This movie really caught me by surprise. Thought I would just watch some niche movie for the Elizabeth Olsen eye candy, ended up enjoying the best horror movie in years. No cheap jump scares or special effects, but constant suspension, and all that in one shot. A real gem!
Remake WTF, why??? The original was grand and the American copy was not :@
The movie dragged a lot and the camera work wasnt great. Olsen did a great job but she was acting on a subpar script with crap camerawork. All in all, the plot was too flimsy to be interesting and by the end of the movie, I just wondered what everyone else saw i didn't.
The idea of Silent House (a young woman trapped in a large house taken over by squatters) was good but not enough to make a full length feature, and what they decided to fill out the rest with ruined the good idea.
Still, I bet the suspense was better on the big screen (it seemed well directed, anyway) and a young Elizabeth Olsen did a wonderful job, even if it was all in one speed.
Not a terrible film, but watch Don't Breathe again, instead.
Credit to Elizabeth Olsen for keeping her acting skills going for an entire movie without a cut, but the rest of the movie felt very much like something you'd watch high school kids make in an attempt to make a real movie. Wasn't a fan.
I've watched this once before but tonight I found that this movie was filmed in ONE TAKE.
I don't know why I noticed at the first time. It's nice. I like it.
It's a remake from an Uruguayan film, not a Spanish one.
Great idea; poorly executed. 6/10.
Expected DVD release: 24th July 2012
Shout by XiofireBlockedParent2022-10-16T15:39:22Z
I stumbled into this one last night with just the sales pitch of "Scarlet Witch did a horror when she was younger" and I'm so glad I gave it a try! Tense, frantic, claustraphobic and with a thin, subtle plot that worked really well for me. I am a sucker for these smaller scope horrors where everything is focused on a small set of characters in a scaled back setting, and Silent House really delivers on all those fronts. I'm also a sucker for the "fake-single-take" styling this movie goes for, as it never feels like you have a minute to breathe during the whole runtime. Great, great stuff. Give it a try, you might be as blown away as I am.
(Side note, my Trakt informs me that I watched this back in 2017 and I don't remember that viewing at all! Scary, maybe I too have some repressed memories :wink:)