Caruso, who brought us Eagle Eye, Disturbia, Taking Lives, and The Salton Sea. Shut In‘s trailer tell us that the film is directed by D.J. Hell, the movie even looks like it has potential, but as I started researching the film to write up, various red flags surrounding the film began to pop up. Shut In looks like a low-budget indie film but has all the markers of a much larger Hollywood production. This week, Shut In kept rearing its head in my search for the Trailer of the Week. Or maybe it’s something written in the synopsis of the trailer on YouTube. Maybe it’s a big-name Hollywood actor, actress, or director in a low-budget production. The film's title could also refer to "locked-in syndrome," a disability which leaves the patient catatonic and paralyzed.Have you ever watched a trailer, and though the plot seemed clear, you didn’t understand something. That the preview opens with Mary referring to Steven as "not my son.just a body that I feed and wash and clothe," while she dreams about killing him is certainly cause for concern. ![]() So, though we can expect the film will be well-written, something that's not so clear is whether it will gracefully depict Steven's disabilities. The script, penned by Christina Hodson, made it onto the Black List of best un-produced scripts before being picked up. It's unclear whether this grief is the driving force behind her nightmarish visions or whether Tom is a real ghost, but it's that tense uncertainty that makes this movie's premise so intriguing.Īt the same time, that sense of loss may be misplaced. Steven was in a car accident - the same one that killed his father and Mary's husband - and is now catatonic and disabled. Mary's sense of loss, then, is multi-layered: she feels disconnected from her son, then is unable to protect her foster son. What's interesting about the premise set up in this trailer for Shut In is that Watts' character uses Tom, the foster child who disappears, to supplement the "loss" of her still-living son, Steven. Like Shut In, The Orphanage depicted a mother whose psyche unravels as she is haunted by the ghost of her lost child. This is a most intriguing trailer, one whose eerie narrative feels reminiscent of another European film: Spain's The Orphanage( El orfanato). ![]() Though she has since expanded her repertoire, Watts is still a favorite in the genre, appearing in films like Funny Games and Dream House. The British actress hit it big with David Lynch's haunting 2001 project Mulholland Drive, then went on to star in the American remake of The Ring in 2002, as well as its sequel in 2004. Leading lady Naomi Watts is certainly no stranger to the horror/thriller genre. The film also stars Oliver Platt ( Frost/Nixon, The West Wing), David Cubitt ( Bates Motel, Arrow), and Charlie Heaton - who you probably recognized immediately as Jonathan Byers from Stranger Things.Though principal production went under way in Canada last spring, the film's release has been delayed several times. Shut In was directed by Brit Farren Blackburn ( Doctor Who, Daredevil) and produced by Luc Besson (writer-producer of the Taken trilogy). ![]() Plus, it really ropes you in when Naomi Watts tries to kill her son within the first fifteen seconds. Unlike Disappointments Room's relatively banal preview, the trailer for Shut In reveals much about the film's plot, as well as its psychological complexity.
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