Hush

It’s ironic that a film with this title doesn’t have much to say, but Radio 1 DJ Tonderai’s directorial debut fair cracks along and is an efficient little low budget British thriller. A young couple are driving down the M1 on a rainy night when the back of the truck in front of them opens for a moment, exposing a chained and screaming woman. What would you do? How far would you go to help? It’s a beautifully simple idea, garnering terrific mileage from the fact that the characters are ordinary people in a nightmarish situation, everyday locations like a motorway service station and a car-park turning into something menacing and dangerous. Unfortunately the realism which is so immersive at the beginning is eventually abandoned for standard thriller logic and stock horror film locations and gore. There’s also not much more to the thin plot than the premise, but despite being lightweight and totally throwaway, Hush is nonetheless an exciting and very enjoyable ride. [Scotty McKellar]