Silent House ReviewSo, today I went to watch Silent House, a horror film which was directed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau. It was released 11 days ago, and is a remake of the 2010 Uruguayan film. Now what did I think of the movie. First, lets go over what I ask myself after a movie, which are 5 things.

1) Did it scare me?
2) Was it suspenseful?
3) Did it have a deep plot?
4) Was the ending good?
5) Did I feel that it was money well spent?

Lets start with the first two.

1) Did it scare me? and 2) Was it suspenseful?
No and yes. While the suspense was well paced and laid out, I felt it all disappear when the movie was supposed to make you scared. For example, when the main girl, Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen), is hiding under ...

Silent House ReviewSo, today I went to watch Silent House, a horror film which was directed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau. It was released 11 days ago, and is a remake of the 2010 Uruguayan film. Now what did I think of the movie. First, lets go over what I ask myself after a movie, which are 5 things.

1) Did it scare me?
2) Was it suspenseful?
3) Did it have a deep plot?
4) Was the ending good?
5) Did I feel that it was money well spent?

Lets start with the first two.

1) Did it scare me? and 2) Was it suspenseful?
No and yes. While the suspense was well paced and laid out, I felt it all disappear when the movie was supposed to make you scared. For example, when the main girl, Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen), is hiding under a table, something grabs her leg, but you need to be watching in order to figure that out. The camera slowly slides to the side for a view of the girls legs and only for a split second do you see a small blue hand before the camera leaps away and starts shaking rapidly. Seriously you'd think the way it was shaking, the camera man was having seizures. The sudden shaking was by far the worse thing in the movie. Now lets put down this stick and start beating this dead horse of a movie with a lead pipe

3) Did it have a good plot?
I think the movie was, in it's own way, trying to be mind-rapeish, like horror games such as Amnesia or Silent Hill, but tries to hard and ends up destroying what could've been good. The plot for the most part was okay. It was paced well for the most part, though once again the camera shaking left certain parts confusing and had me wondering things like, "What just happened?" or "How did she cut her wrists?"
Another rather important part of the plot this movie failed at was exposition. Now exposition is by far, the most important thing in anything. Movie, TV show, book, anime, anything has exposition to help you understand what is happening. Now there are multiple ways to provide this exposition such as: Inner monologues, context clues within dialogue, and more artistic approach that many horror films use is image exposition, where the watcher must put two and two together to figure out what is happening. This movie tries to take the artistic approach, and fails. The clues we are given are not clear entirely and most just feel tacked on by a director who just wants to add length. Hell, I still don't fully understand the ending. In fact, one of the major pieces of the image exposition were photos of Sarah's past. Problem was, we never saw the pictures, only reactions of people seeing them, and the one time we do see them, most are flipped upside down and all I could see of the ones face up were blurs.

4) Was the ending good?

No, No it was not. Look Spoiler alert below. This next paragraph will completely tell you the ending.
Sarah yells at Sophie for torturing her and her family. Sophie tells her to open red box. Sarah opens red box. Photo's we do not get to see are pulled out. Sarah is shocked. Sarah goes at cuts Sophie. Sarah gets cut instead. Sophie disappears. Sarah gives Father some sort of mock lap dance. Dad talks to her. He blames mold from beginning of the movie. Sarah cuts Dad free. They hug. Dad punches Sarah. Dad whips Sarah with belt. Uncle wakes up. Uncle tells Dad to stop. Dad calls Uncle a wimp. Uncle threatens him with a knife. Dad kicks away knife. Sarah knocks dad down with sledge hammer. Sarah bashes dad with sledge hammer. Sarah turns to Uncle. Uncle begs for his life to be spared. Sarah drops sledge hammer. Sarah runs out door. Sarah looks off in the distance with an empty look. The credits roll. That is literally the last 8 minutes of the film.

5) Did I feel my money was well spent?

No. This movie was horrible, with it's strong points laying in the suspense (Which was ruined by a epileptic cameraman), acting (though not all of it was good), and Elizabeth Olsen (Who's got them tig ol bitties). Unless you want to waste you money on these reasons alone, I suggest you stay away.

I give this film a 2/10