Movie review: 'Silent House '

By Christopher Kelly

cmkelly@dfw.com

The horror movie Silent House unfolds in real time, and is designed to look like a single, unbroken shot, with the camera trailing behind the characters, winding up and down stairwells, into the darkness, and then back into light. Alfred Hitchcock employed a similar device in Rope (1948), photographing the movie in just 10 shots, ranging from 41/2 to 10 minutes in length. More recently, Russian director Alexander Sokurov staged a dazzling, 96-minute journey through St. Petersburg's Hermitage in Russian Ark (2002), shot with a Steadicam in one jaw-droppingly fluid take.

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