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Plot summary
Sarah arrives at her family's old Victorian house in the countryside. Her father John and her uncle Peter are with her, and the men plan to repair the dilapidated property so it can be sold. Sarah barely remembers the house. John and Peter argue, and Peter drives into town for extra tools. A young woman named Sophia appears at the door and claims to have been a childhood friend of Sarah, who does not remember her. Then Sarah hears John fall down the stairs. She tries to get out of the house, but every exit is blocked. She hides from an unknown person moving through the building.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Silent House (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film sells itself as one unbroken take, but Elizabeth Olsen revealed it was actually shot in 12-minute takes and edited to look continuous, which directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau later confirmed.
- Laura Lau never worked from the Uruguayan original's screenplay: she watched La casa muda twice and wrote her version from those viewings. The result ran 55 to 60 pages, which worried the team because with no cuts nothing could be fixed afterwards.
SPOILER
The true story behind the film was never pinned down. Laura Lau said all she and Chris Kentis were told was that something had happened in a Uruguayan village some 60 years earlier, involving dead bodies and incest.
