Silent House

A girl is trapped inside of her holiday home while an unknown stranger hunts down her father, uncle and her...

A teenage girl, her father and uncle, decide to sell their family holiday house, but decide to do the place up before putting it on the market. With no power in the house it can be a fairly scary place, especially for the jumpy "Sarah". She finds her father knocked out and then the faceless attacker turns his venom on her, chasing the young lady around the house which holds so many happy memories for her.

To add to this, she keeps having visions of a little girl, enduring horrible things and the memories of her life in the house keep flashing through her mind. She meets a child hood friend, of whom, she has no recollection and also keeps finding pictures of a little girl strewn all over the house. As the power in the old building keeps going on and off the person chasing her gets more frantic and images she keeps seeing get more and more frightening. But how much of what she is seeing is real, and how much is just her overactive imagination...

Elizabeth Olsen (The younger sister of the rather more famous, Mary-Kate and Ashley) makes her big screen debut in this wannabee thriller and shows that she has even less acting talent than her older siblings and is one of the worst movies I have seen this year.

She spends 88 minutes, panting, screaming, crying, smudging her makeup and trying her best to save a script, which has maybe 5 minutes of decent writing in it. The story is flat, but for five minutes towards the end where they roll out the reasoning for all the goings on and then end the film, in the most random way possible.

The action is slow, and the thriller element of the film, had the audience actually laughing out loud in places, not really what the directors were going for. There is no real suspense, and although the film deals with a really serious issue, the writers failed to convey this throughout. The finale makes you sit up and take notice, but with such a lame plot beforehand it is hard to grasp the gravity of what the story is really about.

Adam Trese is poor as "John", while Eric Sheffer Stevens, may want to do a few more TV movies before returning to the big screen, (He certainly needs the practice). Julia Taylor Ross is the only one bright light in this complete let down, giving a decent showing as "Sophia", despite only being on screen for a very short time. Maybe the director should have given her more of a role and she might just have saved this film. Keep an eye out for this actress, she could go places.

It seemed that the director was more interested in cleavage shots of Elizabeth Olsen (there are plenty of these), than her actual acting talents. The filming of this is sketchy at best, zooming in and out at will and also battling to stay in focus. If you have 90 minutes of your life to lose, and absolutely nothing else to watch, then this film, might be for you. If not, don't bother.

3.5/10