'Silent House': One-take gimmick terrific performance creates powerful, scary movie starring Elizabeth Olsen

Review

Silent House

Who: With Elizabeth Olsen. Directed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau.

Rated: R; contains violence, strong lan guage and sexual situations.

Running time: 86 minutes.

When: Opens Friday.

Where: Area theaters.

Grade: B

In 1948, a bored Alfred Hitchcock decided on an experiment -- he would film his new movie, "Rope," with a continuously running camera, cutting only to put in a new 10-minute reel of film.

It was a strange choice and, he later admitted, a self-defeating one. Why would the greatest exponent of editing since Sergei Eisenstein give up the enormous gift of montage?

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'Silent House': One-take gimmick terrific performance creates powerful, scary movie starring Elizabeth Olsen

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