Elizabeth Olsen The Sundance Horror-Thriller 'Silent House'

Olsen Twins' Sister Elizabeth Stars In An Exclusive Clip From The Sundance Horror-Thriller 'Silent House'

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In 2004, the filmmaking team of Chris Kentis and Laura Lau captivated Sundance Film Festival audiences with the quietly creepy "Open Water." That film, about a couple who are left to grapple with sharks when they become separated from a scuba excursion, went on to become a critical and box-office success. Kentis and Lau are hoping the same is true for their new psychological horror-thriller "Silent House," which is playing as part of this year's Sundance Film Fest's Park City at Midnight series. Check out an exclusive clip from the film below.

Based on the acclaimed Uruguayan film "La Casa Muda," "Silent House" stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's younger sister Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a young girl who returns with her father and uncle to fix up her family's summerhouse after it's violated by squatters in the off-season. It's an innocuous enough beginning, but things quickly take a turn for the sinister when Sarah begins to hear strange sounds emanating from the walls of the boarded-up house.

Is someone or something trying to get out? Is the house haunted? Or is Sarah just going stark raving mad? Judging by the clip above, which shows a terrified, blood-soaked Sarah desperately trying to escape the house, it seems that she has some legitimate cause for alarm. Then again, we never do get a glimpse of what Sarah is running from, so it could all be in her head -- a popular device in films of late.

Either way, it'll be interesting to see how the film is received. Kentis and Lau's "Open Water" slowly and masterfully built tension throughout the course of the movie, and "Silent House" promises to do the same. Plus, we're interested to see what kind of acting chops 21-year-old Olsen has. She's been getting some strong buzz these days, and it's a safe bet that she's come a long way since playing herself in those direct-to-DVD "Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley" movies.


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Stars gather downtown for Salt Lake City Sundance premier

SALT LAKE CITY -- Stars of screen, television and rock and roll were all together for the Salt Lake City premiere of the Sundance Film Festival Friday night. Friday's premier film, "The Music Never Stopped," is based on a real case study of a man who could only relate to life through a certain type of music. The writers, director and cast say it has a message which they believe the film festival will help them spread.

The film follows the struggles of a young man with a benign brain tumor who only connects with the world through the music of his teenage years, the 1960s.

Popular actor J.K. Simmons plays the father. He's "Chief Pope" on TNT's "The Closer," and is also a Sundance veteran -- third time, being the charm, he says.

"They've already made a deal to have the movie distributed," Simmons said Friday night. "The other two times I was here were with really, really nice movies -- hundreds of people saw them. This one, I think, will do a little better than that."




Emmy winner Julia Ormond plays a music therapist.

"The character that I play is based on a wonderful woman called Connie Cimino, and she was basically doing cutting-edge musical therapy based on the belief that music helps to you to tap into a different side of the brain," Ormond explained.

Some of the music that helps the young man was created by rock band The Grateful Dead. Two of the band members came to Friday night's premiere, remembering meeting the real young man whose life this film is based on.

"We were part of this movie, what was it? Twenty-five, 30 years ago? More? And then we just found out we were part of it, and now we're here to be part of it officially," said musician Bob Weir.

"In real life, before the screenplay and all of that, the character in the movie had visited our stage and was transformed by the power of music," musician Mickey Hart said. "This is what the story is all about."

There are more Sundance screenings in Salt Lake, Ogden, the Sundance Resort and, of course, Park City.

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