Diesel Power

Hush(2008)

A great little British horror movie which plays out like a cross between Road Games(1981), and Breakdown(1997). Making a virtue of not showing its villain’s face or having him talk, it apes Halloween(1978) and Friday 13th (1981) in a couple of scenes while keeping it grittily real. Low budget it may be but never short of ideas, the script is well written, especially the couple’s argument early on. It never lags and the last twenty minutes is nerve-racking, nail-biting with a wonderfully abrupt finish. The only downside is that the story isn’t particularly original, but when it’s remixed as well as this with such a menacingly English twang, who cares? 8/10