Shut In (2022) Hey what's up guys.
Today I'll show you a thriller film: “Shut In”! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a small girl called Lainey, playing in a grassy field. Her house is nearby;
but the place they live in is very isolated. From the porch, her worried mother, Jessica,
calls for her. When she gets near, Jessica reprimands Lainey for going too far away.
They hear the cries of Jessica's baby son from upstairs. She grabs a can of infant milk from
her cupboard, and climbs up the stairs. While changing the baby's diaper, she is on the phone
with her probation officer. Jessica is a drug addict recently out of rehab. She has to prove
that she's capable of being sober, and taking care of her children. Currently, she's in the
midst of packing up her house, and selling it. She can no longer afford to live in that house,
since there are no jobs nearby. They will move to another city that night for better opportunities;
and she promises her probation officer that she will find one as soon as they move.
The house they're living in, is in shambles. It used to be Jessica's mother's house; but
she inherited it when her mother died. There are lots of leaks and repairs that need to be done;
and Jessica is doing all this by herself, on top of taking care of her young children.
Lainey is interested in the apples that grow in the orchard nearby.
However, everything they've harvested so far has been rotten, so Jessica throws them all away.
While having dinner, Lainey asks her mother if her father is dead.
Jessica answers that her father is not dead, just sick like Jessica is sick.
What she implies by this, is that Lainey's father is also a drug addict like her.
After the meal, Jessica continues to unpack the rest of the house.
She yanks open the kitchen closet door, and uses a brick as a door stopper. But once she's inside,
the door slams shut, and locks her in. Jessica calls Lainey to help her open the door;
but the girl is too young to comprehend her instructions. Jessica then tries to break down
the door from inside; but she is unsuccessful. Jessica switches tactics. She asks Lainey to go to
the toolbox on the porch, and get her a metal tool she can use, to unscrew the door hinge.
But the metal tools that her child brings her, are useless to unscrew the hinge.
Sometime later, she hears Lainey tell her that her father has arrived at the house.
Jessica is immediately worried, because her ex-boyfriend Rob is unstable. The door opens,
and Rob grins at Jessica. He looks pale and twitchy: hallmark signs of a drug addict.
Rob has brought with him his messy friend, named Messy-Beard, who is another drug addict. Jessica
doesn't like the friend's smelly beards, because he is a pedophile, and he previously abused a
little girl. When she sees Messy-Beard talking to Lainey, she immediately steers her daughter away
from him. Rob reasons that Messy-Beard was there for him when he needed a place to stay, because
Jessica kicked him out of her house. Jessica shots back that Rob would have been welcome to stay,
if he had just quit the drugs. Rob begins to look around the house
for valuables. He asks Jessica if her mother left behind any heirlooms. Jessica attempts to
throw Rob and his friend out of the house; but her ex-boyfriend gets angry. He slaps her face,
and calls her weak. Jessica tries to defuse the situation; but Messy-Beard riles Rob up. As a
result, he grabs Jessica, and throws her back inside the kitchen closet. He even throws a baggie
full of pills in with her, so she will get tempted and break her sobriety. She immediately screams
for Lainey to go up to her bedroom, and lock it for her protection. The little girl obeys.
Behind the door, Jessica hears Rob rummaging around her kitchen.
Suddenly, he hammers a nail through the wooden door, and pierces Jessica's hand.
He is nailing wooden planks on the closet door, to further prevent Jessica from breaking out.
Later on, Lainey goes downstairs again. It appears that Rob and Messy-Beard are not in
the house anymore. Jessica tells Lainey to lock the front door. When the girl returns,
Jessica instructs her to find her cellphone. But Lainey can't find it anywhere. Rob
probably took her cellphone and her money. The baby cries upstairs. Jessica tells Lainey
that she has to bottle feed him, and change his diapers. But Lainey wants to pee. Jessica
snaps at her, and hurts her feelings. Jessica immediately realizes her mistake and apologizes.
Moments later, Lainey pees her pants right there in front of the door.
Hours later; Lainey becomes hungry. Jessica grabs a jar of her mother's homemade jam in the pantry,
and plops some of it on a paper plate. She then slides the plate under the closet door. When
Lainey is done eating, Jessica fills another plate, so Lainey can feed the baby next.
It's now one day since Jessica has been locked in. She's been feeding her children nothing, but jam.
What's worse, she keeps seeing the baggie of pills with her, and she's sorely tempted to use it.
She tries to resist this temptation, and focuses instead on getting out of the closet.
Jessica asks Lainey to find her any metal tool she can use, to break down the door. But Lainey
keeps bringing her useless stuff like a toy car and a crayon. Jessica gets frustrated,
and she screams at Lainey. She hears the little girl cry from the other side of the
door. Jessica apologizes again. She confesses that when she had Lainey,
she was too messed up, and was not ready to be a mother. Her own mother had to step up,
and take care of her kids ,while Jessica was struggling with addiction.
A while later, Lainey returns with a screwdriver. Jessica uses it to chip away at the flooring of
the closet. However, the baby begins to cry. Lainey tells her that she dropped the baby.
Jessica assures her that it's okay, and she just needs to pick her brother up, and hold him.
Later that day, Messy-Beard arrives at the house. Jessica tells Lainey to hide, because the man is a
child molester. he approaches the door, and taunts Jessica with his messy beards. He threatens to
hurt Lainey, and tells Jessica that Rob owes him money, and he's here to collect it.
Jessica hears Messy-Beard go upstairs. But she lures him back, by screaming that she has Rob's
drugs. She offers to give it to him, if he opens the door. Messy-Beard insists that she just push
the drugs under the door. Jessica then tells him that if he doesn't stick his hand under the door,
she'll throw the drugs away. Messy-Beard complies, and slides his arm underneath. Jessica stabs his
hand with the screwdriver, and nails it to the floor, so he won't be able to go to her
children. Messy-Beard starts bawling like a baby. He cries out that there is a storm coming; and he
is afraid of the cold. When none of his pleas work, Messy-Beard taunts Jessica's rehab stint.
He tells her that he went to rehab too, and he thought he can change his life.
That is until he realized that nothing really matters, and he is destined to be an addict.
He attempts to break Jessica's sobriety, telling her that she's too weak not to take the drugs.
The power goes out because of the storm. Lainey gets scared, and she goes downstairs to look for
her mother. This allows Messy-Beard to grab Lainey. He threatens to break the girl's leg,
if Jessica doesn't take the screwdriver out of his hand. In retaliation, Jessica lights a match,
and sets his arm on fire, but spares his beards. He screams in pain, and lets go of Lainey.
He goes quiet after that, and Jessica assumes that Messy-Beard is dead.
When night falls, Jessica is desperate to have hope. She flips through the Bible that her mother
left behind. Taped to the pages are several dollar bills. They are specifically taped to
certain verses, that her mother wanted her to read for strength and wisdom. Also included in
the pages is her mother's jam recipe, and a note dedicating everything to Jessica. She and her
mother had a rocky relationship. Her mother hoped that when Jessica changes her life for the better,
she will seek solace in her mother's bible, and find the support she needs even if her
mother is already gone. Jessica's vigor is renewed.
She plucks the cross from the wall, and takes the metal Jesus figure from it.
She also removes the nail from Messy-Beard's hand. She uses the metal objects to create a hole,
through the ceiling of the pantry. Jessica climbs out, and emerges in the
bathroom upstairs. She immediately goes to the bedroom; but her daughter is not answering.
Jessica breaks down the door, and finds Lainey and her brother hiding under the bed covers.
They all climb downstairs. Since her car keys are with Rob, she breaks the car window, so she can
get their things. But the storm is too strong, so she returns her kids inside the house.
But it turns out, Messy-Beard is still alive. He takes the kids hostage, and points a knife
at them. Jessica realizes something is wrong, and she heads straight for the house.
She finds Messy-Beard and her children. She tries to bargain with him, saying that her
mother left her money, and she can give it to him. Fortunately, Rob arrives with a gun, and rescues
Jessica and their children. he shoots Messy-Beard in the head, but still spares his beards.
However, this doesn't mean that all is forgiven. Rob is still a drug addict,
and he had heard that Jessica has drugs and money. She tries to convince him that she and
the kids need to eat and go to the hospital; but Rob is so insistent on taking drugs first.
Jessica relents. She tells him that she'll whip up some food first, since it's bad to take drugs
on an empty stomach. She agrees that after that, they can take the drugs together.
So they sit around the kitchen table. Jessica makes Rob a sandwich; and he comments that it
tastes weird. Eventually, Rob gets too impatient. Jessica tries to delay him.
Rob gets pissed, and he points his gun at her. Jessica runs away, and goes upstairs to the
bedroom. Rob slams her against the wall, and mocks her for thinking that she is better than him,
just because she went to rehab. He did not take it well that Jessica cut him out of her life when she
got sober, so Rob is taking revenge against her. He wants to force her to take the drugs, so he can
show her that she is nothing, just like him. Suddenly, Rob's hand twitches, and his skin goes
clammy. Jessica explains that she put the drugs he gave her in the sandwich, so he'll overdose; and
Jessica knows that Rob will always put the drugs first before his own family. She then pushes Rob
out of the window, immediately killing him. Time passes; and Jessica's road to recovery
becomes smoother. She ends up not moving at all. Instead, she and her kids stay in
her mother's house, and they create a new life together. She also started a business,
making and selling apple-jam based on her mother's recipe. Just recently, a store in
town ordered several jars from Jessica. Jessica's secret ingredient is the apples.
Her mother told her that even if the apples are rotten, just cut away the bad parts,
and still use the rest. Jessica likes to think that she used to be a bad apple too; but she has
now cut away all the rotten parts, and the rest of her is brand new. The movie ends with Jessica
and her kids sitting around the kitchen table, their future bright and filled with love.
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