Shut In (2016) (original) (raw)
Shut In is a heart-pounding thriller starring Naomi Watts as Mary, a widowed child psychologist who lives an isolated existence in rural New England with her paralysed son Stephen (Charlie Heaton). When a young boy Mary is treating goes missing during a fierce snowstorm, and is later presumed dead, she becomes convinced that he has returned as a ghost to haunt them.
Shut In is a heart-pounding thriller starring Naomi Watts as Mary, a widowed child psychologist who lives an isolated existence in rural New England with her paralysed son Stephen (Charlie Heaton). When a young boy Mary is treating goes missing during a fierce snowstorm, and is later presumed dead, she becomes convinced that he has returned as a ghost to haunt them. (less)
Director: Farren Blackburn
Writer: Christina Hodson
Starring: Naomi Watts, Jacob Tremblay, Oliver Platt, David Cubitt, Cl�mentine Poidatz, Charlie Heaton
Producer: Ariel Zeitoun
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Review by Brian Orndorf, November 11, 2016
1 / 10
�Shut In� doesn�t have any sort of originality or energy. It�s a PG-13 programmer meant to fill a gap in a release schedule, and should be treated with such disposability, as I doubt even the creators of the feature sat through it twice. It�s paint-by-number filmmaking from director Farren Blackburn, who has a chance to shake up the thriller genre here, capable of adding some surprises and deep psychological wounds to the effort, to help charge up its motivations and eventual descent into household chases. But Blackburn doesn�t do anything with �Shut In� besides play it as obviously and painfu ...read more...
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