The Silencing is a 2020 American-Canadian action-thriller film directed by Robin Pront from a screenplay by Micah Ranum. It stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Annabelle Wallis. The film is about a hunter and police sheriff who track down a murderer who may have kidnapped the hunter’s daughter years ago.
It was released through DirecTV Cinema on July 16, 2020, and is scheduled to have a VOD release on August 14, 2020, by Saban Films. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a “rotten” score of 17%.
Plot
Rayburn Swanson ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is the owner of Gwen Swanson sanctuary, Gwen is his daughter who is missing for 5 years from his car after he went to buy some alcohol and now is separated from his wife and she now is with his friend Karl who works for the police. Everyday he goes out to put up missing posters of his daughter. Alice Gustafson (Annabelle Wallis) is the recently elected sheriff of the county, His brother being a drug addict gets in to trouble every time and is always being saved by Alice.
Alice is informed of a possible homicide near the Lake, when Rayburn comes to know about it he immediately goes to the hospital to see the body, but it is not of his daughter. Alice finds a broken arrow in the tree, investigating it she comes to know it is of old kind called atlatl which is rarely used, also the arrow has a mark in it with initials MB in it and the girl has a mark on his neck. Meanwhile Rayburn in his cabin notices a man wearing a camouflage breaking his camera down, he goes to the location to find the man but he gets attacked by the same man and gets injured. Somehow he gets up goes back and notices a black truck in jungle, he marks it. Later he notices a girl running and being hunted by the same man wearing camouflage.
On the other hand Alice continues to investigate the atlatl and comes to know about a guy who makes it named Sam Moonblood, goes to find him in his house but can’t find him. Meanwhile Karl tells Alice about a girl who is missing after a fight with her mom, he suspects her brother Brooks as he got into fight with her last time she was seen. On the other hand Rayburn gets in his truck to help girl named Molly and finds her, keeps her safe in now abandoned animal trap during night and In the morning he takes her to his cabin safely but the killer was already in cabin attacks both of them injuring rayburn and stabbing the girl with an arrow, fortunately Alice comes to visit Rayburn finds the cabin in bad shape. He notices the girl stabbed and suspects that it was Rayburn who is the killer but Rayburn points her to the killer standing behind her, but she misidentify him as her brother brooks, so in order to save him he shoots rayburn and lets the killer leave. She later goes to find Rayburn but gets caught up in the trap set by Rayburn and Rayburn calls the emergency and escapes to his friend Karl and ex-wife and tells them about the incident, they help him get treated by Dr. Boone so as to keep him away from police. Karl sees Brooks and calls in for back-up and arrests him. During investigation he tells police that he abducted Sam Moonblood in the abandoned factory and was not there at the time of cabin incident. Alice is put on leave during the investigation. He visits the girl in the hospital who is now safe, find the same mark on her neck as well and goes to the nurse to meet the doctor who is not present.
Rayburn reminding is daughter goes to the bar but this time he regrets that due to his alcohol problem his daughter got kidnapped, he leaves but notices the similar black truck found in the forest, he follows it and he sees the mark and finds that the neighbour of the truck owner uses it sometimes, he breaks into his home and finds weapons and clothes that the man was wearing. He also sees the missing posters of all the girls including her daughter in the house and finds a unconscious girl in a surgical room with neck open from the front. Meanwhile Alice goes into the doctor’s office to find the autopsy report of the dead girl found beside the lake, But she notices the photo of the doctor with his daughter who died after being hit by car and was wearing a necklace with MB initials on it, confirming her that Dr. Boone is the killer. she immediately goes with her team to raid Dr. Boone’s home but was not there. Dr. Boone takes Rayburn to his own forest and tells him to run while he hunts. Alice goes to Rayburn’s cabin find it empty but sees him being hunted by Dr. Boone. Rayburn overpowers him and confront him and he tells him that he kills only the ones whom people forgets. Alice also reaches the place and tell Rayburn to stop, but he does not stop and throws him into the one of his animal traps which kills Dr. Boone.
Later, Gwen’s funeral is conducted and Molly also attends it, giving Rayburn closure. Alice on the other hands gets reinstated and she with authorities break down the abandoned mill which has got a lot of bad memories for her brother. She gets in his car which is giving the news that the suspected killer is still not caught and his colleague tells her we will catch him and responding positively drives away.
Cast
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Rayburn Swanson
Annabelle Wallis as Sheriff Alice Gustafson
Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Brooks Gustafson
Zahn McClarnon as Karl Blackhawk
Melanie Scrofano as Debbie
Shaun Smyth as Dr. Boone
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