Monday 6 October 2014

Silent House (2011) 6/10

Starring : Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross, Adam Barnett, Haley Murphy
Director : Chris Kentis & Laura Lau
Running Time : 86 mins

While in the process of packing up her belongings at the lakeside home belonging to her father John (Trese), Sarah (Olsen) starts hearing strange noises in the house and thinks she may be the victim of a home invasion when she and her dad are attacked, and Sarah finds herself running for her life from someone or something that is out to get her.

Olsen performance is pretty good, but the content of this film makes it difficult to follow. What starts out as feeling like a horror film eventually turns into almost a rape-revenge movie, with some pretty tenuous reasoning behind the events that occur both within the movie and prior to it. Personally I didn’t like the anti-climactic conclusion of this film, and those who stick with it for its interesting real-time direction might be just as disappointed as I was.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Uninvited



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