SHE WONT BE SILENCED. Director Anthony Waller (The Piper, An American Werewolf in Paris) combines cat-and-mouse suspense with classic intrigue in Mute Witness, an updated take on the Hitchcockian thriller in which the only witness to a brutal crime can neither speak nor cry out in terror. Billy Hughes (Marina Sudina) is a mute special effects artist working on a low budget American slasher movie being shot in Russia. Accidentally locked in the studio late one night, she stumbles upon two men shooting what appears to be a snuff film. Having borne witness to their victims final moments, Billy desperately fleesbut this is only the start of a protracted night of terror, drawing her and her friends into a tangled web of intrigue, involving the KGB, the Moscow policeand a mysterious crime kingpin known asThe Reaper. Filmed on location in Moscow and co-starring Fay Ripley (Mary Shelleys Frankenstein) and Evan Richards (Society), Mute Witness is an unpredictable, nerve-shreddingly t