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Written March 10, 2012
Not every story needs a twist

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The concept of a single take, without the camera breaking away even once is a great idea. For the first half of the movie I was /really/ into it. It was intense, it was terrifying, it was everything I wanted it to be. And then there's a plot twist. When is Hollywood going to realize that sometimes it's okay for a movie to just be about what it's about? Our only emotional investment in this movie was the girl getting out alive, and if that element is made irrelevant your audience stops caring. This could have been such a great movie if it had just stuck to what it was, but then the stupid plot twist had to go and ruin everything. Save your time and money and just skip it.
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Written March 9, 2012
1970s horror revised

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Silent House reminded me of a 1970s horror movie, which is the highest praise that I can give to a horror movie. Although the ending was pure DePalma, the first two thirds was early Wes Craven. Without giving away too much, know that the fear at the beginning felt real and intense. Olsen's acting reminds me of the best of Jamie Lee Curtis: she is truly afraid, alone, and seemingly stalked by a maniac. Mix in modern handheld camerawork, a bit of Blair Witch lighting, and you have a really creepy movie.
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Written March 11, 2012
Gave Me A Headache

by Installredge

This movie gave me a headache. There was so much blurred vision shaky camera filming it was actually annoying. Movie got so slow people started talking loudly in the theatre. Don't waste your money. If they show it on TV don't waste your time.
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Must Go!
Written March 11, 2012
Silent House

by davidjrcook

This movie, was a complete shocker from what the commercials originally gave us. It was extremely disturbing, now don't get me wrong, it was a very well done disturbing, but all the less very disturbing. What was so scary about it was the silence. The silence in this movie was amazing. It was as though you were in the characters position completely; that was really good. The acting was superb along with the set upon the house and the area that it was set in. Overall i would give this movie a 9.5, but like i said earlier it was not what i had expected, which at sometimes can be really good. In this case, it was extremely good. Great movie! Makes you really think about life.
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Written March 12, 2012
Silent House no

by msvanda789

Silent House was a slow starter, and never really had much of a plot. It seems like the only intent was to scare people. It wasnt worth the money to go see it.
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Written March 12, 2012
Don't waste your money!!

by Moshey

This movie is SOOO bad. We left about half way through it. It remember me of the Blair Witch Project, the camera was moving the whoel time and gave me a headache. The acting was also bad.
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Written March 11, 2012
Pointless and lame - save your money

by kaching64

This film was so bad, my immediate thought leaving the theater was to cancel the credit card charge to Fandango for the tickets. The film was shot in that annoying handicam style similarly done with the Paranormal Activity series and Chronicle. Sadly, the cameraman for Silent House must have suffered from Parkinson's disease becuase the camera was constantly jittery. We were too busy dealing with nausea to notice if anything scary was happening. Don't even think of wasting your time with Netflix or Redbox for this one, you'll be wishing for the 90 minutes of your life back.
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Written March 12, 2012
Not Worth Seeing

by lynnmurphy

A disappointment. Storyline is superficial. Not spooky at all, and not as suspenseful as trailer depicts. Movie starts out slow. It does begin to build up toward the middle of it. Acting was very good and believable. A good twist at the end, but it does leave you hanging without a strong conclusion. Would give this movie a mediocre score of 5 out of 10. Just not much there.
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Written March 12, 2012
Epic Fail!

by Jellz_30

This movie was a total flop. The acting was bad and the ending was worse. In fact, the only good thing about this film was that it was only 88 min.
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Written March 10, 2012
Silent house

by Dan Jestis

At the end of the movie, I actually heard a few people go "What?" it was slow and not scary, I felt as though i had 2 hours of my life stolen. I wouldn't recommend wasting your time.
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Written March 10, 2012
Silent House is Scary!

by chattymom04

I am surprised by the bad reviews, one which pretty much gives too much information (glad I didn't read any of these reviews before I went to see it!). I will say I did not care for the ending, it was a little twisted and I can think of much better ways to end it, however the movie was very scary, my heart was pounding through most of the movie. I thought it was more scary than Paranormal Activity. I thought Elizabeth Olsen was great, her acting was great. I don't know...I went to be scared and I was not disappointed so for me I say GO if you like scary movies.
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Written March 11, 2012
Silent House

by OnMovies

I went with my 12-year-old son who liked it.
On the other hand, I, as an adult, found the plot contrived and the acting mediocre. The maincharacter started getting terrifed when normal people would still have assumed ordinary reasons for noises heard. And as in many horror/suspense movies, she did dumb things like lock doors and lose keys, run back into the dangerous house, etc. that hopefully half-way intelligent people would not do.
As far as the filming quality: too many closeups that made it impossible to see what was really going on in the surrounding to have elicited the response you see on the character's faces.
And - some might enjoy that - a lot of gratuitous (and obvious) angles straight down the low cut halter top of the main character. ;)
The ending somwhat salvaged the movie with some originality.
Overall, I would only give it about 2 stars.
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Written March 19, 2012
Silent House

by deanieh

This was the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. I think it was supposed to be a psychological thriller even though the previews lead you to think it was a horror movie. The camera shots were purposely blurry which made it difficult to watch and to focus which caused me to have a terrible headache for about 30 minutes after I left the movie. The footage was so blurry and so bad that I asked theater employees whether there were issues with the theater cameras or if the film was, actually, in 3D and we neglected to get glasses on the way in. There were scenes in which the character looked behind her and screamed hysterically, but the viewer couldn't tell what was there because of the blurriness. I kept checking the time because I wanted the 88 minutes of annoyance to be over with. That's 88 minutes that I'll never get back. If you were like me and you were thinking this movie was going to be a heart-pounding, chilled to the bone thriler, you will be terribly disappointed. Don't go!
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Written March 11, 2012
total disaster

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Tthis had to been the worst movie ever , the only horror was the money i spent to see it ,and the 88 mins of my life gone .they should publicly apologize for this horror of a film and yank it out of theaters now!! . My wife was so mad she demanded two free movie passes and the manager obliged without reason , this was a bad movie dont go and see it !!!the acting was horrible and the director must of been a physco to think this was a major motion picture.Ive seen scarier crap in toilets !!! This film should be flushed along with the cast of this movie!!T E R R I B L E!!!!
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Written March 13, 2012
CREEPY but interesting!!

by ROBZOM617

If you liked the movies THE OTHERS and THE UNINVITED you will like this movie,
it has a unique TWIST in the end........it is not gory and scary like EVIL DEAD type of movies but it will keep you at the edge of your seat biting your nails!!
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