Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring director James Wan is one of several filmmakers doing some house cleaning, having come across several never-before-seen storyboards from his criminally underrated Dead Silence, which has since become somewhat of a cult classic.
Over the weekend, Wan dug up another handful of boards, drawn by Greg Chown for the filmmaker and Universal Pictures, which take us behind the scenes of the Gothic horror film in which a young widower (played by “True Blood’s” Ryan Kwanten) returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife’s murder, which may be linked to the ghost of a murdered ventriloquist.
In the latest batch, Wan takes us to the sequences where Jamie (Kwanten) and Det. Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg) discover Mary Shaw’s (Judith Roberts) secret lair that’s hauntingly lined with 100 dolls and have to escape.
“[These were] pretty intricate, detailed set-pieces to put together,” explained Wan who also revealed that he “got vertigo every time I had to get up on that catwalk!”
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100 Dolls in Mary Shaw’s Chamber (2/4). DEAD SILENCE storyboards (by Greg Chown).
