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The murder of her brother leaves Sarah (Donna Bradley) devastated, and
for coping, she moves back in with her foster father Jim (Brian Fortune)
in her old hometown, and also gets back together with her ex Michael
(Andrew Blaikie). Then though, the house is broken in, and the robber
(John Boylan) only just manages to escape. Weirdly though, he has taken
nothing, only gone through Sarah's brother's stuff. Going through her
brother's stuff, Sarah finds a diary depicting he had the same nightmares
she has been having since his death, nightmares that somehow have to do
with a white mansion. It seems the key to everything is Sarah's mother
Margaret (Ruth McIntyre), who has spent the last several decades in an
asylum (where she also gave birth to Sarah actually). But when Sarah and
Michael want to pay a visit to Margaret, she is already dead, and for some
reason they are accused of murdering her. Sarah and Michael manage to
evade the authorities, but there is someone else on their trail, former
cop Lowry (Gerry Shanahan) and his children Fiona (Sara Eavan) and Sean
(John Boylan). While in hiding, Sarah and Michael try to figure out what
exactly's going on, and they learn that Margaret actually was the member
(and the sole survivor) of a suicide cult she housed in her mansion - the
mansion from Sarah's dreams - and Lowry is opposed to the cult. Then
Sarah has a total blackout while sleepwalking, knocks out Michael, and
only comes to when she finds herself in front of the mansion ...
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For the
most part, Shackled is a tense mystery thriller that manages to
always give away just enough story to keep the audience guessing and keep
the suspense level on high - which all of course is helped by a competent
cast and a very compact directorial effort. It's weird then that the
climax is a bit of a letdown: Thing is, as long as the story
(intentionally) did not make perfect sense, it worked just fine, but once
everything comes to a head, it refuses to perfectly gel. Now don't get me
wrong, the showdown is still ok and works narratively, but it lacks the
other intensity the preceeding movie would have deserved. Still, it's a
pretty good movie, it just missed its shot at being great.
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