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Stars: Lachlan Watson, Michele Hicks, Bill Sage, Brendan Meyer, Boyana Balta, Nick Sandow, Shunori Ramanathan | Written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen | Directed by Jeffrey A. Brown

Not a companion piece to Unseen, The Unheard is a new Shudder Original that combine the talents of Jeffrey A. Brown, who previously directed The Beach House and writers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen whose credits include Crawl and The Ward. It’s the story of Chloe who caught meningitis and spent six months in a coma as a child. She awoke to find that she had lost her hearing.

More importantly, she had lost her mother as well. She disappeared without a trace during those months. She and her father moved to Maine and she’s tried to put it behind her and get on with her life.

Now a young woman she’s returned to Massachusetts and her family’s Wellfleet summer house...

Plot: Chloe Grayden undergoes an experimental procedure to restore her hearing. So she begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations related to the vanishing of her mother.

Review: The Unheard is mostly a story of young Chloe getting her hearing back. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. The supernatural twist of her hearing her dead mother through white noise feels like an element we haven’t seen in a while (Michael Keaton’s White Noise anyone?). I was reminded a lot of the film Sound of Metal, since both deal with the process of trying to hear again. Obviously, they’re very different (this one has a lot more murder), but in broad strokes, there are many similarities. One aspect I absolutely loved was Chloe’s clear fear of putting in her earplugs at night. It’s almost like a “What if I never hear again?” moment that she goes through nightly.

There isn’t very much movie infused into this carnival of tropes that, despite giving off the idea that it would at least be an entertaining watch, had me reaching for a pillow to scream into. Shudder’s latest supernatural thriller, “The Unheard,” directed by Jeffrey A. Brown is scary alright. That is, if you take note of the horror you feel that films like this are still inflicting on the unsuspecting audience, and that too by major production houses. But enough about my mountain-climbing ordeal of sitting through two hours’ worth of a dull-as-a-dishwasher narrative with a climax that even someone who has never seen a movie before (somehow) will be able to see coming a mile off. Let’s get on with what goes down in the eerie life of a disabled young adult.

Spoilers Ahead

Plot Synopsis: What Happens In ‘The Unheard’?

What I can only presume...

Watching the cosmic, otherworldly dread unfold in Jeffrey A. Brown's The Beach House was one of my favorite viewing experiences of 2020, so I was thrilled to find out that Brown is back with his next feature-length film, The Unheard.

With the supernatural sci-fi horror film now streaming on Shudder, I caught up with Jeffrey in a new video interview to discuss working with the talented Lachlan Watson, his personal connection to the film's story of hearing loss, and how he brought the film's creepy VHS aesthetic to life on screen. As an added bonus for fans of The Beach House, Jeffrey also talks about what his pitch for The Beach House 2 would have looked like!

You can watch the video interview with Jeffrey below, and in case you missed it, read Cass Clarke's review of The Unheard!

Synopsis: After undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, 20-year-old...

The 23rd annual Boston Underground Film Festival took place at The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Ma from March 22 to March 26. The genre-blending lineup included premieres, festival favorites, anticipated titles, shorts, and more.

Here’s what I saw at this year’s event…

The Unheard

The festival’s opening night kicked off with the world premiere of The Unheard, which pairs the exciting New England talents of director Jeffrey A. Brown, following up his dynamic debut The Beach House, and writers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen, hot off the success of Alexandre Aja’s Crawl. All three were in attendance for a post-screening Q&a.

Hearing impaired since the age of 8 as a result of meningitis, 20-year-old Chloe Grayden undergoes an experimental gene editing procedure to restore her hearing, which coincides with a homecoming to prepare her family’s empty summer house for sale. She’s the first patient in the clinical trial to show positive results,...

The biggest new release for the week is Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which brings various monsters from the long-running property to the big screen beginning on Thursday night, and it’s joined by several brand new horror movies in the coming days.

Here’s all the new horror releasing March 28 – April 2, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

Up first, BayView Entertainment and Vipco have released Skarecrow: A Curse Never Dies today, which looks to be an ultra-low-budget indie film centered on a killer scarecrow.

In the film, “When the vile James Brothers murder an innocent woman to take over her land, her dying breath places a curse on the family through a scarecrow. Years later, a descendent of the James family has taken his friends to the old cabin for the weekend. They soon find the curse and the scarecrow are still wanting blood.

Before delving further into director Jeffrey A. Brown’s The Unheard, it’s important for me to note that this piece is written from the perspective of a hearing person who has experienced losing and regaining hearing due to illness, but I cannot speak to the Deaf experience. Part of the reason why I was so intrigued about this film was that I could relate to the in-your-bones anxiousness that comes with testing, evaluations, operations, and diagnoses that ultimately amount to the most frustrating phrase to receive in a doctor’s office: “We’ll see.”

Unlike films like Hush or A Quiet Place, The Unheard focuses on a protagonist – portrayed by the effortlessly cool Lachlan Watson (Chucky) – who lost her hearing after a bout of meningitis and seeks to regain partial or full hearing through an experimental operation. Once Chloe has the operation, she starts to hear things – perhaps warnings...

"I think something's wrong with the procedure. I'm hearing things..." Shudder has revealed a trailer for an indie horror film titled The Unheard, the latest creation from the director of The Beach House. It will be streaming on Shudder later this month. Lachlan Watson stars as Chloe, who undergoes an experimental procedure to restore her hearing. She begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother. The director adds: "Our cast and crew have delivered a stunning piece of work and I cannot wait for audiences to take our trip into the strange realms between life & death and silence & noise!" From the writers of the Crawl film. The cast includes Michele Hicks, Nick Sandow, Brendan Meyer, Shunori Ramanathan, and Boyana Balta. This looks unsettling, especially with all the sounds. // Continue Reading ›...

Tickets go on sale today for this year's Boston Underground Film Festival, celebrating its twenty-third year of bringing genre goodness from around the World to the city of Cambridge. As per usual Buff has an amazing lineup of films this year. The festival will open with the world premiere of Jeffery A Brown's The Unheard and close with Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s Rebel. The diverse program ranges from the haunting Moon Garden to the hilarious Smoking Cause Coughing. Links for tickets and passes are in the complete announcement that follows. The 23rd Annual Boston Underground Film Festival Returns to Cambridge March 22nd — 26th With Incredible Line-Up Of Genre-Blending Films Featuring the World Premiere of Shudder’s The Unheard, starring Lachlan...

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Watching the cosmic, otherworldly dread unfold in Jeffrey A. Brown's The Beach House was one of my favorite viewing experiences of 2020, so I'm thrilled that Brown is back with a new film, The Unheard, starring Lachlan Watson, and we have the official trailer ahead of the film's March 31st release on Shudder.

Synopsis: After undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, 20-year-old Chloe Grayden begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations seemingly related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother.

Director: Jeffrey A. Brown

Screenwriters: Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen

Starring: Lachlan Watson, Michele Hicks, Shunori Ramanathan, Brendan Meyer, Nick Sandow, Boyana Balta, Beckett Guest, Michelle Violette

Producers: Jeffrey A. Brown, Andrew Corkin, Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen, Derek Rubin

Executive Producers: Theo James and Emily Gotto

Cinematographer: Owen Levelle

Editor: Aaron Crozier

Language: English

Running Time: 124 min.

Country of Origin: United States



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A few weeks ago, we learned that Lachlan Watson, who was recently seen playing Glen and Glenda on season 2 of the Chucky TV series, had teamed up with Jeffrey A. Brown, who made his feature directorial debut with a solid horror film called The Beach House (read our review Here), for a new horror movie called The Unheard. The Unheard will be available to watch through the Shudder streaming service in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand as of March 31st – and with that date creeping up on us, a trailer for the movie has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

Scripted by Crawl writers Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen, The Unheard follows 20-year-old Chloe Grayden, who after undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations seemingly related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother.

Shudder and director Jeffrey A. Brown (The Beach House) are reteaming with The Unheard, which will begin streaming exclusively on Shudder beginning March 31, 2023.

The Unheard follows 20-year-old Chloe Grayden (Lachlan Watson), who after undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations seemingly related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother.

Nick Sandow (Orange Is the New Black) and Brendan Meyer (The Oa) also star.

Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen (Crawl) wrote the script.

Watch the official trailer for The Unheard below…

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Brothers and screenwriting partners Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen provided some fun, creature-based thrillers back in 2019 with Crawl and now they are back with their next script, The Unheard. Directed by Jeffrey A. Brown, who last made a splash early in the pandemic with The Beach House, the first trailer has arrived ahead of a Shudder release at the end of the month.

Starring Lachlan Watson, Michele Hicks, Shunori Ramanathan, Brendan Meyer, Nick Sandow, Boyana Balta, Beckett Guest, and Michelle Violette, here’s the synopsis: “After undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, 20-year-old Chloe Grayden begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations seemingly related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother.”

Check out the trailer and poster below.

The Unheard arrives on Shudder on March 31.

The post The Unheard Trailer: The Writers of Crawl & Director of The Beach House Team for New Horror Feature first appeared on The Film Stage.

Shudder announced on Monday that its horror film From Black starring the Pitch Perfect franchise’s Anna Camp will begin streaming exclusively on the platform on April 28.

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The film is the first in the narrative space from Thomas Marchese, who unveiled the award-winning documentary Fallen on police deaths in the line of duty in 2017. Pic watches as a young mother, crushed by guilt after the disappearance of her young son five years previously, is presented with a bizarre offer to learn the truth and set things right. But how far is she willing to go, and is she willing to pay the terrifying price for a chance to hold her boy again?

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Coming on the heels of an acclaimed 2020 documentary of the same name directed and produced by Smukler, Wildflower is a coming-of-age film inspired by a true story. Pic follows Bea Johnson from birth to graduation, as she navigates life with two neurodivergent parents and an extended family who can’t quite agree on the best way to help. Also starring in the title, which world premiered at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, are Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver (Yellowstone), Dash Mihok (Ray Donovan), Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete), 3x Emmy winner Brad Garrett (Everyone Loves Raymond), Reid Scott...

“Monster Party” director Chris von Hoffmann will direct the horror film “The Unheard,” which “Crawl” scribes Michael and Shawn Rasmussen will write, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Burn Later Productions, which produced films like the Sundance entries “Hearts Beat Loud” and “A Kid Like Jake,” as well as Regina Halls’ “Support the Girls,” is producing the film. David Bernon, Sam Slater, and Paul Bernon of Burn Later Productions are producing with Andrew Corkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene).

Von Hoffmann’s other credits include “Drifter” as well as the shorts “The Kidnap,” “White Trash” and “Fuel Junkie.” He is represented by CAA and Grandview Management.

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Michael and Shawn Rasmussen wrote “Long Distance” and “The Ward,” and served as directors, producers and writers on both “Dark Feed” and “The Inhabitants.”

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