It was only a matter of time until a filmmaker flipped the shaky-cam, first-person-perspective approach to horror on its lid, giving a nifty makeover to the style used (or, overused?) in Cloverfield, Spain’s [Rec] and its stateside remake Quarantine, George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, Home Movie and Paranormal Activity, just to name a few. Though the film has yet to be seen by any critics, Uruguay-born director Gustavo Hernandez’s La Casa Muda (The Silent House) seems to be just that technique-changer. Shot on a recorder camera, Hernandez’s film is being promoted as the first ever horror movie to come presented as one continuous 78-minute take, a feature-long sequence without edits or jumps.

Ignoring the disappointing “based on a true story” angle, it’s not hard to be intrigued by the film’s premise, a haunted house yarn centered on a woman who, along with her father, moves into an old rundown cottage. On the particular night during which the film takes place, this father-and-daughter pair sleep within its walls in order wake up early the next morning and start the fix-up process. But, unfortunately, the cottage’s unfriendly forces come out to play.

If the film’s plot doesn’t spark any anticipation, perhaps the effective trailer will, which can be seen over at Twitch Film.

Official The Silent House site: La Casa Muda