Thursday, August 2, 2012

Silent House

 Released Year: 2011
Directed by Chris Kentis & Laura Lau

Casted by:
Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah
Adam Trese as John
Eric Sheffer Stevens as Peter
Julia Taylor Ross as Sophia
 Story:
 A young woman named Sarah is staying at a house in the countryside with her father and her uncle. They are fixing it up in order to sell it. Due to petty fighting between Sarah's uncle and her father, her uncle decides to take a break from fixing up the house, driving into town. While her father works upstairs, there is a knock on the door and Sarah answers it, meeting a young woman who claims to be one of Sarah's childhood friends, though Sarah does not remember her. The two plan to meet again later.

Soon after, Sarah hears strange noises upstairs and immediately notifies her father. He is not worried, but goes to check, finding nothing. Sarah calms down, but soon hears the sound of her father falling down the stairs. Panicked, Sarah searches for him and finds him unconscious, with a head wound. She tries to leave the house but all exits are locked or boarded up. She then discovers that her father's body has disappeared. She runs to the basement and finds a bed and other human necessities, evidence that someone else has been living there. She sees a figure shining a light in the basement to find her but she escapes out the back door.

Outside, she meets her uncle, who has returned, and sees a young girl on the side of the road who disappears before her eyes. They decide to go back to the house armed with a gun to rescue her father. Inside, the power is cut; the only source of light available is a polaroid camera's flash. Through a series of incoherent camera flashes, Sarah sees someone else in the house. The power returns to reveal that her uncle is missing. She is hiding under a table surrounded by two men taking pictures of a unseen girl on the top of the table, presumably pedophilic in nature. Sarah sees her uncle's body being dragged by one of the men into the living room. She attempts unsuccessfully to shoot one of the men with her uncle's gun. In the living room, she finds her now conscious father wrapped in a body bag, sitting up.

Sarah begins to exhibit signs of extreme paranoia, multiple personalities, and insanity. She has hallucinations of reality and alternate realities that depict traumatic childhood events induced by her father and uncle. Her father becomes the antagonist at this point. He convinces Sarah to untie him, at which point he begins to whip her with his belt. At the same time, her uncle regains consciousness and he tries to stop her father, who mocks his brother's pleas. As his back is turned, Sarah kills him with a sledgehammer. Questioned by Sarah about why he never tried to dissuade her father from his pedophilic behavior, the uncle desperately states he made a mistake; he wishes he had done so. Sarah leaves him and walks outside silently and the film fades to black.

It is assumed that Sarah imagined most of the terrors she witnesses: she was hallucinating due to her traumatic childhood and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, memories of which were triggered upon returning to the house. The memories sent her into a psychotic episode where she attacked both her father and uncle.
 L² Scored: 3.5/10

L² Comment:
I love the Olsen's twins, Elizabeth Olsen is the younger sister of them. But i never imagine that she got such big juicy tits, its a waste she did not exposed her beautiful breast. Well, her acting is not bad as well, but the storyline is not that attracting. Even though this is based on a real story, but i already predicted how the story is gonna be...

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