Dead Silence

This is coming a week late but here goes...

Dead Silence is a story about ventriliquist dolls that come to life and haunt cutting out peoples tounges if they scream. Mary Shaw was a ventriliquist from the 1950's but when she died she wanted all her dolls buried with her. The town teased and ridiculed her over the years so now she haunts the town and is back.
Somebody please tell the MPAA that there was no possible reason why this movie was rated R. Nothing other than some mild blood makes this movie anything worth an R Rating. Mark Wahlberg's brother is in the movie and plays a cop investigating the murder of the main character in the movie's wife.
This movie's scary moments are tagged by about 20 seconds of silence followed by the part that jumps out at you. There are maybe 3 or 4 scary moments but for the most part not so scary. I'm still waiting for a movie equivelent to Exorcism of Emily Rose to scare the hell out of me. This week it will be Hills Have Eyes 2 but I'm not getting my hopes up. That one will probably just have the gore factor.
The director/writer desperately tries to save the movie at the end as it swerves everyone Saw style but instead of a 7-10 minute segment that explains the swerve, It's about 60 seconds and then credits.....
3/10