Movies

SILENT HOUSE (2012) ** Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross, Haley Murphy. Fairly effective chiller with Olsen as a young woman in a sort of homecoming who is helping her father get a piece of real estate ready for an impending sale and finds herself trapped when a home invasion occurs (or does it?) The real-time one-take gimmick employed by intrepid married filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau (who adapted from a film by Gustavo Hernandez) is rather smoothly transferred with impeccable camera-work by Igor Martinvoic yet the premise taxes the nerves (and not in the way it should i.e. gooseflesh/hair-on-end spookiness) by the story's (anti)climax that upends psychological horror instead of its ghost-story approach of things-that-bump-in-the-night in spite of its leading lady's full-on embodiment to a finely tuned pitch of believable angst and genuine terror.

Bad. One word sums up the whole movie. What a waste of talent

I couldn't make it through this movie. There was just nothing good about it. And I really was looking forward to watching it and loved the idea of it. The premise, and the filming (it is done with one camera in real time, no cuts!) Unfortunately the good concepts didn't make a good movie. The camera goes in and out of focus, the cinematography is crap, the directing is crap, the writing and acting are crap. There's just nothing good about it.