What is Silent House/Open Water about?

SILENT HOUSE, 2011, 86 min. Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen) works with her father and uncle to fix up the family’s longtime summerhouse after it has been violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building, and senses the past may still haunt the home. Impressively captured in a single continuous camera shot, SILENT HOUSE tracks the escalating panic of a young woman trapped in an unnerving nightmare. OPEN WATER, 2003, 79 min. Susan (Blanchard Ryan) and Daniel (Daniel Travis) take a daylong scuba diving trip while vacationing in the Caribbean. When a miscount happens on their tour boat, the couple is left behind in the middle of the ocean, with darkness descending and a stealthily increasing school of sharks circling ominously in the waters below. Discussion between films with directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau.

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What is Silent House/Open Water about?: SILENT HOUSE, 2011, 86 min. Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen) works with her father and uncle to fix up the family’s longtime summerhouse after it has been violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building, and senses the past may still haunt the home. Impressively captured in a single continuous camera shot, SILENT HOUSE tracks the escalating panic of a young woman trapped in an unnerving nightmare.

OPEN WATER, 2003, 79 min. Susan (Blanchard Ryan) and Daniel (Daniel Travis) take a daylong scuba diving trip while vacationing in the Caribbean. When a miscount happens on their tour boat, the couple is left behind in the middle of the ocean, with darkness descending and a stealthily increasing school of sharks circling ominously in the waters below.

Discussion between films with directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau.