Product Details

• Actors: Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, Oleg Yankovskiy, Igor Volkov
• Directors: Anthony Waller
• Writers: Anthony Waller
• Producers: Anthony Waller, Aleksandr Atanesyan, Alexander Buchman, Grigori Ryazhsky, Marina Kapustina
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Georgian
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: August 26, 2003
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000A2ZTX
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #38,357 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Mute Witness" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From The New Yorker

A suspense film that tips its hat to "Blow Out" in its opening minutes is setting its sights high. Writer-director Anthony Waller has fashioned his story, about a mute special-effects expert who thinks she has witnessed a murder, as an exercise in early and middle-period De Palma-and he almost pulls it off. By shooting in Moscow, in washed-out blues and browns, he has created an intriguing low-budget seventies-style environment that recalls "Sisters." Marina Sudina, whose face has the pretty innocence of Nancy Allen's, plays the special-effects expert, and the canny idea of making her mute gives Waller the chance to do long, tense scenes without dialogue, as in "Dressed to Kill." His technique is impressive; the film falls flat only when he attempts to make the frightening funny. But the plot takes some nice twists and turns, the tension builds a good head of steam, and the tawdriness never lets up. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Product Description

A mute makeup artist working on a slasher film in Moscow is locked in the studio after hours. While trying to get out the building she witnesses a brutal murder as a snuff film is being made, and she must run for her life. She struggles to stay alive so she can convince authorities of what she's seen. Alec Guiness is the surprise guest star!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars She can't scream, but we will..., July 9, 2006

By	yorgos dalman "yorgos dalman" (Holland, Europe) - See all my reviews

"Mute witness" starts with a very funny take on low budget filmmaking, then offers a horriffic snuff-murder, followed by a cat and mouse game between a witness and the killer in a huge, abandoned building, then does some tiresome B-plot things with a important floppydisc which multiple parties are looking for, then goes for a shoot-out with a twist, and ends, finaly, with a bang.

Okay, for some explanation: a crew of Young Americans is making a slasher movie in Russia. What they don't know is that part of the Russian technicians are using the same sets at night to produce pornografic snuff. Billy, the mute special effects girl, is present by accident, and what follows is a chase through the building complex, which is so extremely well made and done, that even the chase-scenes in "Dressed to kill" and "Se7en" have to "snuff it".

Scene after scene, moment after moment, the killers close in on Billy, and with only her wit she manages to stay ahead. The whole sequence is done with great amount of detail and feel for true suspense and keeps the viewer on the very edge of his seat.

But when Billy is rescued from the bad guys, they track her down to her appartment. And again we're plagued with another hand full of topnotch suspense. Billy takes a quiet bath, and even this innocent scene is so put together and we, as the viewer, hold our breath in vein. And it only gets worse after this.

"Mute witness" can be put in the same spot as "Saw", "The Evil dead", "Cube", "Pi", "Halloween" and "Memento": all made by an enthusiastic group of young new talent, whose excitements are clearly visable all throughout the movies they made. This new bunch of talent, wit and exictement makes up for half a Great Movie, their craftmanship for the other half.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You will love it! Period., August 7, 2006

By	thirty three (Glendale, CA) - See all my reviews

I do not have a single doubt that you will have a great scary, fun time watching this film.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking!, June 23, 2006

By	Brian Moore - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I can't stop talking about "Mute Witness." Come on, folks - let's make this the "word of mouth" hit it deserves to be!