Brad Anderson is an underrated filmmaker. He’s quietly put out some of the best thrillers of the century, including Sessio 9, The Machinist, TransSiberian, and Beirut. He’s back with an excellent new action thriller, The Silent Hour, which follows a late deafened detective (Joel Kinnaman) when he finds himself trapped in an abandoned apartment high-rise with a deaf woman who is targeted by a murderous gang. It features Anderson’s usual skill at suspense but takes it to even more interesting degrees with its incorporation of deafness into the film’s aesthetic. After this, Anderson is hoping to finish a gestating project the final film in George A. Romero‘s zombie franchise, Twilight of the Dead. He told MovieWeb in a recent interview:
George A. Romero had a plan to finish the zombie universe he began with Night of the Living Dead more than 55 years ago, and it’s coming to life. Read More