Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane • 2003
Devastation Rating
mental health trauma horror loss
Our Take
A marshal investigates a disappearance from a psychiatric facility on an island and Lehane builds a sense of dread that is architectural as well as psychological. The twist is less a revelation than a collapse — the narrative has been wrong in ways that feel inevitable in retrospect. What Teddy has done to his own memory is the real horror.
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