Silent House (2012)

Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Adam Trese, Julia Taylor Ross, Haley Murphy, Adam Barnett

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Description: 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 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.

Release Date: 3/9/2012

Genre: Horror

Studio: Open Road Productions

Offical Website: http://whyisthishappeningtome.net/

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
United States	Theatrical Wide Release	3/9/2012
United Kingdom	Theatrical Wide Release	5/4/2012

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03/23 @ 12:00 AM

A movie whose terror can be read in every silent scream on Olsen's gorgeous face, served up in more extreme close-ups than you can count.

Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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03/09 @ 12:00 AM

The camera's unblinking eye constantly stays with Olsen, and we feel in as much danger as she is.

Ian Buckwalter, The Atlantic

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03/08 @ 12:00 AM

Sometimes you don't want to know what is lurking in the dark because the answer is just too obvious and dumb.

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

It's not hard to guess the source of her horror, and so the film's most interesting aspects are its gimmicks rather than its frights.

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

Sarah does any number of silly things while scurrying through this not-so-silent house, but keeps the audience on her side you want her to get out of the house immediately but you don't get annoyed with her when she can't.

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine

Even if Silent House had turned out as grimy, gory and stupid as much of its terrorplex ilk, the film would still be an achievement simply owing to its construction.

Andrew Lapin, NPR

\Silent House'' is up to something. The filmmakers, Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, must have seen plenty of horror movies worth discussing in a women's studies class.

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

The tricky camera moves that fill up \Silent House\ make for one-half of a nerveracking horror film - before the movie's obviousness just gets on your nerves.

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

The directors have come up with a new and powerful way to film a thriller: Silent House contains no quick editing in the active moments, and there is never an instance when the movie cuts unexpectedly to something scary as the soundtrack thunders.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

A denouement more textbook than thrilling stalls some of the movie's power. But the early chills are potent, intense.

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

It wouldn't work without the exceptional work of Olsen. Her uneasily captivating performance here could almost be viewed as the \why\ prequel to Martha Marcy May Marlene, the other chiller from Sundance 2011 that established her as rising star to watch.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star

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.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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05/09/2011 @ 12:00 AM

Reminiscent of the breathless right-behind-you tension of Ils (Them), full of playful reveals and made all the eerier by Hernan Gonzalez's classically ominous score.

William Goss, Film.com