Michael Shannon

Jessica Chastain

Shea Whigham

Tova Stewart

Katy Mixon

Robert Longstreet

Ray McKinnon

Kathy Baker

LisaGay Hamilton

Jeffrey Grover

Natasha Randall

Ron Kennard

Scott Knisley

Heather Caldwell

Sheila Hullihen

Maryanne Nagel

Stuart Greer

Bart Flynn

Molly McGinnis

John Kloock

Marianna Alacchi

Jacque Jovic

Peter Ferry

Ken Strunk

Hailee Dickens

Guy Van Swearingen

Nick Koesters

Jason Botsford

Jeff Nichols

Sophia Lin

Tyler Davidson

Chad Keith

Parke Gregg

Karen Malecki

Adam Stone

Adam Willis

David Wingo

Lillian Pyles

Jennifer Klide

Sarah Green

Matt 'Chief' Hightower

Nicholas Elwell

Leonard Suwalski

Kenneth Neil Moore

Russell Lloyd II

Matt Siner

Timothy R. Hoffman

Kevin Martt

Lyman Hardy

Tamer Eldib

Craig McKinstry

Daniel Kruse

Eric A. Kohler

Daniel Chavez

Lainie Anderson

Clint Smith

Julia Lallas

Hector de la Torre

Nick Evert

Joshua Chase

Schuylar Dane Croom

Noel Maitland

Rob Hubbard

Scott Gardner

Michael Roy

Krystal Sae Eua

Jean-Paul Chreky

Bill Rudolph

Adam Briggs

Will Files

Brandon Proctor

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones

Chris Wells

Thriller

Drama

Horror

Take Shelter

Hydraulx

REI Capital

Grove Hill Productions

Strange Matter Films

United States of America

English

small town

beach

schizophrenia

nightmare

obsession

deaf

ohio

shelter

end of the world

premonition

sanity

apocalypse

storm

mental illness

construction worker

bank loan

storm shelter

apocalyptic vision

ambiguous

Jack

I do love slow-paced thriller films and this is exactly that. Having said that, there is something that makes me uneasy about the ending. It is up to so many interpretations that the writer / director of the film didn’t know himself how to end otherwise a close-to-brilliant story with a decent acting.

Would I watch it again? Possibly. Would I make my friends watch it? I guess so.

_Take Shelter’s_ a slow burn, but it gets under your skin. Shannon’s great—properly intense—and there’s loads to chew on about fear, family, and mental health. Bit heavy-handed at times, and it drags in spots

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The family “LaForche” live in a remote Ohio backwater where mother “Samantha” (Jessica Chastain) looks after their deaf daughter “Hannah” (Tova Stewart) whilst dad “Curtis” (Michael Shannon) works for a local drilling outfit. Recently, though, things have become a bit strained as he has been having fairly graphic and disturbing nightmares. These foretell of the mother of all storms sweeping all before it before something ever more ghastly occurs. As these dreams intensify, he begins to struggle determining what is real and what isn’t. Are these hallucinations or is he perhaps seeing an unwelcome future? Initially, both he and “Samantha” think this could be stress-related and so he seeks medical advice that merely results in him becoming medicated. When that doesn’t help and when he starts to take elaborate precautions to protect his family from this impending disaster, we too start to struggle to establish what is going on in his conflicted and frustrated mind. Shannon is on good form here offering an evocative portrayal of a man suffering from mental illness. His erratic behaviour stuns his family and his neighbours, and the reaction from their tightly-knit Christian community is one more of sympathetic self-preservation than anything more useful as the family begin to buckle. Chastain also delivers strongly here as her character has great difficulty is adapting to the irrationalities of her husband’s behaviour whilst dealing with the challenges brought by their equally bemused child. It’s quite a salutary lesson in the toxiticy of anxiety and it’s effects on not just the person who is sick, but on those intimates who must deal with the behavioural inconsistencies emanating from one they love who cannot control their actions. There is also a palpable sense of desperation on display here, and that’s at times really quite intense whilst all the time we are never quite sure just what might be happening with those storm clouds overhead. That ambiguity also works quite well presenting us with a thoughtful and provocative drama that’s a tough watch at times, but worth it.

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Take Shelter( 2011)

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A review by Jack

Written by Jack on Sat May 16 2020

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