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Good little low budget thriller that took a while to get going, but when it did, it was tense and reminded me of Panic Room a little.

Acting and direction are good and the symbolism is excellent.

I don't get the rampant love or hate for the movie. Why can't people just judge it for what it is?

I was actually very impressed with DJ Caruso's cinematography and how he was able to make great use of the very small location.

About 50-60% of this film takes place in a pantry, with the rest happening in the surrounding single house, yet it never feels like Caruso uses the same camera angle twice. The perspective is constantly shifting, and it makes this location feel bigger and this story feel more eventful than they are on paper.

So, I never felt bored. The script gives Jessica just enough to do and just enough to say so that we can really understand her as a character and get to know her goals and her thought process.

But the script also tries to give her a redemption arc, and these are unfortunately the parts that came across as really cheesy to me. Whenever the film focused on this, the dialogue was very forced.

The ending also leaves something to be desired. It goes from gritty thriller to corny fairytale ending and it was kind of laughable.

Still, I'm impressed that The Daily Wire made something apolitical and competently helmed. Props to them!

This was a solid movie and had a great message.

I'll be honest, with the subject matter - it was tough to watch. I was anxious and on edge throughout the film - a mother locked in a pantry unable to protect her children from the predator on the other side of the door. Super stressful but had a very satisfying conclusion.

I will say that I'm not a huge fan of the movies where the majority of the action takes place "in one room" or "in a car" - those movies never really appeal to me and tend to feel like they quickly lose steam and drag on.

While I did feel, at times, that the pacing of this movie was less than ideal - the acting was superb across the board. Really surprised by the acting chops of Rainey Qualle and also pleasantly surprised that they got a really good child actress to who played the daughter in this film. With many kid actors you can tell they are exactly that... a kid that is acting... but here Lucianna VanDette is so comfortable and natural with her acting (and props to the director in this regard) that you really buy in - you aren't watching an act - you're watching a mother and daughter.

Good acting across the board.

I definitely recommend that you watch the movie if you have the chance.

Great work by the Daily Wire & I'm excited to see what they bring us in the future (Terror on the Prarie on June 9th in particular!)

This film has a great main character but the situations she's put in are what truly make this film what it is. You'll be on the edge of your seat for almost the entire film because the stakes are so high while still feeling realistic. Although the religious aspects of this film worked for the most part it did border on preachy on occasion.

My wife and I found the movie a bit tedious and boring. From the Rotten Tomatoes scores I expected something a few notches higher. It was a well-made film with good acting but at the end of the day the pacing was a bit tedious, it lacked suspense in obvious places where suspense could have been heightened (not knowing what was taking place with the children), and mostly it was just a bit flat. The over-use of themes like the main character staring at the Bible and staring at the cross felt out of place and forced, like I was watching a Christian film that somehow had to let you know it was a Christian film. It was also the type of movie where you find yourself saying... "Why didn't she do this? Why didn't she do that?" This type of frustration builds for the viewer as you begin to disconnect more and more from being sucked in my the movie, finding yourself on the outside looking in at a film and wondering why the director couldn't see it from an audience's viewpoint. Near the end, we laughed several times. Here's an example of why. The lead character couldn't get out of the pantry early on before it was boarded. Yes, at the end she busted through and upstairs door like she was John Wayne coming to kick some serious tail. It was a head-smacker of a moment.

Worth a watch and good acting. You are routing for her the whole time. A good storyline almost believable. The lead lady is a very good actor but i cant really remmebr seeing her in anything else.

Terrible plot, terrible flow, just awful. A meth addict, a child molester and a useless excuse for a mother. The lead character is incapable of making anything resembling a good choice. She can't even kick through an old door.

Don't waste ANY money on this.

Battling her own demons and real life demons, a mother faces a horrifying situation. I won't give anything away, but the acting is good and if you like suspense, you won't be disappointed. I really enjoyed this movie.

It wasn't bad at all, it was pretty much what I expected. It was boring in the beginning until the half of the movie but then it became more intense, the performances were great though, I think I needed some more tension to like it more but it was okay, I don't think I would watch it a second time though.

If you want to watch a movie that makes you sleepy, this is for you.

Otherwise, it is not worth watching. Very boring. I think the ones who rated this movie are the same staff and their friends, I don't know how he got such a high rating.

Don't listen to the haters who have clearly not seen this movie and still gave it a rating. I saw it and I'm actually quite surprised at the high quality of the production value. The entire cast but especially the lead was outstanding. I'm talking award-worthy. Everything is intense and every scene is riveting. The third act was genuinely surprising as was the entire film. I highly recommend this endeavor.

When a young mother called Jessica Nash (Rainey Qualley) is barricaded inside a pantry by her violent ex-boyfriend (Jake Horowitz) , she must use intelligence and cunning to protect her two small children from a dangerous drug dealer (Vincent Gallo) while finding a getaway .

This freaky and thrilling film chronicles fear ,desperation, suffering of a woman locked into a pantry while escalating danger and facing off a completely Kafkaesque situation . In spite of its claustrophobic premise this ¨Shut in¨results to be a nail-biting film in which the locked starring quest to find answers and solutions to defend herself from an evil attacker and getting freedom.

This is one of many films that take place in interior spaces , here there's also a dangerously premise with strangers closed attempting to find an exit to exasperating situations and in which a protagonist is relentlessly locked up and cannot get out and is usually surrounded by dangers, this sub-genre includes films as ¨Buried¨ by Rodrigo Cortés , ¨The Hole¨ by Nick Hamn , ¨Meandre¨ by Mathie Turi ,¨Fermat's room¨ , ¨Deathwatch¨ and ¨The Bunker¨, among others . These films are set in improbable and claustrophobic places where the unfortunate protagonists suffer all kinds of hardships, fighting against all sorts of problems and dire difficulties in order to regain their freedom. The picture succeeds partially because the thriller, tension , as well as a well written script delving into the human psyche in such extreme situation and our instinctive urges for survival . Despite low budget the picture manages to be intelligent, intriguing and thrilling.

It displays an appropriate and dark cinematography by cameraman Akis Konstantakopoulos . As well as atmospheric and suspenseful musical score by composers Mondo Boys . This moving picture professionally directed by D. J. Caruso , but nothing special . He is a good craftsman whose films often have intense car crashes , and he has directed successful films , such as : Taking lives (2004) , Disturbia (2007), The Eagle eye (2008) , XXX Reactivated (2017), Reediming love (2022) and Shut in (2022) . Rating : 5.5/10 . Acceptable and passable , but neither notable ,not extraordinary , but decently made .

Following fine genre efforts such as "Disturbia", "Taking Lives" and "The Saltom Sea" - D. J. Caruso has directed a taught contained psychological thriller of enthralling rising tension and refreshingly streamlined machanics about the fierce sacredness of motherhood. Featuring an interesting lead character arriving on the scene with plenty of existential baggage as brought to nuanced life by the stunning Rainey Qualley who reveals a true screen presence. Competently proving her place in a family of accomplished actresses (her mother is Andie MacDowell or "Greystoke", "Green Card" and "Groundhog Day" fame, while her sister is Margaret Qualley most notable for her memorable appearance in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood").

From a renowned "blacklist" script by Melanie Toast, the premise is rather simple: Jessica is a recovering drug addict and struggling single mother of a pre-school age daughter Lainey and infant son Mason. The film opens on a bucolic scene of small Lainey frolicking through orchids collecting apples to gift to her mother who is scrambling inside a two-story country home to multitask attending to her infant son Mason while on the phone assuring that she is clean and sober to begin a prospective employment opportunity in Texas and also diligently preparing to vacate the rustic address of her recently passed Nanna (who had apparently been helping Jessica with a homebase to reclaim her sobriety). Cleaning up and packing what little she has into her small vehicle parked on the dirt driveway outside, Jessica gets accidently locked inside the kitchen pantry when the brick she is using as a stop slides under the door elevation. Young Lainey being unable to turn the outside latch to free Jessica, she is most aggrivatingly stuck inside the small space - surrounded mostly by her late Nanna's homemade Apple Butter preservatives. Having evidently had some troubles in the past (likely regarding custodianship issues), Jessica hesitates to call 911 for assistance on her cellphone, whilst Lainey suddenly informs her someone has arrived outside. It's her estranged junkie ex-boyfriend Rob (Jake Horowitz) showing up unannounced. Through the door, Jessica instructs Lainey to lock herself in the upstairs bedroom with Mason, already fretting how unhinged Rob might be. To her initial relief, Rob releases Jessica from the preserve pantry. But she soon observes Rob is clearly tweaking and is further disturbed to find he is accompanied by fellow junkie and kiddie diddler Sammy (Vincent Gallo). Jessica attempts to discreetly ask Rob why he would bring a child molester like Sammy anywhere near their children, but Sammy intercepts, intercedes, and interjects with a counter accusation to insidiously stir up Rob's violent insecurities at being seemingly undermined and dismissed by the newly sober Jessica. Rob wanting to pathetically prove his dominace in front of Sammy, strikes Jessica - slapping her cellphone to the ground - and shoves her back into the pantry, shutting her in. He tosses a small baggie of dope under the door and proclaims he will return once she's back to being the user partner he wants her to be for him. Assuring she cannot simply call upon Lainey to achieve turning the outside latch and releasing her, Rob nails a couple of boards onto the outside frame of the door - the first point of which pierces Jessica's palm as her hand beared against the inside pleading for release. Injured and alone, she must search for a way to escape before the unhinged duo of Rob and (especially) Sammy return, while also verbally instructing Lainey how to feed and take car of herself and Mason until she can get free. As frustration mounts, so too does the temptation to relapse and use again linger and grow.

Featuring very believable yet judicial characterizations of children - both perfunctory and in peril. The two villianous junkie friends are dimensional enough, and it's particularly welcome to see Vincent Gallo return to effective character work after having eshewed the movie making business for some years. Cinematographer Akis Konstantakopolous is a new name to me, but his lighting and lensing here are evocative and depict a dramtically dynamic adherance to subjective point-of-view. The compositional duo whom comprise the Mondo Boys moniker are another new name to me, but their music score here is appropriately tense and atmospheric. The editing is crisp and crescendos nicely into a decently plausible climax. With subtle religious invocations, the story ultimately resolves on a pertinent yet subtle moral theme of resilience and redemption.

Oh, and some commotion exist regarding the fact that the movie also happens to be the first official production of the upstart politically conservative news outlet Daily Wire - whose ambitions here appears to simply be an earnest desire to create quality content which doesn't insult or subvert the conservative perspective - rather than proselytize any sort of overt ideological skew as a priority over dramatic weight.

Overall, "Shut In" is a very credible effort to which I give a most respectable 7/10 rating and recommend with nearly no reservation.

Salton Sea, Disturbia, Taking Lives, now these were top notch, engaging films. Shut In is more like I Am Number Four or xXx 3. Just lackluster filming at its finest. The Protagonist (Qualley) is a recovering addict who gets locked into a pantry when her 2 psycho addict friends pay a visit leaving her 2 children at their mercy. The film is set up to be an escape thriller even though the title seems to infer that she is more of an agoraphobe or shy, sheltered introvert that has to fend for herself. There is nothing wrong with having a simple plot but the other aspects need to reflect this and make up for the lack of story. There is little character development, the atmosphere is lazy and not as brooding or dark as it should be and there is no intrigue. The main character shows little ingenuity when trying to escape and no twists and turns for the story to progress. The villains are barely there and are not even close to being as menacing as they could have been save for Sammy (Vincent Gallo). He plays an excellent creep but is not used enough. Overall this film is just a snooze fest it's basically just a matter of time before she gets out and waiting for her to get there is boring drivel. Watch Panic Room, Devil, Escape Room, Split, Crawl or even See For Me which came out recently. 4/10.

Not bad. Some suspense and some plot holes. Overall entertaining, but the amount of 10 ratings is laughable. We're not talking the next Shawshank here. The Daily Wire homers giving it (10's) or the hater's that give it a (1 ) is ridiculous. I'm pretty sure it's neither the greatest or the worst movie these reviewers have seen.

From the awful acting to the god awful pace . The lack of sense and the terrible choices the lead takes is really annoying. Everything was bad now that I think about it . Zero suspense , zero interest but lots of utter boringness!! AVOID.

Hollywood has done a good job in setting my bar so low that any movie that does not preach - i love. Not only Shut In does not preach, but it is a very gripping movie in itself. Could have released this in theaters and made some good money.

Whoever listed horror as a description obviously hasn't seen the movie. Suspense/thriller.

Decent movie, created some pretty intense moments and more based on real world issues than most.

Almost nothing happens for like 80mns, it drags n drags, wasted my time, had potential, just look at a movie like Hush. If people like it, fine, I didn't.

Part of me wants to give it an 8, but I'll stick with 7.

The good: The acting is very good. All the characters are believable and character development is well done. The protagonist is well written and you root for her the whole way through. The villains are menacing and you genuinely believe that they are evil.

The plot is engaging and the story is quite fresh for the psychological thriller genre. You'll find yourself connecting with the main character and empathizing with her struggle as the story progresses.

The set does a great job of making you feel like you're trapped along with the main character, and at times a sense of panic and claustrophobia sets in.

The score fits well and sets the mood effectively.

The not as good: Some of the interactions between the mother and daughter are strange. The frustration of trying to effectively communicate with a toddler is evident, but some of the conversations feel unrealistic.

While most of the story is quite fresh, it is a bit predictable at times. This doesn't take much away from the impact of major plot points, though, because they are so well executed.

One or two scenes may come off a bit cheesy. Maybe I'm just too cynical but that's just my opinion.

OVERALL, I did really like the movie and was impressed that it didn't feel political or preachy. Protecting your family and redemption are both plot points that just about anyone can relate to and enjoy.