The Silent House

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Movie
German title The Silent House
Original title La Casa Muda
Country of production Uruguay
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2010
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Gustavo Hernández
script Oscar Estévez
production Gustavo Rojo
music Hernán González
camera Pedro Luque
cut Gustavo Hernandez
occupation

Florencia Colucci : Laura
Abel Tripaldi : Néstor
Gustavo Alonso : Wilson
María Salazar : Niña

The Silent House is a 2,010 incurred horror film from Uruguay .

action

Laura and her father want to renovate the vacant house of their friend Wilson, because he wants to sell it. They spend one night in the house so that they can start working the next day. Since all the windows are boarded up, it is very dark in the house even during the day. Wilson instructs the two not to go upstairs because the floor is in danger of collapsing.

First, Laura finds a radio suddenly switched on in a room, which she switches off. After a short time, however, Laura repeatedly hears a rumbling noise from the upper floor. Your father is investigating the cause. As a result, Laura hears fighting noises and is concerned at the same time. Shortly afterwards she finds her dead father tied up in a room in the basement. Since she hugs his corpse, her clothes are smeared with blood from now on.

She tried to escape the house, but the doors were locked. Armed with a sickle and a lamp, she wanders through the house to find a way out. When she enters the living room again, her dead father is not lying on the floor as before, but in the armchair in which he had previously slept. A strange doll has been placed on it.

Again a tune from a radio plays, but this time from the upper floor. Only now does Laura climb the stairs to the upper floor, where she finds a trail of blood on the wall and also turns off this radio. When she hears footsteps, she hides under a table and turns off her lamp. An unknown person with a knife and a lamp enters the room searching, but apparently does not notice Laura and disappears again. Only now does Laura find the key to the front door. She runs down the stairs and hears someone chasing her. Nevertheless, she manages to unlock the front door and escape from the house.

After wandering through the forest in front of the house in a panic, she comes to a stand on the forest path. In the background the pursuer is approaching with a lamp. At that moment she is almost run over by the owner Wilson, who was on his way to the house at midnight for unknown reasons. The pursuer's lamp goes out immediately. Although Laura is covered in blood and she tells Wilson that they have been attacked, Wilson does not seem to recognize the seriousness of the situation and, despite Laura's objections, insists on looking for the attacker in the house.

The two enter the house. When Laura confesses that her father was attacked on the upper floor, Wilson reproaches her for disregarding his instructions not to enter it under any circumstances. A little later Wilson disappears through a door and Laura's lamp goes out. Only with the help of an analog camera can she illuminate the room for a moment by triggering the flash. In one of the photos she sees a girl with severe dark circles in a white dress. In the last picture, a young man rushes towards her with a knife.

Laura jumps up and escapes unharmed into the next room, which is well lit. In a pram and on a wall she finds pictures of Wilson with a scantily clad woman.

Then she goes back down to the basement, where she finds Wilson. He is also tied up and is seriously injured on the ground. Laura leans over Wilson and the two kiss. Then they have a short conversation: Wilson first confesses to Laura that he loves her and that he only called her and her father to see her. On the other hand, Laura Wilson points out that she found his photos upstairs and asks him: “Do you miss them? Do you want to tell her something? She's here right now. ”In the mirror, the girl in the white dress with the heavy dark circles can be seen again, which is apparently also in the room. Laura becomes increasingly aggressive during the conversation and yells at Wilson. Finally all she says is: “You killed my baby. You will die like my father. ”Then she dragged Wilson into the living room and heaves him onto the chair her father slept in after placing his body on the floor. Then she lays the strange doll that was previously on her father on Wilson and kills him with a sickle.

criticism

The lexicon of international film found: “The low-budget horror film shot with a still camera has some atmospherically dense moments; but since he tells exclusively from the perspective of the protagonists, logical inconsistencies arise that can only be resolved with great difficulty. "

Origin and special features

The Silent House was allegedly shot in a single camera setting, without cuts, and tells a story that is said to have happened in a small Uruguayan village in the 1940s .

Rather sparing in the actual plot, the film lives primarily from the setting .

Remake

In 2011, a US remake was made under the title Silent House . This film was directed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau , who cast Elizabeth Olsen , Adam Trese and Eric Sheffer Stevens in the lead roles.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Silent House. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ La Casa Muda Sinopsis
  3. ^ Neil Genzlinger: Haunted Home Looks Great by Lantern Light . The New York Times. March 8, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2012.