Waller's witty, well-crafted yet unpretentious thriller--about American youths who make a movie in Moscow and get involved with the underworld--is a seductive piece of filmmaking that should keep viewers hyperventilating to the last reel.
Mute Witness
She won't be silenced.
1995 · 1h 35m · R
Crime, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Anthony Waller
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Mute Witness
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Anthony Waller Director
- Marina Zudina as Billy Hughes
- Fay Ripley as Karen Hughes
- Evan Richards as Andy Clarke
- Igor Volkov as Arkadi
- Sergei Karlenkov as Lyosha
- Alec Guinness as The Reaper (credited as Mystery Guest Star)
- Aleksandr Pyatkov as Wartschuk
- Nikolai Pastukhov as Janitor
- Aleksandr Bureyev as Strohbecker
- Yuriy Sherstnyov as Angry Neighbour
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Though this slight but agreeable nail-biter loses a couple steps before its wrap-up, it's not before offering one of the funniest variations yet on the furious neighbor who wonders what's going on in the upstairs apartment.
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