Walled In (2009)

A demolition company agent uncovers the horrifying secrets held within a building she's having razed.

Director:

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Writers:

Serge Brussolo (novel), Rodolphe Tissot

Stars:

Tim Allen, Mischa Barton, Darla Biccum

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tim Allen	...	Police Officer (as Timothy Allen)
Mischa Barton	...	Sam
Darla Biccum	...	Liz Walzcak
Cameron Bright	...	Jimmy
Eugene Clark	...	Burnett
Mark D. Claxton	...	Richard (as Mark Claxton)
Pascal Greggory	...	Malestrazza
Shannon Jardine	...	Store Clerk
Noam Jenkins	...	Peter
Sophi Knight	...	Julie
Taylor Leslie	...	Lucy Walczak
Emily McAfee	...	Young Sam
Jane Redlyon	...	Denise
Rob Roy	...	Charles Walzcak
Josh Strait	...	Vincent Walzcak

Storyline

A young woman who recently graduated from engineering school travels to a remote location to supervise the demolition of a mysterious building. She soon discovers the horrifying secrets of the building and its past inhabitants, many of whom were victims of a vicious murderer who entombed his prey alive within its walls. Now she must turn the tables on the killer before she becomes his latest victim.

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Plot Keywords:

building | demolition | tenant | engineer | cement | 

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Taglines:

Some secrets are best left buried.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some violence

Details

Country:

USA France Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 June 2009 (Mexico)

Also Known As:

A Prisioneira

Filming Locations:

Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$6,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$270,888

Company Credits

Production Co:

Experiences Films, Forecast Pictures, Leomax Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min (European Film Market)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Although a double was employed to run through everything beforehand and make sure it was safe, Mischa Barton performed all of her own stunts.

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Goofs

When Sam is researching the building on the Internet, the article she reads spells architect wrongly.

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Quotes

Joseph Malestrazza: The Light House of Alexandria, the Temple of Artemis, destroyed. The Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, destroyed. The Seven Wonders of the World, demolished, burned. All except the Great Pyramids and my buildings. Because both the Egyptians and myself inured human beings in our foundations. All that counts as energy. The world found its light only through the birth pangs of agony and murder. Suffering is a journey to purity and death, and the midwife to eternal existence.

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Connections

References A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

User Reviews

Pa-the-tic

PA-THE-TIC If you find boredom scary then 'Walled In' is truly terrifying.

I'm not sure what the producers' plan was to take an incoherent story, really bad acting, really really bad production quality and mixing them together.

The plot: A small town's (the typical horror movie small where cell phones and the internet don't work per horror movie criteria) factory and only source of employment closes down and leaves a 10 story apartment building standing in the middle of nowhere. A serial killer begins picking off the residents and entombing them into the building.

15 or so years after the murders Sam Walczak (Get it!) your typical female, recent college grad, demolitions expert is sent to demolish the almost abandoned building.

"Almost" as there are still people living there. Sam even decides to stay in one of the apartments. Of course it is never explained why a 10 story rotting building with only a few squatters and set to be demolished still has working utilities.

So what scary things happen to Sam? Nothing! And no the squatters don't turn out to be the ghosts of the victims. It's just plain boring.

I cannot think of a single reason to see 'Walled In.'