Mute Witness
Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While working on a slasher film being shot in Moscow, she is locked in the studio after hours. When Billy witnesses a murder, she must struggle to evade the Russian Mafia and stay alive.
13 May 1923, Surazh, Gomel Governorate, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Bryansk Oblast, Russia]
28 June 1966, Wimbledon, London, England, UK
1 August 1963
2 April 1914, Marylebone, London, England, UK
24 April 1941, Moscow, USSR
11 April 1965, Penza, Penzenskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
29 July 1943, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
3 September 1965, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
26 March 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 July 1950
5 July 1959, Velikie Luki, Pskovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
4 November 1968
23 February 1944, Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan]
January 01, 2000
Though this slight but agreeable nail-biter loses a couple steps before its wrap-up, it's not before offering one of the funniest variations yet on the furious neighbor who wonders what's going on in the upstairs apartment.
January 22, 2003
A Sam Raimi wannabe that doesn't always strike the right balance of humor to thrills, but comes close
January 16, 2003
Gets off to a great, scary start, but then turns silly and comical, breaking the film's tone of dread.
November 19, 2006
Waller's witty, well-crafted yet unpretentious thriller--about American youths who make a movie in Moscow and get involved with the underworld--is a seductive piece of filmmaking that should keep viewers hyperventilating to the last reel.
July 31, 2015
It feels like Waller poured all the inspiration he ever had into one movie. But for a film forged through a favor and trial-by-fire moviemaking, it earns its place in the panoply of '90s psychological thrillers that throw you for a loop or six.
January 01, 2000
a fair first effort
September 06, 2003
Once you see it, you'll have an enthusiastic new response when people ask you "Hmm, what's a good horror movie I've never seen?"
October 27, 2005
Great suspense thriller.
