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El Camino College The Union

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El Camino College The Union

    “The Silent House” bores audience with familiar plot

    With a few tears, screams, drips of blood on the floor, a couple of unconscious bodies, and noises that appear to come from nowhere, a movie may now earn its title as a “psychological thriller.”

    While a thriller may attract movie-goers, a gross income of $7 million dollars on its first weekend makes the future of the movie unpredictable.

    According to msn. com, “The Silent House” is the American remake of the Uruguayan 2010 horror film, “La Casa Muda.” As well as mimicking the same plot as “Storytelling Conceit of Unfolding in Real Time.”

    The movie, directed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, begins with a lone girl, Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen) who quietly sits above rocks that lie along the seashore.

    The girl begins to stand up and walks along a field of long grass.

    It appears she is walking in her own front yard as she slowly walks toward a house. The first person Sarah sees is no other than her own father, John (Adam Trese).

    Once in contact, the two engage in a brief father and daughter conversation.

    The conversation begins to trail away and the two walk toward the entry of their home.

    The door opens and there stands Peter (Eric Shefer Stevens), Sarah’s uncle.

    The movie appears to begin with a family get-together, where each individual plays a part in repairing what seems to be an old mold-infested home.

    The average “trip down memory lane” ends as soon as Sarah meets an old childhood friend, Sophia, whom she cannot recall.

    Her brief conversation ends when Sarah enters the house alone and begins to “tidy up” her old room.

    Sarah stops when she sees a mysterious red box that appears to be locked.

    The “thriller” begins here as she is alone in her own room and in the middle of a conversation with her father, hears no response.

    Although the suspense throughout the movie captures the audiences’ attention, it leaves them snoring and dissaponited with a typical hollywood horror film.

    After Sarah begins to panic and the audience screams, she is shaken by a faint sound of footsteps and a loud thud against the wall.

    She later learns that the loud thud against the wall came from the unconscious body of her father.

    Who has become nearly-dead after facing the stalking man (Adam Barnett).

    When all of a sudden, she becomes the stalking man.

    Sarah turns out to have “psychological issues,” with an abusive father, and an uncle who never stood up for his niece.

    Overall, the movie was nothing intresting and left viewers with nothing to look forward to any upcoming horror films.

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