SnoopyStyle Steven Portman (Charlie Heaton) is an angry teen and causes his father to drive into a truck. Six months later, Steven is in a vegetative state and his father is dead. His stepmother Mary (Naomi Watts) is struggling to care for him. She's a child psychologist. Tom Patterson (Jacob Tremblay) is a deaf patient who goes missing.The story telling is muddled but worst than that, it's lackluster. It tries to be a little bit of Shinning with the snowy isolation. There are too many "It's a Nightmare" reveals. A great actor like Oliver Platt gets only fleeting appearances. I actually thought Tremblay would have more screen time. Overall, this movie does a lot of nothing scenes that hopes to build the mood but really does nothing at all. None of it is scary. There is an obvious twist that I fear would happen. Sure enough, it does and it's as lame as that.

philneil This is one of those movies that initially messes with the viewer so much that you end up losing the will to invest.Cheap jump scares, visions and apparent dream sequences all thrown at you just makes for uninteresting viewing, there is very little by way of real substance.Just over half way through, the plot twist (which is obvious) reveals itself, and therefore the movie is subsequently typical cat and mouse shenanigans.Zzzzz

destinylives52 A psychologist (played by Naomi Watts) caring for her catatonic teen, son (Charlie Heaton) who needs 24 hour care faces a snowstorm that can leave them cut off from the rest of the town for a few days. That wouldn't be so bad; but there is the possibility of a dead boy haunting Watts. A boy whom she was treating for anger issues; a boy who may blame Watts for being sent away; a boy who may not have died. As the storm approaches, Watts' supernatural experiences become more terrifying (to the character, not so much to the audience). Is she being tormented by the boy's angry spirit, or is the boy still alive? Or is Watts' guilt over how she handled the boy's case and how she treated Heaton prior to his accident finally overwhelmed her mind, causing her to lose her sanity a little at a time?My most memorable, movie moment is the scene when Watts' friend sees through the computer camera something that reveals what is really going on."Shut In" gets a low grade because the main character makes one stupid decision after another throughout most of the movie. An example: she wants to get out of the house, but the doors and windows are nailed shut. The windows are flimsy, so what would you do? For Watts, instead of breaking a window, she panics and runs around and decides to break a skylight. If she's not concerned with making all kinds of noise by breaking a skylight, why not just break one of the ground floor windows and get out in less than five seconds?"Shut In" would have received a much, much lower grade had it not been for the twist in the third act. I have to admit, the movie suckered me into thinking one way, and I was pleasantly surprised to find my thinking was erroneous.My last criticisms of this movie are these: there were too many similarities to "The Shining" during the third act — if you watch this movie and have seen "The Shining," you'll see; and the creepiness factor of the bathroom scene (you'll know which one) is so high it'll make every woman cringe, unless you're really, really kinky.Mannysmemorablemoviemoments

geronimoviktor After seeing the rating, reading some reviews...I didn't even want to watch this movie. BUT, I'm happy I did. I honestly think it's good. It will not change the world with unexpected twists or so, but an overall rating under 6?? I don't get that.Give it a try guys :)