Your opening tasks are eerily reminiscent of the way that these conditions can make you feel.

As a sufferer of these conditions myself, I recognised the symptoms being played with, although they are taken to their logical extremes here. This seemingly unending cycle of entrapment and failure speaks both to the lockdown experience and more specifically to the nature of depression and anxiety. Even horrible death isn’t an escape, though, as you always wake up the next day to try and probably fail again. Finding items and using them in the correct room allows you to progress, but there are a huge number of tricks and traps that will swiftly show you the Game Over screen. The game is essentially an old school point and click adventure, albeit with a controller friendly approach.

This makes Shut In a rare case where the aesthetics are key to the gameplay rather than a display of faux nostalgia. Everything looks normal enough, but the visuals are indistinct enough to give your surroundings a necessary sense of unease and claustrophobia. The sharp edges and relative lack of refinement and clarity work well to represent the way in which your character views the world. The graphics are deliberately simplistic and pixel-based. Signature Entertainment presents Shut In on Digital Platforms 30th Mayįinal Thoughts – Shut In is a tense thriller that keeps everything contained.This is a totally lo-fi experience. It will help keep everything contained within the film. Showing that certain rooms could be filled with dangerous locks. Shut In is a tense thriller that will keep everything inside the one home. One she has been winning, but shows how the temptation could come back around. Showing her constant battle to overcome addiction. While we do get tension about the dangers outside, we have a personal battle the mother must go through. As she can only listen to what is happening outside the door. The story here shows everything from the point of view of the mother. She battles her own demons in hope of making it out. The threat of her abusive ex and addict friend lurking around the home. The story here will follow a mother locked in a pantry, needing to hope her infant child can keep her baby safe. Showing the balance her character is going through. Rainey Qualley in the leading role gives the best performances. When it comes to Rob and Sammy, they are both involved in continuing to get their addictions not caring who they hurt. She will need to battle her own addiction which will tempt her to return to her previous life or battle to save her children. Things only take a turn for the worst when the abusive boyfriend returns with his addict friend. Packed up ready to go, when disaster strikes, and she finds herself trapped in the pantry. Jessica is the former addicted turned mother who is looking to start a new life after years of abuse. Thoughts on Shut In Characters & Performances With her battle with addiction might be her toughest one yet.

She must always take care of the baby, but the dangers are real. When her violent ex-boyfriend Rob (Horowitz) arrives to help her out, he only locks her back in there.Īs Jessica searches for a way out, she must help Lainey from the other side of the door. Story: Shut In starts when Jessica (Qualley) is looking to escape her abusive relationship with, her children Lainey (VanDette) and baby Mason. There may be spoilers in the rest of the review Plot: When a young mother is barricaded inside a pantry by her violent ex-boyfriend, she must use ingenuity to protect her two small children from escalating danger while finding an escape. Starring: Rainey Qualley, Jake Horowitz, Luciana VanDette, Vincent Gallo, Penelope Martone, Aidan Steimer

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