***MAJOR SPOILERS*** Right from the very start, as soon as I laid eyes on it, all I wanted to see in the movie "Walled In" was that ugly and depressing looking Malesrazza Buliding blown to bits! Which is exactly what young and pretty building demolition expert Sam Walczak, Mischa Barton, was planning to do. Instead I got this crazy serial murder mystery involving the building's deranged architect Joe Malestrazza, Pascal Greggory,who's been on the lamb from the police since it was discovered in his monstrosity, the Malestrazza Building, some 16 tenants who were entombed by him , obviously for being late in paying their rent, in its walls.
One of Joe's victims also happened to be the building's caretaker the creepy looking Mary's, Deborah Kara Unger, husband. The spaced-out looking Mary together with her even creeper looking 15 year old son Jimmy, Cameron Bright, have been living in the building since Joe, with the police hot on his tail, checked out.
Sam showing up at the building to get everything ready to blow it sky high finds that not only Mary and Jimmy live in it but also disabled army veteran Burnett, played by former Tronto Argonaut offensive lineman Eugene Clark, and the somewhat senile Denise, Jane Hedlyon, as well! Jimmy who's sick and tired of taking orders from his overbearing mom Mary tries to hook up, even though she old enough to be his big sister, Sam and finally leave the place and start a life of his own.
****SPOILERS*** It's then that we, and Sam, get the surprise of our lives in finding out that the elusive Joe Malestrazza has been living in the building the entire time he was supposed to be on the run from the law! Joe's been kept under lock and key,in the buildings top floor, by Mary herself as punishment for not only doing in some 15 or so former tenant but her husband-and Jimmy's father-as well! The rest the movie centers around poor Sam, who ends up being locked up together with the mad as a hatter Joe Malesrazza, having to put up with Joe's craziness that almost drives her to the brink of madness! Joe seems to want to be done in for all the hurt he's done over the years, like having his god-awful Malesrazza Buliding built, and wants, for reasons he only knows, Sam to be the person to do him in!
This all would have been good and well if Sam, by knocking off two monstrosities with one blast of explosives, would have finished off Joe together with his unsightly, that looked like a modern version of Hitler's Bunker, Malestrazza Building! It's just too bad that the movie, due to its lack of imagination and sense of justice, didn't end the way we expected, and hoped, it would! With a great big Bang!
One of Joe's victims also happened to be the building's caretaker the creepy looking Mary's, Deborah Kara Unger, husband. The spaced-out looking Mary together with her even creeper looking 15 year old son Jimmy, Cameron Bright, have been living in the building since Joe, with the police hot on his tail, checked out.
Sam showing up at the building to get everything ready to blow it sky high finds that not only Mary and Jimmy live in it but also disabled army veteran Burnett, played by former Tronto Argonaut offensive lineman Eugene Clark, and the somewhat senile Denise, Jane Hedlyon, as well! Jimmy who's sick and tired of taking orders from his overbearing mom Mary tries to hook up, even though she old enough to be his big sister, Sam and finally leave the place and start a life of his own.
****SPOILERS*** It's then that we, and Sam, get the surprise of our lives in finding out that the elusive Joe Malestrazza has been living in the building the entire time he was supposed to be on the run from the law! Joe's been kept under lock and key,in the buildings top floor, by Mary herself as punishment for not only doing in some 15 or so former tenant but her husband-and Jimmy's father-as well! The rest the movie centers around poor Sam, who ends up being locked up together with the mad as a hatter Joe Malesrazza, having to put up with Joe's craziness that almost drives her to the brink of madness! Joe seems to want to be done in for all the hurt he's done over the years, like having his god-awful Malesrazza Buliding built, and wants, for reasons he only knows, Sam to be the person to do him in!
This all would have been good and well if Sam, by knocking off two monstrosities with one blast of explosives, would have finished off Joe together with his unsightly, that looked like a modern version of Hitler's Bunker, Malestrazza Building! It's just too bad that the movie, due to its lack of imagination and sense of justice, didn't end the way we expected, and hoped, it would! With a great big Bang!