Hush

The kind of movie where you walk in, watch the first 10 minutes, know exactly where it's going, and hope devoutly that you're wrong.

t's far too soon for an actress as vital as Jessica Lange to stoop to Bette Davis-Joan Crawford horror-hag histrionics. [6 Mar 1998, pg.04D]

[Lange] does give the movie the only excitement it possesses -- the frisson of a hideous thrill -- but it's still an excruciating embarrassment.

Lange seems at a loss to know how to convey Martha's malevolence -- and writer-director Jonathan Darby offers almost no guidance.

Hush is a would-be suspense film without a single major plot twist that isn't ham-handed. [9 Mar 1998, pg.F4]

When you watch this failed horror thriller -- which has been under studio doctors' care for some two years, undergoing futile title changes and reshoots -- there's no respite from the odor of flop sweat stinking up the screen.

The movie... hasn't the foggiest notion whether it's a soap opera or a horror film, and wanders around in a generic fog.

Segredo de Sangue é aquele típico filme que parece que vai engrenar, mas nunca sai da primeira marcha. Ele quer ser psicológico, mas se perde no dramalhão. Quer ser tenso, mas vira caricatura. No fim, a história é rasa, os personagens são mal construídos e tudo é resolvido com coincidência e gritaria. Um suspense com alma de novela, embalado como se fosse um filme sério. Nota 4.9 bem dada: fraco. Serve só pra assistir uma vez e nunca mais pensar nele.