The Silent House (Spanish: La Casa Muda) is a 2010 Uruguayan horror film directed by Gustavo Hernández.

The film is supposedly inspired by real events that took place in the 1940s, but no information can be found to authenticate the aforementioned claims.

At the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Chris Kentis and Laura Lau presented an English-language remake titled Silent House, starring Elizabeth Olsen.

Shortly after, her father goes upstairs to check a noise and Laura hears what appears to be combat.

They kiss each other and have a conversation: Nestor tells Laura that he loves her and only called her father in order to see her.

She sits Nestor in the chair after removing her father's corpse, puts the mysterious puppet on him, and kills him with her reap hook.

La Casa Muda was shot to look like it was in real time in one continuous 88 minute take.

Its claims that it is one of only a handful of theatrically-released movies to be shot in a continuous long take, and that it is the first ever single-take horror film, are contentious, as the camera used, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, can only film up to 15 minutes of continuous footage.

[2] With a budget of just six thousand dollars, it was filmed using a handheld high-definition digital single-lens reflex camera (the Canon EOS 5D Mark II) over a time period of just four days.

It received mixed reviews after its 8 April 2011 release in the UK, with critics generally praising the director's technical achievements, but finding the overall story line unimpressive.