I really wanted to love Shutter Island. The performances are fantastic, the production design and photography are pitch perfect and the music is wonderful. It’s got all the right ingredients to be a spooky thriller but in the end, it just doesn’t manage to add up to the film I want to see from Martin Scorsese. And I think it’s because the “dream” sequences are too plentiful and too “on-the-nose” for my tastes. The story might have been better adapted by someone like David Lynch, who seems to be able construct creepy scenes from the most mundane of moments. Despite my disappointment with the film, I’m looking forward to giving Shutter Island another shot when it hits Blu on June 8th.

Special Features:

• Behind the Shutters: follows the film from its inception as an acclaimed novel through the production process and to the big screen. Includes interviews with cast and crew.
• Into the Lighthouse: discusses the historical landscape of psychiatric therapies during the 1950s through interviews with cast and crew.

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