Watts is fine in the lead role, but none of the other actors do anything of value. It’s not suspenseful, it’s not scary, and all but one of its jump startles fail to even generate a reaction. It might make for a decent schlocky play, actually, but as a film it struggles to provide us with anything of value.
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That’s about 2/3 of the movie right there, before the twist comes and it becomes, well, something else. Shut In is set almost exclusively in one location and primarily focuses on Naomi Watts as she walks around the house. It was boring before now it’s just moronic. That cycle is rinsed and repeated for the first hour of the movie, until a Boy-like twist – with a greater Oedipus complex – comes around and we throw our hands up and give up at the silliness and stupidity of the movie. For the audience, though, we mostly watch her go about her day, then at night we wait for a jump startle. Basically, she starts seeing things and begins to question her own sanity. Or, at least, she’s told they’re dreams by her doctor ( Oliver Platt), with whom she communicates over (video chat provider).
Then weird things start happening to Mary, like dreams and … actually, mostly just dreams. One of those patients, a deaf child named Tom ( Jacob Tremblay), runs away, makes a quick pit stop at Mary’s house, and then goes missing.
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She becomes a recluse in her home near some Maine woods, essentially spending all of her free time either working with patients – who come to her – or taking care of her son. Naomi Watts takes the lead as Mary Portman, a psychologist whose husband dies and her stepson ( Charlie Heaton) becomes paralyzed after a car accident. Shut In feels like a movie you’ve seen frame-by-frame before in other movies, except they’ve all been compiled into one horrible mess. The final is that we need to stop caring whether or not a screenplay makes the “Black List” – there are just as many duds as there are success stories coming from that survey. The third is the even though 2016 has had a large selection of strong horror movies, tripe like this will still get released. The second is why the distribution studio, at least here, decided not to promote it in any way or provide press access prior to its release. The first is the reason the studio decided to push back its release from February to November – to avoid competition with other horror movies and in hopes that we’ll have forgotten about The Boy (more on that later). After seeing Shut In, many things become clear.
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