Enter 'The Silent House'
We just received word of an intriguing-sounding Spanish-language indie thriller, The Silent House.
Directed by Gustavo Hernandez, photographed by Pedro Luque (known for his work on Ataque de Pánico) and produced by Gustavo Rojo, Silent House cost only six thousand dollars to make. The film, done in one single continuous shot, was filmed with a SLR digital (a Canon EOS 5D Mark) and is apparently the first one in Latin America, the second one in the world, and the first horror film anywhere to have been filmed with a "photograph camera" (I assume this means still camera).
The story, told in real time, is described thusly: "Laura ( Florencia Colucci) and her father ( Gustavo Alonso) settle down in a cottage which seems to be off the beaten track in order to update it since its owner ( Abel Tripaldi) will soon put the house on sale. They will spend the night there in order to start the repairs the following morning. Everything seems to go on smoothly until Laura hears a sound that comes from outside and gets louder and louder in the upper floor of the house. Wilson goes up to see what is going on while she remains downstairs on her own waiting for her father to come down. The plot is based on a true story that happened some time ago in a small village in Uruguay. "La Casa Muda" focuses on the last seventy eight minutes, second by second, when Laura intends to leave the house which hides an obscure secret and she hopes to leave unharmed." Check out some more images from the film below, as well as the trailer.
