First of all, this is a bad movie. Anything that sounds positive about it, let me assure you, its a bad movie. The majority of the movie is made to look like its one continuous take, which it clearly isn't. The scares, while legitimate at the beginning, begin to wane very quickly. The story is essentially non-existent until the final act, where you'll start to wish the story was still non-existent. With an ending as uninspired, hacky, and offensive as the one supplied with Silent House, its no small wonder it tanked.
A lot of genre films get away with a lot as far as offensive stuff goes, and god knows this blog has made those concessions as well. The final act of Silent House is so beyond the pale with ham-fisted, unneeded, explicit, and tactless use of child abuse and rape, the directors should be ashamed of themselves for creating it. Ugh. And it thinks its so mature and forward-thinking to address heady problems like this in film and maybe there is a place for it, Martha Marcy May Marlene, another Elizabeth Olsen film, addresses some similar themes in an adult manner, but in my opinion, if you don't have the chops required to do something sensitive in an appropriate manner, maybe don't try. You're going to make a bad movie and alienate people, at best.
Why is it so hard to deliver a satisfactory ending to a horror film?
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