17. La Casa Muda (The Silent House), 2010
Well, I went to watch this with a friend, they’re doing this thing called CineClub at the University and they’re having a French Horror Film Cycle, but they could not get Calvaire (which was today’s film) so instead they played this Uruguayan film.
The good things about this movie are: it was made with an amazingly low budget and it shows, looks gritty and shitty and awesome because of that, it was shot in one continuous 78 take, with no cuts, with a Canon EOS 5D camera, it is the first Latin-American feature film and the second film in the world to be shot entirely with a professional photo camera. The high tension moments are great, my friend actually jumped at some point.
The bad thing is, the second half of the movie, the first half is great, it sets you right where the desperation and horror is, but then comes the second half and it’s where the story starts going down and down, it wasn’t a very solid story and it lefts a bunch of nonsensical questions and plot points unanswered.
P.S. For a movie with the ‘real time’ gimmick, and a great story watch Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rope’, from 1948.
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