“The Screaming Silent” (** out of four) was a humdrum horror thriller about an independent filmmaker (Andrew Linqvist) who travels with two other friends (Ross Magnant and Bella McDiarmid) to the outback of Tasmania where they are naturally stalked and besieged by an evil force. Unusually good-looking horror movie is also too long and too sluggish; the more this goes on, the more you may realize this is a rip-off of “The Blair Witch Project”. Inauspicious directorial debut for David Davidson who worked on Midnight Oil videos in the ’80’s but this lacks both the power and passion of that band’s music.