Shutter Island

On an inhospitable rock in Boston Harbour circa 1954, US Marshal Teddy Daniels arrives at a psychiatric facility to investigate the disappearance of a dangerous patient, who had previously drowned her three children. Grief-stricken from the recent death of his wife, and still reeling from his horrifying experiences during World War II, Daniels begins to spiral into a delirious labyrinth of paranoia and madness. Scorsese and DiCaprio’s fourth collaboration adapts Dennis Lehane’s best-selling novel into a star-studded homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock and William Castle. By turns lurid, frightening and visually astonishing, Shutter Island emerges as a romping example of auteurs at play.