![]() In reality, Gallo was a fan of Sonnier’s darker, politically incorrect material and prepped for the movie in seven days by having a healthy tooth removed by a dentist and picking out his very specific (and oddly frightening) wardrobe for the movie.Īgain, not the type of film most would expect to have a Daily Wire logo or Ben Shapiro stamp of approval, but that’s exactly what makes Daily Wire’s foray into film different from those of past conservatives who promised, imaginary swords in the air, to charge into the leftwing cesspool of Hollywood and came back with material that feels like it was shot with little more than the budget scrambled together by a 16-year-old for his senior year film studies class. We have the Gallo dossier from Moscow and so that’s how we got him in the movie.” On how he got Gallo to return to the world of acting after a nearly decade-long hiatus, knowing the divisive response he would receive, Sonnier jokes, “I worked with the Clinton Foundation. Gallo owns his villainous role, portraying a character few in Hollywood would take: a drug-addicted, remorseless child abuser with limited facetime on camera, instead relying on his voice and disturbing, never-still background presence to build tension. ![]() Instead he’s pushed Daily Wire into a genre-centric, populist take on film competing directly with dying studio content that has become ever more heavily reliant on IP-continuity and social messages corporate media and liberal pundits can get behind. Shapiro could have, understandably, taken the easy route and opted to produce some micro-budgeted faith-based film that plays to a very specific, but loyal, crowd. Sonnier’s films cold-shoulder blatant agendas in favor of stories that harken back to a time in cinema when mainstream studio content actually pushed the envelope and challenged political correctness. The 84-minute thriller has plenty of merits on its own, but what is making Shapiro’s film efforts stand out from other conservatives who have jumped into the filmmaking world is that he’s ditched the focus on politics and instead put his trust in the hands of capable and mainly non-political filmmakers like producer Dallas Sonnier, the producer behind both ‘Shut In’ and ‘Run Hide Fight,’ as well as past cult favorites like ‘Bone Tomahawk,’ a gruesomely violent western/horror. That is the greatest accomplishment of Daily Wire’s first produced movie (last year’s ‘Run Hide Fight’ was picked up for distribution by them). Others have similarly written off the film by expressing more political discourse in their attacks than the movie actually has on display. Left-wing site Mary Sue led the charge in accusing Shapiro of making a “political move” with the casting of Gallo. Read more Oscar-winning director speaks out on lack of sex scenes in superhero movies On top of its link with one of the left’s favorite bogeymen, the movie serves as a comeback vehicle for Vincent Gallo, a director and actor perhaps known as much for his blunt honesty and media trolling as his experimental filmmaking. ![]() Of course, it’s almost irrelevant how good or bad ‘Shut In’ actually is, as in this tribal world of binary battling cultures, it’s already been written off by a portion of the potential audience, thanks to its connection to Shapiro. Once her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious debt collector of sorts arrive, things go a bit off kilter, and by the time our protagonist finds herself locked in a pantry separated from her children, ‘Shut In’ becomes the sort of tension-building exercise ‘Disturbia’ director DJ Caruso is best at. ‘Shut In,’ which premieres Thursday night on Daily Wire’s YouTube channel, is a tight home invasion thriller, starring Rainney Qualley as a recovering drug addict taking care of her two young children while cleaning out a house she inherited in the middle of nowhere. The fresh studio is continuing to offer strong alternatives to mainstream Hollywood output by eschewing political agendas and focusing on the simple act of telling a compelling story. ‘Shut In,’ Daily Wire’s latest film, is a tense thriller that cleverly avoids the trappings of typical ‘right wing’ moviesīen Shapiro’s conservarvative media company, Daily Wire, is continuing its journey into filmmaking with a second film hitting screens this week. ![]()
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