The delivery of unbidden swag to Defamer HQ is such a rare occurrence that we momentarily get excited by the unexpected appearance of a package on our doorstep, forgetting that it will invariably contain promotional detritus that some studio was too lazy to throw out on its own and has shipped to us for outsourced disposal. But imagine our delight as we grabbed our trusty crowbar and pried open the coffin-like wooden box from Universal you see above and discovered not, as we expected, the festering, severed limbs of the executive who greenlighted Because I Said So, but this delightful, only semi-creepy dummy heralding Friday's release of Dead Silence, the sure-to-be highest grossing ventriloquism-related horror movie of the weekend! Thank you, Universal! As the film obviously won't need us to break all sorts of box office records, we're going to stay home and Netflix up the 1978 Anthony Hopkins/Burgess Meredith classic Magic, which our new, slack-jawed friend just told us is a more compelling look at the dark art of voice-throwing.
