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Director:
Writers:
Pablo Proenza (writer)
Matthew Reynolds (writer)
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Plot:
A photographer moves her family into a strange old house, where she discovers an alternate reality reflected in the glass... A dark reality that is closing in on her. | add synopsis
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 11/03/2009
 (From Fangoria. 31 October 2009, 9:00 PM, PDT)

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Cast

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Lisa Vidal ... Deborah Martin

David Chisum ... Jim Martin
Joshua Pelegrin ... Ian Martin
Lupe Ontiveros ... Grace

Christine Lakin ... Tammy

David Farkas ... Chad

John Newton ... Brendan

Jim Storm ... Frank

Tucker Smallwood ... Detective Williams
Jay Knowlton ... Detective Vasquez

Jareb Dauplaise ... Frat Boy

Jean Carol ... Real Estate Agent

Susan Brindley ... Professional Woman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Marcus DeAnda ... Rupert Wells (as Marcus De Anda)
Madeline Dignadice ... Eleanor's daughter
Dakota Edwards ... Ian's Double

Daeg Faerch ... Neighbor Kid
Deborah Jay ... Officer #1

Sarah Kelly ... Parent #1

Kristin Lorenz ... CSI Photographer
John Manzo ... Officer #2

Tim Pfeiffer ... Officer #3
Juliana Rong ... Mrs. Yoshida
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Also Known As:
Shut In (USA) (working title)
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USA:86 min
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"Making things happen by drawing them", 18 November 2009
10/10
Author: hasosch from United States

This is an excellent horror movie, and I will tell you step by step, why. Although the sources of writer-director Pablo Proenza are unknown to me, the plot makes systematical use of what is called in logic "poly-contextural" elements. Examples are: The exchange relation between a sign and its object, especially a painting and the real, painted person, or the exchange relation between two persons, by which operation the identity relation of the individual is abolished. The possibility that one person can appear at the same time in more than one place - thereby abolishing the Aristotelian triad of individual, place and time. The idea that Death does not abolish the individuality of a person, although it may well abolish its body and the related idea that the will, but not the thinking, of a dead person can survive and therefore influence the lives of the living. "Poly-contextural" is also the idea that "ghosts" can be imprisoned in prismatic glass (windows) or in whole houses, so also the idea/motive of the "Haunted House" has "poly-contextural" roots.

In systematically using such motives the horror movies of the new generation do a big quality jump over their ancestors. Not only a quantity jump - by using more and even complexer technical effects which, at the end, dissolve themselves, but by bringing out the deepest horror which mankind is possibly able to sense: the idea to stand before oneself, the doubling of personality, the non-difference between life and death, the reversibility of the path between the Here and the Beyond and so on. This is not Science-Fiction, but based on solid logical Cybernetics, developed mainly in the US since the 50ies.

Congratulations to the director for this masterpiece! May he continue his way and become the ice-breaker for a real, qualitatively and not only quantitatively new generation of the horror film.

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