Silent Hours Movie Ending Explained and Movie Review

Silent Hours movie ending reveals that private detective John Duval was the real killer. Silent Hours is a 2015 crime thriller directed by Mark Greenstreet.

The film was initially released as a feature film on September 25, 2015, at the Raindance Fim Festival. In 2020, it was reconfigured as a three-part miniseries and re-edited as a stand-alone feature in 2021.

The episode titles were The Silent Service, The Midnight Tide, and Towards the Sea.

Silent Hours follows a private detective, John Duval, who finds himself as the prime suspect in a police hunt for a killer when three women are brutally murdered in four nights.

He is now forced to track down the real culprit behind the murders. And the fact that he slept with some of the victims the night they were killed casts an inconvenient shadow on his inquiry.

Set in Portsmouth, the thriller movie feature much of old Portsmouth, Portsmouth’s dockyard, and the former Portsmouth-based aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious.

The locals who tuned in to watch the movie have also spotted scenes from other locations, including Fareham and Hayling Island.

Silent Hours Movie Ending Explained

Silent Hours ending explains that John Duval was the man behind the murders. The detective was driven by lust, ego, and dark secrets.

Duval is a former Royal Navy Commander turned private investigator specializing in finding evidence of adultery.

He mainly does two things in the entire movie -finding a lot of proof of adultery (there are apparently plenty of cheating spouses) and convincing women to be intimate with him.

The movie centers on the detective as he stumbles on an interconnected string of vicious murders of three women in a few days when he takes on an infidelity case from an ally.

All women are found dismembered in bathtubs filled with water and blood with a cloth in their mouths and their heads between their legs.

And the fact that he slept with some victims casts him as a prime suspect. Jane Ambrose, a Detective-Inspector, keeps hauling John in for questioning.

The plot lets the viewers keep thinking if Duval is a serial killer or if someone else is setting him up by killing his partners.

It also implies if he is the killer, he may not be aware of what he is doing. It is the usual case in this kind of crime thriller that the investigation reveals the much bigger crimes behind the murders.

Toward the movie’s end, we see a woman inviting Duval to spend the night with her. He agrees and spends the night with her, only to find her deceased body in the morning.

He rushes to the police and tells them about the incident. He then explains his innocence and convinces them he has no connection with these murders. Now, the police suspect his wife for the killings.

However, in the end, it is known that Duval was the real killer.

Silent Hours Movie Review

The 2015 crime thriller Silent Hours received generally mixed reviews from viewers. It has a long, complex story with a sinister, noir vibe.

Viewers have mostly marked its long length as 2 hours and 36 minutes. Silent Hours was a TV series of 3 episodes and many agree it worked better as three separate hour-long episodes.

The entire film revolves around two possibilities at the heart of the mystery: either the detective is the culprit or he isn’t. The film wants viewers to keep guessing, even after the case is ostensibly solved.

It gives a vibe of an old-fashioned thriller about a lady killer private investigator who swears that all women who keep getting dismembered are not by his hand.

A question that loomed throughout is why these women were eager to jump into having rough intercourse with the detective. They throw themselves at him, showing off their exotic lingerie and desire.

We meet the detective in therapy where Dr. Catherine Benson questions his past Navy record.

As the story jumps back and forth between sessions, we see his detective work on the ships, docks, seaside, and old fortifications of Portsmouth. It’s an appreciable thorny set-up for a murder thriller.

Deceased bodies are shown multiple times, both dismembered and decapitated, usually in bathtubs full of blood.

Other characters are threatened with knives and guns. The film is dark and gritty with loads of adult themes that could be inappropriate for younger teens.

There is also frequent use of strong language. There are also scenes involving smoking and drinking, though not to excess.

Silent Hours Movie Cast

Silent Hours cast consits of James Weber Brown, Tom Beard, and Hugh Bonneville, among others. Dervla Kirwan, Indira Varma, and Tim Allen also appear in the crime thriller.

James Weber Brown as John Duval

Brown is an English actor born on September 14, 1971, in Cuckfield, West Sussex, England. He has been contributing to the industry for nearly three decades since 1996.

He made his debut playing the role of Toby in the mini-series No Bananas in 1996. The next year, he made his film debut appearing as Stephen Guest in The Mill on the Floss.

As of writing, Brown has added 50 credits to his name as an actor. Other notable credits include The Orford Murders (2008), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), and Doom: Annihilation (2019).

Hugh Bonneville as Commander William Calthorpe

Bonneville is an English actor known for portraying Robert Crawley in the ITV historical drama series Downton Abbey.

His performance in the series earned him a Golden Globe nomination and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

The actor reprised his role in the feature films Downton Abbey in 2019 and Downtown Abbey: A New Era in 2022. He also appeared in Notting Hill, The Monuments Men, and the Paddington films.

The Paddington native married Lucinda “Lulu” Evans in 1998 and has a son named Felix. The family lives in West Sussex.

Indira Varma as Dr. Catherine Benson

British actress and narrator Indira has appeared in series such as Rome, Luther, The Canterbury Tales, Game of Thrones, and Human Target.

Her film debut and first major role was playing Maya in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. In September 2016, Varma began starring in the popular ITV/Netflix series Paranoid as DS Nina Suresh.

She is the only child of a Swiss mother and an Indian father. Varma made her first television appearance in Crucial Tales in 1996.

Most recently, the actress is seen portraying Ingrid Farrow in the mini-series Obsession. She also appeared in one episode of Extrapolations, created by Scott Z. Burns.

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