Review – Walled In

This is two thirds of a really good horror movie. A young demolition engineer’s first assignment is to plan the destruction of a strange-looking apartment building designed by a mad genius. In act one she meets the peculiar tenants who will be evicted before the place comes down, particularly a creepy-or-merely-misunderstood teenage boy (played by Danny Huston, who as a younger kid starred in Birth). In act two the protagonist discovers some of the evil secrets behind the building, including a deadly history and secret passages and rooms behind the walls. Everything works just fine up until an hour in. The production values are good. The acting is acceptable. The script wanders a bit, but it’s still a solid two and maybe even a three-star picture. But then it turns into a low-key Saw reheat. What a shame. If you stop watching when the dog gets killed (or just before, if you can guess the right moment), you’ll come away with a better feeling about the experience. Rest assured, you won’t be missing anything that’s actually worth seeing. See if desperate