Hush – 2008 | 91 mins | Thriller | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Formulaic low-budget contemporary psychological thriller that borrows heavily from The Hitcher and The Vanishing. Writer-director and former Radio 1 DJ Mark Tonderai’s promising debut makes good use of rainy Yorkshire service stations and slip roads, but relies on tension-destroying cliché and offers too few thrills to satisfy. Will Ash produces a restrained turn in the lead role as a morally conflicted hero.

Tired and irritable, aspiring writer Zakes Abbott drives home along the M1 motorway, his girlfriend, Beth, asleep beside him.Failing to spot his exit he speeds across the causeway, cutting up a white van and barely avoiding an accident. Apoplectic with rage, the truck driver gives chase, and as he violently overtakes the tailgate flips up revealing a woman bound and bloodied in the back. But before there is time for a second look, the door is slammed shut and Zakes is left bewildered and wondering if what he saw was real. Later at a service station, Zakes’ fears grow when Beth goes missing,and as he begins a frantic search, he is enticed into a deadly game of cat and mouse on the deserted motorway. But being the sole witness to the earlier scene, how does he convince others of his desperate need for help?