Director: Jeffrey A. Brown
Silence turns dangerous in The Unheard, a 2023 American horror-mystery starring Lachlan Watson as a young woman relearning how to hear.
What is The Unheard about?
Chloe Grayden has spent years without hearing, and the film opens as she undergoes an experimental treatment meant to restore it. The procedure works, but not cleanly; sounds arrive distorted, delayed or impossible to place, and Chloe starts to question what she is actually picking up. Her return to her childhood home, tied to her mother's unexplained disappearance years earlier, puts her back in a space full of half-remembered noises and unresolved questions. As the treatment's side effects intensify, Chloe has to work out which sounds point toward answers about her mother and which are simply her mind adjusting to a sense she lost long ago.
Cast & crew
Lachlan Watson leads as Chloe, with Nick Sandow and Brendan Meyer in roles connected to her family and treatment. Michele Hicks and Shunori Ramanathan appear as figures from Chloe's past, while Boyana Balta, Beckett Guest and Michelle Violette round out the supporting cast surrounding her return home.
Context & significance
Director Jeffrey A. Brown builds The Unheard around a sensory gimmick, sound as an unreliable narrator, rather than conventional scares, putting it in the same territory as other low-budget American horror-mysteries that favor psychological unease over graphic violence. Released in 2023, the film fits a small but steady lane of genre pictures centered on disability, medical procedures and the unreliability of a recovered sense, using hearing loss as a way into questions about memory and trust rather than as a plot device alone.
Where & how to watch
The Unheard streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, part of a catalog built around Persian-language film and series. This page can be read for free without an account, and watching the film requires only a free K-Time login through an interface presented in Farsi.