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Silent House

Experience 88 minutes of real fear, captured In real time

2011 · 1h 26m · R Drama, Horror, Mystery
Directed by Chris Kentis , Laura Lau

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Overview

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. Although she barely remembers the place, Sarah senses the past may still haunt the home.

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41%
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Filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau ('Open Water') should have plugged the original's plot holes and straightened out its logic.

Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Fresh

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

Ian Buckwalter, The Atlantic
Fresh

It's Olsen's performance that makes Sarah's plight matter. And the actress proves that her mesmerizing turn in last fall's Martha Marcy May Marlene -- about a woman on the lam from a cult -- wasn't a fluke.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Fresh

Silent House feels like a psychotic episode come to life. It's impressive and oppressive, and it very effectively gets on your nerves.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh

[Olsen is] terrific at showing shifts of emotion just underneath the skin of her wide, china-doll face.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

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