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Walled In [DVD] [2008]
enlarge	Actors: Mischa Barton, Deborah Kara Unger, Cameron Bright Studio: Momentum Pictures Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £3.75 as of 7/9/2010 20:26 BST details You Save: £9.24 (71%) New (16) Used (13) Collectible (1) from £1.29 Seller: victoria7242 Rating: 6 reviews Sales Rank: 12174 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 88 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060116724738 ASIN: B002CIZPR6 Release Date: October 5, 2009 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 6 1 2 Next » Clever thriller March 11, 2010 PJ Rankine (Wallington, Surrey United Kingdom) This isn't really a horror film at all. I was expecting a slasher type movie with bodies erupting from the walls but what I got was quite an intelligent thriller. The building is really the star with its constant air of menace but Mischa Barton does a pretty good job as the architect who uncovers its secret. Yes it's low budget with a small cast and yes it is a little slow at the start and relies on a couple of cheap jump shots for effect but overall I enjoyed this. The print quality is excellent and its presented in full screen with a good audio track. Started Okay, Then Got Silly. October 11, 2009 Ms. J. F. Gilby (bexhill, uk) 6 out of 6 found this review helpful Walled In is about a young woman named Sam (Mischa Barton) who is a qualified engineer and goes to prove herself on her first job to oversee the demolition of a mysterious building. There she meets a small group of people that still live there and devolping a friendship to the owner's son Jimmy (Cameron Bright). But she soon discovers a gruesome history about the place where a vicious murderer walled in past tennents, now she must figure out the truth and get out of there before she becomes his next victim. It had a promising start, the write-up about this film seemed to be a tense and dark horror movie with a few known names around today. But it got silly in the middle, it ruined the effect of the horror and became a thriller. Sure, it was edge of your seat stuff but I wasn't won over by it. Barton, Bright, Deborah Kara Unger and Pascal Greggory were okay in their roles but I couldn't really warm to their characters. So is it worth seeing? Yes and No, don't get your hopes up for it being a scary movie but I guess when you watch it, it passes the time. It's like the Bates Motel....only bigger August 21, 2010 I. R. Kerr (Lancashire) It starts off pretty well with a good opening sequence of a child being buried alive and an interesting build up during the opening title sequence with a series of newspaper headlines that succeeded in attracting my attention. The premise of the movie has been described in several earlier reviews so I'll not repeat the story-line, suffice to say that there is no vengeful ghost type Hell House story here; although there's a few decent twists on the way, especially the fate of the architect Malestrazza. It just stays on the right side of being a psychological horror/thriller based on two pretty primal fears, that of the dark and being buried alive. For the budget it's not a bad effort but not one that will have me force feeding my DVD player regularly. There are no extras and the DVD gets an 18 rating as there is "additional material" classified at a higher rating than the main feature. It was rated 15 when I saw it on the Horror Channel so something must have been added, somewhere, beats me though. The packaging with the 3D lenticular sleeve is a nice touch so full marks for that. Interesting Premise April 25, 2010 Dismal Angel (Scotland) My Thoughts: The premise of the movie is interesting, and certainly holds alot of promise for horror fans. However, it somewhere loses itself between promising to be a horror movie, and then ebbing off into a mystery, then becoming a psychological thriller towards the final quarter of the film. Mischa Barton's acting in this is reasonable, and Deborah Kara Ungar's performance is somewhat offputting enough to leave you slightly unsettled but none of the performances in this thriller leave you caring for any of the characters in particular. The plot is half-original, and held alot of initial promise to be creepy but eventually lost itself in the fray. This film is incredibly marred by a few plotholes which make it incredibly hard to convince the viewer whether it was good or bad and leaves a somewhat bitter disastisfied aftertaste. The Plot: A twenty-five year old Engineer (Mischa Barton) is sent out to a modern gothic apartment building in the middle of a marshland to inspect and determine the best possible way to demolish the monstrosity. Soon, Sam realises that there is something terribly off about the place, and she feels as if she may be being watched by unseen eyes, and is being followed by figures that lurk in the shadows. What is perhaps more unsettling, is that she discovers the building was the site of a horrific mass murder years before where the victims were entombed into the walls and drowned in cement. Jimmy, the teenaged son of the caretaker, and Sam, begin to explore the building's grisly history and it's secrets, but digging too deep may give her more than she bargained for. Disappointing psychological horror August 28, 2010 Benminx (Plymouth) The trailer for Walled in promises a much more visceral experience, implying that characters get trapped and concreted into the walls in this film. What you actually get is Mischa Barton's character showing up after any of that has occurred and finding herself drawn into the history of the bizarre building she's been commissioned to destroy. She's further diverted by the few remaining wierdo tenants who are sticking it out to the end, including a wierd old lady and the strange son of the building's landlady/housekeeper. Cameron Bright plays his character as a mix of peculiar secrets and puppy-love adoration for Mischa's demolition engineer, and soon the two have formed an unlikely buddy act as they delve into the building's well-publicised past. There's some nicely built up suspense, and some anxiety is wrung out of Mischa's character ending up involved in an interesting twist, but that's largely all there is to this suspense drama. It's completely lacking the full-on horror promised by the cover and trailer, and for that, having mis-sold itself, it was a let down. In its own right it's an interesting thriller, but you're unlikely to come to it without having been mis-led by the marketting. Showing reviews 1-5 of 6 1 2 Next »

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