Silent House

Silent House is smart about its scares as well as its delivery method.

It will make you jump, to be sure, and your heart to beat a little bit faster. But what's truly scariest about it takes place not in the body, but in the mind.

It works as a suspense-building scare machine, given heart and depth by Olsen's performance - though it's still an effective exercise in misdirection rather than a strikingly original vision, and now it's a remake of an effective exercise in misdirection.

The film's most interesting aspects are its gimmicks rather than its frights.

My attention was held for the first act or so. Then any attempt at realism was abandoned, and it became clear that the house, and the movie containing it, were devices to manufacture methodical thrills. The explanation, if that's what it was, seemed contrived and unconvincing.

Pulling off the thespian equivalent of running a marathon, the hyperventilating Olsen works awfully hard in the service of a film that, in the end, does little or nothing to preserve her character's integrity.

Silent House dies a sudden and egregious death when the amateur players in Olsen's company, Adam Trese and Eric Sheffer Stevens, as her character Sarah's father and uncle, respectively, open their traps.

Billiantly done movie. Very smart and almost overly engaging as a horror movie. For 88 minutes this movie puts your whole body and edge and after it's over you can't help but disect all the details you must have missed. Rare movie that is meant to be seen more than once. The pioneering of the single take movie really speaks to the director's and actor's talent level. Great movie, go see.

A girl is trapped inside her family's lakeside retreat and becomes unable to contact the outside world as supernatural forces haunt the house with mysterious energy and consequences. (6)

La película no es mala del todo, tiene una tensión constante, pero lastimosamente no llega a asustar mucho, por lo tanto no esperen estar con los nervios de punta todo el tiempo, la trama consiste en una muchacha que con su papá y su tío quedan encerrados en una casa antigüa y hay una extraña entidad que los están persiguiendo. Algo curioso de la película es que es una gran toma y no tiene cortes de cámara o edición, por lo tanto lo hace algo curioso pero a veces puede incomodar sobre todo en las que corren y se mueve mucho la cámara, Las actuaciones son normales, no es algo destacable ni tampoco lo hacen de todo mal, y pues tratan de darle un giro dramático al final pero es algo que sea nuevo o impactante, creo que es para verla en netflix una **** de domingo cuando no hay nada mejor que hacer.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This movie has an interesting concept as the director makes the film to appear as one long cut of video. Unfortunately, the "one cut video" is the only interesting thing about this movie. The movie slowly and painfully goes from a supernatural/horror film to more of a psychological thriller as Elizabeth Olsen attempts to navigate a house with a seemingly never-ending supply of doors. The movie leaves you confused until the end when everything suddenly snaps together like a puzzle with the "twist" ending. The only problem is that it's not the kind of twist ending that leaves you going "Wow! Didn't see that one coming!." It's more of a twist ending that leaves you going "What the f*** did I just sit through?"