I'm not purposely comparing movies to Friday the 13th installments, but when the first 3D shot came in this film, I couldn't help but think of Friday the 13th part 3.
Silent Madness was a filmed-in-3D slasher, towards what Wikipedia calls "the end of the 80s 3D craze". I knew some 3D movies had come out at this point, but which ones? What started the craze? I'm sort of interested. Given this is 3D there's some gimmicky shots and some dumb choices, but hey, that's expected right?
A clerical error at a mental hospital releases Howard Johns instead of John Howard. Not sure who John Howard was, but Howard Johns is a insane maniacal killer, who immediately gets back to doing what he does best. Dr. Joan Gilmore is our plucky heroine, who immediately worries about Howard Johns despite the hospital covering up the release of Johns. Johns returns to a school where he killed a few girls about 11 years ago, and Joan is hot on his trail.
The movie is half horror and half tongue in cheek, but also a tongue in cheek that doesn't quite come off as believable. When it falls into that type, I could've sworn it was a modern-ish movie made in the "style" of an 80s film, the way that dumbass modern horror movies are doing. I did check once, though, to see what year this movie was. I was thinking it was a early 2010s "comedy horror" of that type.
There's a bit of nudity, the acting is decent, and the movie isn't terribly boring, those are the good news parts of this. However, it's also got no good kills, the killer sucks, and the weird end twist undercuts the killer quite a bit.
Silent Madness comes off like the B or C level horror flick it is, something to put on in the background, something to watch only for die hard fans. I give it a 2.
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