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Prolific B-director Serge Rodnunsky offers up a few interesting scenarios in this "Bigfoot attacks Dawson's Creek" low-budget indie, and Stacey Keach and Billy Dee Williams -- who should know better -- are aboard to lend their low-wattage star power to the proceedings. The choppy story -- flashbacks, flash forwards, dream sequences, voice-over narration, and an American Indian storyteller all try to make sense of it -- is punctuated with '70s-style blood-and-horror slayings. The film is quaint and old fashioned -- a throwback to pre-Nightmare on Elm Street horror -- and tries to shock with the surprise of which victim is going to go down next. While not very successful at creating thrills, Fear Runs Silent is not all bad -- as long as expectations are not too high. Those expecting Alfred Hitchcock should look a little higher up on the video shelf.