The Silent House

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The Silent House

2010

1h 19m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Laura and her father stay in a house overnight, but a mysterious noise makes her very frightened.

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Shot in a single take, The Silent House may be a gimmick movie, but it's one that's enough to sustain dread and tension throughout.

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Anton Bitel

Sight & Sound

If this one-shot approaches imposes a strict unity of time and place on Hernandez's film, nonetheless the story will prove to be no more straight than the house is silent.

Jun 20, 2013

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

The whole film is one gigantic trick, a piece of celluloid slight of hand that infuriatingly doesn't hold water.

Rated: 2/4

Jun 3, 2011

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Anthony Quinn

Independent (UK)

The catch of this Uruguayan horror film is its structure, one continuous shot that takes us through a perplexing tale of disturbance, murder and madness.

Rated: 3/5

May 25, 2011

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Naila Scargill

Exquisite Terror

Florencia Colucci is superb, easily shouldering the film. Also impressive is some genuine creepiness courtesy of clever lighting.

Feb 28, 2019

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Jamie Neish

HeyUGuys

Nothing short of a bold, ingeniously executed and genuinely terrifying tour de force. Seek it out.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 13, 2018

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg

That Shelf

The claustrophobia extends out into the audience; I can't remember the last time a film made that many viewers jump so many times. But the narrative is not enough to sustain it, and the final explanation is less than gratifying.

May 15, 2018

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Very near perfection.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

Interesting experiment in taken in one shot...only natural it lacks in effects and dramaturgy....nonetheless more soul than many big budget productions

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/16/19

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Audience Member

Slow-moving and boring.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Creative horror flick filmed in one shot and looks like one take, pretty impressive. Confused by the ending. Thought maybe I'd missed something but went to read the wiki-synopsis and still as confused. But that's giving me some weirdness to think about.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

BAH; it's Spanish and the version i watched didn't have subtitles so i have no idea what was said. but there really wasn't a lot of dialog, so i guess that's okay. although i don't know what that ending was... so maybe that dialog would've been helpful. this movie is very dark -- meaning it lacks in lighting -- and there are a lot of shaky camera shots focused on her but you know something's going to happen in the background so you just watch the background type of scenes... so that was suspenseful. but other than that i didn't really care for it.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Audience Member

Slow to start and then the plot goes all over the place.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Synopsis

Laura and her father stay in a house overnight, but a mysterious noise makes her very frightened.

Director: Gustavo Hernández
Screenwriter: Oscar Estévez, Gustavo Hernández, Gustavo Rojo
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2017
Runtime: 1h 19m