Buffy The Vampire Episode 'Hush'

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Although everyone loses their voice in the episode "Hush" from the Buffy the Vampire series, that does not mean the episode is silent by any means. In fact, the use of sound in the episode helped the theme immensely. In “Hush,” the entire town is robbed of their voices; no one can speak. A group of monsters called “the gentlemen” take residence in the towns clock tower and use their powers to lock everyones voices away in the middle of the night. When morning comes, fear strikes the entire town as they tried to untangle the riddle of why they cannot speak. The director takes an interesting approach to the elimination of human voices. It seems as though the other sounds in the episode are almost overcompensating for the absence. At the moment

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