Shut In, 2016 ©EuropaCorpĭirected by Farren Blackburn, Shut In is a tragically pedestrian experience, a film so benign, so perfuctory, it would seem to have no appeal, even for true die hards of the genre and Watts. Wilson ( Oliver Platt), a sympathetic colleague to try and get some advice, but no matter what happens, she seems to spiral further into the abyss. When he goes missing, he seems to show up on her property, or does he? Is she becoming delusional, paranoid, or worse? She contacts Dr. Meanwhile, her latest patient, a deaf nine-year-old boy named Tom ( Jacob Tremblay), is having a terrible time adjusting to his new foster home and while she thinks there are signs of improvement, others decide to move him on. She has thoughts of sending him to a proper medical home but dreams of drowning him in the tub.
As she puts it, he’s just a body to wash and feed. But, on the drive there, an accident kills her husband and leaves Stephen completely paralyzed. Half a year later, she’s trying to cope with the loss and providing her son with the right care, but it’s not that easy as he can’t talk or interact. So bad is his anger, she and her husband decide to ship him off to a special facility for help. Mary ( Naomi Watts) is a child therapist with a teenage boy named Stephen ( Charlie Heaton), suffering from his own set of issues. Shut In is a 2016 thriller about a widowed woman caring for her paralyzed son that believes her home might be haunted, and as such, slowly begins to question her own sanity.
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