The tricky camera moves that fill up “Silent House” make for one-half of a nerveracking horror film – before the movie’s obviousness just gets on your nerves.
In one long, continuous take — therebuy nike clothes
are no obvious cuts or edits — Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen, of “Marcy Mary May Marlene”) is seen helping her dad (Adam Trese) and her uncle (Eric Sheffer Stevens) fix up an old lakeside house. It is, of course, a rambling old clapboard thing that holds strange memories for Sarah, which she slowly realizes aren’t all pleasant. It doesn’t help that there’s no electricity in the house, so they have to use large construction flashlights, and behind every tarp and half-knocked-down wall are spooky shadows and dust.
By the time a mysterious girl (Julia Taylor Ross) appears, claiming to be Sarah’s unremembered “friend” from childhood, we get inklings that filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau – remaking a 2010 Uruguayan thriller that employed the same trick – have merely dressed up the usual psychological thriller with a camera-never-looks-away gimmick.
Alfred Hitchcock did the same thing 64 years ago in “Rope,” for different effect, and movies from “The Bonfire of the Vanities” to “Goodfellas” have used it, often breathtakingly, in specific scenes.
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ominous. Think Sarah, her dad and her uncle seem a little too cozy? The reason won’t shock you.
What does give nice jolts are the way the hand-held camera catches car doors slowly opening, the way figures appear in doorways and people lurk under the stairs, as well as one effect that has nothing to do with technology: The late-afternoon autumn dusk that slowly envelops the house.
The trickery wears thin by the movie’s midpoint, design your own nike free
but at least there’s real atmosphere outside.
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