Silent House (2011 film)

Silent House
Directed by	Chris Kentis Laura Lau
Screenplay by	Laura Lau
Based on	The Silent House by Oscar Estevez
Produced by	Agnes Mentre Laura Lau
Starring	Elizabeth Olsen Adam Trese Eric Sheffer Stevens
Cinematography	Igor Martinovic
Music by	Nathan Larson
Production companies	LD Entertainment Elle Driver Productions Eye for an Eye Filmworks Tazora Films Cinema Management Group
Distributed by	Open Road Films
Release dates	January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21) (Sundance) March 9, 2012 (2012-03-09) (United States)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million[1]
Box office	$13.1 million[2]

Silent House is a 2011 American independent psychological horror film directed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, and starring Elizabeth Olsen. The plot focuses on a young woman who is terrorized in her family vacation home while cleaning the property with her father and uncle. The film is a remake of the 2010 Uruguayan film, La Casa Muda (lit. English:The Silent House),^[3] which was allegedly based on an actual incident that occurred in a village in Uruguay in the 1940s. It is notable for its use of "real time" footage and the manufactured appearance of a single continuous shot, similar to Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948).

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and was subsequently purchased by Open Road Films and Universal Pictures for distribution. Silent House premiered in United States theaters on March 9, 2012. It opened at number 5 at the U.S. box office, earning $6.6 million during its opening weekend; it would go on to gross a total of $12.8 million domestically. The film received mixed reviews from critics.