Radio silence film movie#

Scream 5, simply titled Scream, is slated to come out in 2022. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella, the collective Radio Silence is also the team currently creating the new installation in the Scream franchise. This film ended up being a surprise hit for Searchlight Pictures and grossed a whopping $57.6M worldwide! After creating such classics as V/H/S and Devil’s Due, they hit us in 2019 with the epic film Ready or Not. Thank you for reading.Radio Silence Productions has really been killing it lately.

Scoughton's title just isn't going to win any Oscars any time soon. Radio Silence is watchable and for an indie, micro title, that itself deserves a standing ovation.

But you can also have some fun watching this film if you realize it is what it is. Plenty of dialog misses, and containing every cliche you can think of, about sums things up. Had Radio Silence further used having no budget as a means to design a fun film, this 'could' have been great. And even when it 'does' pull it off, it contrasts the look, feel and script itself so much - that you're left wondering what just happened. It attempts to infuse a lot of dark drama, but rarely pulls it off.

Radio silence film movie#

The real problem I found was that the movie seems to take itself quite seriously. I've seen plenty of budgeted movies that were 'much' worse. I'm not sure that was the intention of Troy Scoughton but it works for me. The hokey sounding dialog and awesomely old school music and effects can turn into a real riot when watching. although probably a little long for one session. If you are looking for a B movie experience to have a few drinks with friends and watch, Radio Silence will do just fine. This isn't all bad 'if' you know what you're in for. Everything was just as you expect it to be. I was hoping that to make up for the indie budget, some cool story ideas or plot twist would emerge. But Radio Silence is a cliche through and through. As a throwback title, the micro budget nature of this film lends itself well. It even 'looks' like one and that's a good thing. Radio Silence sounds like any action film from a few decades ago. So as the soldiers and people from the restaurant are picked off by the ET, eventually they realize they can actually hurt it and so begins the game of cat and mouse. The characters actually have to come out and say it, and even though all evidence supports this theory, everyone acts like it's a fresh idea and a completely crazy one.

Turns out that was probably a plot hole.Īfter finding shelter in a local restaurant, and not the first soldiers to do-so it seems, the rest of the film is spent figuring out the enemy here is an alien. I was instantly intrigued when the vehicles vaporized but the soldiers somehow didn't. Only a small few manage to escape the scene. A mysterious force fires off a beam so powerful it disintegrates the vehicles. Upon arrival of the crash location Parkman immediately looses almost all his team. As I'm sure anyone could guess things don't go as planned. To recover or destroy a downed satellite before it can be retrieved by the enemy. what am I in for?Ĭommand Sergeant Major Bruce Parkman (Frank Powers) has been handed down what seems to be an easy-peasy mission. But wouldn't, shouldn't it be better reading when it 'was' shot down? This little pet peeve of mine didn't make one lick of difference regarding the movies production but I couldn't help wonder. I'm no grammar Nazi, and technically I guess it's right. 'When it got shot down something came with it. But there was something odd about reading the printed log line that felt wrong. Not because 'all' low budget titles are bad but because of the poster itself. As I settled in to watch Troy Scoughton's micro budget film Radio Silence I didn't have much hope.