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Shutter Island

posted 8 years ago by victorbateman
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Lots of similarities here, but as SI is one big tribute to gothic thrillers i'm fine with this. Verbinski is a very good filmmaker if hardly visionary as the trailer states. Glad he's returning to horror.

[–] Smerdyakoff 8 years ago

I was thinking of that similiarity too

[–] theOnlyOutsider 8 years ago

I was somewhat intrigued at the start of the trailer but the plot twist seems obvious.

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[–] i_am_jokerman 8 years ago

I got a big time Shutter Island vibe watching this trailer and came here to see if anyone else did. Even the actor's mannerisms in this trailer reminded me of DiCaprio in SI.

[–] the-author 8 years ago

Blatant Shutter Island rip-off.
Seems they are using the 'red-herring' from SI as their main plot.
So many similar scenes, like looking with match/lighter in dark, people being carted off, and induced hallucinations.

[–] princeofvoodoo 8 years ago

You can't really rip off Shutter Island as pretty much everything in it had been done before.

This is a very common trope in suspense/drama/horror. That sais Shutter Island was an excellent movie and this one is looking good too.

[–] msFiBi 8 years ago

I dont see how the plot is similar to SI as the twist of "wellness" is definately about ******... like that from the "skeleton key" (2005) with Kate Hudson. The difference will be in defying switching ~ not via mystery but via real surgery.
Not a shutter island at all..with psychology. More like "disgust" and "slasher" the "welness" seems to me.

[–] SurvivingBigBrother 8 years ago

How do you know this?

[–] msFiBi 8 years ago

The same way as others claim it Sutter Island :)

[–] victorbateman 8 years ago

What a twist!

[–] trifocal_skink 8 years ago

I got big Shutter Island vibes which is good coz I loved that movie.

[–] victorbateman 8 years ago

Me too!

[–] PeterRoeder 8 years ago

shutter island is a *beep* movie compared with a cure for wellness

[–] joshuacarpino 8 years ago

this board is proof that unimaginative people have overactive imaginations.

[–] ChardeeMacDennis86 8 years ago

Doubtful.

[–] wtdk123 8 years ago

You mean it's about a crazy person who thinks he isn't crazy? Not quite from the trailer I saw. Yes, the main character is confined after seeking someone from his corporation. Gets in a car accident, the staff suggests he stay there and get treatment and finds out that maybe they are being fed something that is altering them?

Sure. It's exactly like Shutter Island. It uses the tropes of gothic thrillers in an interesting way.

-"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense." -Steve Landesberg

[–] the-author 8 years ago

It's exactly like Shutter Island

Pretty much, except the opposite. Leo was insane and thought he was sane. this guy is actually sane and winds up the victim that Leo thought he was.

They show too much in the trailer.

[–] Vashramana 8 years ago

It is definitely at least visually similar to Shutter Island.

[–] Kunovega 8 years ago

Sure, but so are all the gothic thrillers that are part of the same genre

I think it's only more noticable because they were released only a couple of years apart. There are many other films that are similar they are just much further apart in release dates and don't share similar advertising venues

[–] libra113 8 years ago

Yeah, I've been seeing ads all day long on SyFy and I kept thinking it seemed a lot like "Shutter Island". It's probably just the ads but hey I'm willing to give it a try.