13 Movies That Scored A Legendary F With CinemaScore

5. Silent House

Silent House
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Back in 2011, Elizabeth Olsen horror vehicle Silent House scored a dreaded F despite being based on brilliant low-budget Uruguayan horror. Luckily for the studio, it cost only $2m to make and banked more than $13m in the end. So they probably didn't care all that much.

Ultimately, it struggles for the same reason any American remake of a good foreign language horror - it just doesn't really need to exist.

Did It Deserve It?

It's not great, sadly, and compared to the original it suffers even more, but there are things to admire. The atmospheric work is good, the chills are strong in some places and Olsen is good. It's just not enough to make it feel like more than an unnecessary copy.

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