Eight years ago, filmmaking team Chris Kentis and Laura Lau proved with the stranded-at-sea thriller Open Water that they could make an interesting movie with experimental ideas. Their latest offering, Silent House, is shaping up to be another technically playful achievement; a horror movie filmed (or edited to look like it was filmed) entirely in a single take.
Silent House is cleverly being billed as serving up “real fear in real time.” It tells the story of Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen), a young woman who has returned to her old family home with her father (Adam Treese) and uncle (Eric Sheffer Stevens) in order to fix it up and sell it. To avoid spoiling anything, I’ll just say they hear strange noises, then freaky things happen.
The film is a remake of Gustavo Hernandez‘s Spanish-language 2010 film, La Casa Muda, which is being released in the UK on April 8. Check out that trailer for the original below via STYD below and you can read our Sundance text review here and video review here of the remake (pictured above).
The Silent House remake premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where Mike Liddell‘s Liddell Entertainment picked it up for $3 million. It’s currently slated for a vague 2011 release. There is no current distribution for the original film.
Horror in one take? Is this worth checking out, or did Hitchcock already do it best?