Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

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

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

CinemaClown Based on the supposedly true events that took place during the late 1940s in a small village in Uruguay although no evidences or records to validate these claims exist & shot in a manner so as to provide an illusion of being entirely filmed in one single take, The Silent House (also known as La Casa Muda) had a promising premise but is unfortunately marred by its own messy plot.The story of The Silent House follows Laura, who with her father settles down in a cottage they're supposed to renew in order to make it ready for sale. The two decide to spend the night there so that they can start repairing it early in the morning. An inexplicable sound in the upper floor wakes them up & before the night is over, they're torn apart by a dark secret that waits there.The sense of doom this film is able to generate in the first half is quite effective with expert use of minimum lighting, sound & unpredictability but it all goes for a toss once the director decides to gamble by introducing a major plot twist which turns out to be so lazy, uninspired & stupid that it eventually ends up destroying everything the film had build up to that point.And its claim of being shot in a single take also doesn't hold up too as the plethora of dark scenes & the limitation of camera used to shoot it gives out the moments where clever edits were masked. The background score is a plus here, the dialogues are poor, character development is nearly non-existent but the effort from the leading lady is still commendable to quite an extent.On an overall scale, shot on a shoestring budget & coming from the film industry that doesn't have much of an international presence, The Silent House is a technically brilliant Uruguayan film that uses its horror elements very nicely & could've gone places if that plot-hole inducing twist hadn't existed. The overall storyline may not have much of a flesh but horror fanatics will still find something to like about it.P.S. Its English language remake is Silent House, starring Elizabeth Olsen.

sqdnb what i was expecting hearing a movie from uruquay, after a lot of great Spanish horror movies was good enough, that Americans made a remake of it.so i sat down watching the movie and tried to get what this movie wanted to deliver. but just after starting the movie i felt kind of awkward about the girl's weird behaviour, the endless long shooting of film when there is nothing happening and a terrible shaky camera. sure here some people would now say, that this is the beauty of that movie . but if there is no story, no depth, no activity at all in a movie and you do all that, then you just created the most boring movie you can imagine.. when the girl in the movie heard voices, saw her father being murdered, saw her father's position changed, saw the killer or meets her affair her reaction is completely unnatural and failed to deliver any authentic feeling to the viewer. AH of course now is a good time to say that i am just too stupid to get the ending and that she actually killed everyone. you people are so easy to manipulate if that is so... i don't know how many movies i've watched with the same twist to clean up a bad movie and make you think that you are the idiot and not the people who created the movie. even she killed them her emotions would look a lot different.well back to the movie: -girl walking around in the house in slow motion, having an incredible interest in looking at every piece of equipment. -girl's father died and his body is changing rooms many times in the movie. -girl walking around in the house in slow motion, having an incredible interest in looking at every piece of equipment. -girl happily found the key to get outside -girl running outside and sees a creepy girl -girl happily meets her friend (later you know her affair) -girl can not answer the question of "where is your father?" and says "i don't know", later to be revealed to be the "brilliant" twist of this unworthy movie. -girl doesn't want to go back to the house but the guy is eager and doesn't care about the blood on her dress -then inside the house the girl is happy to be back in the house and starts to space up looking at house equipment. -girl's affair suddenly disappeared -girl finds her affair and he pretends to be dead -girl is actually starting to talk and we are all happy knowing that the whole thing we saw is just pure fiction of the girl's mind .......endacting: just a really stupid idea to give a amateur actress a role where she has to act out her emotions non-stop through a whole movie, where she completely failed.screenplay: in general just a guy holding a camera and walking behind the girl the whole movie.dialogue: senseless and stupid even if you are happy with the great twist.atmosphere: sometimes good then again just boringsound: actually pretty nice and mild use of music and sounds

jgeorg10 I would like to begin by addressing the main problems that other users have voiced concerning this movie. There will be spoilers, if you want to avoid them.To those who do not understand the name: it is called "Silent House" because the main character, Laura, kills both her father and her "lover" (who raped her) in order to silence the loud noises that she imagined in the house with her. The small child that was in the house with her was not a spirit, it was her daughter, who is dead (aborted). The house owner had previously raped her, as he and her father were prone to doing to young girls that they lured into the house. You can also take the film's title as a reference to her cutting out the tongue of her father and the house's owner when she kills them (as seen when she drags him away at the end of the movie).Secondly, the movie never claimed to be filmed in one shot. It is PRESENTED as a one-shot film, much like Alfred Hitchcock's similarly structured movies. It is only supposed to have the appearance of a one-shot film in order to draw the audience into a real time encounter during the events of what happens in the house. The scene of the next day is not a part of this one-shot because it no longer applies to the night of the two unsolved murders.As for the dialog, I'm a little surprised so many people disregarded it as contrived and foolish. Unless you're fluent in the spoken language of the film, of course the subtitles will seem a little awkward to you. They were translated directly to English from Spanish, and it is clearly not a translation into conversational English.Okay, now that I've talked about those three points, on to the movie itself. It is definitely worth seeing, and I highly recommend it. The acting is realistic and draws you into the events that are happening on screen in real time. It is a brilliant psycho-thriller that deserves some positive feedback for its chilling story, beautifully orchestrated twist ending, and thematic integrity. Anyone who enjoys the paranormal, or the psychotic, should give this film a view.

pbruening I like horror movies . . . a lot. I don't care if they're daring & original or formulaic. If they're made well, I enjoy them. That being said, if you don't like the daring & original type (Blair Witch Project, REC, Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, etc) you may not enjoy this one as much as I did. Sometimes these types of movies fail miserably (District 9). This one was excellent. The word that kept coming to mind as I watched it was 'creepy'. And the Polaroid flash sequence was one of the most frightening movie-watching experiences I've had in hundreds of horror flicks.I actually read one review on this site where the viewer didn't like it because it didn't give a clean answer to questions that arose from the plot twist. Really? Seriously?? If you feel the way this reviewer did, you may want to stick with any of the Final Destination incarnations. There is certainly nothing challenging in there. All tied up with a nice bow on top.Unfortunately, as with Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Silent House will undoubtedly be dumbed down and ruined when it goes through the Hollywood cookie cutter machine. Do yourself a favor . . . again, as with GWTDT, watch the original, subtitles and all!