![]() He has no lines of dialogue at all which is unfortunate because his role could be filled by any other kid beside him. Even when you have Jacob Tremblay who is hot right now, he is just there for the means of the plot that really never comes to fruition. even to an extent to Oliver Platt, he has nothing to work with. When he’s putting in all in the role of Jonathon in Stranger things he does great because of the material the Duffer Brothers gave him to work with. It’s not Charlie Heaton playing this teenager but you feel as if they wanted to cast Dane Dehaan but he was unavailable at the time. ![]() He is creepy in Stranger Things, but here it doesn’t feel like him. The film has Charlie Heaton Dane Dehaaning his way to come across creepy where he comes off unintentionally hysterical. Everything in the story is so by the numbers that by the time you reach the end you will feel ripped off that you’ve seen generic thriller that you expect better of anything of the cast to be in. AND SHE DOESN’T DOUBLE TAP! And he just instantly gets up like the hits weren’t even anything. Whenever Heaton is attacking Naomi Watts, she hits him with various items from a bat to a frying pan. Overall the film is just so extremely stupid. Raccoon is going through your trashcan? BLARE! Does someone put their hand over your mouth where you see it coming? BLARE! Someone gets stabbed? BLARE! It never works at all unless you haven't seen a thriller in 20 years then by all means. Every time the film wants to scare you it uses the power of blares. Every time the film wants to get you scared it relies on the lowest common dominator factor blares. It tries to be a horror/thriller but nothing in this movie is horrific or thrilling. It’s her son Charlie Heaton who wasn’t paralyzed the entire time. To make matters easier I’m just going to spoil the film for you to not waste your time teasing who’s haunting Naomi Watts. The movie lacks any surprises that you see in thrillers and is cinematically televised that it's "thrilling" elements comes off unintentionally hilarious. Just think of Psycho with a “paralyzed” Charlie Heaton. In 2016 a film like that would be just trite and lazy which this is. With Psycho you had a film that was new and original at the time that pushed the boundary for filmmaking. The movie goes through the blueprint of thriller 101 that dates all the way back to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. If you ever find yourself trapped in your own home, just watch this and be distracted for a while.THE BAD: EuroCorp your bad streak of releases is still going strong because Shut In is one of the most generically dumbest thrillers since Universal's 2015 thriller The Boy Next Door. Still, it certainly does enough to be an interesting film on its own. It’s not the most creative, shocking, entertaining, or even the best film made with minimal attributes. If anything, I can justifiably applaud both the actors and director for achieving what they did with such a small setting. While entertaining with minimal yet fantastic performances, it is certainly enough to earn a middling score. There’s simply not enough content both within the most prominent part of the film within the closet and the opening and ending sequences outside of it. Most of it, I’d describe as a lovely surprise for the beginning of the year, being an uneasy situational film between a mother and her children. While it does lose some steam, it mainly manages to keep the tension and excitement up, using only what Jessica can hear outside with her daughter Lainey as an insight into what is happening outside the barricaded pantry door. It isn’t very long before the ex-boyfriend is introduced, throwing the already taxing situation Jessica finds herself in by fixing up the rickety old house into further disarray.įrom that point forward, Jessica is at the mercy of her daughter as the maladjusted father of her children locks her in the pantry without any way to free herself, which is where the film stays for the majority of the running time. Without being overly elaborate or complicated, Rainey Qualley and her onscreen daughter Luciana VanDette both sell the story and their mother-daughter relationship well. Using a quick yet effective set-up, ‘’Shut In’’ manages to explain its characters’ narrative and backstories perfectly. After remaining unproduced for several years, Caruso received the project to be the film’s last and final director. In the process of fixing up her grandmother’s countryside home, a young mother is visited by her drug-addict ex-boyfriend, who proceeds to barricade her in the pantry, with no way to escape.īeing on the shelf for some time, ‘’Shut In’’ was to be produced by New Line Cinema and directed by Jason Bateman of ‘’Arrested Development’’ fame. ![]() Stars: Rainey Qualley, Luciana VanDette, Jake Horowitz, Vincent Gallo ![]()
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