Michelle SweeneyReview - Walled In
April 12th 2009 06:12
Based on a French novel entitled Les Emmures written by Serge Brussolo, the film is directed by fellow Frenchman Gillies Paquet-Brenner. This may be a case of "lost in translation" but regardless of the reasons, it is watchable at best.
The movie opens creatively with an introduction to a horrific murder involving a young child followed by newspaper headlines and articles showing the enormity of the killing spree. As the reports show, the man responsible for burying people alive within the walls of the building, constructed by famous architect Joseph Malestrazza (French actor Pascal Greggory), is still at large. Sam is ignorant to the history of the building or of the deaths which occurred there. A reference is made by Sam connecting the building to the Bates Motel as it has an eerieness, an isolated location and an assortment of strange tenants located within, and the connection is certainly valid, given the storyline.
The Shining is a great example of how eerie a movie can be, housed in one location, and while the movie starts heading down the a ghostly path, it switches gears and becomes more of an obsessive tale involving Jimmy and Sam.
Many of the scenes are beatifully captured as is the isolated location and the maze of a building with its secret passageways. But unfortunately for me the acting just didn't cut it and I lost interest with the convoluted plot partway through.
Fans of Mischa Barton and horror fans will, I am sure get a bite or two out of it, but there wasn't enough suspense, horror or gore to really please me on the horror scale.
Voyage Review: 2.5/5
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