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Just what I expected

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I'm going to put my cards on the table; up until the 'twist', this is actually a very good horror tale - chilling, atmospheric and gritty - psychologically well conceived and goes towards the 'Ring' side of terror rather than the Texas Chainsaw Massacre direction.Unfortunately the twist undoes everything leading up to it, and was so woefully contrived that it makes no sense and is purely for initial shock value. Before the viewer then pieces it all together and realises there's zero coherence between pre-twist story and post-twist.Laura is a young lady, accompanying her father to a property in Uruguay, where they meet family friend Nestor to help clean the place out for a client who is trying to sell the place. However, as soon as her father goes for a nap, Laura becomes embroiled in horror and finds herself hunted.As for as atmosphere and cinematography goes, the single-camera adds and detracts at the same time. While the viewer always feels 'with' Laura, the inability to switch to a different point of view for dramatic license forces the viewer to always remember she's a character and an actress is playing her. Notable examples are when Laura views something the camera cannot see - rather than switch to her 'eye view' mode, the camera literally has to swoop in on it to show the audience. Which makes it feel slightly bizarre - that would happen in a documentary, not in a fictional movie.But it does all feel claustrophobic and some of the solitary camera moments are well-designed.The problem is that twist - that twist which renders the first half completely null and void. Unlike other reviews I will not spoil it, but the number of holes it leaves basically undermines absolutely everything which went before it.It gives far too many questions, and there is one question alluded to in another review which, when asked on realisation of the twist, makes the film's first half genuinely stupid.This was a good idea - a single camera (if not a single shot) and a tight, chilling, claustrophobic horror with mild violence and plenty of unseen (and seen) chills. The twist, alas, takes it from 9/10 to only 6.Sad.

First off, this movie is very sound-driven. Another example for this is Ils - which could practically serve as a testbed for 6.1 surround sound systems.Secondly, Silent house is also visually driven through camera-work that is quite novel, in the realm of cinema. Over the past decade gamers have been spoiled with cinema-esque game productions which soon left traditional cinema in the dust. The reason lies in computer rendered graphics by necessity and virtual cameras, which aren't limited by budget or physical laws. (To get an idea, check this out: http://tinyurl.com/823cv7j==Visuals==Silent house assumes a steadycam camera-position that follows the protagonist (a photogenic young female) around, in either third-person or at times-first person perspective. Depth of Field "Jitter" is used from the very beginning to augment and focus the visuals. (To get an idea, watch this short segment, shot with the same camera as "Silent house": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIeUGP1bD04 )Despite the dilapidated interiors, the movie feels modern. Lightning in combination with the digital camera specifications is perfect and creates good atmosphere. The runtime of roughly 70 minutes appeals to the attention-span of young generations. No scene felt gratuitous or overly long. The concise plot may for some be indeed a dead-giveaway, yet the movie-twist is handled in a jaw-dropping way (again augmented by the visuals and sound) ==Will I like it?==You should check out the movie-stills and whether they appeal to you. The horror is obviously of the mundane-horror category, i.e. no supernatural involved. This is clear from minute one, as the movie starts with "based on real events". The religious, supernatural BS pretty much ruined "Rec". The supernatural simply isn't to everone's liking.If you don't get into the movie visually ==within the first 5 minutes==, augmented by the great sound-work, it will definitely not deliver.Silent house arguably lacks a strong plot and character development, but makes up for it visually and by the sound-design. If you don't like Silent house, chances are you won't like Final fantasy or Transformers either.==Budget==I was under the impression to be treated to a high-value production. And I wasn't disappointed. Only afterwards did I learn the budget was somewhat low. Notably budget claims and how it pertains to the finished product are usually more than obscure and nothing which should be given great gravity.I would reckon that many gamers will like Silent house a lot. After all at the moment it is pretty much taking what we can get (such as 300, Spartacus, Appleseed but also unknowns such as "Serbian movie"), till more cinema productions appealing to younger generations are created.==Rating== 9/10 (Novelty, Plot, Sound, Runtime) For comparison: Confessions 10/10

Poor acting skills, poor camera angle. Why make a movie if you don't know how to direct? You'll lose the crowd that way. If you don't know the whole story of what happen back then just don't make a movie and think that your going to make a profit out of NOT A SCARY MOVIE. Some parts of the movie make me laugh a little. Like come on, have the actress look for the ghost and you need to have hardcore acting skills. This chick was boring to watch. Hmmm one continuous shot? You think you can break a record? This director needs education. I know this is base on true event. Lets try this word "Base on True Story". The whole script needs to be re-written because it was hard to see the character not wanting to speak or acted like a clueless dummy. I want to see the suspense build up not wanting to see from no suspense to no suspense. Poor production. I hope Elizabeth Olsen has better acting skills then this girl. I mean I gave this girl a thumps up for not acting GOOD MONEY rolling in. Were is the Raspberry Award. I hope the 2012 version is better then this one.

This film was cleverly recorded, fairly well acted and managed to remain tense throughout. It isn't an 'in your face' horror film, there's no over the top gore and the scares mainly come from slowly built up scenes which are more unsettling than jumpy. But if you're a person who finds films such as Paranormal Activity etc. boring, this one may not be a great choice as action wise it works at a similar pace. Saying that, this film may not be such a brilliant choice anyway...The plot seemed to be all over the place; yes, it's good to give the audience something to piece together but this seemed to leave people outright confused instead - a happy medium would have been nice. It starts off as your standard horror movie: scared girl in a creepy house with weird things going on around her. At first, it seems all paranormal, then you think there's a psychotic murderer in a house, then it's just all over the place. The only way I can understand the twist in this movie is that Laura (who is totally insane) hallucinates and is unaware of what she's done; her father is killed while she's still downstairs yet at the end it is revealed she is the person who killed both her father and her supposed husband/father of her dead child. The only way I can understand this is that the plot is so erratic because it's representing the situation from the viewpoint of an absolute psycho (Laura). She can't remember killing her father and seems distraught when she discovers his death and in this way, is almost schizophrenic with one personality one minute and another one the next, both compensating for the other whilst the other personality is in control, i.e. filling in the gaps with a story plausible in her own mind. At the end, she's fully aware of what she's doing/has done and is shown to blame the two men and their sex driven interests for the death of her child, who she sees at the very end of the film during another hallucination. The possible reasons for this are endless and it's never clear really why it is she blames them. It's a possibility she was raped by one of them and had an abortion as a result, is worried for the safety of her child being born with a sex obsessed father, the child was actually born and died very young leaving her mentally unstable with grief...who knows. For me, that's annoying. I want to know the actual reason and twists only work if everything falls into place once they're revealed which, needless to say, this didn't. Although it's all well and good using the 'yeah well she's crazy so of course it doesn't make sense' excuse for the whole film, for me this ruined it and working it all out was more tiring than interesting. For every question that's answered there's something else that doesn't make sense and is inconsistent, which is why I didn't enjoy it nor did I think it was particularly clever, just really annoying. You spend 99% of the film trying to work out why she's stupid enough to go back in the house after her experience in there then the remaining 1% trying to work out what the hell just happened in the last 99%. Not good!So, although it had its good points, the plot (or lack of) massively outweighs the positive. It would have actually have been better if it was just left as a paranormal sort of film with creepy looking people in doorways and haunted funfair music playing upstairs. It's just not scary any more once you know it's all just a psychotic chick running around with a garden implement...