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Old 29th March 2009, 06:07 PM
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Thumbs up Walled In - Killer Straight to DVD Thriller

Like that thread title? Pretty catchy, huh?




By Indigomotion, and Minds Eye Entertainment, Walled In is a great straight to DVD horror/thriller that you might have missed. Released last Tuesday, it's definitely worth your time; at least a rent.

Co-written by Rodolphe Tissot, Olivier Volpi, Sylvian White and Director, Giles Paquet-Brenner. Based on the novel Les Emmures, and an upcoming graphic novel by Serge Brussolo.

Starring the ubercute Mischa Barton (The O.C.) Cameron Bright (X-Men: The Last Stand) Deborah Kara Unger (Silent Hill) Noam Jenkins (Saw IV). And wicked scarey Rob Roy (Rob Roy (I))


From the DVD synopsis:
"In 1993, sixteen bodies were found entombed within the Malestrazza Building, a mysterious apartment building complex built by one of the worlds most renowned, yet eccentric, architects. The Killer was never caught.

Fifteen years later, newly graduated structural engineer Sam Walczak (Barton) arrives to prepare the site for demolition. But this massive concrete crypt is not entirely empty: Its halls are lined with secretes. Its rooms are filled with fear. And behind its walls, the ultimate horror has lay waiting... until now...."


I have to say, this one was a surprise. Mostly because I didn't really have my hopes up going into it. Nine times out of ten, "straight to DVD" means garbage. But Walled in, I have to say, delivered.

From the incredibly disturbing opening scene, and meeting the creepy people who populate the Malestrazza building, to the satisfying, but certainly not happily-ever-after ending, the movie plays on your psyche. This is not a gory, bloody hacker flick. The scare here is in the fine print.

My only complaint has to do with one scene in Malestrazza's maze-like room, where Sam is being chased by a shadowy man, all the while, she is harassed by a ghostly little girl's voice, singing "One... two... He's coming for you... three... four... the cement will pour..." Remind you of anything?

But that's my only gripe, and I can pretty much overlook that. Nothing new under the sun and all. In the special features, Unger (Who plays the weird landlady and mother to Bright's character, Jimmy) describes the movie as "a cross between Edgar Alan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock" I think that's pretty close.

Overall Walled In is a solid, unpretentious but super creepy flick. And you should definately check it out.
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I should mention that Walled in is an Official Selection in both Frightfest Glasgow 2009 and Fantasporto 2009.
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Sweetness. I'm going to check this flick out the next time I'm in town. It sounds like it might be the first decent horror film of the year. Thanks, nugunz!
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Me too but it might be a few days before I have the time.
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I'm not saying it's the Godfather. But it's a fun, creepy flick.
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Mischa can't act and the young boy can't act but the other main people done a good job. The story is very good. Someone will remake this movie into a block bluster.
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This isn't a torture porn film, is it? I avoided it because it looks a little like Captivity, which I disliked.
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Uhh. Did you read the synsopsis above? No, it isn't.
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Oops, I didn't. Sorry.
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I liked the idea behind the movie but thought the movie itself was just ok.
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