I was expecting a scary movie with a masked killer stalking a deaf woman, but that is another film with exactly the same title, but I went along with it anyway, directed by Mark Tonderai (House at the End of the Street). Basically Zakes Abbot (Waterloo Road's William Ash) and his girlfriend Beth (In the Club's Christine Bottomley) are driving on a rainy night on the M1 motorway, both are tired, irritable, and bickering continuously about their fragile relationship. Beth is eager to tell Zakes she cheated on him, but cannot find the right moment, she falls asleep in the passenger seat, moments later Zakes misses an exit, carelessly cuts up a large white truck, skids in the road and barely avoids a collision. The truck violently overtakes Zakes, before both vehicles stop for traffic, as the truck stops, the tailgate flips open, revealing a naked woman bound and bloodied in a cage, screaming for help, before Zakes can get closer, the door is slammed shut. Zakes panics and wakes Beth up to tell her what he saw, they immediately call the police, but the truck's licence plate is covered by dirt, so they describe the truck and where they are. When they stop again for traffic, Zakes gets out of the car to take a photo inside the truck, but he and Beth argue when he refuses to get any more involved with the situation. Stopping at the next service station, Beth officially breaks up with Zakes and walks away, she calls her friend to come and collect her, believing she will change her mind, Zakes waits for her in the car. Then Zakes sees the large white truck pull up, he watches the driver (The Living Daylights' Andreas Wisniewski, whose face is never seen), a man in a dark, hooded jacket, get out and go inside. Zakes follows minutes later to look for Beth, but she is missing, he gets panicked and goes looking in the ladies' toilets, where two security officers throw him out and do not his explanation. Zakes then finds Beth's necklace in the car park, he believes she has been taken by the man in the truck, but his car wheels have been slashed by a group of rowdy football fans, so Zakes steals a car from the station and follows after the truck. Meanwhile, one of the security guards decides to watch the CCTV to see if Zakes was telling the truth, he sees Beth in the footage, but he is killed by the other security guard before he can do anything, the other guard is associated with the kidnapping. Zakes finds a truck stop, it contains many identical trucks, a police car arrives, Zakes is handcuffed and arrested for trespassing, he explains what is going and begs the officer to help him, the officer agrees to check the trucks, but he is attacked and killed. Zakes escapes from the car, he runs through the woods with the man following him, he returns to the service station, but he cannot call the police, he is now believed to be a criminal, so he steals another car and returns to the truck stop. Zakes parks and stops to catch his breath, suddenly a bloody woman comes to the window, claiming she was kidnapped, he lets her in the car, he says he needs her help to find her girlfriend, but his phone battery dies, so he drives to a farmhouse he saw to call for help, now he has a witness to back up his story. The elderly couple in the farmhouse let them in cautiously, the woman Zakes picked up offers to call the police, but she cuts the line, revealing herself to be part of the kidnap, she calls the hooded man, kills the elderly couple, and then attacks Zakes. Zakes wakes with his hands nailed to the floorboards, he realises the woman is not who she said she was, he manages to get himself free before she can kill him, he stabs her in the eye with one of the nails. Bleeding and exhausted, Zakes takes the woman's mobile phone and heads back to the truck site, he uses the elderly couple's dog to trigger the security flood lights, while the truck driver kills the dog offscreen and the coast is clear, Zakes gets inside before the security system is reactivated. Zakes finds Beth chained outside in a cage, she tells him the man has the keys, he quietly goes inside the shedhouse, where he finds several other women locked up and gagged, begging for help, they are being used for human trafficking. Zakes grabs the keys from the man's clothes and returns to Beth to help her escape, promising to come back for the others, the man realises someone is hiding on site, he calls the woman's phone, which Zakes has on him, the man follows the ringing. However Zakes has hidden the phone on the seat of an empty truck, he is hiding in a forklift truck, the man steps in the right spot, and Zakes pushes a button in the crane to release a heavy load container, the man is crushed to death, Zakes runs back to help Beth, she has already released herself, the two reunite and sob with relief. Also starring The Trip's Claire Keelan as Wendy, Trainspotting's Stuart McQuarrie as Thorpe, Robbie Gee as Chimponda, Peter Wyatt as Mr. Coates and Brazil's Sheila Reid as Mrs. Coates. You can tell this film is low-budget, it is a fairly simple format, a "curiosity killed the cat" situation, with a sulky but likable lead trying to save his girlfriend from a nasty unseen truck driver, similar in ways to the Spielberg movie Duel, it is pretty slow the majority of the time, but it does get tense just enough to keep it interesting, a reasonable thriller. Okay!

Hush is a pulverizing little exercise in extreme suspense. I'm not talking about this year's Hush, a sleek little home invasion shocker that's worth your time too. No, this Hush is a little seen British flick from back in 2008, and it's a proper nerve jangler. In the tradition of Duel, The Hitcher, Joyride and others, it takes place on a bustling motorway somewhere in great Britain. A young couple trundle through the night on a highway, and find themselves behind a great big creepy semi truck. In one split second, the doors of it's trailer come unstuck and open just a crack, allowing the to see what's inside. It's only a glimpse, but it's unmistakable: a girl, badly hurt and tied up, screams for help before the motion of the vehicle causes the doors to slam shut again. What would you do? This couple bravely pursues the truck and it's villainous driver across many miles of road, trying to rescue the girl inside, avoid getting killed themselves and put an end to whatever is going on. It's one merciless ride into gut churning suspense, and I marvelled at the film's ability to keep such high tension up for a streamlined ninety minutes of pure horror nirvana. It's not too lengthy, never sags or drags and always keeps the vibe as taut as the ominous chain holding those truck doors in place. Swift and sensible in resolution, stylish as all hell and scary in spades. Any horror fan owes it to themselves to take a look.

15 minutes into 'Hush' (2008-not to be confused with Mark Flannegans' more recent movie which is good), I thought, huh, this might be interesting! A fighting couple on the free way is overtaken by a truck, and for a mere second the back pops open just long enough for our unlikable protagonist to witness a naked woman imprisoned in a cage. The couple then argues what to do, phones the police, bla bla bla.At this point the movie still had me interested, but the second 'Zeke' (or whatever the hell his name was) loses his girlfriend to the same kidnapper and then goes on a mission to save her and presumably the other captive woman, I lost interest.Everything that made 'High Tension' suspenseful and terrifying is lacking in Hush, which is a below-average run of the mill thriller that I turned off with only 20 minutes to go, because in the end, who cares? A best case scenario I imagine would that 'Zeke' would save the day and learn to never take his girlfriend for granted again, a lesson every man learns at one point in his life and then forgets over and over again.This movie is a waste of time and money. Don't bother.

This is pretty solid movie, the way that modern horror should look like. Yes, it is a low budget film but followed by very good acting and involving plot of the high pace and tense rhythm. OK, the movie exploits some film work that we have already seen but performs it pretty successfully. The movie has several flows and some details that are not developed carefully enough, but all in all it is a chilly wind that kept me entertained all the time. Must say I did not like the beginning of the movie as it has some screamy dialogs that somehow over-strength the justified screaming in the other part of the movie. I recommend Hush to all horror and thriller lovers giving it higher rate than deserved just because I believe it is underrated.