Hush (2016)

Flanagan's taut direction reinforces his rep as an up-and-comer we will hopefully be hearing much more from.

Silence is golden in "Hush," one of the more inspired concoctions to emerge from the busy Blumhouse horror-thriller assembly line in recent years.

Formulaic horror movie has gore, violence, cursing.

Mike Flanagan's horror thriller is superb, and just a wonderful story from start to finish.

So tense and involving as to make everyone watching a flinching, wincing, cheering participant, "Hush" ought to join the best works of Hitchcock, Carpenter and De Palma as a future teaching tool in genre film courses. This is how it's done.

Bolstered by intelligent characters and a nail-biting premise, Hush is easily one of the most striking scary stories 2016 has to offer.

Hush doesn't just upend horror tropes. He makes us wonder why we liked them in the first place.

It's a sharp, finely tuned thriller that goes down familiar paths but with flair and skill. Flanagan doesn't hold back on the gore, but he doesn't rely on it.

Mike Flanagan has a knack for making the most out of smaller-scale stories, and Hush is no different.

A fast-paced, impressively efficient, and wildly suspenseful cat & mouse thriller.

Mike Flanagan, following up his excellent Oculus, does a superb job of employing a rather familiar premise as a springboard for a tense and creepy little chiller.