10 Horror Movie Twists That Made No Sense
4. Shut In
This twist somehow
managed to show up in a pair of major studio horrors in the same year, and although
it didn’t play particularly well in either iteration we’ve singled out Shut In
for stretching credulity well beyond any reasonable suspension of doubt.
Okay so, spoilers for The Boy and Shut In, as well as the seminal tv film Bad Ronald, and Kiwi horror comedy Housebound while we’re at it—the unseen supernatural presence plaguing our beloved protagonists is actually a very much alive human who is secretly using the crawlspaces within the walls to sneak around the house.
Sure, The Boy was pretty silly, but its twist at least made sense within the film’s established reality. But the Naomi Watts-starring thriller Shut In has no excuse.
Late in the flick, the audience discovers that her paralyzed son Stephen (Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton, giving a solid “Unsettling Norman Bates”), is actually fully mobile and behind all the spooky goings-on of the preceding film.
How did he manage to convince a cadre of doctors that he was suffering locked-in syndrome, whilst also managing to avoid detection as he snuck around the house and drugged his dear mum to convince her she was losing her mind?
Good question! If you ever
come across an answer, we’d love to hear it, since Shut In didn’t feel the need
to provide any.