Walled In
Some walls are built to keep secrets.
Walled In is a 2007 Canadian-French horror-thriller film directed and co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and starring Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright, and Deborah Kara Unger. The film is based on the best-selling French novel Les Emmurés by Serge Brussolo. It is Paquet-Brenner's English-language film debut.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Gilles Paquet-Brenner
- Producer
- Kevin DeWalt
- Writer
- Serge Brussolo
- Gilles Paquet-Brenner
- Sylvain White
- Rodoplphe Tissot
- Olivier Volpi
- Starring
- Mischa Barton
- Cameron Bright
- Deborah Kara Unger
- Music
- David Kristian
- Cinematography
- Karim Hussain
- Studio
- Minds Eye International
- Experiences Films
- Forecast Pictures
- Indigo Motion
- Distributor
- Leomax Entertainment Anchor Bay Entertainment (USA); Momentum Pictures (UK)
Lore & Background
The film opens when a little girl, Julie, wakes up to find herself in a small concealed room. When the room starts filling with cement, she is buried alive. Fifteen years later, Samantha 'Sam' Walczak, a recent engineering graduate, supervises the demolition of the Malestrazza Building. She discovers the building was the scene of murders where sixteen people were entombed in the walls. The architect, Malestrazza, orchestrated the murders as human sacrifice, believing that only the Great Pyramid of Giza still stands because workers were killed and buried during its construction. Mary, the caretaker, imprisoned Malestrazza after her husband and daughter (Julie) were among his victims. Sam is trapped in a shaft with Malestrazza, eventually kills him, and is rescued after Jimmy throws himself off the roof.
Reader's Guide
The film premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival on 20 February 2009. It received a straight-to-DVD release in North America on 17 March 2009. An accompanying graphic novel by Spacedog was published through Ape Entertainment in April 2009. Momentum Pictures released it on DVD on 5 October 2009 in the United Kingdom.
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