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The Silent House Reviews

If this one-shot approaches imposes a strict unity of time and place on Hernandez's film, nonetheless the story will prove to be no more straight than the house is silent.

| Jun 20, 2013

The whole film is one gigantic trick, a piece of celluloid slight of hand that infuriatingly doesn't hold water.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 3, 2011

The catch of this Uruguayan horror film is its structure, one continuous shot that takes us through a perplexing tale of disturbance, murder and madness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2011

A remarkable exercise in atmosphere and suspense.

| May 25, 2011

Reminiscent of the breathless right-behind-you tension of Ils (Them), full of playful reveals and made all the eerier by Hernn Gonzlez's classically ominous score.

| May 9, 2011

[An] occasionally jolting but largely unconvincing Uruguayan horror flick...

| Apr 10, 2011

The chief wonder of this horror, directed by Gustavo Hernndez, is that it was filmed with a digital camera in one single shot.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2011

There's no doubt about it: this is a smart, scary film and a technical tour de force with its own skin-crawling atmosphere of fear.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2011

A flawed but fascinating experiment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2011

I loved the basic plot idea, its mordant minimalism inspired by surviving Polaroid photos from an actual crime scandal. But the execution is faltering and the murkiness relentless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2011

Cranks up the tension with fluid, choreographed camera moves and unnerving off-screen sounds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2011

A short, sharp shock of innovative Latin horror.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

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