I wouldn't name this a horror movie. It was not scary in any moment at least for me. It is about a young girl architect is commissioned to study the roots of a building to be demolished, marking the places where there will be explosives later on, and during the time that she works on it, she stays on the building that has a dark history, finding out more secrets all the time, including a disturbed teenager and her weird mother. One thing takes to the other and at the end she is surrounded by dead and later on locked in a kind of cellar where the architect that made the building is also being kept. The story has potential, it is based on a book, and the interesting part is that the building used for the movie fascinated me (inside and outside) and all the architecture details of it and through history that are mentioned along the movie, the secret passages, the light, the ideas that the architect's character says, it is a story with some substance, but not enough to give it a higher score. There are so many things that they could have done during the filming with this building that the result is too poor. The acting unfortunately was very poor as well. Mischa Barton should not be part of "horror" movies, and Cameron Bright (the kid, Jimmy), is very poor acted for a disturbed weird anti social child, that is represented as someone extroverted and self secure (I wouldn't think at a disturbed child being that way). Deborah Kara Unger (Mary), by the other hand, is quite good but I am fed up of seeing her in kind of weird crazy roles. She has much more to offer. I recommend this movie if you are bored or have nothing better to watch, but if you expect big screams, blood, or whatever a horror movie should make you feel, this is then a no, no.
Review of Walled In
