Rightly so because Shut In is an absolute mess of a movie and probably one of the worst mainstream horror films of the 2010s. The movie received terrible reviews from critics and audiences and was a commercial dud upon release. Shut In marks the second, and so far last feature film effort of British TV director Farren Blackburn whose work can be seen in The Fades, Doctor Who, and The Musketeers, and also helmed a number of episodes for Netflix Marvel series Daredevil, Iron Fist, and The Defenders. The screenplay for Shut In written by Christina Hodson had appeared on the 2012 Blacklist of best unproduced screenplays, and the script was acquired by Europacorp for development in 2014 when the company was seeking genre fare to build their release slate. Released in 2016, Shut In was acquired by Luc Besson's joint venture with Relativity, Relativity EuropaCorp Distribution, which was Luc Besson's attempt to gain a foothold in distribution within the United States after having seen profits from Blockbusters such as the Taken franchise and Lucy kept by Fox and Universal respectively. As Mary wrestles with worry for Tom and authorities having no luck finding him, Mary begins to hear and see things in her home leaving her to believe there's a malevolent presence. When one of Mary's patients, a young troubled deaf boy named Tom Patterson (Jacob Tremblay), comes to Mary's home she calls the social worker and volunteers to care for him, but he has seemingly fled into the woods during an incoming Winter storm. Wilson (Oliver Platt) as Stephen was having behavioral problems that lead to her deciding to send Stephen away to boarding school which was what lead to the accident. Mary herself is also in therapy via video conferencing with Dr. 6 months after a car accident that killed Richard Portman (Peter Outbridge) and left Richard's son Stephen (Charlie Heaton) in a vegetative state, Richard's second wife, child psychologist Mary Portman (Naomi Watts) lives in an isolated part of caring for Stephen's needs while also seeing patients at her home.
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