Such a frustrating disappointment

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is not a masterpiece. By far. But it's not fair to rate this a 4.3, as it is now.

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.

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.

At first, it looked fine. Well initiated by giving out a proper reason to develop what comes later. But that later part was the biggest let down. It becomes so cliché and because of that I lost interest. Otherwise, it is could have been a decent one with all the good actors. Also the location was good, a perfect setting for the storyline. But not noticeable when the narration enters the second half, mainly because of thriller takes over.It is the story of a psychologist who recently lost her husband in a car crash, but ended up taking care of step-son after he became mentally and physically incapable. When the life was in the routine, suddenly something bad happens where her young patient goes missing. Following the event, she begins to experience what others won't believe her. But what comes later is more shocker, a twist in the tale takes us the conclusion.As the title and its genre suggest, it remained truth to that, but there is no innovation in storytelling. Most of the people would easily predict most of the parts if not the entire film. The casting was the advantage and they all were good, including the kid from 'Room' and Naomi. Even though it is rated very low everywhere, as well as by me, kind of entertaining, which means watchable till the end than cut it out in the middle. Not a film to recommend, but if you choose it to watch, I won't say don't.4/10