AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Steineded How sad is this?

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Michael Ledo Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen) helps her dad (Adam Trese) and creepy uncle (Eric Sheffer Stevens, "My have you grown Sarah") clean up an old family lake house for resale. The cousins didn't want to help. Sarah has very little memory of the place as a child and doesn't even remember the neighbor girl who she played with...hmmm. The house has been vandalized and appears to have rodent damage which prevents the use of electricity. It is unnaturally pitch black dark inside, even during the day because the house is boarded up and of course they don't have cell phone reception. Between these few clues and the title of the film, we know which direction the film is going to take, just not the details. Yawn.Sarah becomes unnerved by things that go bump in the night and much of the film is dark or poorly lit with camera angels that focus on Sarah's cleavage. When they are not focused on her cleavage, they are extremely bad amateur angels that distracted from the film instead of enhancing it. Might work as a rental if you ran out of paint to watch dry. A fair film made bad by a director trying out gimmicks.F-bomb, strong sexual innuendo, no nudity outside of cleavage.

Mike LeMar My rating's a 4.5. In addition to what everyone's said about the idiocy of going back into the house when the guy picks her up late in the movie, the twist is fabulous except for the fact that the audience had no way of guessing it because there are never any hints given. The movie starts right up and gets going without us even knowing these people until the twist comes at the end. Some background for a twist like this has to be given. Also, once they're stupidly back in the house, it's so horror-typical and annoying that he doesn't answer when she keeps calling for him and then suddenly appears and goes, "I'm right here!" like he's annoyed.

David Roggenkamp Silent House is another one of 'those' films. It combines several clichés that I've come to know with more recent horror movies and it executes them quite well. Does it start out with the stars of the movie? Absolutely – and they're talking about Facebook of all things; I really am starting to wonder if Facebook even belongs in talking about - anything- in horror movies. I'm sure it's meant to help perpetuate interpersonal relations and show status between characters; but there is something 'bland' when it comes to using Facebook as a plot device.Anyway, these two characters are joined by a third – they're inspecting a house that has mold issues. Naturally this is foreshadowing towards a bigger plot induced simply by inhaling right? Not at all – scenes shown are exactly what they are meant to be – this is an exploitation flick. Not only does the movie play in several different directions – it has the main female lead constantly fidgeting, getting spooked out of her mind, or simply screaming; she also whimpers. The movie does have the classic violin music in the background; it is played to effect and it also has those familiar plucks for pitch. The music is largely what gives this movie atmosphere – scenes which would otherwise look no different than fishing for a tool during a blackout – suddenly come to life. However, without the violin music, this movie is also downright creepy; what would look like a hallucination due to spores is just that, other scenes of a predator are also present. The movie shifts around so many times though, that it is hard to tell just what is going on, and this is largely one of the downsides. In the end, it is indeed revealed as an exploitation flick, and memories of a girl's past come back to haunt her. The mold in the house probably is played to effect, but the hallucinations lose their effect as the movie plays out. If this movie would have had the woman challenging her own conflicts and predators in this movie, it could have very well been a better story. I do recommend it for the standard scenes which are associated so closely with horror – they clearly knew what to use when making itOriginally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/?p=5121).

kosmasp If you haven't seen the movie this is based on, tack another point to my vote. If you have, you don't really have to watch this (as I really shouldn't have). Not that it's bad and it does twist a couple of things. Though it keeps the whole "shot in one take" appeal, even if it actually wasn't shot in one take, but rather a lot of longer shots. Which is still quite a task (so technically speaking this was quite an "exercise", if you wanna call it that).Olson seems to be quite fond of genre pictures or at least starring in them. She updated recently of course to the Blockbuster kind (also see Old Boy remake and Godzilla remake ... remakes seem to be her thing too come to think of it). She does a nice enough job here, especially considering some of the flaws this has, but also the emotional ride her character takes ...