THE SILENT HOUR distributed by REPUBLIC pictures (2024). This crime thriller was released into movie theaters on Oct. 11, 2024. Plus, digital streaming on the internet. It made only $96,877 at the worldwide box office. There is no report from U.S. ticket sales.
The story surrounds a Boston city police detective Frank Shaw (Joel Kinnaman). He receives a head injury after chasing down a suspect. That injury causes near permanent deafness. He returns to work and interviews a young woman who is also deaf. She is an eye witness to a murder and soon the killers track her down. She is one of the last tenants to leave a tall and condemned apartment building. Frank is trapped with the woman in that building and they are forced to use their deaf skills to survive.
There is a criminal twist in this movie which I won't reveal.
I must say. Hollywood studios stopped making this type of thriller decades ago. TV crime shows in the 1980's and 90's used deafness in only a few episodes. Independent films never tackled this subject at all. What I enjoyed was how Frank was forced to use his other human senses. Plus, his police instinct which helped him a great deal. It was a "crackling" thriller.
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