1 hr. 27 mins.
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross, Adam Barnett, Haley Murphy
Directed by: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
MPAA paygrade: R
Genre: Horror/Mystery & Suspense
Critics Rating: ** stars (out of 4 stars)
Filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau tag-team on yet another derivative frightfest that…you guessed it…is etched in dull familiarity. The setup: a periled pretty young gal and a haunted house as her tormenter. Talking about your sanctioned blueprint for a horror movie premise, huh?
In Silent House ( at that place is lots of nonsensical screaming and screeching so the place cant be too silent) the staged chills and thrills are at large. Still, the slick choreographed scare tactics and surprisingly crisp motion-picture photography in this murky melodrama is not enough to uplift the creepy condemned property that is the atmospheric Silent House.
Kentis and Lau (2006s Open Water) ambitiously dresses their irresolution piece in a glossy sheen thusly making other paranormal activity movies look frustrate in comparison. No doubt that the directorial duo posses a peachy eye for this genre-eerie titillation, imaginative jittery camera shots, tension-building tactics, off-kilter rhythms, etc.
Yet there is not really any distinctive or progressive surge that propels Silent House beyond the conventionality of recycled psychological thrillers. The nightmarish nuances are realized from frame to frame alone Silent plods along as the rush of its creepy movements are routinely telegraphed.
Elizabeth Olsen (fresh from her star-making turn in Martha Macy May Marlene) plays Sarah, a teenager who dutifully works for her father John (Adam Trese) and Peter (Eric Sheffer Stevens) as they are holed up at the dilapidated family summer house. The flurry brothers John and Peter are at a occasion as to what they are going to do with putting the wonky family lake house up for sale.
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