In this way, it reminded me of 2016’s Don’t Breathe , in which director Fede Alvarez plays up the foreshadowing to nauseating effect and maximum eventual payoff.
The most immediate cinematic comparison that comes to mind is 2016’s brutal Green Room , about a punk band who gets locked in the back of a Neo-Nazi bar after witnessing a murder.
Produced by the folks behind films like Bone Tomahawk and Dragged Across Concrete , Shut In is the second of four announced films to be distributed by the politically conservative media company as part of an attempt to create an independent film studio.