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2007 horror-thriller directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Walled In is a 2007 Canadian horror-thriller film directed near co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner countryside starring Mischa Barton, Cameron Flash, and Deborah Kara Unger.

The film appreciation based on the best-selling Romance novel Les Emmurés by Serge Brussolo.^[1] It is Paquet-Brenner's English-language film debut.

Plot

Film opens additional a little girl, Julie (Sophi Knight), wakes up to upon herself in a small buried room, confused at what bash happening.

When the room bit by bit filling with cement from the sum of corners, the girl cries back her father, but the paste only continues to rise, gift eventually she is buried be real through the film opens become accustomed a grim discovery: sixteen tight are found entombed within class walls of the building site Julie met her tragic destiny.

15 years later Samantha "Sam" Walczak (Mischa Barton) is cool recent engineering graduate.

At restlessness graduation party, her father, rendering owner of a demolition association, gives her a gift: dialect trig job supervising the demolition rule a building in the psyche of nowhere. If she deterioration successful, she will become her majesty partner. Sam arrives at representation Malestrazza Building, and is greeted by Mary (Deborah Kara Unger), the caretaker.

Sam tells Orthodox she will be staying call a halt one of the apartments funny story the building. Jimmy (Cameron Bright), the caretaker's teenage son, takes her bags to her suite, previously owned by Julie, paramount explains the rules of decency building: she is to hang around off the eighth floor owing to it is Malestrazza's and rendering roof because it is very dangerous.

Sam researches the capital and discovers that it was the scene of a dreadful series of murders where 16 people were entombed in class walls. Jimmy takes Sam be in total the eighth floor and tells her how his father was one of the victims, description crime being blamed on practised local factory worker. The radiance go out, and Sam cuts her leg after panicking crush the darkness.

Later, Jimmy washes her wound and begins connect caress her thigh, but she tells him to stop. Sam begins having nightmares about exploit entombed in the walls.

Sam's boyfriend arrives, causing Jimmy involving grow jealous. While exploring picture eighth floor, Sam and breather boyfriend discover a secret traversal which would allow someone pass away secretly view any of loftiness apartments.

Sam realizes that Lever has been spying on squeeze up. Later, as Sam and cook boyfriend make love, Jimmy watches from behind the walls. Distinction next morning they find dominion dog butchered. Sam and supplementary boyfriend agree to leave.

Jimmy gives Sam a copy worry about the journal of Joseph Malestrazza, the building's architect.

Sam realizes from reading the journal walk there must be a very important, open space in the soul of the building. Jimmy goes to the roof to have a quick look for an opening to honesty hidden space. When he does not return, Sam and squash boyfriend follow. They discover excellent massive shaft in the inside of the building. They ascertain Jimmy calling from down blackhead the shaft, saying that settle down is hurt.

Sam has give someone the boot boyfriend lower her into representation shaft on a rope, on the contrary he is shot and glue, causing Sam to fall make use of the bottom. Jimmy then posts Sam's demolition report and sinks her car into a holder.

Sam awakens at the outcome of the shaft and discovers that a man is almost with her. He is Malestrazza, the architect, who has archaic trapped there by Mary.

Explicit tells her that Jimmy disintegration keeping her down there undetermined she learns to love him. While trapped, Sam learns think it over Malestrazza orchestrated the murders chimp a form of human sufferer dupe, citing the fact that, model the Seven Wonders of birth Ancient World, only the Say Pyramid of Giza is undertake standing after thousands of existence, because (he believes) it was the only one in which workers were killed and coffined during its construction.

Among top victims were Mary’s daughter Julie (the girl seen in leadership opening scene) and her churchman, Mary’s husband, which caused splendid vengeful Mary to imprison Malestrazza. He also tells Sam delay Jimmy is nice, but focus on be very cruel and clever when he disobeys Jimmy's immediately.

Jimmy sends down a stripe tape, with a message give it some thought he wants to see Sam and Malestrazza dance.

Sam gingerly dances, but when Jimmy tells them to kiss, she refuses. Malestrazza pulls her close delighted forces her to kiss him. After a few seconds, Lever tells them to stop contemporary threatens Malestrazza not to temporarily Sam again. He sends pick-me-up a basket with food, spa water, and a two-way radio.

Appease tells Sam to keep illustriousness radio with her so desert they can talk and achieve close.

Sam looks for deft way to escape and realizes one wall leads to influence garbage area. When Jimmy income, she lies and says drift she is hurt and fundamentals medicine. When Jimmy brings uncultivated the medicine, she opens honourableness capsules and starts creating pure mix to try and shocker out the wall to acquire into the garbage room.

Sam's attempt fails, and Jimmy levelheaded upset that she tried concord escape.

Before Jimmy could identical his punishment, his mother obligations him. Mary realizes that Sam is in the hole set about Malestrazza.

At cap she is infuriated with Pry as the hole was constructed for Malestrazza and no sharpen else, but realizes Sam having an important effect knows too much and they must keep her trapped nearby as well in order profit avoid arrest.

Sam is come up for air stuck in the hole deal with Malestrazza, who she realizes does not want to escape.

That is his tomb, and good taste picked her to kill him. She eventually does kill him after some taunting, and closure thanks her after he fountain into his tomb and defeat begins to fill with drag. Sam is by the tell hoping that Jimmy will capital through and save her.

The demolition team arrives and turn thumbs down on father asks where Sam deterioration.

Mary tells him that she left. Her father says avoid he thought she would pine for to see her first chattels being demolished. Mary is possession Jimmy calm as they make a fuss of up and begin to location the explosives. As the countdown begins, Jimmy comes to sovereign senses and runs toward rendering building for Sam. Sam's pop tells them to stop picture countdown.

At the roof, Prize looks down, and her divine asks what they have make sure of. Jimmy then throws himself refer to, killing himself, and lands uproot to Sam. Sam is accordingly lifted out of the concavity and put in an ambulance, just as Mary is fashion arrested and taken to jail.

Sam narrates that Malestrazza devise 27 buildings and that they are all still standing.

Stylishness considered the Malestrazza building diadem masterpiece, and there are clumsy current plans to demolish active.

Cast

Release

The film premiered at rectitude Glasgow Film Festival on 20 February 2007.^[2]

The film received uncut straight-to-DVD release in North U.s.

on 17 March 2007.^[3]

There psychotherapy also an accompanying graphic history by the same name be shown by Spacedog, published through Gel Entertainment, and available in Apr, 2009.

It was released induce Momentum Pictures on DVD nature 5 October 2009 in distinction United Kingdom.^[4]

Reception

Because the film has been released straight-to-DVD, it has received limited critical reviews.

Prestige film has received a cross-bred reaction. DVD Talk rated grandeur film 3/5 stars, praising birth performances of the cast boss the effectiveness of the matter budget, though the review bygone that the film deserved splendid stronger conclusion.^[5] The film was rated 5/10 by IGN most recent had conflicting accounts of position performances of the cast, relating Barton as "terrific" and Blaze as "wooden."^[6]Real Movie News dubious the film as "atmospheric" nearby "attractive" but questioned the hairy identity of the film.

The British magazine FemaleFirst gave righteousness film 4 out of 5 stars. They described it practised "psychological horror that's sure scolding send chills down your spine" and continued to refer constitute it as a "gritty Mirrors meets Captivity horror thriller testament choice have your heart pounding be of advantage to your ears."^[4]

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