages to slam it shut and lock it

before he's able to get inside. He's got a knife. He's got her phone. He's got everything. And then he's like, and looks at her and just starts booking it to the next window, the kitchen doors. So then she runs to the kitchen doors.

She locks those and then he stares at her through the window and then also imagine like the intensity of Someone who's trying to kill you and you guys are this far apart as she's locking it because they're like this You know and she looks so terrified and then they go to the next window and then the side doors I mean this is got so many doors. I don't even oh my gosh I would have so much anxiety living in a house with that many doors doors on doors on doors She don't even got walls. It's just all doors. And so they go to the next door and the next door

and the next door and her entire house is just like filled with windows and so he's just staring at her. And so she's like, what do I do? What do I do? She's thinking and I think that she's thinking through all of the doors situations, the window situations. When she realizes that most of them are locked, she immediately books it to her laptop

and she's trying to FaceTime 911 because her phone's not there. And all of the power shuts off. We see that the killer went outside to the power box and had cut the wires, which I just have a question, why the fork are those outside the house? We need to outfit all houses to have power boxes on the inside where zero killers can't just like come in

and be like, snippy snippy snippy, I feel like Edward's his hands today. He shuts off all the power So her Wi-Fi is down which is the only way she can call 911 because she doesn't have her phone where they can make a Mertancy calls so she tries to look for any other Wi-Fi in the area John and Sarah's Wi-Fi her next-run neighbor that just got murdered But she has no idea that they just got murdered right so she tries to jump on their Wi-Fi But it's password protected and the killers really smart she tries to jump on their Wi-Fi, but it's password protected. And the killer is really smart because he even goes to the Wi-Fi section and sees that there's a password. So now he knows that she really can't call for help.

So he's kind of excited. During this time, Maddie is just staring at him through the window and just watching his movements. And he knows that she's watching. And he'll move very deliberately and slowly and he walks over to her car and pops all of the tires with his knife while he's staring at her. So she runs to her purse, she grabs her flashlight, which like if you have a purse, okay, these days everyone's got that little saddlebag

from Dior, beats how you put an hand sanitizer in there, okay? So like she's smart, she got an emergency kit in her purse. She got a flashlight. She got some lipstick. She grabs the lipstick and she starts writing stuff on the kitchen window, right? And then she grabs the flashlight and starts pointing it through that window so that the killer can get, you know, draw the attention to this specific window. So the killer shows up to the window and she's sitting on the stairs and he reads the words. Won't tell, didn't see face boyfriend coming. So it's kind of like saying, hey, someone's coming to get me like don't you worry, you're gonna get caught.

Like I'm not gonna tell anyone that you try to almost kill me right now because I didn't see your face. I don't even know what you look like. Brad, like we're not good. Call it even. And here's the crazy thing. He already knew that no one was coming. And this is the scariest part, even with true crime. Anytime I read the part where they've seen the

face, I'm like, this is not a good game. Like, if you see whoever is mugging you, if you see whoever's trying to kidnap you, if you've seen their whole face, you got to fight for your life because they're not, they're not letting you out alive usually unless you're on takeoff yeah unless you're on wait what? tennna oh the kidnappers POV and they're so hot and you're just like corvette corvette you're so hot and so then he looks at her and she's staring at him with the flashlight shining on him and she's just kind of being like yeah like to sleep just leave and he looks at her and slowly takes off his mask and I know you know and Maddie freaking knows what that means

she's not getting out alive okay that's the only reason he took off the mask and then he asks her do you read lips and she's just frozen and he slams on the window and he says do you you read lips? Answer me. Yeah. I really wish she would come and live with me. I don't like the idea of you living all alone out in the woods by yourself, squirt, or squid. And that's when she was like, oh shit. Like he knows, I don't have a boyfriend

all on a dating website. No boyfriend's coming to get me. Nobody's coming to get me. And he says, look at me. I can come in there anytime I want, but I won't. Not until it's time, not until you wish you're dead. That's what I'll come inside. And then he tells her, listen, you and I, we can have some fun. So just enjoy it. And he walks away. And she turns off her flashlight. So this guy is a full-on serial killer, which we'll find proof of later on in the movie.

But again, serial killers kill as a sport. So it sounds crazy, but like this is what they get off of. They get off on fear, they get off on people being scared on mind games. They don't necessarily follow upon a situation that would be deemed so perfect that they could do that, but in a situation like this where they can't contact 911, they can't scream bloody murder, and it's just, I mean, this feels like Ted Bundy's what dream, like situation, right? So she walks over to the kitchen and she grabs a hammer and a big knife, and she runs into her bedroom. She barricades the door of her bedroom. Now there are two windows inside her bedroom, she is now standing on the wall like in between the windows

So hopefully he won't see her and the shades are open. She can't really close them necessarily because then he would know that She's in that room and so she's just standing there and she's thinking about her next move She's like, what do I do? What do I do? You can see that she's like full on or freaking the fork out and then we start hearing Someone tapping on the window and she's like oh my god he knows I'm in here so she slowly gets up and she's got her knife in her hammer and she looks at the side of the window and it's Sarah and her bloody hand tapping on the window only only the killer is propping her up and using her hand to tap on the window. At this point, you and I knew Sarah dead, but Maddie didn't know Sarah dead. So this is Maddie finding out that her best friend who lives right next door is

dead. So she can't even run next door and be like, help me please because they're dead. So she drops her knife and hammer by accident and she runs out. She moves the dresser away from the door and she runs out back into the living room and she's freaking the fork out. She has this really dramatic sad crying scene in the middle of the living room

and then she was like, I need to get it together. I need to come up with a plan. So Maddie immediately as she's crying, she realizes, Wait a second Sarah has her phone So we see it in a flashback of Maddie remembering Sarah The biggest bird just looked flew by No I swear it was like the biggest bird

So Maddie realizes in a flashback that Sarah had put her phone in her back pocket when she had approached with the book. So she's like obviously maybe she didn't go home, maybe she didn't make it home, she's doing the same clothes, maybe her phone is still in her back pocket. And he had left her on the back window, just like had dropped her body right next to the bedroom window at this point. So she's like, oh my god, this is my only chance of calling 911. So she comes up with this master plan, which is honestly genius, I think. She grabs her car keys and she starts trying to ring the car alarm. And she had to actually unlock one of the doors and stick her hand out to do it, which was

such a suspenseful moment, but she got the car alarm to go off now. The killer, he's getting stressed out. He's walking towards the car. So she runs to the bedroom, opens up the window, and starts trying to reach into Sarah's back pocket to grab the phone, but she can't find it. She's like, where's the freaking phone? And that's when the mother forker shows up, and they get into a struggle.

She goes back into the window, he's trying to pull her out, and she's trying to slam the window shut, and that's when she sees the hammer, and knife that she had just dropped. So she grabs the hammer, and throws it at his arm, and slams it shut, and is able to lock the window. Now he's got this massive injury now

and I think it was the knife actually and he's like bleeding on his arm and he looks at her and now he looks super pissed. Like through the window, suddenly his whole demeanor has changed the whole time. He was like, lose his mind and now he was like, you forget me, it's right? So he looks like he's trying to kill her for real for reals now.

And she looks terrified for now. And so he gets his phone out of his pocket and it's Sarah's phone. And it's completely shattered. He puts it on Sarah's body because he knows it's unusable. And then he looks at Maddie and takes off Sarah's earring and puts it in his pocket and he smirks and walks away. Why? Because it's just like psychologically so forked up. It's like taking a souvenir, a trophy, after murdering someone, you know, and it's her friend of all people, right? It's just

sick and twisted and he just wants to work with her in her head. So he puts that earring in his pocket, he smirks, and he walks away. And this really reminds me of a podcast that we did about a serial killer in Alaska who would like to release his victims into the woods so that he could hunt them for a sport. Like the real Hunger Games killer. I mean, that one was intense.

And I feel like he gives me the same vibes, but just like fictional. So anyways, she decides that she has to leave the house. So she starts thinking about which way in the woods to run because there's a lot of woods and here's the thing, he has the advantage, he can hear her, she can't necessarily hear him and he's also probably faster, stronger and bigger than her physically speaking, right? Not smarter though, never smarter. And so she's thinking about all the woods and she's like, okay, I need to get out of this house. There's no way I'm going to survive inside this house. So she calls

him over to a window and he starts talking to her. Now in the middle of him talking to her, she books it. She runs to the other direction of the house. So he's like, what the heck? So she goes to the other direction. He runs over there through the windows and he starts looking through each window and she's hiding right next to the windows so that he can be on the opposite side of the house when she tries to leave, you know? And so she opens the front door, she runs underneath her porch and she's waiting for him to like realize that she's not there. And that's when he sees that the porch door is open and he goes and I don't know where he had left this, but he grabs his crossbow, which is like a bow and arrow thing, but not like a cool archery way like the really graphic

Hunting sport type of ways and he grabs his little crossbow and he's looking for her and that's when he stops on top of the porch And she realizes Because she had been living like this for so long. she never thought that her breathing was that loud. Oh my god. And she panics and she covers her mouth and he makes it all the way down the porch and she runs up when he had gone to the other side. And as he's running towards her, she manages to slam close the door and lock it right as he shoots a bow and arrow at the window.

Like right there and she falls to the ground. But at least she's inside of her house, but that was a failed escape. So she's like, okay, obviously I can't do that. So she comes with a new plan and she runs all the way upstairs into like this little loft that she had. Now the loft had a bunch of windows that were overlooking a roof and then from the roof, there was like, you know, the vines that you can kind of crawl down, some houses have those, like she was thinking maybe she can run out through that way. So she goes up to the loft, she opens a window, she

makes it onto the roof and she's quietly trying to make it down when he shoots her with a bow and arrow on the leg. She gets shot in the leg and it's crazy because she did not scream, like she didn't make a noise obviously and he seems to like notice that and to be very intrigued by that. There's something like really sick and twisted that he gets from this and so she has this new plan where she's going to attack him. So he decides that he's going to crawl up to the roof because you know like I said the vine ladder was right there.

He's going to crawl up to the roof and kill her. Finish her off now because she's putting up a fight. He wasn't expecting her to put up a fight, but now he's pissed. And so as he's crawling up, he's got a little crossbow. So obviously, when you crawl up, you gotta put the thing in your hands up first so that you can lift yourself,

hoist yourself on to the roof. So he puts his crossbow up and as he's about to hoist himself, someone snatches the crossbow and kicks his face off the roof or off the ladder. And it's freaking maddy. So now he's on the ground looking at her, extra pissed. Never good to piss off a zero killer, okay? And so then he climbs up the roof, she's running to the window, she manages to close the door, the window window and lock it right as he gets

there so another close call at least this time she has a long range weapon she has his crossbow and only has her knives now so she has arrows that were like attached to it um she has one arrow the one that was in her leg and but it wasn't loaded so she couldn't shoot him or anything. You know? And so it's just a really shitty situation. So she locks the window and he looks pissed, but he leaves. So she runs into the bathroom that was near her loft and she pulls out the arrow and she is bleeding. Like this is a really intense crossbow. This is not a nerf gun. She is freaking out. She grabs a piece of cloth to bite down on to hold the pain in and she pours rubbing alcohol onto her wound and tries to bandage it up

Then she starts trying to put a bow into the crossbow, right? And it's not working Because crossbows it's kind of like a gun like it's not as easy as they make it seem in the movies Like it's really I've never dealt with a crossbow before, but it's like really intense to like do all of these crazy things and you know how it goes off of the, this thing going like this? She just couldn't get it to go back far enough for the bow to sit. So even her hands were getting bloodied up from it, because like I said, this is a not enough gun,

this is not one of those cute little archery bows. Like this was a full-on weird hunting dude crossbow. So at this point she doesn't realize that he's actually watching her through the window trying to put an arrow into the crossbow and he's just staring watching her attempt watching her hands get all bloodied up and he's just staring at her. And we also notice and she notices later markings on the crossbow, their tally marks, and there was about eight. So it seems that he was a serial killer and for every kill he had tally to mark on his crossbow because people love to do that. It's really creepy. So he's a serial killer, right? And at this moment,

So he's a Sarah O'Killer, right? And at this moment, he hears someone knock on the front door. Sarah? Sarah, are you here? The friend, the neighbor. Oh, the neighbor. So it's husband. John, yeah, she never made it home. So he's knocking and he's confused.

He's like, Sarah. And he sees the writing on the kitchen window and he's like, what? So he grabs his phone to call 911. And you can tell John, his name's John. John's getting nervous. Okay, he's like, what the fork is this writing? Where's my girlfriend, you know? So he's dialing 911 and all of a sudden,

he says, put your hands in the air. Put your hands in the air. And a flashlight shining at him. So he's like, okay. And like drop your weapon. Drop your weapon, sir. It's not a weapon, it's a phone. Drop it, drop it.

So John drops the phone, puts his hands in the air, the flashlight's shining in his face. And he's like, what is happening? And we see the flashlight is held by the killer. And he says, I need to see some ID, sir. I need to see some ID. And he's like, what? Okay, it's in my wallet. Can I reach into my wallet, sir?

Go ahead, go ahead. He reaches into his wallet, pulls it as ID, gives a terminus. Okay, John. Who do you know here? I responded to a call. Who do you know here? Why is John talking to him?

Cause John thinks he's a police officer. Does he look like a police officer? I mean, kind of. Oh. Like not too crazy, but kind of, like honestly. And then I think it's a situation of when people take authority figures you immediately don't question it because you might die, right?

So, he's got his hands in the air, he's just like what? And so he's like what are you talking about? And he's like listen, I responded to a call here. I went to investigate a dude, a dude just ran out of the house and decked me. I woke up without my badge, my phone, my gun, nothing. And John's like, what? Something happened in here?

And so the killer is like, yeah, well, do you have your phone? I need to call for backup immediately. I need to call for backup. So John's like, yeah, yeah, I have my phone. Do you know who lives here? Yeah, it's our friend, Maddie, she's the friend of ours. Does she live alone? Yes, I mean, Sarah came by tonight.

Sarah comes by all the time, but yeah, she lives alone and Sarah hasn't come home yet, so I wanted to check up on her. What happened? Okay, well, can I use your phone to call for backup first? Yeah, are you the police? Well, just barely, I just started and this not a good look But can I just use your phone for backup please? Yeah, yeah, sure and he gives him his phone

And that's when as he's fake calling for backup. He's like yeah, I need a 7-11 at a 9-11 at a 221 at a 567 like he's just saying some bulls, You know, I got a 566-87, no one 234, subscribe to Stephanie and Sue on to the backup phone. And John's just kind of looking at him like, okay, like he's starting to notice that it's a little bit weird. And so at that moment, he hangs up and the killer pockets John's phone. And John is staring at the writing on the window

and he's like, hey, did you get a look at this? And the police, the killer comes over and he goes, yeah, so strange. Does Maddie have a boyfriend or something? Because it says boyfriend is coming. No, not that I know of. I mean, she lives alone. Hey, can I have my phone back? Oh, sorry. It's like a force of habit. Here you go. Here's your phone. You know what? Now that I think about it, that kind of look like you. The guy that ran out of this house and decked me when I was responding to a call,

he kind of had like your figure, like this big buff dude, like a quarterback, like a wine backer, kind of like your size, your frame. Yeah, kind of like you. So I thought in this situation, maybe the killer was saying this for two reasons. One, to tell the audience, the reason that he's not trying to kill this person yet is because the dude was huge. I mean, John was like two times the size of the killer. Yeah, and he didn't have his crossbow. He

really just only had knives. So it seems like, you know, John could totally tackle this dude, you know? And the second thing for it, now that he's like, you know, John could totally tackle this dude, you know? And the second thing for now that he's like, wait, why did you pocket my phone? So now he's like, I'm the police and now I'm suspicious of you, you know? So obviously it's putting him in an underpoured dynamic where it's not like, oh, you're a weird police officer, but now it's like, no, I wasn't the one. So I think it was a mixture of these two. So he, John's getting a little bit just weirded out by this. And so he's grabbing the phone and handing it to him and at the same time,

something falls out of his pocket. Now the killer doesn't notice, but John looks down and it's Sarah's earring. Oh, oh my God. So John starts asking questions. John says, so, you responded to a call? Was it from Maddie, the homeowner? Yeah, yeah, I think so. Well, that wouldn't make sense because she's deaf and mute. Oh, maybe I was someone else, maybe like a friend. I mean, you were looking for your girlfriend. Maybe it was them.

Here's what I think happened, right? I think it was a burglary situation. A dude walked into the house, started burglarizing them. The girl's ran. They called 911. And they're probably out there somewhere hiding. But the dude knocked me out. I mean, I don't know until I get back up. Because I'm not trying to go into that house, right?

But then God, you're here. It's dark outside. I'm getting a little nervous. And he's just acting like a rookie cop. And so the cops just like standing on the porch and John's looking at him like kind of suspicious and he's like so uh, has Maddie always been deaf? No, I think she had man and gyda as a teenager or something like that. Uh, that's impressive though that she just like lives here and by herself that's crazy.

Yeah, you know, now that I think about it, I think Maddie keeps a key under that pot down there underneath the porch It means like a really a spare key. Oh, yeah, then we could totally go in and try to see if I can get my weapon back and Yeah, why don't why don't we investigate together? I mean your big dude. I feel safe with you So he goes downstairs to get the key under the pot. And at this moment, there was a moment where I was like, fork in John, John's an idiot, but he's not, because we see John grabbing the biggest rock out of one of the planters that he could find and hiding it behind his back.

So it seems like John had lied about the key and was just waiting, just can plonk him on the head because he's suspicious of this dude. And immediately, as the killer is lifting up the pot trying to look for a key John here something and he looks up at the like because he's on the stairs of the porch so the dude is like at the bottom of the stairs of the porch and then now John is on the stairs of the porch now he's taller than the killer he's about to smack the rock onto his head to knock him out when he hears a noise coming from the top of the porch from the front door And it's a maddie pinging on the window like saying John like you know like mowling like John help me John help me right and John is staring at her and all of a sudden we see blood splirting out of his neck

Because the killer finally had John at a disadvantage because he was distracted. And he stabbed his neck. Now, John was still alive at this point. So he starts trying to tackle the dude, right? And during all of this, he keeps stabbing him. They get into a bit of a fight where John actually wins while he's bleeding to death, he starts strangling him. So he got the killer in a tackle,

but eventually when he dies, his grip loosens. And so now the killer was just laying on John's dead body who he had just murdered, and he's looking at Maddie and she's crying through the front door, and he says out loud, and I don't know if Maddie was able to lip read, but he says, good thing she showed up when she did because I definitely couldn't have taken on you. And he starts like kicking John with his foot, like not kicking but like kind of like, you

know, like this, like just checking him out, kicking him and saying, you know, probably two out of ten chance, I could have won this fight. And just like a really sick twist of dude. So then Maddie, she runs from the front door to the side door and she runs out into the woods and she keeps running and she's running through the woods and then she gets tackled by the killer and he smashes her head in with a rock. And then we just see him sitting on top of her

with her head all smashed in. I'm talking flesh and guts everywhere, but that didn't happen. Because that was just her, on her hand, her hand on the doorknob of the side door, and now her instincts are finally kicking in where she's thinking about all of the possible outcomes that could happen with every little action she does.

So she pulls her hand away and you can tell that she's crying at this point and then another Maddie appears. So it seems like she's hallucinating. Kind of like a instinct but also hallucinations because when she was writing and we could hear her voice it it wasn't like this. Like this was a little bit different and you can tell that she's sweating, she looks pale. The inside her head, her voice is telling her you can't run, not with that leg, you can't outrun him even with both your legs. Definitely not now. The crossbow, we could use the crossbow, that one's a long distance shot,

but you only have one shot and have to be a perfect kill. Either the head or the chest. But in order for you to get a shot like that, you'd have to be close range, which is difficult because you'd be moving. And on top of that, you can't even load the damn thing. Okay, that's tricky. Okay, what if we go out to the back and we turn the power back on and we come in and we call 911? No, he's just going to attack you.

He's going to know what you're doing. He can hear you. Okay, where should we hide? How about hiding? We can hide in the bedroom, the bathroom, or the loft. The loft has no doors that we can barricade. The bedroom is on the ground floor so he can easily break a window. All he would need is a really heavy rock. Same with the bathroom. There's a window. Best case scenario, he doesn't find you. Be oblique to death with that leg. You're bleeding already. Your vision's blurring,

you're hallucinating. I'm obviously here. And you're sweating, you're cold. How long before you lose sight? You're running out of time. And so she's like panicking on the ground. She's like going through all of the scenarios and she's full of panic. Sooner or later, he's coming inside. He's faster, bigger, and stronger. He's gonna kill you.

And he has the advantage, Maddie. He can hear you. There's too many endings and they all lead to the same place with you dead. So what does that lead to, Maddie, he can hear you. There's too many endings and they all lead to the same place with you dead. So what does that lead to, Maddie? What does that lead to? Think. What does that lead to?

There's only one. The only one that he's not going to predict. You have to kill him. So at this point, the killer is outside and he goes through John's pockets and gets cigarettes that John had and he starts smoking them, goes into Maddie's trunk and gets like a tire iron, like one of those, you know, and he grabs it and he's sitting on Maddie's hood of the car and he's smoking his cigarette, talking to Jon,

the dead body that he had just murdered and he's just like, so Jon, what do you think? Should I go in there now? She's kind of pacing me off. No, you're probably right. Give it some more time. Tells she's blood out enough. That was a nasty shot on the leg, huh? Yeah, I don't want a wrist-gitch.

She does have my crossbow. What if the bitch is a good shot? Yeah, I'll just wait. I'll give it a little more time. And he's smoking a cigarette, and then all of a sudden, a cat shows up. And we can, we know he's mad at you, Dad. Because on the name tag it says, and he sees the name tag.

And he says, hey, little friend. And he's talking to the cat and you're thinking, oh no, oh no, one of the, one of the dark triads is animal abuse. Okay, he's gonna kill the cat. Don't fork with cats. The serial killer's gonna kill the cat. And then he's like, don't worry,

you'll be with your mom soon. Once I get my crossbow back, I'll put one right to your forehead. And just as he said that, his shoulder flings back. And Maddie is outside her front door, and she had shot him in the shoulder. Obviously, she was aiming for something else,

but she was not that amazing of a shot because crossbows were actually really, really hard to shoot. And so he's like, else, but she was not that amazing of a shot because crossbows were actually really, really hard to shoot. And so he's like, f**k in bits. And so he starts sprinting it to the front door. She manages to get inside and they start struggling with the sliding door because it's not a closed door. It's a sliding door, remember.

And her hand gets caught in between the sliding doors. And this is probably the most graphic scene of the home movie. I mean, the home movie itself is relatively graphic, but he starts breaking all of her fingers and stopping on them. And she is freaking out on the inside. She manages to shut the door, lock it, and he's looking at her, and he's kind of taunting her. And he says to her, like, they're this close. And for the first time in the movie,

how symbolic Maddie doesn't look scared as she's staring at him this close to the window. The whole time, every time she locks the door, she's been like, you know, like a scared little cat, you know? But this time she's staring at him straight in the eyes and he says, Do you want me to come inside? Oh God. He says, you want me to come inside and she looks at him and she gets her one good hand and shoves it in her leg wound, gets the blood and writes on the window in blood, do it.

And she stares at him and he's reading it and she slams on the window and then she sticks her hand in her blood again and then writes, coward. And then now you just see him get rageful because God forbid you call a manly man like that a coward. So then he grabs the little tire and that he had brought and he starts banging on the window. Now I think that this whole movie was just an ad for the door because I don't know where she got this door but like it wouldn't break the glass wouldn't break nothing would happen like movie was just an ad for the door because I don't know where she got this door, but like it wouldn't break, the glass wouldn't break, nothing would happen, like he was just really going in on it. I don't know what that door was made out of

and she starts running to the bathroom. So she makes it into the bathroom and she's sitting right in front, so the bathtub is behind her and she's sitting in front of her bathtub. Now the bathtub is like a stand alone bathtub and she's got a knife in her one good hand and she's pointing it to the bathroom door because he's trying to get in through the front door

so this is the only way to get in but what she doesn't know is that there's actually a window behind her where the bathtub is like right in front of the bathtub you know and we see the glass shatter but she doesn't necessarily see it. And she's, I mean, probably the adrenaline's rushing. And she's holding her knife up towards the door. And we see him climb through the window and sit down in the bathtub right behind her. Now, here's where the whole thing comes into play, which I thought was really well done, which is, do you remember when she was underneath the porch? She forgot how her breath worked because she doesn't necessarily hear herself breathing, right?

So she had to cover her mouth. Now in this situation, because the killer has so much confidence because she's deaf and mute, he decides I can taunt her, I can talk to her. So he says, you know, I really think that they undermine you. I'm sure if I hit the right spot, I can make you scream, talking about stabbing her. Like if he stabs her in a really painful spot, he can make her scream, but almost said in like a really creepy sexual way. And so he says it like that, but he doesn't realize she's really sensitive to like the air when he's talking right behind her.

So he lunges forward and she lunges sideways and she stabs him in the leg and he drops the knife and she rushes out of the bathroom and we thought that that maybe that was the end of it. I was like that's it. He did know. He did in the bathroom now. But then he walks out of the bathroom, he's living, he's still got his knife in his hand. And he finds Maddie, who's leaned up against the kitchen counter. She's on the ground, just leaned up, propped up against the kitchen counter. And he says, you fucking see when he, and he's about to stab her when she grabs her bees,

hornet spray, like, you know, those bees nest sprays and sprays it into his eyes. And so he starts falling backwards, he's bumping into tables and stuff, and then he keeps trying to lunge at her still, but he's in so much pain. So then she grabs that fire alarm and turns it on and shoves it into his space. And remember when I said that this is not a regular fire alarm. So he's starting to get really disoriented and he's freaking the fork out. He's like knocking more things over. And at that moment, we see like a corkscrew knock over.

Like, you know those things that you open the winds with. And we're like, ah, this is gonna become important later. So then they manage to fight and he drops the knife and he ends up tackling her to the ground and he's strangling her with his bare hands. Manual strangulation I'm talking right and she's grabbing for things and she gets a hold of the corkscrew and just as she's about to die she starts stabbing him in the throat with the corkscrew and he plops dead next to her and Maddie goes into his pocket and dials 911 and drops the phone and lays there.

And then the next scene is her sitting on the porch with her cat right next to her and we see the sirens, but we don't hear them, but we see the blue lights. And finally, she smiles. Bro! So she was saved. Was that anti-climactic? No. This one was kind of intense. I... So when she was in the bathroom, was that her plan to try?

I feel like it. So because you said she already knew there's a window in the bathroom. And like I feel like she heard, like not heard but felt the glass break because I can't imagine the glass breaking and her not notice but she notices the breath, right? So I think the whole plan was to trick him because he's cocky. Right. You know? That's wrong. And she, you know, he thinks that, oh, she's never gonna hear this.

Yeah. So he broke into the window. Hmm. Because it was just such an odd placement, you know? Yeah, because the whole killing she must have thought about. Yeah, because even the setup of the fire alarm, everything was like right in her. It was, yeah. Like it was her plan.

Like it looked well executed. It looked like she was like, okay, I'm gonna stab him, run there. I'm gonna pretend like I'm dying. And then he's gonna say, you freaking blot. And then she sprayed the hornet thing. And then she grabbed the fire alarm, shoved it in his face. Which the fire alarm, like this smart move? Yeah, it seemed like really like that.

Yeah, cause he was still trying to like stab her afterwards. And then she shoved it in his face. And he just, he dropped the knife to cover his ears because it was that disorienting and I think in the beginning scene when Sarah came in and she was like covering her ears, like I thought she was being a dramatic co-honestly but then Maddie was explaining, no like that's why it's extra loud. Yeah, so it was a really well done movie, very fascinating right? The The director was actually the husband of the main character who played and she helped write and direct it and all of it was done like inside their house. The filming was actually done, no, the filming was done in a

house in Alabama but the whole script writing was done in their house as they were playing it out room by room. But then later they found that it actually fucked them up because this sounds like a 2020 project, it's not. It forked them up because the house in Alabama didn't have like the exact window placements and stuff, but it was really really good. They didn't make the whole movie silent though because this was before a quiet place. I don't know if a quiet place was in the works. I know that there's a lot of movies that, you know, experiment with having primarily silent films. But the reason that they didn't want to is because in the movie theater they thought that if they had just all quiet, you would get taken out by nearby stimulation. So like the dude opening his popcorn, like you would get taken out of the movie too much.

I can't imagine watching that the whole thing caught me in trouble. Yeah, so that's why they added a lot of like, you know, because at quite a place there was still like, sounds. There was also still talking when they were whispering, I believe. But this one, they had her voice in her head. They had everyone still talk, which was nice. They also had what they did was, they got an ultrasound of the main characters like heartbeat and they would play that in really intense moments

so that it wasn't just silent you could hear that she there was an adrenaline but I thought it was really really well done. I wouldn't say it's like the most insane movie in terms of like oh so good masterpiece. So much thoughts, so much meaning, so much violence, but it was like, well, for a take on a home invasion, like serial killer movie, like this one was probably a solid one. It was creative, it was really nice. I liked it a lot, yeah. And that is the movie Hush.

Let me know in the comments. What are your thoughts on this movie? Do you like it? Did it scare you? Have you seen it? And what would you do? Leave it in the comments and I hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye!