silent scream start with one of the most annoying opening sequence i have see in a while . an entire scene involve police pull up outside and go into and search and make a gruesome discovery in the attic of a large mansion be show in highly irritate slow motion and seem to go on forever . not a good start and only a few minute in and silent scream have already get on my nerve . silent scream then go into flashback a the story which lead to this event be tell . student scotty parker ( rebecca balding ) have transfer to santa rey college at very short notice and once enrol she set about find a room to stay in . after no luck search scotty come across an old victorian mansion situate high on some cliff above the sea and beach whose owner and mrs. engels ( yvonne de carlo ) and her geeky weird son mason ( brad rearden ) rent their spare room out to student just like scotty . already live there be two more student name doris prichart ( juli andelman ) and jack towne ( steve doubet ) . scotty accept one of two available room and the other be take by another student name peter ransom ( john widelock ) at the same time . that night the four new friend decide to go out to dinner . on their way back home a drunk peter and after be a jerk and get leave behind and be murder . his body be discover the next morning and lieutenant sandy mcgiver ( cameron mitchell ) and his partner sergeant manny ruggin ( avery schreiber ) be on the case . they question scotty and doris and jack but get nowhere and they then decide to investigate the engels family to see if they can dig something up on them . eventually they do but be they in time to save the student from a dark secret that have be hide for year . executive produce and co write and direct by denny harris i think silent scream be a waste of time and throughly unimpressive . the script by harris and wallace c. bennett and jim wheat and ken wheat be extremely slow and nothing significant happens for long stretch . it over half an hour of tedium and poor character development and scene setting before anything that even resemble horror take place . the body count be extremely low with just one death for over an hour . the end be also a big disappointment with a dull so call shock revelation that really isn not anything like be shock and surprising or interesting . in fact silent scream end a you would expect it to and i honestly think the filmmaker would have try to come up with a twist end and catch potential viewer out but no such luck unfortunately . forget about any blood or gore and just a few red splash on curtain and clothes and wall and while watch the end credit i notice there wasn not any special effect credit list which tell you everything you need to know . there be a sex scene but no explicit nudity . technically silent scream isn not too bad and the house and location use look ok even if the talentless harris can not evoke any kind of atmosphere from them and generally speak it adequately make throughout although it ain not go to exactly knock your sock off . acting be alright and there be some genre veteran in here include yvonne de carlo and cameron mitchell and barbara steele . overall silent scream at best be merely watchable a there be nothing really wrong with it i suppose and but at bad it suck because it far too slow and uneventful and nothing of interest really happen for most of it run time . unfortunately for both me and silent scream the negative aspect of the film easily outweigh the positive and good luck next time chap . the more i think about it the more i think silent scream would have work a lot well a a half an hour tale from the crypt ( 1989 1996 ) episode . there be much good horror film available and watch one of those instead .