Demonstrating the limits of being too clever in a genre movie, the art-house chiller “Silent House” lets the tenseness of its first act trickle...

Elizabeth Olsen gives a brilliantly nervy performance in Silent House, a thriller from the Open Water directors.

A young woman (Elizabeth Olsen), with her father and uncle, revisits a lake house where she spent time as a child — and it soon seems they're not alone. Critic Andrew Lapin says the minimalist film's hand-held, long-takes approach heightens its slow-burn terror. (Recommended)

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