She does a good job of expressing her character’s fear and panic without going over the top and chewing the scenery. Much of what I did like about Shut In came from Rainey Qualley’s performance. If they don’t come out OK that defeats the whole point of the film and alienates the likely audience. And if the point of a film is to show the power of God and His ability to save those with faith, there’s only one way it really can end. From Rob putting a nail through Jessica’s hand while sealing the pantry to scenes of her sitting reading the bible, Shut In makes its faith based nature very clear. It further undercuts any tension by pushing religion to the forefront.
The filmmakers never convinced me that they were willing to offend their target audience, it’ll run as a subscriber perk on the Daily Wire website, by inflicting serious harm on them. But at the same time I never felt that the kids were in any real danger. There’s some suspense at times when Jessica finds herself in situations I couldn’t see an obvious way out of. It’s not that Shut In is a bad film, it isn’t, it’s just a very average one. Much has been made of the fact that Toast’s script made Hollywood’s Black List, but it apparently underwent rewrites on it’s way to the screen, because there’s nothing really exemplary about it. Caruso (Disturbia, xXx: Return of Xander Cage) and writer Melanie Toast set Shut In up as a home invasion thriller with the twist that, for most of the film Jessica is locked in the pantry and has to try to keep Lainey (Luciana VanDette) and her infant brother safe from there. It doesn’t take long before Jessica is back in the pantry, this time with it nailed shut.ĭirector D.J. Unfortunately he also bought his buddy Sammy (Vincent Gallo, The Brown Bunny, Buffalo 66) who has a thing for little girls. Rob (Jake Horowitz, Castle Freak, Agnes), her violence prone and still addicted ex, shows up unexpectedly and lets her out. Unfortunately she manages to lock herself in the house’s pantry. She also wants to sell the house her grandmother left her, move away and start over. Jessica (Rainey Qualley, Ultrasound, Ocean’s Eight) is a former meth addict struggling to stay straight and raise her two young children. film, Run Hide Fight, I decided to watch it and see if it was a decent thriller or propaganda. Comments about “beta males”, Hollywood’s “liberal agenda” and complaints about “woke culture” abounded. Then I noticed how many of them were from sites that, even if they didn’t call themselves conservative, right wing, or even political, had a very obvious point of view. I was initially impressed by the reviews it was getting. Rob and Sammy leave with Lainey and Mason left to fend for themselves alone upstairs.Shut In is, as I’m sure you’re aware, the new film from Ben Shapiro and his website The Daily Wire. Rob is still an addict and proves to be an absolute piece of shit when he rescues Jess from the pantry only to have an argument with her and then lock her back in again. But things turn nasty when Lainey’s father Rob (Jake Horowitz) arrives with his new friend Sammy (Vincent Gallo) who is also a meth-head and a suspected child molester. Her relationship with her daughter is very sweet and there’s a charm about how they interact with each other, especially when Jess locks herself in the large pantry and she has to ask Lainey to look after her baby brother Mason. There is a bit of exposition early on when Jess continually tells her daughter Lainey about her previous misgivings and why she’s moving away and so forth but it never becomes desperate. It’s pretty clear right away that she’s had some sort of arduous and unhealthy past and the first twenty minutes, rather unsubtly, sets up what's about to unfold. Rainey Qualley plays Jess, a former drug addict mother of two who is selling her grandmother's beat-up old country house in hopes of moving onto greener pastures with her young children.
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