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I think so, but they still wouldn’t have liked the movie much. Maybe the Blair Witch-Paranormal Activity approach has worn out its welcome. Maybe people are tired of the subjective, I-am-a-camera thing born of the sudden and universal access to hi-def.
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Chris Kentis and Laura Lau direct Elizabeth Olsen in this real-time thriller about a young woman descending into madness, in theaters this March. As part of your account, you’ll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. [W]hen you plug in the casting and acting, the ambient fear and suspense so excellently technically created, falls silent with lacking performances. And ultimately, in light of current news events, slips to levels of cheap disdain with the big reveal. John, now conscious, is wrapped in plastic and sitting in the living room.
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From the directors of the hit film "Open Water," Silent House is a uniquely unsettling horror thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house. Directed by filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, Silent House uses meticulous camera choreography to take the audience on a tension-filled, real time journey, experienced in a single uninterrupted shot. It’s odd that the CinemaScore rating for Silent House, a more than decent gimmicky scare picture that opened last Friday, is an “F” — suggesting that critics like me are more excited by formal inventiveness than most of the film-going public. We’re essentially marooned with the girl as the creaks and footsteps and thumps begin, staring out into the darkness with her, staggering and swerving with her, deprived of a larger perspective. With its distant, disharmonious, ambient score that seems to be operating on another level of reality, the film can make you, like its protagonist, sick with fear.
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Although she barely remembers the place, Sarah senses the past may still haunt the home. A young woman finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house.
Outside, she meets Peter, who has returned, and sees a young girl on the road who disappears. Peter and Sarah discover John's body missing in the house. When the power is cut off, the only light source available to them is the flash on a Polaroid camera. Through a series of camera flashes, Sarah sees the young girl and a man in the room. Sarah hides while two men take pictures, presumably pedophilic in nature, of an unseen girl. Sarah tries to shoot one of the men with Peter's gun, then hides in her room and begins to show signs of paranoia and psychosis.
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SILENT HOUSE Blu-ray Review - Collider
SILENT HOUSE Blu-ray Review.
Posted: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Elizabeth Olsen stars in this thriller as a young woman stranded in a lake house with no contact to the outside world. Elizabeth Olsen stars in this thriller as a woman who begins to go mad after getting stranded at an eerie lake house. Type of horror film and more of an intense psychological thriller that genuinely manages to keep you guessing. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and was subsequently purchased by Open Road Films and Universal Pictures for distribution. Silent House premiered in United States theaters on March 9, 2012. It opened at number 5 at the U.S. box office, earning $6.6 million during its opening weekend; it would go on to gross a total of $12.8 million domestically.
She experiences hallucinations of traumatic childhood events, including a bloodstain on the bed and the young girl in the bathtub with beer bottles and bloody water. It’s b, of course, and evidently the notion that we’ve been with Sarah this whole time and in real time and didn’t see her hack the shit out of her dad and uncle is received by the audience as a violation. The actress creeps through the haunted surroundings of an old farm house in this real-time thriller from directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau. The young actress screams in terror before enduring 88 minutes of hell in this real-time thriller.
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Maybe, too, they’re fed up with subjectivity as the basis for a work of art and hunger for the clarity of omniscience, even in a low-down genre like horror. Soon she's reduced to tiptoeing through the darkness calling out "Uncle Peter?" when not long before she was calling "Dad? Daddy?" This is an optimistic girl. Her name is Sarah, and she's played by Elizabeth Olsen, the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley. "Silent House" is another one of those Scream at the Screen movies, in which you want to shout out advice to a character. In this case, a nubile young woman is trapped inside an apparently haunted house for most of the time, and what you want to shout is, Get out of the damn house! Finally, a little beyond the halfway mark, she does escape, running out the front door and flees, weeping and stumbling, down a country road until her Uncle Peter drives along, and they return to the house and she goes back inside.
'Silent House' Review: Hoary Horror Movie Has Dread but No Scares - TheWrap
'Silent House' Review: Hoary Horror Movie Has Dread but No Scares.
Posted: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Creeping through the dark, she finds her dad again, and then Uncle Peter leaves for a while and things get really heavy. The secret of the plot is revealed to be unexpectedly fraught, and a surrealistic element enters with bodies in bathtubs and a toilet mounted vertically on a wall and dripping a stream of blood. Sarah, dad John (Adam Trese) and Uncle Peter (Eric Sheffer Stevens) enter the house.
The tension of Olsen's virtually uncut performance becomes a big part of the suspense. And that performance, which dominates every frame, is a tour de force. A flawed film with a near flawless performance by Olsen.
For what feels like a very long 85-minute runtime, we’re right there with Olsen, tolerating genre clichés that can’t be made up for with flashy editing or a good performance. Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building.
It's daylight, but window boards make it pitch black inside. Tappings, squeakings, scuttlings, breathings, creakings, moanings, clickings.
Sophia gives Sarah a key to a box containing pedophilic pictures of Sarah as a little girl, implying that John sexually abused her. It is suggested that her recent interactions and hallucinations with the little girl and mystery attacker have been a traumatic repressed memory. Events at the house have caused this memory to reappear, and Sarah is now exacting her revenge.
