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Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Shut In is a solid presentation of the horror genre at it worst. Completely devoid of scares and lacking in logical taste, this film, directed by Farren Blackburn, leaves two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts dwindling in an exercise of severely ineffective storytelling and lack of effective thrills perpetrated by a script that feels so empty, it is almost difficult to believe this is intended to be a horror movie. It is an hour and a half of Watts wandering seemingly aimlessly around in dark corners of the house while the atmosphere grows intoxicated to an eerie music score that builds up virtually nothing. And the whole ideal grows exhausting to the point where the film has nothing to offer but mindless tedium. The biggest surprise the film has to offer is the big twist at the end, and let's be clear, to say it is a bad twist is way too generous of a word to describe to. It makes wander what Watts was thinking when she signed up to submit herself to this other than to earn herself a paycheck. This film follows child psychologist Mary (played by Naomi Watts) who is left to take care of her 18-year old son Stephen (played by Charlie Heaton) who has been crippled from a car accident that killed his stepfather. While caught in a violent snowstorm, one of her young patients Tommy (played by Jacob Tremblay), a deaf boy, mysteriously goes missing, she must do everything she can do to find him. The best way to sum up this snoozer of a movie is a child abduction thriller with infrequent cheap jump scares and loud eerie music blowing up the audio while the lead character puts poor effort into finding a little boy who is lost and stranded somewhere out in the freezing cold. Are there any ghosts? Nope. Are there a murderous psychopath in a mask wielding a knife? Absolutely not. As clichéd and washed up those horror villains are, placing them one of them as the antagonist would almost make the story a little more competent than it is. Unfortunately, that's not the case here. Instead, this film banks almost entirely not on a creepy music score to intensify the atmosphere and assigns Naomi Watts with the task of creeping around the house at the night because that apparently is supposed to equate for effective scares. And every once a while, something unsettling will occur only for Watts to wake up gasping and reveal it is just a silly little dream sequence. Each of the events that transpire to amount to virtually nothing until the climax when the story hits us with a twist that is, to say the least, beyond ludicrous. Meanwhile, Watts is doing her best to sustain in the lead while Charlie Heaton, fresh from his supporting role in the Netflix series 'Stranger Things' remains stoic to portray a crippled young man who's robbed of his ability to walk and feed himself without the assistance of his mother. Then there is Jacob Tremblay, the young star from 'Room' is given no dialogue due to his character being deaf. But the biggest mystery here is what motivated each of these talented actors to commit to such a head-banging excuse of a film like this. Shut In is a movie devoid of everything representing a good competent horror flick and leaves its audiences trudging through an hour-and- half soul-sucking tedium, that is if they are even willing to its entirety. It is a dull representation of the horror genre that was probably best being left on the shelf.

This film definitely does not deserve all the hate. It was a good solid thriller, the acting was good, and so was the cinematography. Although there was some slight homage to the Shining, it was far from being predictable or derivative, and it kept the viewer guessing until close to the end. Perhaps to help out the less- informed viewer, one of the characters should have explained the "shut-in syndrome" at the outset, knowledge of which might have added to the intrigue for some of those panning this well-made indie movie.

it was one hell of a movie filled with suspense and there were HARDLY any major goofs( i'd like to mention to IMDb that not being able to see someones BREATH is not a goof...seriously!)it has a great story line and keeps the reader engaged throughout the movie i honestly enjoyed this movie a lot and i don't have any idea why people didn't like it ... i would happily and without any doubt recommend this movie to anyone who is in search of a good thriller.

This film tells the story of a psychologist who has to take care of her son who has paraplegia after a car accident. One day, a child patient comes to her remote home unannounced, and sinister things start to happen.The story of "Shut In" sounds good on paper, but the problem is that there is very little sinister things going on. A door shutting by itself isn't that scary or thrilling. Her supposedly strange encounters are too sparse and trivial to make viewers care or be engaged in it. The secret is revealed two thirds into the film, and the twist is a little too weird for me. It is a good film for a Naomi Watts fan, but otherwise it is not particularly thrilling.