Gone Direct-to-DVD: April 2009
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Friday, May 01, 2009
8. Walled In
Who's in It? Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright and Deborah Kara Unger
The Verdict: No wonder Barton’s rushing back to TV. Thanks to Virgin Territory, Closing the Ring (see the next review) and this tame torture porn chiller, Barton’s film career died a quicker death than her O.C. troubled teen. Like Elisha Cuthbert in Captivity, an uncharacteristically gutsy Barton finds herself held against her will in an eerie building — once the site of 16 murders — and punished whenever she disobeys her captor. Director Serge Brussolo takes his sweet time putting in motion the events leading up to Barton’s confinement, which at least allows us to get to know the building’s remaining occupants (including Birth’s Bright, who gets all strange on us again). Still, Brussolo never makes Walled In as intriguing as the bizarre concrete monstrosity that Barton seeks to escape.
DVD Features: The Making of Walled In featurette.
Stars: 2 out of 5
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