Mary already is stressed-out and sleep-deprived when she starts to hear strange sounds echoing through her house late at night. That is what the scriptwriting gurus refer to as foreshadowing. Indeed, it seems like the local media are covering only one other story: forecasts for an upcoming ice storm that likely will cause power outages for folks in rural areas. Tom runs away from foster care and briefly turns up at Mary’s home before vanishing without a trace, triggering virtually nonstop news reports about a statewide search for the boy. But she’s obviously devoted to her work, and especially attentive to difficult patients such as Tom (Jacob Tremblay of “Room”), a deaf youngster whose disappearance serves as what scriptwriting gurus refer to as an inciting incident. She never wants to be too far from her 18-year-old stepson, Stephen (Charlie Heaton of Netflix’s “Stranger Things”), who was left paralyzed after an auto mishap that killed his father. Naomi Watts stars as Mary Portman, a child psychologist who conducts therapy sessions on the grounds of her isolated Maine home. But, given the prominent acknowledgement of a reshoot crew in the closing credits, it’s quite possible other cooks also were involved in the preparation of these slightly warmed leftovers. Director Farren Blackburn and scripter Christina Hodson are billed as the responsible parties. It’s an undistinguished and predictable hodgepodge, so blandly generic as to suggest that it was cobbled together by filmmakers referencing a how-to handbook who picked spare parts from other, better thrillers.
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Free yourself from the banality of "Shut In" and do literally anything else with your time.As thrillers go, “Shut In” is conspicuously short of thrills. If you think you've figured out the twist ten minutes in, you're right. Sloppy storytelling that relies on sentimentality more than sense gives way to a horror story that is painfully predictable. Then we're rushed headlong into Mary's loneliness, guilt and despair, as she monologues about the burden of caring for her helpless stepson, and instantly clings to the adorable Tremblay as a means of finding purpose in her own life while saving his.
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From the start, Christina Hodson's script leans hard on Lifetime Channel movie tropes, begging for audience sympathy by introducing a loving family thrown violently into melodramatic trauma.
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With a story that focuses on mother protecting her son against a monster with a psychological thriller twist, "Shut In" is like "The Babadook," except lame, and never remotely scary. I marveled looking over director Farren Blackburn's past credits, which boast suspense-fueled series like "Doctor Who," "Daredevil" and "Luther," because "suspenseful" is the last word I'd consider applying to this so-called thriller.
When strange things start happening in her home, this spooked stepmom worries the ghost of the probably dead deaf kid is out to get her and her teen son. Their quiet life of isolation is disrupted when a deaf boy with behavioral issues ("Room" standout Jacob Tremblay) goes missing on their property. Vincent," and the Oscar-winning drama "Birdman," Naomi Watts headlines "Shut In" as Mary Portman, a widowed child psychologist who lives deep in rural Maine, where she cares for her 18-year-old stepson ("Stranger Things" Charlie Heaton) who was recently completely paralyzed by a horrible car crash. Whatever the reason, "Shut In" is unique in its awfulness, being the FUBAR follow-up for not one but three of its stars.Ĭoming off a string of critically heralded features including Noah Baumbach's barbed comedy "While We're Young," the Bill Murray-fronted dramedy "St. Often, this is because terrible movies get shelved until their talent is topical enough to finagle a release. There's a cruel twist of Hollywood fate once an actor scores a glorious success with a project lauded by critics and audiences alike, they seem destined to follow-up with an absolute trash fire of a film.
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