LA CASA MUDA is very close to SILENT HOUSE, except that it's awful. SILENT HOUSE was actually the American remake of this Uruguayan film, but it's surely an improvement. I don't go to a haunted house movie for story or plot, so in SILENT HOUSE, I was mainly led through a good experience by Elizabeth Olsen and cinematographer Igor Martinovíc. In LA CASA MUDA, the single take gimmick is poorly handled, and the story of Laura (Florencia Colucci) running about in a haunted house in the dark, is slow and pathetic. Not scary in the slightest bit, LA CASA MUDA has no sense of focus or interest, and lazily follows Laura about the house while maintaining a distance. She shrieks, and I have no sense where the film is. I yawn, she shrieks. What made the remake so entertaining is that Olsen-Martinovíc gave us a clear sense of where we were at every moment and what Olsen's character was experiencing at every moment. The range of emotions in LA CASA MUDA is scared and not scared, crying and not crying. A bore.
★★ out of Five
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