Stephen wanting to schtup Mary, who raised him since he was five and is basically the only mom he’s ever known, is never explicitly spelled-out by the filmmakers, but… really though. It adds a level of implied sexual menace that I really do not need now or ever, kthx. He is literally phoning it in.)-is bad on so many levels. This twist-the big thing that’s supposed to save the movie from the hour of low-energy tedium that came before (70% of Platt’s job is to sit in front of a computer screen and pretend he’s Skyping with Naomi Watts. When this other kid comes along and starts “stealing” Mary’s affections, he snaps and traps the kid in the crawlspace. Basically, Stephen’s a big ol’ faker with an Oedipus complex and a penchant for slipping dear mother his meds. Instead of the bad guy hiding in the wall we get the bad guy hiding someone else in the wall. Not really.įor an example of how very unoriginal Shut In is, the big twist-you think something supernatural’s going on, but surprise, it’s just someone living in the walls!-is pretty much the same twist that was in The Boy earlier this year. It’s representation for the differently abled!” Except Shut In seems to be under the impression that Tom being deaf plays up the whole “creepy kid” angle, and… no. In a perfect world, I’d give this movie the benefit of the doubt and say “Oh, well, there doesn’t need to be a reason for him to be deaf. Why is there a subplot where one of Mary’s patient’s dads is hitting on her? Why does Oliver Platt even need to be here? Why is Jacob Tremblay’s character deaf? I dunno.
So much of Shut In is thrown together haphazardly for no damn reason. This movie: Nary a surprise, nary a scare. Is this movie about to get real fucking dumb? Oh yes, it is. Are these just hallucinations brought on by stress, as Mary’s doctor (Oliver Platt) argues? Is she going crazy? Or is *gassssssp* she really being haunted by baby Jacob Tremblay? Weird noises, doors closing by themselves, that sort of thing. Everyone assumes he’s dead, only Mary keeps sensing his presence around the house. Then, one night, Tom disappears into a snow storm. Mary’s grown attached to Tom and wants to look after him, because really, you’ve seen Room, he’s as cute as 12 puppies. Swooping into the storyline on the wings of adorable baby angels is Room’s Jacob Tremblay as Tom, a patient of Mary’s who’s about to be shuttled away to foster care. Naomi Watts plays Mary, a widowed child psychologist who spends most of her time caring for stepson Stephen ( Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton), left paralyzed and non-responsive by the car accident that killed Mary’s husband six months earlier. It wastes some very talented performers on stupid, scare-less nonsense, and you should all have to be subjected to it if I was.įirst: The non-spoilery stuff.
Warning: I am going to spoil the fuck out of this bottom of the barrel horror abortion (horrorbortion?) because frankly I am pissed off that I had to sit through it.
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