Who was the perfect doll in Dead Silence?
Ella Ashen
Ella Ashen is a fictional film character and a secondary antagonist featured in the 2007 horror movie Dead Silence. She was played by actress Amber Valletta….
| Ella Ashen | |
|---|---|
| Status: | Alive |
| Introduction: | Dead Silence |
| Actor: | Amber Valletta |
What was the twist in Dead Silence?
In Dead Silence, Wan gives us not one, but two twists Via a “Saw”-esque clown doll, Jamie and Lipton hear the voice of Mary Shaw, who explains why she chose to kill Jamie’s innocent wife. As it turns out, the young heckler Mary killed and turned into a doll prior to being executed was Jamie (Ashen’s) Great Uncle.
Who was the perfect doll?
One ventriloquist of note was Mary Shaw, who was murdered in 1941, but her spirit continued to influence the living world via her dolls. In death, Mary Shaw had her body cosmetically altered to resemble a ventriloquist dummy and had her soul stored inside all her dolls, so she’d always return and never truly die.
Is Mary Shaw dead?
Mary Shaw (Judith Anna Roberts), a ventriloquist, was gruesomely murdered after a young boy, a member of the Ashen family, went missing. The young boy had publicly humiliated Mary and thus the townsfolk assumed she was to blame for his disappearance and subsequently cut out her tongue, killing her.
Who was Mary Shaw?
| Mary Shaw | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 25, 1854 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | May 18, 1929 New York City, New York |
| Occupation | actor activist |
| Years active | 1878-1929 |
What is the tale of Mary Shaw?
Where was Dead Silence filmed?
Toronto
Dead Silence, which was simply called Silence when we visited the production in Toronto, stars Ryan Kwanten, Donnie Wahlberg, Amber Valletta, Bob Gunton, and Judith Roberts in a tale of a young newlywed (Kwanten) whose wife is horrifically murdered.