Well,let me tell you this film is watchable.Although there are many,many nonsense scenes (why does Naomi insist in going outside in the freezing porch and calling the boy by his name IF HE IS....DEAF ??? ) That's an incredible GOOF nobody has noticed yet but it is really nonsense.On the other side I didn't predict the final twist even I have seen many movies during my 56 years ...Well,I give a 6 / 10 because it was somehow interesting but absolutely annoying in some scenes.Regards from Argentina. (And I saw Naomi pretty thin in this film.I hope she is in good health)

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.

Richard and Mary Portman (Naomi Watts) have an unruly teen child, Stephen (Charlie Heaton) so they are "shipping you off to military school with that... g-d- Finkelstein... s**t kid!" or something like that. As dad is driving his son away, they get into a tussle..."Hey stop touching me!" kiss a truck and the next thing you know dad is history and Stephen is somewhat catatonic being cared by Mary, who is actually his step-mother. Fortunately her office is next door. Tom (Jacob Tremblay) a hard of hearing nine year old who doesn't wear any type of unsightly hearing aide, is one of her patients. On his trip to Boston, he runs away and shows up at her door in the cold and snow.Mary has issues. She has dreams where she kills or injures Stephen. She also has those realistic dreams where she thinks someone is in the house and everyone has this figured out except for her. Long time actor Oliver Platt has a small role as a doctor.Watts did her normally great Oscar style performance for a film nobody is going to see. Unfortunately the plot was lame and formula. A second issue is that half the movie is filmed at night in candle light or filtered moonlight. You literally miss seeing scenes and have to figure out what is happening from the sound. Where is Tom Bodett when you need him? Guide: F-word. No sex. IMDb claims nudity, but it was dark and from the side.

Naomi Watts stars in this thriller as a psychologist who lost her husband in an accident and is tasked with caring for her wheelchair bound stepson. A young deaf boy is a new patient (Jacob Tremblay) and then strange things start happening. The boy appears in the middle of night and noises surround the house on every level. What follows and the revelations that finally come satisfy the viewer's thirst for several good scares.