Silent House Reviews, Interviews & More
2012 provided us with a number of decent horror flicks. For so many years we were getting these awful horror movies, all suffering from the same sickness – cheap thrills and cliché endings. Paranormal Activity provided fans of the genre with something fresh and terrifying, but then that franchise fell into the same traps. The sequels, including the one we saw this year, failed to...
This week we’ve got a best picture winner, one of the year’s best comedies, a foreign film Oscar nominee, a near-Bollywood musical, a forgettable horror movie, one of this year’s bigger noisy would-be blockbusters. On the classic front, there's Hitchcock, samurai adventure, and the movie that made dueling banjos something to be slightly scared of. Check it out…
We watch a lot of movie trailers here at ScreenCrave, and, as we inch closer to summer with its ever-increasing torrent of new films, we're seeing more and more previews with each passing day. As we do so, we can't help but notice some similarities, repetitions, and clichés among them. Here at Trailer Park, we'll be offering a rundown of those clichés, where they come from, and which...
Though it's definitely the box office story of the week, John Carter flopping isn't that big a deal - unless it leads to massive firings. This train was coming into the station slowly, and from the first trailer and poster there were questions if the studio ever figured out how to sell the picture. The answer is that they didn't. Alas. And so The...
Almost a decade ago, filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau terrified audiences with their low-budget and low-tech film Open Water. This time around they take on Silent House, a remake of the Uruguayan film La Casa Muda, starring Sundance "it girl" Elizabeth Olsen. In...
Filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau once again take on a terrifying topic in Silent House, a psychological horror film based on writer/director Gustavo Hernandez' 2010 La Casa Muda, which premiered at Sundance in 2011. Kentis and Lau are best known for their thrilling stranded-at-sea film...
This year's Sundance Film Festival has a number of classic Sundancers returning this year including Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame with his latest film, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, we also have Director Azazel Jacobs teaming up with another festival champ John C. Reilly, and finally a more thrilling return from Open Water filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura...
