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

Jun 20, 2013

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.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

Jun 3, 2011

2/4

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

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Mar Diestro-Dópido

Sight & Sound

May 25, 2011

A remarkable exercise in atmosphere and suspense.

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Naila Scargill

Exquisite Terror

Feb 28, 2019

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

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Jamie Neish

HeyUGuys

Aug 13, 2018

4/5

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

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg

That Shelf

May 15, 2018

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.

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Mar 2, 2019

Very near perfection.

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Feb 16, 2019

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

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Mar 18, 2017

Slow-moving and boring.

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Feb 26, 2017

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.

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Courtney K

@c0urtn3y Mar 14, 2016

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.

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Jul 2, 2014

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

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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

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