#Shut in plot movie

#Shut in plot movie

Wired Shut is not the movie you think it’s going to be but not in a good way. Naturally, it isn’t long – although it feels like it – before old grudges come to the surface, things are said and secrets are revealed, right before a third person arrives to really mess things up, or at least confirm what you’ve probably already worked out.

One day he gets an out-of-the-blue visit from his estranged daughter Emmy (Natalie Sharp), who arrives seemingly with an ulterior motive than caring for her injured father. The characters in question are Reed Rodney (Blake Stadel), a novelist who is confined to his secluded home after an accident that resulted in his jaw being wired shut, leaving him unable to make any noise whatsoever. Some movies should come with a warning that the contents stored on the shiny disc inside the box with the creepy slasher-inspired artwork on the front may not necessarily bear any resemblance to said image, or indeed to your expectations after having consumed the artwork and DVD blurb that will no doubt convince you that you are about to watch a gory and brutal throwback to the glory days of torture porn with a unique and unexpected twist on the tried-and-tested slasher formula.Īlexander Sharp’s debut feature Wired Shut is one such – if not the definitive – example of this misleading tactic, as what you get instead of the riotous bloodbath that the premise teases you with is 90 minutes of mumbling, stumbling, virtually bloodless home invasion theatrics as our three characters sort of move from room to room not really doing very much at all. Starring Natalie Sharp, Blake Stadel, and Behtash Fazlali.Ī writer with his jaw wired shut is visited by his estranged daughter, and his life is immediately put in danger.