I had this flick for almost 5 years on hold to watch it simply because many people said, don't watch it it's not worth it well I must say that I enjoyed it. You can see that it is a low budget flick because to be honest there aren't any real effects to see. But that doesn't make it a bad flick. I have seen worse. It do has a great first 45 minutes then it falls a bit in pieces but the end picks up fine again. Okay, the problem viewers had with this flick is the fact that nothing is explained. That's a fact but it didn't bother me at all. You just want to know how things are ending. The only problem is indeed the lack of continuity or an actual story in some parts. Once at the stopping place on the M1 one of the guards do actually believes Zakes (William Ash) and things go wrong but again, suddenly we are back on the M1 and nothing happens further in the story with the guards. On part of the gore or horror it also has a low value but still combined with the score it actually works. We do go deep into the characters of Zakes and Beth (Christine Bottomley) before things go awry. And so you are involved into their story. Better then mediocre I should recommend it to horror buffs who like suspense or people who are looking for a good thriller. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Hush is written and directed by Mark Tonderai and stars William Ash, Christine Bottomley, Claire Keelan and Stuart McQuarrie. Music is by Theo Green and cinematography by Philipp Blaubach.Warring young couple Zakes (Ash) and Beth (Bottomley) are driving up a dark and rain-soaked M1, when all of a sudden a grime covered truck swerves in front of them and the tail-gate lifts briefly to reveal a caged woman in the back. It signals the start of a fight for survival for the pair of them......The setting is suitably bleak, anyone who has had cause to be on a rainy British motorway at night knows how mind-numbing it can be. Even the stops at the service stations serve as mundane experiences, where the staff are on auto-pilot and other patrons are zombie like in the banality of their routines. Into the fray are a young couple who are on the cusp of breaking up (though Zakes in that macho way is ignorant to this fact), this is where Hush manages to rise above merely being a horror picture cobbled together from bits of other genre pictures. It examines how a fractured relationship reacts to a terrifying reality thrust into their lives, and with barely half a dozen principal characters in the story, this clearly isn't going to be a psycho truck driver movie that sees the antagonist offing a number of dim-wits with gory care-free abandon.Director Tonderai has done an impressive job with such limited resources, there's a realistic tense atmosphere brought out by the low budget. His staging of certain scenes really grab the attention, with a container base set cat and mouse sequence of events truly breath holding stuff. He doesn't compromise the pace of the movie with pointless filler, it's a standard three tiered horror structure (meet the principals/put them in peril/do or die finale), but the film always remains honest to its core ideas, with Zakes reacting to his various predicaments in a way that is not beyond the realms of reality. There's also some nice camera touches (under carriage tracking shot) and smart use of appliances (light sensors), so why is Hush not more loved and lauded?Fact is, is that hardened horror fans from the last twenty years will not be able to get away from that old familiar feeling of deja vu. From the cat and mouse on asphalt core story, to scenes such as a toilet hide out, there's territory that has been well trodden in better movies. There's a couple of twists, one that genuinely surprises, but one which is so telegraphed it annoys greatly. Then there is the use of the hand-held camera, which has become a staple requirement, it seems, of fledgling horror directors. Here it is used to dizzying great lengths, so much so it grows tiresome entering the last third and had this particular viewer wondering if the contents of his stomach was about to unload! There's also, perhaps inevitably, some implausibilities that are likely to test the patience of some.Undeniably it has flaws and struggles to shake them off at times, but the good far outweighs the bad here. And given the small budget and fresh ideas the writer/director puts into what is becoming a stagnated formula, Hush is actually something of a small triumph and well worth seeking out if you are stuck for a tension pumped thriller. 7/10

An arguing couple are driving along a British motorway in the middle of the night when the back door of a lorry driving in front of them momentarily opens – revealing a young woman, naked and trapped in a cage inside. Soon enough the couple find themselves thrown into the middle of a nightmare as they follow the lorry and try to find out what's going on.So far so good – this premise is serviceable if familiar, another in the sub-genre of 'road thrillers' following in the footsteps of Spielberg's DUEL, ROAD KILL and BREAKDOWN. The low budget and regional nature of the production promised to give this a decidedly British spin on proceedings, so I sat down ready to enjoy the movie. Unfortunately, as the story progresses, it falls apart completely, with plot hole after plot hole and silly coincidence after silly coincidence, until the film loses all grasp of reality and ends up as nothing more than a Hollywood-style B-movie.HUSH has more ridiculous moments than most and these drag the plot down, leaving the viewer with too many unanswered questions. It feels like there were problems with production and bad editing is used to try and cover up these flaws – but it doesn't work. Neither does the casting of the wooden William Ash as the unsympathetic hero. Ash, a familiar face for British TV viewers thanks to his role in WATERLOO ROAD, has a single expression throughout the movie and is the second worst thing about the film – next to the script. I profess a certain enjoyment in watching him tortured in silly SAW-style scene, though.In any case, the film runs out of steam long before the climax and I ended up wishing for it to end. Not one to remember.

I watched this not expecting much, and yeah some of the acting was a bit dubious but overall I was very impressed. When I started watching it I sat there with my finger on the stop button, but that button was never pressed as I was truly hooked. I really felt for the lead character and thought he played the part well. I was also surprised by a few twists here and there which would give Hollywood a run for its money.For a movie that was obviously on a budget (made with help from the lottery) I think it can stand proud with the multi-million pound big boys from the USA.A good thriller worth watching