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Calculated Shard: 152 (from laksa032)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa152.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_(film)\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_(film)\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_(film)","crawl_time":1775392989,"first_indexed_time":1425385916,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,wikipedia!en,\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_(film) s443","src_root_hash":"17790707453426894952","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Shutter Island (film) - Wikipedia","meta_descriptions":[],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Shutter Island\nTheatrical release poster\nDirected by\nMartin Scorsese\nScreenplay by\nLaeta Kalogridis\nBased on\nShutter Island\nby\nDennis Lehane\nProduced by\nMike Medavoy\nArnold W. Messer\nBradley J. Fischer\nMartin Scorsese\nStarring\nLeonardo DiCaprio\nMark Ruffalo\nBen Kingsley\nMichelle Williams\nEmily Mortimer\nPatricia Clarkson\nMax von Sydow\nCinematography\nRobert Richardson\nEdited by\nThelma Schoonmaker\nProduction\ncompanies\nParamount Pictures\n[\n1\n]\nPhoenix Pictures\nSikelia Productions\nAppian Way Productions\nDistributed by\nParamount Pictures\nRelease dates\nFebruary 13, 2010\n(\nBerlinale\n)\nFebruary 19, 2010\n(United States)\nRunning time\n139 minutes\nCountry\nUnited States\nLanguage\nEnglish\nBudget\n$80 million\n[\n2\n]\nBox office\n$294.8 million\n[\n3\n]\n[\n4\n]\nShutter Island\nis a 2010 American\nneo-noir\npsychological thriller\nfilm\n[\n5\n]\ndirected by\nMartin Scorsese\n. The screenplay was adapted by\nLaeta Kalogridis\nfrom\nthe 2003 novel\nby\nDennis Lehane\n. It follows Deputy\nU.S. Marshal\nEdward \"Teddy\" Daniels and his partner Chuck, who come to the fictional Shutter Island in\nBoston Harbor\nto investigate its criminal psychiatric facility after one of its patients goes missing; Daniels has his own ulterior motives for taking the case. The film stars\nLeonardo DiCaprio\nand\nMark Ruffalo\n, with\nBen Kingsley\n,\nMax von Sydow\nand\nMichelle Williams\nin supporting roles.\nDevelopment began when\nPhoenix Pictures\nacquired the film rights to the novel directly from Lehane after\nColumbia Pictures\nhad allowed their rights to lapse in 2003. Phoenix hired\nLaeta Kalogridis\nto work on a screenplay for a year, and in 2007, announced that both Scorsese and DiCaprio had joined the project. Production began on March 6, 2008, at various locations in\nMassachusetts\n; filming ended on July 2, 2008.\nPartnering with\nParamount Pictures\n, the film had its wide release on February 19, 2010, and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was chosen by the\nNational Board of Review\nas one of the\ntop ten films of 2010\n, and grossed $295 million worldwide. The film is also noted for its soundtrack, which prominently used classical music by composers such as\nGustav Mahler\n,\nKrzysztof Penderecki\n,\nGyörgy Ligeti\n,\nJohn Cage\n,\nIngram Marshall\nand\nMax Richter\n. In 2025, the film was voted for the \"Readers' Choice\" edition of\nThe New York Times\n'\nlist of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century\", finishing at number 169.\n[\n6\n]\nPlot\nIn 1954,\nU.S. Marshal\nEdward \"Teddy\" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the\ncriminally insane\non Shutter Island in\nBoston Harbor\n. The purpose of their visit is to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient of the hospital who had killed her three children by drowning.\nThe staff, led by psychiatrist Dr. John Cawley and his colleague Dr. Jerimiah Naehring, appears uncooperative. The marshals learn that Dr. Lester Sheehan, who was treating Solando, left the island on vacation immediately after Solando disappeared. Teddy experiences\nmigraines\n, flashbacks of his time as a U.S. soldier in the\nliberation of Dachau\n, and vivid dreams of his wife Dolores, who was killed in a fire in their building set by\npyromaniac\nAndrew Laeddis. Teddy tells Chuck he took this case to find Laeddis, whom he believes is a patient. Solando suddenly resurfaces, but believes Teddy is her husband.\nTeddy breaks into the restricted Ward C to find Laeddis, but meets patient George Noyce, who knows Teddy from his past. Noyce says the doctors experiment on patients and\nlobotomize\nthem in the lighthouse. He warns Teddy that everyone will deceive him and not to trust his partner Chuck.\nTeddy and Chuck climb the cliffs toward the lighthouse, but are separated. Believing he saw Chuck's body on the rocks below, Teddy climbs down but finds only a cave where a woman claiming to be the real Rachel Solando is hiding. She reveals she is a former psychiatrist; after discovering clandestine experiments on\nmind control\nat the facility, she was silenced by being forcibly committed. She warns that Cawley and Naehring will use Teddy's war trauma to feign a psychotic break, allowing them to have him committed as well. Teddy returns to the hospital. When he asks about Chuck, Cawley insists that Teddy arrived at Shutter Island alone.\nConvinced Chuck has been taken to the lighthouse, Teddy is intercepted by Naehring, who attempts to sedate him. Teddy overpowers him and breaks into the lighthouse to discover Cawley waiting for him. Cawley tells him that Rachel Solando never existed. He adds that Teddy has not been drugged but is experiencing withdrawal from\nchlorpromazine\n, a\nneuroleptic\nmedication Teddy has been taking for the past two years.\nChuck arrives and reveals he is actually Dr. Sheehan. \"Teddy\" is really Andrew Laeddis, a former U.S. Marshal. Laeddis was incarcerated at Ashecliffe for killing his\nmanic depressive\nwife Dolores Chanal after she killed their three children by drowning. Andrew had failed to seek treatment for Dolores after she burned down their apartment; instead, he moved his family to the lakehouse, which is where Dolores carried out the killings.\nAs a result of his guilt, Andrew became delusional and created the alternate persona of Edward Daniels.\n[\na\n]\nThe \"investigation\" of Rachel Solando was an elaborate roleplay, supported by hospital staff, to help Andrew play out his delusion so he might break out of it and return to reality. Overwhelmed, Andrew faints.\nAwakening, Andrew recounts the truth, satisfying the doctors that he is lucid. Cawley notes they had achieved this state nine months ago, but Andrew had quickly regressed. He warns this will be Andrew's last chance; if he lapses into his delusion again, he will be lobotomized due to his violent conduct toward the guards and other patients, such as Noyce.\nSome time later, Andrew relaxes on the hospital grounds with Sheehan. Appearing delusional, he refers to Sheehan as \"Chuck\" and says they must leave the island. Sheehan signals to a watching Cawley, who orders that Andrew be lobotomized. Andrew asks Sheehan if it would be worse \"to live as a monster or to die as a good man\". A stunned Sheehan calls Andrew \"Teddy\", but the latter does not respond and leaves peacefully with the orderlies for his operation.\nCast\nLeonardo DiCaprio\nas Edward \"Teddy\" Daniels, a former\nU.S. Marshal\nwho investigates the Shutter Island\ninsane asylum\nMark Ruffalo\nas Chuck Aule, Teddy's Marshal partner\nBen Kingsley\nas Dr. John Cawley, a senior psychiatrist at Shutter Island\nMax von Sydow\nas Dr. Naehring, a colleague of Cawley\nMichelle Williams\nas Dolores Chanal, Teddy's wife\nEmily Mortimer\nand\nPatricia Clarkson\nas Rachel Solando\nJackie Earle Haley\nas George Noyce, a patient in Ward C\nTed Levine\nas Warden\nJohn Carroll Lynch\nas Deputy Warden McPherson\nJoseph Sikora\nas Glen Miga\nElias Koteas\nas Laeddis\nRobin Bartlett\nas Bridget Kearns\nChristopher Denham\nas Peter Breene\nCurtiss Cook\nas Trey Washington\nProduction\nDevelopment\nThe rights to\nDennis Lehane\n's novel\nShutter Island\nwere first optioned to\nColumbia Pictures\nin 2003. Columbia did not act on the option, and it lapsed back to Lehane, who sold it to\nPhoenix Pictures\n. Phoenix hired\nLaeta Kalogridis\n, and together, they developed the film for a year. Director\nMartin Scorsese\nand actor\nLeonardo DiCaprio\nwere both attracted to the project.\n[\n7\n]\nProduction began on March 6, 2008.\n[\n8\n]\nLehane's inspiration for the hospital and island setting was\nLong Island\nin\nBoston Harbor\n, which he had visited as a child with his uncle and family during the\nblizzard of 1978\n.\n[\n9\n]\nFilming\nShutter Island\nwas mainly filmed in\nMassachusetts\n, with\nTaunton\nbeing the location for the World War II flashback scenes.\n[\n10\n]\nOld industrial buildings in Taunton's\nWhittenton Mills Complex\nreplicated the\nDachau concentration camp\n.\n[\n11\n]\nThe old\nMedfield State Hospital\nin\nMedfield\n, Massachusetts, was another key location.\nCawley's office scenes were the second floor of the chapel during the late evening. Lights were shone through the windows to make it appear to be daytime. The crew painted the hospital's brick walls to look like plywood. This served the dual purpose of acting as scenery and blocking the set from view of a local road.\nThe crew wanted to film at the old\nWorcester State Hospital\n, but demolition of surrounding buildings made it impossible. The stone lodge next to Leach Pond at\nBorderland State Park\nin\nEaston\n, Massachusetts, was used for the cabin scene.\n[\n12\n]\nThe film used\nPeddocks Island\nas a setting for the story's island.\nEast Point\n, in\nNahant\n, Massachusetts, was the location for the lighthouse scenes.\n[\n13\n]\nThe scenes in which Teddy and Chuck are caught in the hurricane were filmed at the\nWilson Mountain Reservation\nin\nDedham\n, Massachusetts.\n[\n14\n]\nFilming ended on July 2, 2008.\n[\n15\n]\nMusic\nShutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture\nSoundtrack album\nby\nvarious artists\nReleased\nFebruary 2, 2010\nGenre\nFilm soundtrack\nLength\n116\n:\n41\nLabel\nRhino Records\nProducer\nRobbie Robertson\nJohn Powell\nThe film does not have an original score. Instead, Scorsese's longtime collaborator\nRobbie Robertson\ncreated an ensemble of previously recorded material to use in the film.\nShutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture\nwas released on February 2, 2010, by\nRhino Records\n.\nAccording to a statement on Paramount's website: \"The collection of\nmodern classical music\n[on the soundtrack album] was hand-selected by Robertson, who is proud of its scope and sound. 'This may be the most outrageous and beautiful soundtrack I've ever heard.' [Robertson stated]\".\n[\n16\n]\nLos Angeles Times\n' classical music reviewer\nMark Swed\nnoted that \"Robertson went through a lot of trouble to make things work as well\".\n[\n17\n]\nHe argues that while other reviewers have called the music \"melodramatic\", \"nothing could be further from the truth\".\n[\n17\n]\nAnother reviewer noted that \"Scorsese has abandoned his oft-used classic rock soundtrack habits and, almost positively taking a queue from Stanley Kubrick's soundtracks, adopted a selection mostly of various modern classical pieces\",\n[\n18\n]\nand that \"this set of pieces certainly suggests a different mood rather than a conventional score\".\n[\n18\n]\nPop culture critic Noel Murray lists the album at #24 in\nVulture\n's 2018 \"40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time\", saying, \"Besides drawing attention to the modern geniuses of a wholly different genre, the unfamiliar, almost alien sounds of the\nShutter Island\nsoundtrack reinforce the movie's tale of hallucinatory madness\".\n[\n19\n]\nA full track listing of the album is below. All the musical works are featured in the final film.\n[\n18\n]\nDisc 1\n\"Fog Tropes\" (\nIngram Marshall\n) –\nOrchestra of St. Lukes &\nJohn Adams\n\"\nSymphony No. 3: Passacaglia\n – Allegro Moderato\" (\nKrzysztof Penderecki\n) –\nNational Polish Radio Symphony &\nAntoni Wit\n\"\nMusic for Marcel Duchamp\n\" (\nJohn Cage\n) –\nPhilipp Vandré\n\"Hommage à\nJohn Cage\n\" –\nNam June Paik\n\"Lontano\" (\nGyörgy Ligeti\n) –\nWiener Philharmoniker &\nClaudio Abbado\n\"Rothko Chapel 2\" (\nMorton Feldman\n) –\nUC Berkeley Chamber Chorus\n\"\nCry\n\" –\nJohnnie Ray\n\"\nOn the Nature of Daylight\n\" –\nMax Richter\n\"\nUaxuctum\n: The Legend of the Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed for Religious Reasons – 3rd Movement\" (\nGiacinto Scelsi\n) –\nVienna Radio Symphony Orchestra\n\"\nQuartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor\n\" (\nGustav Mahler\n) –\nPrazak Quartet\nDisc 2\n\"\nChristian Zeal and Activity\n\" (John Adams) –\nThe San Francisco Symphony &\nEdo de Waart\n\"Suite for Symphonic Strings: Nocturne\" (\nLou Harrison\n) –\nThe New Professionals Orchestra & Rebecca Miller\n\"\nLizard Point\n\" –\nBrian Eno\n\"Four Hymns: II for Cello and Double Bass\" (\nAlfred Schnittke\n) –\nTorleif Thedéen & Entcho Radoukanov\n\"\nRoot of an Unfocus\n\" (John Cage) –\nBoris Berman\n\"Prelude – The Bay\" –\nIngram Marshall\n\"\nWheel of Fortune\n\" –\nKay Starr\n\"\nTomorrow Night\n\" –\nLonnie Johnson\n\"\nThis Bitter Earth\n\"\/\"On the Nature of Daylight\" –\nDinah Washington\n& Max Richter; arrangement by\nRobbie Robertson\nGenre\nShutter Island\nis a\nperiod piece\nwith nods to different films in the\nfilm noir\nand\nhorror\ngenres, paying particular homage to\nAlfred Hitchcock\n's works.\n[\n20\n]\nScorsese stated in an interview that the main reference to Teddy Daniels was\nDana Andrews\n's character in\nLaura\n, and he was also influenced by several very low-budget 1940s\nzombie movies\nby\nVal Lewton\n.\n[\n21\n]\nThe main plot resembles\nWilliam Peter Blatty\n's\nThe Ninth Configuration\n,\n[\n22\n]\n[\n23\n]\n[\n24\n]\nas well as\nThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\n.\n[\n24\n]\n[\n25\n]\n[\n26\n]\nLa Croix\nnoted\nShutter Island\nwas a \"complex and puzzling\" work that borrowed from genres as diverse as detective, fantasy, and the psychological thriller.\n[\n27\n]\nThere have been differing opinions of the film's ending of the film, in which Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan \"which would be worse—to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?\", a line that does not appear in the book. Professor\nJames Gilligan\nof\nNew York University\nwas Scorsese's psychiatric adviser, and he said that Laeddis's last words mean: \"I feel too guilty to go on living. I'm not going to actually commit suicide, but I'm going to vicariously commit suicide by handing myself over to these people who're going to lobotomize me.\"\n[\n28\n]\nDennis Lehane, however, said, \"Personally, I think he has a momentary flash.... It's just one moment of sanity mixed in the midst of all the other delusions.\"\n[\n28\n]\nRelease\nDirector\nMartin Scorsese\nat the film's premiere at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival\nThe film was originally scheduled to be released by\nParamount Pictures\nin the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009.\n[\n29\n]\nParamount announced it was pushing back the release date to February 19, 2010.\n[\n30\n]\nReports attribute the pushback to Paramount not having \"the financing in 2009 to spend the $50 to $60 million necessary to market a big awards pic like this\", to DiCaprio's unavailability to promote the film internationally, and to Paramount's hope the economy might rebound enough by February 2010 that a film geared toward adult audiences would be more viable financially.\n[\n31\n]\nThe film premiered at the\n60th Berlin International Film Festival\nas part of the competition screening on February 13, 2010.\n[\n32\n]\nSpanish distributor Manga Films distributed the film in Spain after winning a bidding war that reportedly reached the $6 million to $8 million range.\n[\n33\n]\nReception\nCritical response\nRotten Tomatoes\ngives the film an approval rating of 69% based on 263 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7\/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"It may not rank with Scorsese's best work, but\nShutter Island\n'\ns gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained.\"\n[\n34\n]\nOn\nMetacritic\n, the film received a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews.\n[\n35\n]\nAudiences surveyed by\nCinemaScore\ngave the film an average \"C+\" grade on a scale of A+ to F.\n[\n36\n]\nLawrence Toppman of\nThe Charlotte Observer\ngave the film four stars out of four, claiming, \"After four decades, Martin Scorsese has earned the right to deliver a simple treatment of a simple theme with flair\".\n[\n37\n]\nWriting for\nThe Wall Street Journal\n, John Anderson highly praised the film, suggesting it \"requires multiple viewings to be fully realized as a work of art. Its process is more important than its story, its structure more important than the almost perfunctory plot twists it perpetrates. It's a thriller, a crime story and a tortured psychological parable about collective guilt.\"\n[\n38\n]\nAwarding the film three-and-a-half stars out of four,\nRoger Ebert\nof the\nChicago Sun-Times\nwrote, \"The movie is about: atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy's confidence and even his identity. It's all done with flawless directorial command. Scorsese has fear to evoke, and he does it with many notes.\"\n[\n39\n]\nThe Orlando Sentinel\n'\ns Roger Moore, who gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, wrote, \"It's not bad, but as Scorsese, America's greatest living filmmaker and film history buff should know, even\nHitchcock\ncame up short on occasion. See for yourself.\"\n[\n40\n]\nDana Stevens\nof\nSlate\ndescribed the film \"an aesthetically and at times intellectually exciting puzzle, but it's never emotionally involving\".\n[\n41\n]\nThe Washington Post\nfilm critic\nAnn Hornaday\nnegatively described the film as being \"weird\".\n[\n42\n]\nA. O. Scott\nof\nThe New York Times\nwrote, \"Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself.\"\n[\n43\n]\nIn 2025, it was on the \"Readers' Choice\" edition of\nThe New York Times\n'\nlist of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century\", finishing at number 169.\n[\n44\n]\nKeith Uhlich of\nTime Out\n(New York)\nnamed\nShutter Island\nthe fifth-best film of 2010.\n[\n45\n]\nBox office\nShutter Island\nwas released with\nThe Ghost Writer\n, and, earning $41 million, finished first at the box office and gave Scorsese his highest-grossing box office opening to date.\n[\n46\n]\nThe film remained at #1 in its second weekend, with $22.2 million.\n[\n47\n]\nEventually, it grossed worldwide $294,805,697\n[\n3\n]\nand became Scorsese's second highest-grossing film worldwide.\n[\n48\n]\nIt is Scorsese's fifth movie to debut at the box office at #1, following\nTaxi Driver\n,\nGoodfellas\n,\nCape Fear\nand\nThe Departed\n.\nHome media\nShutter Island\nwas released on\nDVD\nand\nBlu-ray\non June 8, 2010, in the US,\n[\n49\n]\nand on August 2, 2010, in the UK.\n[\n50\n]\nThe UK release features two editions: a standard edition and a limited steel-case edition.\n[\n51\n]\nFor the tenth anniversary of the film's release, Paramount Pictures released a 4K\nsteelbook\nand Blu-ray version on February 11, 2020.\n[\n52\n]\nA\nShutter Island\nvideo game was released for\nPC\nin 2010.\n[\n53\n]\nA\nNintendo DS\nversion was canceled.\n[\n54\n]\nIn August 2014,\nParamount Television\nand\nHBO\nwere reported to be developing a\nprequel\nTV series,\nAshecliffe\n.\n[\n55\n]\nNotes\n^\n\"Edward Daniels\" is an\nanagram\nof Andrew Laeddis, and \"Rachel Solando\" is an anagram of his dead wife's name, Dolores Chanal.\nReferences\n^\n\"AFI Catalog - Shutter Island\"\n.\nAmerican Film Institute\n. Retrieved\nJanuary 1,\n2025\n.\n^\n\"Films | Shutter Island\"\n.\nDarkHorizons.com\n. Archived from\nthe original\non November 29, 2015\n. Retrieved\nFebruary 18,\n2010\n.\n^\na\nb\n\"Shutter Island (2010)\"\n.\nBox Office Mojo\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on July 14, 2019\n. Retrieved\nDecember 26,\n2010\n.\n^\n\"Shutter Island (2010) - Financial Information\"\n.\nThe Numbers\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on February 14, 2021\n. Retrieved\nDecember 26,\n2020\n.\n^\n\"20 Movies To Watch If You Loved Shutter Island\"\n.\nRotten Tomatoes\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on March 5, 2020.\n^\n\"Readers Choose Their Top Movies of the 21st Century\"\n.\nThe New York Times\n. July 2, 2025\n. Retrieved\nJuly 2,\n2025\n.\n^\nFleming, Michael (October 22, 2007).\n\"Scorsese, DiCaprio team for 'Island'\n\"\n.\nVariety\n. Retrieved\nJanuary 8,\n2008\n.\n{{\ncite journal\n}}\n:  CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (\nlink\n)\n^\nMayberry, Carly (February 26, 2008).\n\"Trio of stars in for 'Shutter'\n\"\n.\nThe Hollywood Reporter\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on September 9, 2010\n. Retrieved\nFebruary 27,\n2008\n.\n^\nSymkus, Ed (February 19, 2010).\n\"Real local flavor on display in 'Shutter Island'\n\"\n.\nThe Patriot Ledger\n. Archived from\nthe original\non March 4, 2016.\n^\nAlspach, Kyle (March 8, 2008).\n\"Raynham native plays Nazi soldier executed in Nolan film\"\n.\nThe Patriot Ledger\n. Retrieved\nMay 21,\n2008\n.\n{{\ncite news\n}}\n:  CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (\nlink\n)\n^\nDowning, Vicki-Ann (March 8, 2008).\n\"Film adaptation of Lehane's novel a boon to the region\"\n.\nEnterpriseNews.com\n. Retrieved\nMay 21,\n2008\n.\n{{\ncite news\n}}\n:  CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (\nlink\n)\n^\nDowning, Vicki-Ann (May 1, 2008).\n\"Hollywood, Scorsese sets sights on Borderland State Park\"\n.\nThe Patriot Ledger\n. Quincy, MA\n. Retrieved\nFebruary 19,\n2021\n.\n^\nRiglian, Adam (April 14, 2008).\n\"DiCaprio, Nolan filming on Peddocks Island\"\n.\nThe Patriot Ledger\n. Archived from\nthe original\non October 27, 2008\n. Retrieved\nMay 21,\n2008\n.\n^\n\"Shutter Island 2010\"\n. The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations.\nArchived\nfrom the original on November 11, 2019\n. Retrieved\nNovember 10,\n2019\n.\n^\nFee, Gayle; Raposa, Laura (July 3, 2008).\n\"DiCaprio, crew cap 'Ashecliffe' shoot\"\n.\nBoston Herald\n. Archived from\nthe original\non July 6, 2010\n. Retrieved\nJuly 17,\n2008\n.\n^\n\"The Music of Menace From Shutter Island\"\n.\nParamount.com\n. January 13, 2010. Archived from\nthe original\non January 30, 2010\n. Retrieved\nFebruary 18,\n2010\n.\n^\na\nb\nSwed, Mark (February 24, 2010).\n\"Critic's notebook: 'Shutter Island' as a new-music haven\"\n.\nLos Angeles Times\n. Retrieved\nMarch 5,\n2026\n.\n^\na\nb\nc\nJagernauth, Kevin (February 5, 2010).\n\"\n'Shutter Island' Soundtrack Scares Up Brian Eno, Max Richter, Krzysztof Penderecki, Györgi Ligeti & More\"\n.\nThe Playlist\n. Retrieved\nMarch 5,\n2026\n.\n^\nMurray, Noel (October 4, 2018).\n\"The 40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time\"\n. Archived from\nthe original\non August 13, 2020.\n^\nSaba, Michael (February 19, 2010).\n\"Shutter Island Review\"\n.\nPaste Magazine\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on June 14, 2018\n. Retrieved\nOctober 12,\n2010\n.\nScorsese gets his Hitchcock on.\n^\nBrown, Mick (March 7, 2010).\n\"Martin Scorsese interview for Shutter Island\"\n.\nThe Daily Telegraph\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on November 10, 2019\n. Retrieved\nOctober 13,\n2010\n.\n'The key film I showed Leo and Mark,' Scorsese says, 'was Laura—Dana Andrews, the way he wears his tie, and the way he walks through a room, and he doesn't even look at anybody; he's always playing that little game. He's just trying to get the facts.' But the films, he adds, that he had 'really tied up tight' in mood and tone were the lower-than-low-budget schlockers made in the 1940s by Val Lewton when he was the head of the 'horror department' at\nRKO Pictures\n—\nCat People\n,\nIsle of the Dead\n,\nThe Seventh Victim\nand\nI Walked with a Zombie\n.\n^\nDaniels, Derek (December 1, 2010).\n\"The Ninth Configuration (Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane)\"\n.\nRotten Tomatoes\n.\nFlixster\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on December 6, 2017\n. Retrieved\nSeptember 8,\n2011\n.\n30 years before the disappointing\nShutter Island\ntook viewers to a remote mental asylum with a world-turned-upside-down storyline, William Peter Blatty gave us this...\n^\n\"\n'Shutter Island' shows the power of isolation\"\n.\nLos Angeles Times\n. February 21, 2010.\nArchived\nfrom the original on April 9, 2018\n. Retrieved\nSeptember 8,\n2011\n.\nA better version of this basic story was done 29 years ago by William Peter Blatty: The Ninth Configuration.\n^\na\nb\nPacker, Sharon (September 5, 2012).\nCinema's Sinister Psychiatrists: from Caligari to Hannibal\n. New York, NY: McFarland. p. 197.\nISBN\n \n9780786463909\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on November 17, 2016\n. Retrieved\nApril 4,\n2014\n.\nThe Ninth Configuration\nis far less polished than Martin Scorsese's\nShutter Island\n, but the principle is the same.\n^\nRaw, Kaurence & Ersin Tutan, Defne (2012).\nThe Adaptation of History: Essays on Ways of Telling the Past\n.\nMcFarland and Company\n. p. 51.\nISBN\n \n9780786472543\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on November 17, 2016\n. Retrieved\nMay 7,\n2020\n.\n^\nGregoriou, Christiana (2012).\nConstructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'\n.\nPalgrave Macmillan\n. p. 79.\nISBN\n \n9780230392083\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on November 17, 2016\n. Retrieved\nMay 7,\n2020\n.\n^\nSchwartz, Arnaud (February 23, 2010).\n\"\n\"Shutter Island\" : Martin Scorsese face au dérèglement de l'esprit\"\n.\nLa Croix\n(in French).\nISSN\n \n0242-6056\n. Retrieved\nDecember 16,\n2023\n.\n^\na\nb\nCox, David (July 29, 2010).\n\"Shutter Island's ending explained\"\n.\nThe Guardian\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on March 25, 2020\n. Retrieved\nMay 21,\n2012\n.\n^\nMcClintock, Pamela (February 13, 2008).\n\"\n'Star Trek' pushed back to 2009\"\n.\nVariety\n. Archived from\nthe original\non February 15, 2008\n. Retrieved\nFebruary 13,\n2008\n.\n^\n\"Shutter Island Pushed Back to February\"\nArchived\nDecember 11, 2013, at the\nWayback Machine\n. ComingSoon.com. Retrieved November 19, 2010.\n^\nFinke, Nikki (August 21, 2009).\n\"SHOCKER! Paramount Moves Scorsese's 'Shutter Island' To February 19, 2010\"\n.\nDeadline Hollywood\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on February 11, 2010\n. Retrieved\nOctober 29,\n2009\n.\n^\n\"Shutter Island\"\n.\nBerlinale\n. Archived from\nthe original\non February 11, 2010\n. Retrieved\nNovember 19,\n2010\n.\n^\nDe Pablos, Emiliano (May 17, 2008).\n\"Manga nabs 'Shutter Island'\n\"\n.\nVariety\n. Retrieved\nJuly 29,\n2008\n.\n{{\ncite journal\n}}\n:  CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (\nlink\n)\n^\n\"Shutter Island (2010)\"\n.\nRotten Tomatoes\n.\nFandango\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on December 20, 2016\n. Retrieved\nApril 28,\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Shutter Island\"\n.\nMetacritic\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on February 20, 2010\n. Retrieved\nOctober 12,\n2013\n.\n^\nBusch, Anita (August 9, 2014).\n\"B Grade For 'Turtles': What CinemaScores Mean And Why Exit Polling Matters\"\n.\nDeadline\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on October 9, 2022\n. Retrieved\nMay 7,\n2020\n.\n^\nToppman, Lawrence.\n\"\n'Shutter' yields shudders – and ideas\"\n.\nThe Charlotte Observer\n. Archived from\nthe original\non March 31, 2013\n. Retrieved\nOctober 12,\n2013\n.\n^\nAnderson, John (February 19, 2010).\n\"Film Reviews: Scorsese's 'Shutter Island', Polanski's 'The Ghost Writer'\n\"\n.\nThe Wall Street Journal\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on September 30, 2017\n. Retrieved\nOctober 12,\n2013\n.\n^\nEbert, Roger (February 17, 2010).\n\"Horror under lowering skies with a storm approaching\"\n.\nChicago Sun-Times\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on October 12, 2012\n. Retrieved\nOctober 12,\n2013\n.\n^\nMoore, Roger (February 17, 2010). \"Movie Review: Shutter Island\".\nOrlando Sentinel\n.\n^\nStevens, Dana (February 18, 2010).\n\"I'm Surrounded by Crazy People – Leo DiCaprio scrunches his face in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island\"\n.\nSlate\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on January 22, 2011\n. Retrieved\nOctober 12,\n2013\n.\n^\nHornaday, Ann (February 19, 2010).\n\"Critic Review for Shutter Island\"\n.\nThe Washington Post\n. Archived from\nthe original\non November 12, 2012\n. Retrieved\nOctober 12,\n2013\n.\n^\nScott, A. O.\n(February 19, 2010).\n\"Movie Review: Shutter Island\"\n.\nThe New York Times\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on February 21, 2010\n. Retrieved\nOctober 12,\n2013\n.\n^\nCite error: The named reference\nnytimes.com2\nwas invoked but never defined (see the\nhelp page\n).\n^\nUhlich, Keith (December 21, 2010).\n\"Best (and Worst) of 2010\"\n.\nTime Out New York\n. Archived from\nthe original\non March 11, 2013\n. Retrieved\nJune 21,\n2020\n.\n^\nGray, Brandon (February 21, 2010).\n\"\n'Shutter Island' Lights Up\"\n.\nBox Office Mojo\n.\nInternet Movie Database\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on April 9, 2010\n. Retrieved\nApril 13,\n2010\n.\n^\nGray, Brandon (March 1, 2010).\n\"\n'Shutter Island' Hangs On, 'Cop Out,' 'Crazies' Debut Decently\"\n.\nBox Office Mojo\n.\nInternet Movie Database\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on August 17, 2019\n. Retrieved\nApril 13,\n2010\n.\n^\nGrey, Brandon (May 20, 2010).\n\"\n'Shutter Island' Is Scorsese's Top Movie Worldwide\"\n.\nBox Office Mojo\n.\nInternet Movie Database\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on May 23, 2010\n. Retrieved\nMay 21,\n2010\n.\n^\n\"Shutter Island (2009)\"\n.\nAmazon\n. Archived from\nthe original\non June 7, 2010.\n^\n\"Shutter Island [DVD] [2009]\"\n.\nAmazon UK\n. Archived from\nthe original\non August 15, 2010.\n^\n\"Watch Shutter Island | DVD\/Blu-ray or Streaming\"\n.\nParamount Movies\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on February 25, 2020\n. Retrieved\nFebruary 25,\n2020\n.\n^\nMaxwell, Barrie (February 9, 2020).\n\"Shutter Island: 10th Anniversary Steelbook (4K UHD Review)\"\n.\nThe Digital Bits\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on June 7, 2020\n. Retrieved\nJune 7,\n2020\n.\n^\nLaughlin, Andrew (February 15, 2010).\n\"\n'Shutter Island' game released for PC\"\n.\nDigital Spy\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on June 4, 2020\n. Retrieved\nFebruary 24,\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Shutter Island Box Shot for DS - GameFAQs\"\n.\nGameSpot\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on June 4, 2020\n. Retrieved\nFebruary 24,\n2021\n.\n^\nGoldstein, Meredith; Shanahan, Mark (August 26, 2014).\n\"\n'Shutter Island' might be a TV show\"\n.\nThe Boston Globe\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on October 9, 2018\n. Retrieved\nAugust 25,\n2014\n.\nExternal links\nShutter Island\nat the\nAFI Catalog of Feature Films\nShutter Island\non\nFacebook\nShutter Island\nat\nIMDb\nShutter Island\nat\nBox Office Mojo\nShutter Island\nat\nRotten Tomatoes\nShutter Island\nat\nMetacritic","attrs_markdown":"[Jump to content](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#bodyContent)\n\nMain menu\n\nMain menu\n\nmove to sidebar\n\nhide\n\nNavigation\n\n- [Main page](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page \"Visit the main page [z]\")\n- [Contents](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Contents \"Guides to browsing Wikipedia\")\n- [Current events](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portal:Current_events \"Articles related to current events\")\n- [Random article](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random \"Visit a randomly selected article [x]\")\n- [About Wikipedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:About \"Learn about Wikipedia and how it works\")\n- [Contact us](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Contact_us \"How to contact Wikipedia\")\n\nContribute\n\n- [Help](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Contents \"Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia\")\n- [Learn to edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Introduction \"Learn how to edit Wikipedia\")\n- [Community portal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Community_portal \"The hub for editors\")\n- [Recent changes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:RecentChanges \"A list of recent changes to Wikipedia [r]\")\n- [Upload file](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:File_upload_wizard \"Add images or other media for use on Wikipedia\")\n- [Special pages](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:SpecialPages \"A list of all special pages [q]\")\n\n[![](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/icons\/enwiki-25.svg) ![Wikipedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/mobile\/copyright\/wikipedia-wordmark-en-25.svg) ![The Free Encyclopedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/mobile\/copyright\/wikipedia-tagline-en-25.svg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page)\n\n[Search](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search \"Search Wikipedia [f]\")\n\nAppearance\n\n- [Donate](https:\/\/donate.wikimedia.org\/?wmf_source=donate&wmf_medium=sidebar&wmf_campaign=en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en)\n- [Create account](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Shutter+Island+%28film%29 \"You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory\")\n- [Log in](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Shutter+Island+%28film%29 \"You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. 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[o]\")\n\n## Contents\nmove to sidebar\n\nhide\n\n- [(Top)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$)\n- [1 Plot](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Plot)\n- [2 Cast](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Cast)\n- [3 Production](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Production)\n  Toggle Production subsection\n  - [3\\.1 Development](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Development)\n  - [3\\.2 Filming](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Filming)\n- [4 Music](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Music)\n- [5 Genre](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Genre)\n- [6 Release](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Release)\n- [7 Reception](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Reception)\n  Toggle Reception subsection\n  - [7\\.1 Critical response](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Critical_response)\n  - [7\\.2 Box office](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Box_office)\n  - [7\\.3 Home media](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Home_media)\n- [8 Other media](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Other_media)\n- [9 Notes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#Notes)\n- [10 References](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#References)\n- [11 External links](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#External_links)\n\nToggle the table of contents\n\n# *Shutter Island* (film)\n58 languages\n\n- [العربية](https:\/\/ar.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1_\$%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85\$ \"جزيرة شاتر (فلم) – Arabic\")\n- [مصرى](https:\/\/arz.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1 \"جزيره شاتر – Egyptian Arabic\")\n- [Azərbaycanca](https:\/\/az.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zindan_adas%C4%B1_\$film,_2010\$ \"Zindan adası (film, 2010) – Azerbaijani\")\n- [Български](https:\/\/bg.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%97%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2 \"Злокобен остров – Bulgarian\")\n- [বাংলা](https:\/\/bn.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1_\$%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0\$ \"শাটার আইল্যান্ড (চলচ্চিত্র) – Bangla\")\n- [Català](https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island – Catalan\")\n- [Čeština](https:\/\/cs.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proklet%C3%BD_ostrov_\$film\$ \"Prokletý ostrov (film) – Czech\")\n- [Cymraeg](https:\/\/cy.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island – Welsh\")\n- [Dansk](https:\/\/da.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island – Danish\")\n- [Deutsch](https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$Film\$ \"Shutter Island (Film) – German\")\n- [Ελληνικά](https:\/\/el.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%CE%A4%CE%BF_%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%AF_%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD_\$%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1\$ \"Το νησί των καταραμένων (ταινία) – Greek\")\n- [Esperanto](https:\/\/eo.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island – Esperanto\")\n- [Español](https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$pel%C3%ADcula\$ \"Shutter Island (película) – Spanish\")\n- [Euskara](https:\/\/eu.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$filma\$ \"Shutter Island (filma) – Basque\")\n- [فارسی](https:\/\/fa.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D8%AC%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1_\$%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85\$ \"جزیره شاتر (فیلم) – Persian\")\n- [Suomi](https:\/\/fi.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suljettu_saari \"Suljettu saari – Finnish\")\n- [Français](https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$ \"Shutter Island (film) – French\")\n- [Galego](https:\/\/gl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island – Galician\")\n- [Hausa](https:\/\/ha.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$fim\$ \"Shutter Island (fim) – Hausa\")\n- [עברית](https:\/\/he.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%93 \"שאטר איילנד – Hebrew\")\n- [हिन्दी](https:\/\/hi.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1 \"शटर आइलैंड – Hindi\")\n- [Hrvatski](https:\/\/hr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otok_Shutter_\$2010.\$ \"Otok Shutter (2010.) – Croatian\")\n- [Kreyòl ayisyen](https:\/\/ht.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$fim\$ \"Shutter Island (fim) – Haitian Creole\")\n- [Magyar](https:\/\/hu.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viharsziget_\$film\$ \"Viharsziget (film) – Hungarian\")\n- [Հայերեն](https:\/\/hy.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D4%B1%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%AE%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%AE%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%AF%D5%B2%D5%A6%D5%AB \"Անիծվածների կղզի – Armenian\")\n- [Bahasa Indonesia](https:\/\/id.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$ \"Shutter Island (film) – Indonesian\")\n- [Íslenska](https:\/\/is.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fangaeyjan \"Fangaeyjan – Icelandic\")\n- [Italiano](https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island – Italian\")\n- [日本語](https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC_%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89 \"シャッター アイランド – Japanese\")\n- [Jawa](https:\/\/jv.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$filem\$ \"Shutter Island (filem) – Javanese\")\n- [ქართული](https:\/\/ka.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E1%83%AC%E1%83%A7%E1%83%94%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%97%E1%83%90_%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AB%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_\$%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98\$ \"წყეულთა კუნძული (ფილმი) – Georgian\")\n- [ಕನ್ನಡ](https:\/\/kn.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E0%B2%B6%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%90%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%8D \"ಶಟರ್ ಐಲೇಂಡ್ – Kannada\")\n- [한국어](https:\/\/ko.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%EC%85%94%ED%84%B0_%EC%95%84%EC%9D%BC%EB%9E%9C%EB%93%9C \"셔터 아일랜드 – Korean\")\n- [Кыргызча](https:\/\/ky.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%8B%D1%88_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8B \"Каргыш аралы – Kyrgyz\")\n- [Latina](https:\/\/la.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$pellicula\$ \"Shutter Island (pellicula) – Latin\")\n- [Lombard](https:\/\/lmo.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$ \"Shutter Island (film) – Lombard\")\n- [Lietuvių](https:\/\/lt.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ku%C5%BEdesi%C5%B3_sala_\$filmas\$ \"Kuždesių sala (filmas) – Lithuanian\")\n- [Latviešu](https:\/\/lv.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sl%C4%93gt%C4%81_sala \"Slēgtā sala – Latvian\")\n- 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[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/7\/76\/Shutterislandposter.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Shutterislandposter.jpg)Theatrical release poster |   |\n| Directed by | [Martin Scorsese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese \"Martin Scorsese\") |\n| Screenplay by | [Laeta Kalogridis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laeta_Kalogridis \"Laeta Kalogridis\") |\n| Based on | *[Shutter Island](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island\")* by [Dennis Lehane](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Lehane \"Dennis Lehane\") |\n| Produced by | [Mike Medavoy](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Medavoy \"Mike Medavoy\") Arnold W. Messer [Bradley J. Fischer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bradley_J._Fischer_\$producer\$ \"Bradley J. Fischer (producer)\") Martin Scorsese |\n| Starring | [Leonardo DiCaprio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_DiCaprio \"Leonardo DiCaprio\") [Mark Ruffalo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Ruffalo \"Mark Ruffalo\") [Ben Kingsley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Kingsley \"Ben Kingsley\") [Michelle Williams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Williams_\$actress\$ \"Michelle Williams (actress)\") [Emily Mortimer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emily_Mortimer \"Emily Mortimer\") [Patricia Clarkson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patricia_Clarkson \"Patricia Clarkson\") [Max von Sydow](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_von_Sydow \"Max von Sydow\") |\n| Cinematography | [Robert Richardson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Richardson_\$cinematographer\$ \"Robert Richardson (cinematographer)\") |\n| Edited by | [Thelma Schoonmaker](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thelma_Schoonmaker \"Thelma Schoonmaker\") |\n| Production companies | [Paramount Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paramount_Pictures \"Paramount Pictures\")[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-1) [Phoenix Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix_Pictures \"Phoenix Pictures\") [Sikelia Productions](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sikelia_Productions \"Sikelia Productions\") [Appian Way Productions](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appian_Way_Productions \"Appian Way Productions\") |\n| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |\n| Release dates | February 13, 2010 (2010-02-13) ([Berlinale](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/60th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival \"60th Berlin International Film Festival\")) February 19, 2010 (2010-02-19) (United States) |\n| Running time | 139 minutes |\n| Country | United States |\n| Language | English |\n| Budget | \\$80 million[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-2) |\n| Box office | \\$294.8 million[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-BoxOfficeMojo-3)[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-4) |\n\n***Shutter Island*** is a 2010 American [neo-noir](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neo-noir \"Neo-noir\") [psychological thriller](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychological_thriller \"Psychological thriller\") film[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-5) directed by [Martin Scorsese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese \"Martin Scorsese\"). The screenplay was adapted by [Laeta Kalogridis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laeta_Kalogridis \"Laeta Kalogridis\") from [the 2003 novel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island\") by [Dennis Lehane](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Lehane \"Dennis Lehane\"). It follows Deputy [U.S. Marshal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Marshals_Service \"United States Marshals Service\") Edward \"Teddy\" Daniels and his partner Chuck, who come to the fictional Shutter Island in [Boston Harbor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Harbor \"Boston Harbor\") to investigate its criminal psychiatric facility after one of its patients goes missing; Daniels has his own ulterior motives for taking the case. The film stars [Leonardo DiCaprio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_DiCaprio \"Leonardo DiCaprio\") and [Mark Ruffalo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Ruffalo \"Mark Ruffalo\"), with [Ben Kingsley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Kingsley \"Ben Kingsley\"), [Max von Sydow](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_von_Sydow \"Max von Sydow\") and [Michelle Williams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Williams_\$actress\$ \"Michelle Williams (actress)\") in supporting roles.\n\nDevelopment began when [Phoenix Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix_Pictures \"Phoenix Pictures\") acquired the film rights to the novel directly from Lehane after [Columbia Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia_Pictures \"Columbia Pictures\") had allowed their rights to lapse in 2003. Phoenix hired [Laeta Kalogridis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laeta_Kalogridis \"Laeta Kalogridis\") to work on a screenplay for a year, and in 2007, announced that both Scorsese and DiCaprio had joined the project. Production began on March 6, 2008, at various locations in [Massachusetts](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts \"Massachusetts\"); filming ended on July 2, 2008.\n\nPartnering with [Paramount Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paramount_Pictures \"Paramount Pictures\"), the film had its wide release on February 19, 2010, and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was chosen by the [National Board of Review](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Board_of_Review \"National Board of Review\") as one of the [top ten films of 2010](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Board_of_Review_Awards_2010#Top_10_Films \"National Board of Review Awards 2010\"), and grossed \\$295 million worldwide. The film is also noted for its soundtrack, which prominently used classical music by composers such as [Gustav Mahler](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustav_Mahler \"Gustav Mahler\"), [Krzysztof Penderecki](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krzysztof_Penderecki \"Krzysztof Penderecki\"), [György Ligeti](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti \"György Ligeti\"), [John Cage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cage \"John Cage\"), [Ingram Marshall](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingram_Marshall \"Ingram Marshall\") and [Max Richter](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Richter \"Max Richter\"). In 2025, the film was voted for the \"Readers' Choice\" edition of *[The New York Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_York_Times \"The New York Times\")*' list of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century\", finishing at number 169.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-nytimes.com-6)\n\n## Plot\nIn 1954, [U.S. Marshal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Marshals_Service \"United States Marshals Service\") Edward \"Teddy\" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the [criminally insane](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insanity_defense \"Insanity defense\") on Shutter Island in [Boston Harbor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Harbor \"Boston Harbor\"). The purpose of their visit is to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient of the hospital who had killed her three children by drowning.\n\nThe staff, led by psychiatrist Dr. John Cawley and his colleague Dr. Jerimiah Naehring, appears uncooperative. The marshals learn that Dr. Lester Sheehan, who was treating Solando, left the island on vacation immediately after Solando disappeared. Teddy experiences [migraines](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Migraine \"Migraine\"), flashbacks of his time as a U.S. soldier in the [liberation of Dachau](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dachau_concentration_camp#Liberation \"Dachau concentration camp\"), and vivid dreams of his wife Dolores, who was killed in a fire in their building set by [pyromaniac](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyromaniac \"Pyromaniac\") Andrew Laeddis. Teddy tells Chuck he took this case to find Laeddis, whom he believes is a patient. Solando suddenly resurfaces, but believes Teddy is her husband.\n\nTeddy breaks into the restricted Ward C to find Laeddis, but meets patient George Noyce, who knows Teddy from his past. Noyce says the doctors experiment on patients and [lobotomize](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lobotomy \"Lobotomy\") them in the lighthouse. He warns Teddy that everyone will deceive him and not to trust his partner Chuck.\n\nTeddy and Chuck climb the cliffs toward the lighthouse, but are separated. Believing he saw Chuck's body on the rocks below, Teddy climbs down but finds only a cave where a woman claiming to be the real Rachel Solando is hiding. She reveals she is a former psychiatrist; after discovering clandestine experiments on [mind control](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brainwashing \"Brainwashing\") at the facility, she was silenced by being forcibly committed. She warns that Cawley and Naehring will use Teddy's war trauma to feign a psychotic break, allowing them to have him committed as well. Teddy returns to the hospital. When he asks about Chuck, Cawley insists that Teddy arrived at Shutter Island alone.\n\nConvinced Chuck has been taken to the lighthouse, Teddy is intercepted by Naehring, who attempts to sedate him. Teddy overpowers him and breaks into the lighthouse to discover Cawley waiting for him. Cawley tells him that Rachel Solando never existed. He adds that Teddy has not been drugged but is experiencing withdrawal from [chlorpromazine](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chlorpromazine \"Chlorpromazine\"), a [neuroleptic](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuroleptic \"Neuroleptic\") medication Teddy has been taking for the past two years.\n\nChuck arrives and reveals he is actually Dr. Sheehan. \"Teddy\" is really Andrew Laeddis, a former U.S. Marshal. Laeddis was incarcerated at Ashecliffe for killing his [manic depressive](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bipolar_disorder \"Bipolar disorder\") wife Dolores Chanal after she killed their three children by drowning. Andrew had failed to seek treatment for Dolores after she burned down their apartment; instead, he moved his family to the lakehouse, which is where Dolores carried out the killings.\n\nAs a result of his guilt, Andrew became delusional and created the alternate persona of Edward Daniels.[\\[a\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-7) The \"investigation\" of Rachel Solando was an elaborate roleplay, supported by hospital staff, to help Andrew play out his delusion so he might break out of it and return to reality. Overwhelmed, Andrew faints.\n\nAwakening, Andrew recounts the truth, satisfying the doctors that he is lucid. Cawley notes they had achieved this state nine months ago, but Andrew had quickly regressed. He warns this will be Andrew's last chance; if he lapses into his delusion again, he will be lobotomized due to his violent conduct toward the guards and other patients, such as Noyce.\n\nSome time later, Andrew relaxes on the hospital grounds with Sheehan. Appearing delusional, he refers to Sheehan as \"Chuck\" and says they must leave the island. Sheehan signals to a watching Cawley, who orders that Andrew be lobotomized. Andrew asks Sheehan if it would be worse \"to live as a monster or to die as a good man\". A stunned Sheehan calls Andrew \"Teddy\", but the latter does not respond and leaves peacefully with the orderlies for his operation.\n\n## Cast\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9a\/Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg\/120px-Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/11\/Mark_Ruffalo_%2836201774756%29_%28cropped%29.jpg\/120px-Mark_Ruffalo_%2836201774756%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mark_Ruffalo_\$36201774756\$_\$cropped\$.jpg)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/01\/Michelle_Williams_%28Berlinale_2010%29.jpg\/120px-Michelle_Williams_%28Berlinale_2010%29.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Michelle_Williams_\$Berlinale_2010\$.jpg)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/42\/Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg\/120px-Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)\n\n(Clockwise) *Shutter Island* stars [Leonardo DiCaprio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_DiCaprio \"Leonardo DiCaprio\"), [Mark Ruffalo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Ruffalo \"Mark Ruffalo\"), [Ben Kingsley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Kingsley \"Ben Kingsley\"), and [Michelle Williams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Williams_\$actress\$ \"Michelle Williams (actress)\")\n\n- [Leonardo DiCaprio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_DiCaprio \"Leonardo DiCaprio\") as Edward \"Teddy\" Daniels, a former [U.S. Marshal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Marshal \"U.S. Marshal\") who investigates the Shutter Island [insane asylum](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insane_asylum \"Insane asylum\")\n- [Mark Ruffalo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Ruffalo \"Mark Ruffalo\") as Chuck Aule, Teddy's Marshal partner\n- [Ben Kingsley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Kingsley \"Ben Kingsley\") as Dr. John Cawley, a senior psychiatrist at Shutter Island\n- [Max von Sydow](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_von_Sydow \"Max von Sydow\") as Dr. Naehring, a colleague of Cawley\n- [Michelle Williams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Williams_\$actress\$ \"Michelle Williams (actress)\") as Dolores Chanal, Teddy's wife\n- [Emily Mortimer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emily_Mortimer \"Emily Mortimer\") and [Patricia Clarkson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patricia_Clarkson \"Patricia Clarkson\") as Rachel Solando\n- [Jackie Earle Haley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackie_Earle_Haley \"Jackie Earle Haley\") as George Noyce, a patient in Ward C\n- [Ted Levine](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Levine \"Ted Levine\") as Warden\n- [John Carroll Lynch](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carroll_Lynch \"John Carroll Lynch\") as Deputy Warden McPherson\n- [Joseph Sikora](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Sikora \"Joseph Sikora\") as Glen Miga\n- [Elias Koteas](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elias_Koteas \"Elias Koteas\") as Laeddis\n- [Robin Bartlett](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robin_Bartlett \"Robin Bartlett\") as Bridget Kearns\n- [Christopher Denham](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Denham \"Christopher Denham\") as Peter Breene\n- [Curtiss Cook](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curtiss_Cook \"Curtiss Cook\") as Trey Washington\n## Production\n### Development\nThe rights to [Dennis Lehane](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Lehane \"Dennis Lehane\")'s novel *[Shutter Island](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island\")* were first optioned to [Columbia Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia_Pictures \"Columbia Pictures\") in 2003. Columbia did not act on the option, and it lapsed back to Lehane, who sold it to [Phoenix Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix_Pictures \"Phoenix Pictures\"). Phoenix hired [Laeta Kalogridis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laeta_Kalogridis \"Laeta Kalogridis\"), and together, they developed the film for a year. Director [Martin Scorsese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese \"Martin Scorsese\") and actor [Leonardo DiCaprio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_DiCaprio \"Leonardo DiCaprio\") were both attracted to the project.[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Team-8) Production began on March 6, 2008.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Trio-9)\n\nLehane's inspiration for the hospital and island setting was [Long Island](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_Island_\$Massachusetts\$ \"Long Island (Massachusetts)\") in [Boston Harbor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Harbor \"Boston Harbor\"), which he had visited as a child with his uncle and family during the [blizzard of 1978](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northeastern_United_States_blizzard_of_1978 \"Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978\").[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-PATRIOTLEDGER02192010-10)\n\n### Filming\n*Shutter Island* was mainly filmed in [Massachusetts](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts \"Massachusetts\"), with [Taunton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taunton,_Massachusetts \"Taunton, Massachusetts\") being the location for the World War II flashback scenes.[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-11) Old industrial buildings in Taunton's [Whittenton Mills Complex](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whittenton_Mills_Complex \"Whittenton Mills Complex\") replicated the [Dachau concentration camp](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dachau_concentration_camp \"Dachau concentration camp\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-12) The old [Medfield State Hospital](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medfield_State_Hospital \"Medfield State Hospital\") in [Medfield](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medfield,_Massachusetts \"Medfield, Massachusetts\"), Massachusetts, was another key location.\n\nCawley's office scenes were the second floor of the chapel during the late evening. Lights were shone through the windows to make it appear to be daytime. The crew painted the hospital's brick walls to look like plywood. This served the dual purpose of acting as scenery and blocking the set from view of a local road.\n\nThe crew wanted to film at the old [Worcester State Hospital](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worcester_State_Hospital \"Worcester State Hospital\"), but demolition of surrounding buildings made it impossible. The stone lodge next to Leach Pond at [Borderland State Park](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borderland_State_Park \"Borderland State Park\") in [Easton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Easton,_Massachusetts \"Easton, Massachusetts\"), Massachusetts, was used for the cabin scene.[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-13) The film used [Peddocks Island](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peddocks_Island \"Peddocks Island\") as a setting for the story's island. [East Point](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Point_Military_Reservation \"East Point Military Reservation\"), in [Nahant](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nahant,_Massachusetts \"Nahant, Massachusetts\"), Massachusetts, was the location for the lighthouse scenes.[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-14) The scenes in which Teddy and Chuck are caught in the hurricane were filmed at the [Wilson Mountain Reservation](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilson_Mountain_Reservation \"Wilson Mountain Reservation\") in [Dedham](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dedham,_Massachusetts \"Dedham, Massachusetts\"), Massachusetts.[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-15) Filming ended on July 2, 2008.[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-16)\n\n## Music\n| Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture |   |\n|---|---|\n| [Soundtrack album](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soundtrack_album \"Soundtrack album\") by various artists |   |\n| Released | February 2, 2010 |\n| [Genre](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_genre \"Music genre\") | [Film soundtrack](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Film_soundtrack \"Film soundtrack\") |\n| Length | 116:41 |\n| [Label](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Record_label \"Record label\") | [Rhino Records](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhino_Records \"Rhino Records\") |\n| [Producer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Record_producer \"Record producer\") | [Robbie Robertson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robbie_Robertson \"Robbie Robertson\") [John Powell](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Powell_\$composer\$ \"John Powell (composer)\") |\n\nThe film does not have an original score. Instead, Scorsese's longtime collaborator [Robbie Robertson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robbie_Robertson \"Robbie Robertson\") created an ensemble of previously recorded material to use in the film. *Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture* was released on February 2, 2010, by [Rhino Records](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhino_Records \"Rhino Records\").\n\nAccording to a statement on Paramount's website: \"The collection of [modern classical music](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modern_classical_music \"Modern classical music\") \\[on the soundtrack album\\] was hand-selected by Robertson, who is proud of its scope and sound. 'This may be the most outrageous and beautiful soundtrack I've ever heard.' \\[Robertson stated\\]\".[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-17)\n\n*[Los Angeles Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles_Times \"Los Angeles Times\")*' classical music reviewer [Mark Swed](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Swed \"Mark Swed\") noted that \"Robertson went through a lot of trouble to make things work as well\".[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Swed-18) He argues that while other reviewers have called the music \"melodramatic\", \"nothing could be further from the truth\".[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Swed-18)\n\nAnother reviewer noted that \"Scorsese has abandoned his oft-used classic rock soundtrack habits and, almost positively taking a queue from Stanley Kubrick's soundtracks, adopted a selection mostly of various modern classical pieces\",[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19) and that \"this set of pieces certainly suggests a different mood rather than a conventional score\".[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19)\n\nPop culture critic Noel Murray lists the album at \\#24 in [Vulture](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vulture_\$website\$ \"Vulture (website)\")'s 2018 \"40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time\", saying, \"Besides drawing attention to the modern geniuses of a wholly different genre, the unfamiliar, almost alien sounds of the *Shutter Island* soundtrack reinforce the movie's tale of hallucinatory madness\".[\\[19\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-20)\n\nA full track listing of the album is below. All the musical works are featured in the final film.[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19)\n\nDisc 1\n\n1. \"Fog Tropes\" ([Ingram Marshall](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingram_Marshall \"Ingram Marshall\")) – Orchestra of St. Lukes & [John Adams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Adams_\$composer\$ \"John Adams (composer)\")\n2. \"[Symphony No. 3: Passacaglia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symphony_No._3_\$Penderecki\$ \"Symphony No. 3 (Penderecki)\") – Allegro Moderato\" ([Krzysztof Penderecki](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krzysztof_Penderecki \"Krzysztof Penderecki\")) – National Polish Radio Symphony & [Antoni Wit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antoni_Wit \"Antoni Wit\")\n3. \"[Music for Marcel Duchamp](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_for_Marcel_Duchamp \"Music for Marcel Duchamp\")\" ([John Cage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cage \"John Cage\")) – Philipp Vandré\n4. \"Hommage à [John Cage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cage \"John Cage\")\" – [Nam June Paik](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nam_June_Paik \"Nam June Paik\")\n5. \"Lontano\" ([György Ligeti](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti \"György Ligeti\")) – Wiener Philharmoniker & [Claudio Abbado](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claudio_Abbado \"Claudio Abbado\")\n6. \"Rothko Chapel 2\" ([Morton Feldman](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morton_Feldman \"Morton Feldman\")) – UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus\n7. \"[Cry](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cry_\$Johnnie_Ray_song\$ \"Cry (Johnnie Ray song)\")\" – [Johnnie Ray](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnnie_Ray \"Johnnie Ray\")\n8. \"[On the Nature of Daylight](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_the_Nature_of_Daylight \"On the Nature of Daylight\")\" – [Max Richter](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Richter \"Max Richter\")\n9. \"[Uaxuctum](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uaxactun \"Uaxactun\"): The Legend of the Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed for Religious Reasons – 3rd Movement\" ([Giacinto Scelsi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giacinto_Scelsi \"Giacinto Scelsi\")) – [Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vienna_Radio_Symphony_Orchestra \"Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra\")\n10. \"[Quartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piano_Quartet_\$Mahler\$ \"Piano Quartet (Mahler)\")\" ([Gustav Mahler](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustav_Mahler \"Gustav Mahler\")) – Prazak Quartet\n\nDisc 2\n\n1. \"[Christian Zeal and Activity](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_Zeal_and_Activity \"Christian Zeal and Activity\")\" (John Adams) – The San Francisco Symphony & [Edo de Waart](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edo_de_Waart \"Edo de Waart\")\n2. \"Suite for Symphonic Strings: Nocturne\" ([Lou Harrison](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lou_Harrison \"Lou Harrison\")) – The New Professionals Orchestra & Rebecca Miller\n3. \"[Lizard Point](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lizard_Point_\$composition\$ \"Lizard Point (composition)\")\" – [Brian Eno](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Eno \"Brian Eno\")\n4. \"Four Hymns: II for Cello and Double Bass\" ([Alfred Schnittke](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Schnittke \"Alfred Schnittke\")) – Torleif Thedéen & Entcho Radoukanov\n5. \"[Root of an Unfocus](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Root_of_an_Unfocus \"Root of an Unfocus\")\" (John Cage) – [Boris Berman](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boris_Berman_\$musician\$ \"Boris Berman (musician)\")\n6. \"Prelude – The Bay\" – [Ingram Marshall](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingram_Marshall \"Ingram Marshall\")\n7. \"[Wheel of Fortune](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheel_of_Fortune_\$1951_song\$ \"Wheel of Fortune (1951 song)\")\" – [Kay Starr](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kay_Starr \"Kay Starr\")\n8. \"[Tomorrow Night](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tomorrow_Night_\$Coslow_and_Grosz_song\$ \"Tomorrow Night (Coslow and Grosz song)\")\" – [Lonnie Johnson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lonnie_Johnson_\$musician\$ \"Lonnie Johnson (musician)\")\n9. \"[This Bitter Earth](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/This_Bitter_Earth \"This Bitter Earth\")\"\/\"On the Nature of Daylight\" – [Dinah Washington](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinah_Washington \"Dinah Washington\") & Max Richter; arrangement by [Robbie Robertson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robbie_Robertson \"Robbie Robertson\")\n## Genre\n*Shutter Island* is a [period piece](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Period_piece \"Period piece\") with nods to different films in the [film noir](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Film_noir \"Film noir\") and [horror](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horror_film \"Horror film\") genres, paying particular homage to [Alfred Hitchcock](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Hitchcock \"Alfred Hitchcock\")'s works.[\\[20\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-21) Scorsese stated in an interview that the main reference to Teddy Daniels was [Dana Andrews](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dana_Andrews \"Dana Andrews\")'s character in *[Laura](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laura_\$1944_film\$ \"Laura (1944 film)\")*, and he was also influenced by several very low-budget 1940s [zombie movies](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zombie_movies \"Zombie movies\") by [Val Lewton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Val_Lewton \"Val Lewton\").[\\[21\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-22)\n\nThe main plot resembles [William Peter Blatty](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Peter_Blatty \"William Peter Blatty\")'s *[The Ninth Configuration](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ninth_Configuration \"The Ninth Configuration\")*,[\\[22\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-RottenTomatoes-23)[\\[23\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-LATimes-24)[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-book-25) as well as *[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari \"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\")*.[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-book-25)[\\[25\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-adaptation-26)[\\[26\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-constructing-27) *La Croix* noted *Shutter Island* was a \"complex and puzzling\" work that borrowed from genres as diverse as detective, fantasy, and the psychological thriller.[\\[27\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Schwartz-28)\n\nThere have been differing opinions of the film's ending of the film, in which Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan \"which would be worse—to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?\", a line that does not appear in the book. Professor [James Gilligan](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Gilligan \"James Gilligan\") of [New York University](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_University \"New York University\") was Scorsese's psychiatric adviser, and he said that Laeddis's last words mean: \"I feel too guilty to go on living. I'm not going to actually commit suicide, but I'm going to vicariously commit suicide by handing myself over to these people who're going to lobotomize me.\"[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Cox-Guardian-29) Dennis Lehane, however, said, \"Personally, I think he has a momentary flash.... It's just one moment of sanity mixed in the midst of all the other delusions.\"[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Cox-Guardian-29)\n\n## Release\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/32\/Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg\/250px-Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg)\n\nDirector [Martin Scorsese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese \"Martin Scorsese\") at the film's premiere at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival\n\nThe film was originally scheduled to be released by [Paramount Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paramount_Pictures \"Paramount Pictures\") in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009.[\\[29\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-30) Paramount announced it was pushing back the release date to February 19, 2010.[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-31) Reports attribute the pushback to Paramount not having \"the financing in 2009 to spend the \\$50 to \\$60 million necessary to market a big awards pic like this\", to DiCaprio's unavailability to promote the film internationally, and to Paramount's hope the economy might rebound enough by February 2010 that a film geared toward adult audiences would be more viable financially.[\\[31\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-32)\n\nThe film premiered at the [60th Berlin International Film Festival](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/60th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival \"60th Berlin International Film Festival\") as part of the competition screening on February 13, 2010.[\\[32\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-33) Spanish distributor Manga Films distributed the film in Spain after winning a bidding war that reportedly reached the \\$6 million to \\$8 million range.[\\[33\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-34)\n\n## Reception\n### Critical response\n[Rotten Tomatoes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotten_Tomatoes \"Rotten Tomatoes\") gives the film an approval rating of 69% based on 263 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7\/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"It may not rank with Scorsese's best work, but *Shutter Island*'s gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained.\"[\\[34\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-35) On [Metacritic](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metacritic \"Metacritic\"), the film received a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews.[\\[35\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Metacritic-36) Audiences surveyed by [CinemaScore](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CinemaScore \"CinemaScore\") gave the film an average \"C+\" grade on a scale of A+ to F.[\\[36\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-37)\n\nLawrence Toppman of *[The Charlotte Observer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Charlotte_Observer \"The Charlotte Observer\")* gave the film four stars out of four, claiming, \"After four decades, Martin Scorsese has earned the right to deliver a simple treatment of a simple theme with flair\".[\\[37\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-38)\n\nWriting for *[The Wall Street Journal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wall_Street_Journal \"The Wall Street Journal\")*, John Anderson highly praised the film, suggesting it \"requires multiple viewings to be fully realized as a work of art. Its process is more important than its story, its structure more important than the almost perfunctory plot twists it perpetrates. It's a thriller, a crime story and a tortured psychological parable about collective guilt.\"[\\[38\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-39)\n\nAwarding the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, [Roger Ebert](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger_Ebert \"Roger Ebert\") of the *[Chicago Sun-Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Sun-Times \"Chicago Sun-Times\")* wrote, \"The movie is about: atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy's confidence and even his identity. It's all done with flawless directorial command. Scorsese has fear to evoke, and he does it with many notes.\"[\\[39\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-40)\n\n*[The Orlando Sentinel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Orlando_Sentinel \"The Orlando Sentinel\")*'s Roger Moore, who gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, wrote, \"It's not bad, but as Scorsese, America's greatest living filmmaker and film history buff should know, even [Hitchcock](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Hitchcock \"Alfred Hitchcock\") came up short on occasion. See for yourself.\"[\\[40\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-41)\n\n[Dana Stevens](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dana_Stevens_\$critic\$ \"Dana Stevens (critic)\") of *[Slate](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slate_\$magazine\$ \"Slate (magazine)\")* described the film \"an aesthetically and at times intellectually exciting puzzle, but it's never emotionally involving\".[\\[41\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-42)\n\n*[The Washington Post](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Washington_Post \"The Washington Post\")* film critic [Ann Hornaday](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ann_Hornaday \"Ann Hornaday\") negatively described the film as being \"weird\".[\\[42\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-43)\n\n[A. O. Scott](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._O._Scott \"A. O. Scott\") of *[The New York Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_York_Times \"The New York Times\")* wrote, \"Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself.\"[\\[43\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-44) In 2025, it was on the \"Readers' Choice\" edition of *[The New York Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_York_Times \"The New York Times\")*' list of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century\", finishing at number 169.[\\[44\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-nytimes.com2-45)\n\nKeith Uhlich of [*Time Out* (New York)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Out_\$magazine\$ \"Time Out (magazine)\") named *Shutter Island* the fifth-best film of 2010.[\\[45\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-46)\n\n### Box office\n*Shutter Island* was released with *[The Ghost Writer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ghost_Writer_\$film\$ \"The Ghost Writer (film)\")*, and, earning \\$41 million, finished first at the box office and gave Scorsese his highest-grossing box office opening to date.[\\[46\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-47) The film remained at \\#1 in its second weekend, with \\$22.2 million.[\\[47\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-48) Eventually, it grossed worldwide \\$294,805,697[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-BoxOfficeMojo-3) and became Scorsese's second highest-grossing film worldwide.[\\[48\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-49) It is Scorsese's fifth movie to debut at the box office at \\#1, following *[Taxi Driver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taxi_Driver \"Taxi Driver\")*, *[Goodfellas](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goodfellas \"Goodfellas\")*, *[Cape Fear](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Fear_\$1991_film\$ \"Cape Fear (1991 film)\")* and *[The Departed](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Departed \"The Departed\")*.\n\n### Home media\n*Shutter Island* was released on [DVD](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DVD \"DVD\") and [Blu-ray](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blu-ray_Disc \"Blu-ray Disc\") on June 8, 2010, in the US,[\\[49\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-50) and on August 2, 2010, in the UK.[\\[50\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-51) The UK release features two editions: a standard edition and a limited steel-case edition.[\\[51\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-52) For the tenth anniversary of the film's release, Paramount Pictures released a 4K [steelbook](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_disc_packaging \"Optical disc packaging\") and Blu-ray version on February 11, 2020.[\\[52\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-53)\n\n## Other media\nA *Shutter Island* video game was released for [PC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desktop_computer \"Desktop computer\") in 2010.[\\[53\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-54) A [Nintendo DS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nintendo_DS \"Nintendo DS\") version was canceled.[\\[54\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-55) In August 2014, [Paramount Television](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paramount_Television \"Paramount Television\") and [HBO](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HBO \"HBO\") were reported to be developing a [prequel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prequel \"Prequel\") TV series, *Ashecliffe*.[\\[55\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-globe-56)\n\n## Notes\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-7)** \"Edward Daniels\" is an [anagram](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anagram \"Anagram\") of Andrew Laeddis, and \"Rachel Solando\" is an anagram of his dead wife's name, Dolores Chanal.\n## References\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-1)**\n   [\"AFI Catalog - Shutter Island\"](https:\/\/catalog.afi.com\/Catalog\/moviedetails\/66592). [American Film Institute](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Film_Institute \"American Film Institute\"). Retrieved January 1, 2025.\n2. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-2)**\n   [\"Films \\| Shutter Island\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151129000223\/http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/films\/216\/Shutter-Island\/). *DarkHorizons.com*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/films\/216\/Shutter-Island) on November 29, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2010.\n3. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-BoxOfficeMojo_3-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-BoxOfficeMojo_3-1)\n   [\"Shutter Island (2010)\"](https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt1130884\/). *[Box Office Mojo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Box_Office_Mojo \"Box Office Mojo\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190714080224\/https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=shutterisland.htm) from the original on July 14, 2019. Retrieved December 26, 2010.\n4. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-4)**\n   [\"Shutter Island (2010) - Financial Information\"](https:\/\/m.the-numbers.com\/movie\/Shutter-Island). *[The Numbers](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Numbers_\$website\$ \"The Numbers (website)\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210214051604\/https:\/\/m.the-numbers.com\/movie\/Shutter-Island) from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2020.\n5. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-5)**\n   [\"20 Movies To Watch If You Loved Shutter Island\"](https:\/\/editorial.rottentomatoes.com\/guide\/20-movies-to-watch-if-you-loved-shutter-island\/). *[Rotten Tomatoes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotten_Tomatoes \"Rotten Tomatoes\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200305161311\/https:\/\/editorial.rottentomatoes.com\/guide\/20-movies-to-watch-if-you-loved-shutter-island\/) from the original on March 5, 2020.\n6. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-nytimes.com_6-0)**\n   [\"Readers Choose Their Top Movies of the 21st Century\"](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/movies\/readers-movies-21st-century.html). *The New York Times*. July 2, 2025. Retrieved July 2, 2025.\n7. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Team_8-0)**\n   Fleming, Michael (October 22, 2007). [\"Scorsese, DiCaprio team for 'Island'\"](https:\/\/variety.com\/2007\/film\/markets-festivals\/scorsese-dicaprio-team-for-island-2-1117974525\/). *[Variety](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Variety_\$magazine\$ \"Variety (magazine)\")*. Retrieved January 8, 2008.\n   \n   `{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service \"Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service\"))\n8. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Trio_9-0)**\n   Mayberry, Carly (February 26, 2008). [\"Trio of stars in for 'Shutter'\"](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3i2d43ffe73a1c42a7d273af0e7f838bb0). *[The Hollywood Reporter](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hollywood_Reporter \"The Hollywood Reporter\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100909075601\/http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3i2d43ffe73a1c42a7d273af0e7f838bb0) from the original on September 9, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2008.\n9. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-PATRIOTLEDGER02192010_10-0)**\n   Symkus, Ed (February 19, 2010). [\"Real local flavor on display in 'Shutter Island'\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160304075400\/http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/article\/20100219\/NEWS\/302199983\/0\/SEARCH). *The Patriot Ledger*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/article\/20100219\/NEWS\/302199983\/0\/SEARCH) on March 4, 2016.\n10. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-11)**\n    Alspach, Kyle (March 8, 2008). [\"Raynham native plays Nazi soldier executed in Nolan film\"](http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/archive\/x1473821996). *[The Patriot Ledger](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Patriot_Ledger \"The Patriot Ledger\")*. Retrieved May 21, 2008.\n    \n    `{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service \"Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service\"))\n11. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-12)**\n    Downing, Vicki-Ann (March 8, 2008). [\"Film adaptation of Lehane's novel a boon to the region\"](http:\/\/www.enterprisenews.com\/news\/x349780798). *EnterpriseNews.com*. Retrieved May 21, 2008.\n    \n    `{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service \"Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service\"))\n12. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-13)**\n    Downing, Vicki-Ann (May 1, 2008). [\"Hollywood, Scorsese sets sights on Borderland State Park\"](https:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/article\/20080501\/NEWS\/305019926). *The Patriot Ledger*. Quincy, MA. Retrieved February 19, 2021.\n13. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-14)**\n    Riglian, Adam (April 14, 2008). [\"DiCaprio, Nolan filming on Peddocks Island\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081027110254\/http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/entertainment\/x707004175). *[The Patriot Ledger](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Patriot_Ledger \"The Patriot Ledger\")*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/entertainment\/x707004175) on October 27, 2008. Retrieved May 21, 2008.\n14. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-15)**\n    [\"Shutter Island 2010\"](https:\/\/www.movie-locations.com\/movies\/s\/Shutter-Island.php). The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191111024922\/http:\/\/www.movie-locations.com\/movies\/s\/Shutter-Island.php) from the original on November 11, 2019. Retrieved November 10, 2019.\n15. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-16)**\n    Fee, Gayle; Raposa, Laura (July 3, 2008). [\"DiCaprio, crew cap 'Ashecliffe' shoot\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100706211048\/http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/track\/inside_track\/view\/2008_07_03_needs_headline_2\/). *[Boston Herald](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Herald \"Boston Herald\")*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/track\/inside_track\/view\/2008_07_03_needs_headline_2) on July 6, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2008.\n16. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-17)**\n    [\"The Music of Menace From Shutter Island\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100130032920\/http:\/\/www.paramount.com\/node\/9522). *Paramount.com*. January 13, 2010. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.paramount.com\/node\/9522) on January 30, 2010. Retrieved February 18, 2010.\n17. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Swed_18-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Swed_18-1)\n    Swed, Mark (February 24, 2010). [\"Critic's notebook: 'Shutter Island' as a new-music haven\"](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/blogs\/culture-monster-blog\/story\/2010-02-24\/critics-notebook-shutter-island-as-a-new-music-haven). *Los Angeles Times*. Retrieved March 5, 2026.\n18. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Jagernauth_19-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Jagernauth_19-1) [***c***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Jagernauth_19-2)\n    Jagernauth, Kevin (February 5, 2010). [\"'Shutter Island' Soundtrack Scares Up Brian Eno, Max Richter, Krzysztof Penderecki, Györgi Ligeti & More\"](https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/shutter-island-soundtrack-scares-up-20100205\/). *The Playlist*. Retrieved March 5, 2026.\n19. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-20)**\n    Murray, Noel (October 4, 2018). [\"The 40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200813000835\/https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/best-movie-soundtracks-ranked.html). Archived from [the original](https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/best-movie-soundtracks-ranked.html) on August 13, 2020.\n20. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-21)**\n    Saba, Michael (February 19, 2010). [\"Shutter Island Review\"](https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/shutter-island-review.html). *[Paste Magazine](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paste_\$magazine\$ \"Paste (magazine)\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180614095151\/https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/shutter-island-review.html) from the original on June 14, 2018. Retrieved October 12, 2010. \"Scorsese gets his Hitchcock on.\"\n21. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-22)**\n    Brown, Mick (March 7, 2010). [\"Martin Scorsese interview for Shutter Island\"](https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/filmmakersonfilm\/7366950\/Martin-Scorsese-interview-for-Shutter-Island.html). *[The Daily Telegraph](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Daily_Telegraph \"The Daily Telegraph\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191110043758\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/filmmakersonfilm\/7366950\/Martin-Scorsese-interview-for-Shutter-Island.html) from the original on November 10, 2019. Retrieved October 13, 2010. \"'The key film I showed Leo and Mark,' Scorsese says, 'was Laura—Dana Andrews, the way he wears his tie, and the way he walks through a room, and he doesn't even look at anybody; he's always playing that little game. He's just trying to get the facts.' But the films, he adds, that he had 'really tied up tight' in mood and tone were the lower-than-low-budget schlockers made in the 1940s by Val Lewton when he was the head of the 'horror department' at [RKO Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RKO_Pictures \"RKO Pictures\")—[Cat People](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cat_People_\$1942_film\$ \"Cat People (1942 film)\"), [Isle of the Dead](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isle_of_the_Dead_\$film\$ \"Isle of the Dead (film)\"), [The Seventh Victim](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Seventh_Victim \"The Seventh Victim\") and [I Walked with a Zombie](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie \"I Walked with a Zombie\").\"\n22. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-RottenTomatoes_23-0)**\n    Daniels, Derek (December 1, 2010). [\"The Ninth Configuration (Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane)\"](https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/ninth_configuration). *[Rotten Tomatoes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotten_Tomatoes \"Rotten Tomatoes\")*. [Flixster](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flixster \"Flixster\"). [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171206144106\/https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/ninth_configuration\/) from the original on December 6, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2011. \"30 years before the disappointing *Shutter Island* took viewers to a remote mental asylum with a world-turned-upside-down storyline, William Peter Blatty gave us this...\"\n23. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-LATimes_24-0)**\n    [\"'Shutter Island' shows the power of isolation\"](http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/entertainmentnewsbuzz\/2010\/02\/shutter-island-hit-dicaprio-box-office.html). *[Los Angeles Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles_Times \"Los Angeles Times\")*. February 21, 2010. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180409171525\/http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/entertainmentnewsbuzz\/2010\/02\/shutter-island-hit-dicaprio-box-office.html) from the original on April 9, 2018. Retrieved September 8, 2011. \"A better version of this basic story was done 29 years ago by William Peter Blatty: The Ninth Configuration.\"\n24. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-book_25-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-book_25-1)\n    Packer, Sharon (September 5, 2012). [*Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists: from Caligari to Hannibal*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5cD43szvc-QC). New York, NY: McFarland. p. 197. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9780786463909](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9780786463909 \"Special:BookSources\/9780786463909\")\n    \n    . [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161117155831\/https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5cD43szvc-QC) from the original on November 17, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2014. \"*The Ninth Configuration* is far less polished than Martin Scorsese's *Shutter Island*, but the principle is the same.\"\n25. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-adaptation_26-0)**\n    Raw, Kaurence & Ersin Tutan, Defne (2012). [*The Adaptation of History: Essays on Ways of Telling the Past*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=vt5rT7aVi_QC). [McFarland and Company](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McFarland_and_Company \"McFarland and Company\"). p. 51. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9780786472543](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9780786472543 \"Special:BookSources\/9780786472543\")\n    \n    . [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161117135830\/https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=vt5rT7aVi_QC) from the original on November 17, 2016. Retrieved May 7, 2020.\n26. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-constructing_27-0)**\n    Gregoriou, Christiana (2012). [*Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=IZpiAQAAQBAJ). [Palgrave Macmillan](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palgrave_Macmillan \"Palgrave Macmillan\"). p. 79. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9780230392083](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9780230392083 \"Special:BookSources\/9780230392083\")\n    \n    . [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161117165317\/https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=IZpiAQAAQBAJ) from the original on November 17, 2016. Retrieved May 7, 2020.\n27. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Schwartz_28-0)**\n    Schwartz, Arnaud (February 23, 2010). [\"\"Shutter Island\" : Martin Scorsese face au dérèglement de l'esprit\"](https:\/\/www.la-croix.com\/Culture\/Actualite\/Shutter-Island-Martin-Scorsese-face-au-dereglement-de-l-esprit-_NG_-2010-02-23-547249). *La Croix* (in French). [ISSN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISSN_\$identifier\$ \"ISSN (identifier)\") [0242-6056](https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/issn\/0242-6056). Retrieved December 16, 2023.\n28. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Cox-Guardian_29-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Cox-Guardian_29-1)\n    Cox, David (July 29, 2010). [\"Shutter Island's ending explained\"](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/filmblog\/2010\/jul\/29\/shutter-island-ending). *The Guardian*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200325140646\/https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/filmblog\/2010\/jul\/29\/shutter-island-ending) from the original on March 25, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2012.\n29. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-30)**\n    McClintock, Pamela (February 13, 2008). [\"'Star Trek' pushed back to 2009\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080215012143\/http:\/\/www.variety.com\/VR1117980912.html). *[Variety](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Variety_\$magazine\$ \"Variety (magazine)\")*. Archived from [the original](https:\/\/www.variety.com\/VR1117980912.html) on February 15, 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2008.\n30. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-31)** [\"Shutter Island Pushed Back to February\"](https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=58282) [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131211090652\/http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=58282) December 11, 2013, at the [Wayback Machine](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wayback_Machine \"Wayback Machine\"). ComingSoon.com. Retrieved November 19, 2010.\n31. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-32)**\n    Finke, Nikki (August 21, 2009). [\"SHOCKER! Paramount Moves Scorsese's 'Shutter Island' To February 19, 2010\"](https:\/\/deadline.com\/2009\/08\/shocker-paramount-moving-scorsesedicaprios-shutter-island-to-february-2010-12459\/). *[Deadline Hollywood](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deadline_Hollywood \"Deadline Hollywood\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100211224146\/http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/hollywood\/shocker-paramount-moving-scorsesedicaprios-shutter-island-to-february-2010\/) from the original on February 11, 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2009.\n32. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-33)**\n    [\"Shutter Island\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100211103111\/http:\/\/www.berlinale.de\/en\/programm\/berlinale_programm\/datenblatt.php?film_id=20101218). *Berlinale*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.berlinale.de\/en\/programm\/berlinale_programm\/datenblatt.php?film_id=20101218) on February 11, 2010. Retrieved November 19, 2010.\n33. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-34)**\n    De Pablos, Emiliano (May 17, 2008). [\"Manga nabs 'Shutter Island'\"](https:\/\/variety.com\/2008\/film\/markets-festivals\/manga-nabs-shutter-island-1117985970\/). *[Variety](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Variety_\$magazine\$ \"Variety (magazine)\")*. 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*[Kundun](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kundun \"Kundun\")* (1997) *[Bringing Out the Dead](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bringing_Out_the_Dead \"Bringing Out the Dead\")* (1999) *[Gangs of New York](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gangs_of_New_York \"Gangs of New York\")* (2002) *[The Aviator](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Aviator_\$2004_film\$ \"The Aviator (2004 film)\")* (2004) *[The Departed](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Departed \"The Departed\")* (2006) *[Shutter Island]()* (2010) *[Hugo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_\$film\$ \"Hugo (film)\")* (2011) *[The Wolf of Wall Street](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_\$2013_film\$ \"The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)\")* (2013) *[Silence](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silence_\$2016_film\$ \"Silence (2016 film)\")* (2016) *[The Irishman](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Irishman \"The Irishman\")* (2019) *[Killers of the Flower 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Messer [Bradley J. Fischer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bradley_J._Fischer_\$producer\$ \"Bradley J. Fischer (producer)\") Martin Scorsese |\n| Starring | [Leonardo DiCaprio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_DiCaprio \"Leonardo DiCaprio\") [Mark Ruffalo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Ruffalo \"Mark Ruffalo\") [Ben Kingsley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Kingsley \"Ben Kingsley\") [Michelle Williams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Williams_\$actress\$ \"Michelle Williams (actress)\") [Emily Mortimer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emily_Mortimer \"Emily Mortimer\") [Patricia Clarkson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patricia_Clarkson \"Patricia Clarkson\") [Max von Sydow](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_von_Sydow \"Max von Sydow\") |\n| Cinematography | [Robert Richardson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Richardson_\$cinematographer\$ \"Robert Richardson (cinematographer)\") |\n| Edited by | [Thelma Schoonmaker](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thelma_Schoonmaker \"Thelma Schoonmaker\") |\n| Production companies | [Paramount Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paramount_Pictures \"Paramount Pictures\")[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-1) [Phoenix Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix_Pictures \"Phoenix Pictures\") [Sikelia Productions](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sikelia_Productions \"Sikelia Productions\") [Appian Way Productions](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appian_Way_Productions \"Appian Way Productions\") |\n| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |\n| Release dates | February 13, 2010 ([Berlinale](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/60th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival \"60th Berlin International Film Festival\")) February 19, 2010 (United States) |\n| Running time | 139 minutes |\n| Country | United States |\n| Language | English |\n| Budget | \\$80 million[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-2) |\n| Box office | \\$294.8 million[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-BoxOfficeMojo-3)[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-4) |\n\n***Shutter Island*** is a 2010 American [neo-noir](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neo-noir \"Neo-noir\") [psychological thriller](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychological_thriller \"Psychological thriller\") film[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-5) directed by [Martin Scorsese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese \"Martin Scorsese\"). The screenplay was adapted by [Laeta Kalogridis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laeta_Kalogridis \"Laeta Kalogridis\") from [the 2003 novel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island\") by [Dennis Lehane](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Lehane \"Dennis Lehane\"). It follows Deputy [U.S. Marshal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Marshals_Service \"United States Marshals Service\") Edward \"Teddy\" Daniels and his partner Chuck, who come to the fictional Shutter Island in [Boston Harbor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Harbor \"Boston Harbor\") to investigate its criminal psychiatric facility after one of its patients goes missing; Daniels has his own ulterior motives for taking the case. The film stars [Leonardo DiCaprio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_DiCaprio \"Leonardo DiCaprio\") and [Mark Ruffalo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Ruffalo \"Mark Ruffalo\"), with [Ben Kingsley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Kingsley \"Ben Kingsley\"), [Max von Sydow](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_von_Sydow \"Max von Sydow\") and [Michelle Williams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Williams_\$actress\$ \"Michelle Williams (actress)\") in supporting roles.\n\nDevelopment began when [Phoenix Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix_Pictures \"Phoenix Pictures\") acquired the film rights to the novel directly from Lehane after [Columbia Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia_Pictures \"Columbia Pictures\") had allowed their rights to lapse in 2003. Phoenix hired [Laeta Kalogridis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laeta_Kalogridis \"Laeta Kalogridis\") to work on a screenplay for a year, and in 2007, announced that both Scorsese and DiCaprio had joined the project. Production began on March 6, 2008, at various locations in [Massachusetts](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts \"Massachusetts\"); filming ended on July 2, 2008.\n\nPartnering with [Paramount Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paramount_Pictures \"Paramount Pictures\"), the film had its wide release on February 19, 2010, and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was chosen by the [National Board of Review](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Board_of_Review \"National Board of Review\") as one of the [top ten films of 2010](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Board_of_Review_Awards_2010#Top_10_Films \"National Board of Review Awards 2010\"), and grossed \\$295 million worldwide. The film is also noted for its soundtrack, which prominently used classical music by composers such as [Gustav Mahler](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustav_Mahler \"Gustav Mahler\"), [Krzysztof Penderecki](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krzysztof_Penderecki \"Krzysztof Penderecki\"), [György Ligeti](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti \"György Ligeti\"), [John Cage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cage \"John Cage\"), [Ingram Marshall](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingram_Marshall \"Ingram Marshall\") and [Max Richter](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Richter \"Max Richter\"). In 2025, the film was voted for the \"Readers' Choice\" edition of *[The New York Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_York_Times \"The New York Times\")*' list of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century\", finishing at number 169.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-nytimes.com-6)\n\nPlot\n\nIn 1954, [U.S. Marshal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Marshals_Service \"United States Marshals Service\") Edward \"Teddy\" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the [criminally insane](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insanity_defense \"Insanity defense\") on Shutter Island in [Boston Harbor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Harbor \"Boston Harbor\"). The purpose of their visit is to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient of the hospital who had killed her three children by drowning.\n\nThe staff, led by psychiatrist Dr. John Cawley and his colleague Dr. Jerimiah Naehring, appears uncooperative. The marshals learn that Dr. Lester Sheehan, who was treating Solando, left the island on vacation immediately after Solando disappeared. Teddy experiences [migraines](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Migraine \"Migraine\"), flashbacks of his time as a U.S. soldier in the [liberation of Dachau](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dachau_concentration_camp#Liberation \"Dachau concentration camp\"), and vivid dreams of his wife Dolores, who was killed in a fire in their building set by [pyromaniac](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyromaniac \"Pyromaniac\") Andrew Laeddis. Teddy tells Chuck he took this case to find Laeddis, whom he believes is a patient. Solando suddenly resurfaces, but believes Teddy is her husband.\n\nTeddy breaks into the restricted Ward C to find Laeddis, but meets patient George Noyce, who knows Teddy from his past. Noyce says the doctors experiment on patients and [lobotomize](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lobotomy \"Lobotomy\") them in the lighthouse. He warns Teddy that everyone will deceive him and not to trust his partner Chuck.\n\nTeddy and Chuck climb the cliffs toward the lighthouse, but are separated. Believing he saw Chuck's body on the rocks below, Teddy climbs down but finds only a cave where a woman claiming to be the real Rachel Solando is hiding. She reveals she is a former psychiatrist; after discovering clandestine experiments on [mind control](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brainwashing \"Brainwashing\") at the facility, she was silenced by being forcibly committed. She warns that Cawley and Naehring will use Teddy's war trauma to feign a psychotic break, allowing them to have him committed as well. Teddy returns to the hospital. When he asks about Chuck, Cawley insists that Teddy arrived at Shutter Island alone.\n\nConvinced Chuck has been taken to the lighthouse, Teddy is intercepted by Naehring, who attempts to sedate him. Teddy overpowers him and breaks into the lighthouse to discover Cawley waiting for him. Cawley tells him that Rachel Solando never existed. He adds that Teddy has not been drugged but is experiencing withdrawal from [chlorpromazine](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chlorpromazine \"Chlorpromazine\"), a [neuroleptic](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuroleptic \"Neuroleptic\") medication Teddy has been taking for the past two years.\n\nChuck arrives and reveals he is actually Dr. Sheehan. \"Teddy\" is really Andrew Laeddis, a former U.S. Marshal. Laeddis was incarcerated at Ashecliffe for killing his [manic depressive](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bipolar_disorder \"Bipolar disorder\") wife Dolores Chanal after she killed their three children by drowning. Andrew had failed to seek treatment for Dolores after she burned down their apartment; instead, he moved his family to the lakehouse, which is where Dolores carried out the killings.\n\nAs a result of his guilt, Andrew became delusional and created the alternate persona of Edward Daniels.[\\[a\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-7) The \"investigation\" of Rachel Solando was an elaborate roleplay, supported by hospital staff, to help Andrew play out his delusion so he might break out of it and return to reality. Overwhelmed, Andrew faints.\n\nAwakening, Andrew recounts the truth, satisfying the doctors that he is lucid. Cawley notes they had achieved this state nine months ago, but Andrew had quickly regressed. He warns this will be Andrew's last chance; if he lapses into his delusion again, he will be lobotomized due to his violent conduct toward the guards and other patients, such as Noyce.\n\nSome time later, Andrew relaxes on the hospital grounds with Sheehan. Appearing delusional, he refers to Sheehan as \"Chuck\" and says they must leave the island. Sheehan signals to a watching Cawley, who orders that Andrew be lobotomized. Andrew asks Sheehan if it would be worse \"to live as a monster or to die as a good man\". A stunned Sheehan calls Andrew \"Teddy\", but the latter does not respond and leaves peacefully with the orderlies for his operation.\n\nCast\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9a\/Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg\/120px-Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/11\/Mark_Ruffalo_%2836201774756%29_%28cropped%29.jpg\/120px-Mark_Ruffalo_%2836201774756%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mark_Ruffalo_\$36201774756\$_\$cropped\$.jpg)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/01\/Michelle_Williams_%28Berlinale_2010%29.jpg\/120px-Michelle_Williams_%28Berlinale_2010%29.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Michelle_Williams_\$Berlinale_2010\$.jpg)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/42\/Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg\/120px-Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)\n\n- [Leonardo DiCaprio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_DiCaprio \"Leonardo DiCaprio\") as Edward \"Teddy\" Daniels, a former [U.S. Marshal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Marshal \"U.S. Marshal\") who investigates the Shutter Island [insane asylum](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insane_asylum \"Insane asylum\")\n- [Mark Ruffalo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Ruffalo \"Mark Ruffalo\") as Chuck Aule, Teddy's Marshal partner\n- [Ben Kingsley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Kingsley \"Ben Kingsley\") as Dr. John Cawley, a senior psychiatrist at Shutter Island\n- [Max von Sydow](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_von_Sydow \"Max von Sydow\") as Dr. Naehring, a colleague of Cawley\n- [Michelle Williams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Williams_\$actress\$ \"Michelle Williams (actress)\") as Dolores Chanal, Teddy's wife\n- [Emily Mortimer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emily_Mortimer \"Emily Mortimer\") and [Patricia Clarkson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patricia_Clarkson \"Patricia Clarkson\") as Rachel Solando\n- [Jackie Earle Haley](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackie_Earle_Haley \"Jackie Earle Haley\") as George Noyce, a patient in Ward C\n- [Ted Levine](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Levine \"Ted Levine\") as Warden\n- [John Carroll Lynch](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carroll_Lynch \"John Carroll Lynch\") as Deputy Warden McPherson\n- [Joseph Sikora](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Sikora \"Joseph Sikora\") as Glen Miga\n- [Elias Koteas](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elias_Koteas \"Elias Koteas\") as Laeddis\n- [Robin Bartlett](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robin_Bartlett \"Robin Bartlett\") as Bridget Kearns\n- [Christopher Denham](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Denham \"Christopher Denham\") as Peter Breene\n- [Curtiss Cook](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curtiss_Cook \"Curtiss Cook\") as Trey Washington\n\nProduction\n\nDevelopment\n\nThe rights to [Dennis Lehane](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Lehane \"Dennis Lehane\")'s novel *[Shutter Island](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island \"Shutter Island\")* were first optioned to [Columbia Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia_Pictures \"Columbia Pictures\") in 2003. Columbia did not act on the option, and it lapsed back to Lehane, who sold it to [Phoenix Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenix_Pictures \"Phoenix Pictures\"). Phoenix hired [Laeta Kalogridis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laeta_Kalogridis \"Laeta Kalogridis\"), and together, they developed the film for a year. Director [Martin Scorsese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese \"Martin Scorsese\") and actor [Leonardo DiCaprio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_DiCaprio \"Leonardo DiCaprio\") were both attracted to the project.[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Team-8) Production began on March 6, 2008.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Trio-9)\n\nLehane's inspiration for the hospital and island setting was [Long Island](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_Island_\$Massachusetts\$ \"Long Island (Massachusetts)\") in [Boston Harbor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Harbor \"Boston Harbor\"), which he had visited as a child with his uncle and family during the [blizzard of 1978](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northeastern_United_States_blizzard_of_1978 \"Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978\").[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-PATRIOTLEDGER02192010-10)\n\nFilming\n\n*Shutter Island* was mainly filmed in [Massachusetts](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts \"Massachusetts\"), with [Taunton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taunton,_Massachusetts \"Taunton, Massachusetts\") being the location for the World War II flashback scenes.[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-11) Old industrial buildings in Taunton's [Whittenton Mills Complex](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whittenton_Mills_Complex \"Whittenton Mills Complex\") replicated the [Dachau concentration camp](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dachau_concentration_camp \"Dachau concentration camp\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-12) The old [Medfield State Hospital](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medfield_State_Hospital \"Medfield State Hospital\") in [Medfield](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medfield,_Massachusetts \"Medfield, Massachusetts\"), Massachusetts, was another key location.\n\nCawley's office scenes were the second floor of the chapel during the late evening. Lights were shone through the windows to make it appear to be daytime. The crew painted the hospital's brick walls to look like plywood. This served the dual purpose of acting as scenery and blocking the set from view of a local road.\n\nThe crew wanted to film at the old [Worcester State Hospital](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worcester_State_Hospital \"Worcester State Hospital\"), but demolition of surrounding buildings made it impossible. The stone lodge next to Leach Pond at [Borderland State Park](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borderland_State_Park \"Borderland State Park\") in [Easton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Easton,_Massachusetts \"Easton, Massachusetts\"), Massachusetts, was used for the cabin scene.[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-13) The film used [Peddocks Island](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peddocks_Island \"Peddocks Island\") as a setting for the story's island. [East Point](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Point_Military_Reservation \"East Point Military Reservation\"), in [Nahant](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nahant,_Massachusetts \"Nahant, Massachusetts\"), Massachusetts, was the location for the lighthouse scenes.[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-14) The scenes in which Teddy and Chuck are caught in the hurricane were filmed at the [Wilson Mountain Reservation](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilson_Mountain_Reservation \"Wilson Mountain Reservation\") in [Dedham](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dedham,_Massachusetts \"Dedham, Massachusetts\"), Massachusetts.[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-15) Filming ended on July 2, 2008.[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-16)\n\nMusic\n\n| Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture |   |\n|---|---|\n| [Soundtrack album](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soundtrack_album \"Soundtrack album\") by various artists |   |\n| Released | February 2, 2010 |\n| [Genre](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_genre \"Music genre\") | [Film soundtrack](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Film_soundtrack \"Film soundtrack\") |\n| Length | 116:41 |\n| [Label](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Record_label \"Record label\") | [Rhino Records](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhino_Records \"Rhino Records\") |\n| [Producer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Record_producer \"Record producer\") | [Robbie Robertson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robbie_Robertson \"Robbie Robertson\") [John Powell](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Powell_\$composer\$ \"John Powell (composer)\") |\n\nThe film does not have an original score. Instead, Scorsese's longtime collaborator [Robbie Robertson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robbie_Robertson \"Robbie Robertson\") created an ensemble of previously recorded material to use in the film. *Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture* was released on February 2, 2010, by [Rhino Records](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhino_Records \"Rhino Records\").\n\nAccording to a statement on Paramount's website: \"The collection of [modern classical music](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modern_classical_music \"Modern classical music\") \\[on the soundtrack album\\] was hand-selected by Robertson, who is proud of its scope and sound. 'This may be the most outrageous and beautiful soundtrack I've ever heard.' \\[Robertson stated\\]\".[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-17)\n\n*[Los Angeles Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles_Times \"Los Angeles Times\")*' classical music reviewer [Mark Swed](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Swed \"Mark Swed\") noted that \"Robertson went through a lot of trouble to make things work as well\".[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Swed-18) He argues that while other reviewers have called the music \"melodramatic\", \"nothing could be further from the truth\".[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Swed-18)\n\nAnother reviewer noted that \"Scorsese has abandoned his oft-used classic rock soundtrack habits and, almost positively taking a queue from Stanley Kubrick's soundtracks, adopted a selection mostly of various modern classical pieces\",[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19) and that \"this set of pieces certainly suggests a different mood rather than a conventional score\".[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19)\n\nPop culture critic Noel Murray lists the album at \\#24 in [Vulture](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vulture_\$website\$ \"Vulture (website)\")'s 2018 \"40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time\", saying, \"Besides drawing attention to the modern geniuses of a wholly different genre, the unfamiliar, almost alien sounds of the *Shutter Island* soundtrack reinforce the movie's tale of hallucinatory madness\".[\\[19\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-20)\n\nA full track listing of the album is below. All the musical works are featured in the final film.[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19)\n\nDisc 1\n\n1. \"Fog Tropes\" ([Ingram Marshall](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingram_Marshall \"Ingram Marshall\")) – Orchestra of St. Lukes & [John Adams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Adams_\$composer\$ \"John Adams (composer)\")\n2. \"[Symphony No. 3: Passacaglia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symphony_No._3_\$Penderecki\$ \"Symphony No. 3 (Penderecki)\") – Allegro Moderato\" ([Krzysztof Penderecki](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krzysztof_Penderecki \"Krzysztof Penderecki\")) – National Polish Radio Symphony & [Antoni Wit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antoni_Wit \"Antoni Wit\")\n3. \"[Music for Marcel Duchamp](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_for_Marcel_Duchamp \"Music for Marcel Duchamp\")\" ([John Cage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cage \"John Cage\")) – Philipp Vandré\n4. \"Hommage à [John Cage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cage \"John Cage\")\" – [Nam June Paik](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nam_June_Paik \"Nam June Paik\")\n5. \"Lontano\" ([György Ligeti](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti \"György Ligeti\")) – Wiener Philharmoniker & [Claudio Abbado](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claudio_Abbado \"Claudio Abbado\")\n6. \"Rothko Chapel 2\" ([Morton Feldman](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morton_Feldman \"Morton Feldman\")) – UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus\n7. \"[Cry](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cry_\$Johnnie_Ray_song\$ \"Cry (Johnnie Ray song)\")\" – [Johnnie Ray](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnnie_Ray \"Johnnie Ray\")\n8. \"[On the Nature of Daylight](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_the_Nature_of_Daylight \"On the Nature of Daylight\")\" – [Max Richter](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Richter \"Max Richter\")\n9. \"[Uaxuctum](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uaxactun \"Uaxactun\"): The Legend of the Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed for Religious Reasons – 3rd Movement\" ([Giacinto Scelsi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giacinto_Scelsi \"Giacinto Scelsi\")) – [Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vienna_Radio_Symphony_Orchestra \"Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra\")\n10. \"[Quartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piano_Quartet_\$Mahler\$ \"Piano Quartet (Mahler)\")\" ([Gustav Mahler](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustav_Mahler \"Gustav Mahler\")) – Prazak Quartet\n\nDisc 2\n\n1. \"[Christian Zeal and Activity](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_Zeal_and_Activity \"Christian Zeal and Activity\")\" (John Adams) – The San Francisco Symphony & [Edo de Waart](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edo_de_Waart \"Edo de Waart\")\n2. \"Suite for Symphonic Strings: Nocturne\" ([Lou Harrison](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lou_Harrison \"Lou Harrison\")) – The New Professionals Orchestra & Rebecca Miller\n3. \"[Lizard Point](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lizard_Point_\$composition\$ \"Lizard Point (composition)\")\" – [Brian Eno](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Eno \"Brian Eno\")\n4. \"Four Hymns: II for Cello and Double Bass\" ([Alfred Schnittke](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Schnittke \"Alfred Schnittke\")) – Torleif Thedéen & Entcho Radoukanov\n5. \"[Root of an Unfocus](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Root_of_an_Unfocus \"Root of an Unfocus\")\" (John Cage) – [Boris Berman](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boris_Berman_\$musician\$ \"Boris Berman (musician)\")\n6. \"Prelude – The Bay\" – [Ingram Marshall](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingram_Marshall \"Ingram Marshall\")\n7. \"[Wheel of Fortune](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheel_of_Fortune_\$1951_song\$ \"Wheel of Fortune (1951 song)\")\" – [Kay Starr](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kay_Starr \"Kay Starr\")\n8. \"[Tomorrow Night](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tomorrow_Night_\$Coslow_and_Grosz_song\$ \"Tomorrow Night (Coslow and Grosz song)\")\" – [Lonnie Johnson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lonnie_Johnson_\$musician\$ \"Lonnie Johnson (musician)\")\n9. \"[This Bitter Earth](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/This_Bitter_Earth \"This Bitter Earth\")\"\/\"On the Nature of Daylight\" – [Dinah Washington](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinah_Washington \"Dinah Washington\") & Max Richter; arrangement by [Robbie Robertson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robbie_Robertson \"Robbie Robertson\")\n\nGenre\n\n*Shutter Island* is a [period piece](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Period_piece \"Period piece\") with nods to different films in the [film noir](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Film_noir \"Film noir\") and [horror](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horror_film \"Horror film\") genres, paying particular homage to [Alfred Hitchcock](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Hitchcock \"Alfred Hitchcock\")'s works.[\\[20\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-21) Scorsese stated in an interview that the main reference to Teddy Daniels was [Dana Andrews](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dana_Andrews \"Dana Andrews\")'s character in *[Laura](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laura_\$1944_film\$ \"Laura (1944 film)\")*, and he was also influenced by several very low-budget 1940s [zombie movies](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zombie_movies \"Zombie movies\") by [Val Lewton](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Val_Lewton \"Val Lewton\").[\\[21\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-22)\n\nThe main plot resembles [William Peter Blatty](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Peter_Blatty \"William Peter Blatty\")'s *[The Ninth Configuration](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ninth_Configuration \"The Ninth Configuration\")*,[\\[22\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-RottenTomatoes-23)[\\[23\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-LATimes-24)[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-book-25) as well as *[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari \"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\")*.[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-book-25)[\\[25\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-adaptation-26)[\\[26\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-constructing-27) *La Croix* noted *Shutter Island* was a \"complex and puzzling\" work that borrowed from genres as diverse as detective, fantasy, and the psychological thriller.[\\[27\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Schwartz-28)\n\nThere have been differing opinions of the film's ending of the film, in which Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan \"which would be worse—to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?\", a line that does not appear in the book. Professor [James Gilligan](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Gilligan \"James Gilligan\") of [New York University](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_University \"New York University\") was Scorsese's psychiatric adviser, and he said that Laeddis's last words mean: \"I feel too guilty to go on living. I'm not going to actually commit suicide, but I'm going to vicariously commit suicide by handing myself over to these people who're going to lobotomize me.\"[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Cox-Guardian-29) Dennis Lehane, however, said, \"Personally, I think he has a momentary flash.... It's just one moment of sanity mixed in the midst of all the other delusions.\"[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Cox-Guardian-29)\n\nRelease\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/32\/Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg\/250px-Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg)\n\nDirector [Martin Scorsese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese \"Martin Scorsese\") at the film's premiere at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival\n\nThe film was originally scheduled to be released by [Paramount Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paramount_Pictures \"Paramount Pictures\") in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009.[\\[29\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-30) Paramount announced it was pushing back the release date to February 19, 2010.[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-31) Reports attribute the pushback to Paramount not having \"the financing in 2009 to spend the \\$50 to \\$60 million necessary to market a big awards pic like this\", to DiCaprio's unavailability to promote the film internationally, and to Paramount's hope the economy might rebound enough by February 2010 that a film geared toward adult audiences would be more viable financially.[\\[31\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-32)\n\nThe film premiered at the [60th Berlin International Film Festival](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/60th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival \"60th Berlin International Film Festival\") as part of the competition screening on February 13, 2010.[\\[32\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-33) Spanish distributor Manga Films distributed the film in Spain after winning a bidding war that reportedly reached the \\$6 million to \\$8 million range.[\\[33\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-34)\n\nReception\n\nCritical response\n\n[Rotten Tomatoes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotten_Tomatoes \"Rotten Tomatoes\") gives the film an approval rating of 69% based on 263 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7\/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"It may not rank with Scorsese's best work, but *Shutter Island*'s gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained.\"[\\[34\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-35) On [Metacritic](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metacritic \"Metacritic\"), the film received a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews.[\\[35\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-Metacritic-36) Audiences surveyed by [CinemaScore](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CinemaScore \"CinemaScore\") gave the film an average \"C+\" grade on a scale of A+ to F.[\\[36\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-37)\n\nLawrence Toppman of *[The Charlotte Observer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Charlotte_Observer \"The Charlotte Observer\")* gave the film four stars out of four, claiming, \"After four decades, Martin Scorsese has earned the right to deliver a simple treatment of a simple theme with flair\".[\\[37\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-38)\n\nWriting for *[The Wall Street Journal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wall_Street_Journal \"The Wall Street Journal\")*, John Anderson highly praised the film, suggesting it \"requires multiple viewings to be fully realized as a work of art. Its process is more important than its story, its structure more important than the almost perfunctory plot twists it perpetrates. It's a thriller, a crime story and a tortured psychological parable about collective guilt.\"[\\[38\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-39)\n\nAwarding the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, [Roger Ebert](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger_Ebert \"Roger Ebert\") of the *[Chicago Sun-Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Sun-Times \"Chicago Sun-Times\")* wrote, \"The movie is about: atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy's confidence and even his identity. It's all done with flawless directorial command. Scorsese has fear to evoke, and he does it with many notes.\"[\\[39\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-40)\n\n*[The Orlando Sentinel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Orlando_Sentinel \"The Orlando Sentinel\")*'s Roger Moore, who gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, wrote, \"It's not bad, but as Scorsese, America's greatest living filmmaker and film history buff should know, even [Hitchcock](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Hitchcock \"Alfred Hitchcock\") came up short on occasion. See for yourself.\"[\\[40\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-41)\n\n[Dana Stevens](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dana_Stevens_\$critic\$ \"Dana Stevens (critic)\") of *[Slate](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slate_\$magazine\$ \"Slate (magazine)\")* described the film \"an aesthetically and at times intellectually exciting puzzle, but it's never emotionally involving\".[\\[41\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-42)\n\n*[The Washington Post](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Washington_Post \"The Washington Post\")* film critic [Ann Hornaday](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ann_Hornaday \"Ann Hornaday\") negatively described the film as being \"weird\".[\\[42\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-43)\n\n[A. O. Scott](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._O._Scott \"A. O. Scott\") of *[The New York Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_York_Times \"The New York Times\")* wrote, \"Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself.\"[\\[43\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-44) In 2025, it was on the \"Readers' Choice\" edition of *[The New York Times](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_York_Times \"The New York Times\")*' list of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century\", finishing at number 169.[\\[44\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-nytimes.com2-45)\n\nKeith Uhlich of [*Time Out* (New York)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Out_\$magazine\$ \"Time Out (magazine)\") named *Shutter Island* the fifth-best film of 2010.[\\[45\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-46)\n\nBox office\n\n*Shutter Island* was released with *[The Ghost Writer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ghost_Writer_\$film\$ \"The Ghost Writer (film)\")*, and, earning \\$41 million, finished first at the box office and gave Scorsese his highest-grossing box office opening to date.[\\[46\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-47) The film remained at \\#1 in its second weekend, with \\$22.2 million.[\\[47\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-48) Eventually, it grossed worldwide \\$294,805,697[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-BoxOfficeMojo-3) and became Scorsese's second highest-grossing film worldwide.[\\[48\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-49) It is Scorsese's fifth movie to debut at the box office at \\#1, following *[Taxi Driver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taxi_Driver \"Taxi Driver\")*, *[Goodfellas](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goodfellas \"Goodfellas\")*, *[Cape Fear](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Fear_\$1991_film\$ \"Cape Fear (1991 film)\")* and *[The Departed](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Departed \"The Departed\")*.\n\nHome media\n\n*Shutter Island* was released on [DVD](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DVD \"DVD\") and [Blu-ray](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blu-ray_Disc \"Blu-ray Disc\") on June 8, 2010, in the US,[\\[49\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-50) and on August 2, 2010, in the UK.[\\[50\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-51) The UK release features two editions: a standard edition and a limited steel-case edition.[\\[51\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-52) For the tenth anniversary of the film's release, Paramount Pictures released a 4K [steelbook](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_disc_packaging \"Optical disc packaging\") and Blu-ray version on February 11, 2020.[\\[52\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-53)\n\nA *Shutter Island* video game was released for [PC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desktop_computer \"Desktop computer\") in 2010.[\\[53\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-54) A [Nintendo DS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nintendo_DS \"Nintendo DS\") version was canceled.[\\[54\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-55) In August 2014, [Paramount Television](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paramount_Television \"Paramount Television\") and [HBO](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HBO \"HBO\") were reported to be developing a [prequel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prequel \"Prequel\") TV series, *Ashecliffe*.[\\[55\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_note-globe-56)\n\nNotes\n\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-7)** \"Edward Daniels\" is an [anagram](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anagram \"Anagram\") of Andrew Laeddis, and \"Rachel Solando\" is an anagram of his dead wife's name, Dolores Chanal.\n\nReferences\n\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-1)**\n   [\"AFI Catalog - Shutter Island\"](https:\/\/catalog.afi.com\/Catalog\/moviedetails\/66592). [American Film Institute](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Film_Institute \"American Film Institute\"). Retrieved January 1, 2025.\n2. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-2)**\n   [\"Films \\| Shutter Island\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151129000223\/http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/films\/216\/Shutter-Island\/). *DarkHorizons.com*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/films\/216\/Shutter-Island) on November 29, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2010.\n3. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-BoxOfficeMojo_3-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-BoxOfficeMojo_3-1)\n   [\"Shutter Island (2010)\"](https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt1130884\/). *[Box Office Mojo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Box_Office_Mojo \"Box Office Mojo\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190714080224\/https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=shutterisland.htm) from the original on July 14, 2019. Retrieved December 26, 2010.\n4. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-4)**\n   [\"Shutter Island (2010) - Financial Information\"](https:\/\/m.the-numbers.com\/movie\/Shutter-Island). *[The Numbers](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Numbers_\$website\$ \"The Numbers (website)\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210214051604\/https:\/\/m.the-numbers.com\/movie\/Shutter-Island) from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2020.\n5. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-5)**\n   [\"20 Movies To Watch If You Loved Shutter Island\"](https:\/\/editorial.rottentomatoes.com\/guide\/20-movies-to-watch-if-you-loved-shutter-island\/). *[Rotten Tomatoes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotten_Tomatoes \"Rotten Tomatoes\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200305161311\/https:\/\/editorial.rottentomatoes.com\/guide\/20-movies-to-watch-if-you-loved-shutter-island\/) from the original on March 5, 2020.\n6. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-nytimes.com_6-0)**\n   [\"Readers Choose Their Top Movies of the 21st Century\"](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/movies\/readers-movies-21st-century.html). *The New York Times*. July 2, 2025. Retrieved July 2, 2025.\n7. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Team_8-0)**\n   Fleming, Michael (October 22, 2007). [\"Scorsese, DiCaprio team for 'Island'\"](https:\/\/variety.com\/2007\/film\/markets-festivals\/scorsese-dicaprio-team-for-island-2-1117974525\/). *[Variety](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Variety_\$magazine\$ \"Variety (magazine)\")*. Retrieved January 8, 2008.\n   \n   `{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service \"Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service\"))\n8. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-Trio_9-0)**\n   Mayberry, Carly (February 26, 2008). [\"Trio of stars in for 'Shutter'\"](https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3i2d43ffe73a1c42a7d273af0e7f838bb0). *[The Hollywood Reporter](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hollywood_Reporter \"The Hollywood Reporter\")*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100909075601\/http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3i2d43ffe73a1c42a7d273af0e7f838bb0) from the original on September 9, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2008.\n9. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-PATRIOTLEDGER02192010_10-0)**\n   Symkus, Ed (February 19, 2010). [\"Real local flavor on display in 'Shutter Island'\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160304075400\/http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/article\/20100219\/NEWS\/302199983\/0\/SEARCH). *The Patriot Ledger*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/article\/20100219\/NEWS\/302199983\/0\/SEARCH) on March 4, 2016.\n10. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-11)**\n    Alspach, Kyle (March 8, 2008). [\"Raynham native plays Nazi soldier executed in Nolan film\"](http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/archive\/x1473821996). *[The Patriot Ledger](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Patriot_Ledger \"The Patriot Ledger\")*. 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[\"Hollywood, Scorsese sets sights on Borderland State Park\"](https:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/article\/20080501\/NEWS\/305019926). *The Patriot Ledger*. Quincy, MA. Retrieved February 19, 2021.\n13. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-14)**\n    Riglian, Adam (April 14, 2008). [\"DiCaprio, Nolan filming on Peddocks Island\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081027110254\/http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/entertainment\/x707004175). *[The Patriot Ledger](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Patriot_Ledger \"The Patriot Ledger\")*. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/entertainment\/x707004175) on October 27, 2008. Retrieved May 21, 2008.\n14. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-15)**\n    [\"Shutter Island 2010\"](https:\/\/www.movie-locations.com\/movies\/s\/Shutter-Island.php). The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations. 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[\"'Shutter Island' Soundtrack Scares Up Brian Eno, Max Richter, Krzysztof Penderecki, Györgi Ligeti & More\"](https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/shutter-island-soundtrack-scares-up-20100205\/). *The Playlist*. Retrieved March 5, 2026.\n19. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-20)**\n    Murray, Noel (October 4, 2018). [\"The 40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200813000835\/https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/best-movie-soundtracks-ranked.html). Archived from [the original](https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/best-movie-soundtracks-ranked.html) on August 13, 2020.\n20. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-21)**\n    Saba, Michael (February 19, 2010). [\"Shutter Island Review\"](https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/shutter-island-review.html). *[Paste Magazine](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paste_\$magazine\$ \"Paste (magazine)\")*. 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Retrieved October 13, 2010. \"'The key film I showed Leo and Mark,' Scorsese says, 'was Laura—Dana Andrews, the way he wears his tie, and the way he walks through a room, and he doesn't even look at anybody; he's always playing that little game. He's just trying to get the facts.' But the films, he adds, that he had 'really tied up tight' in mood and tone were the lower-than-low-budget schlockers made in the 1940s by Val Lewton when he was the head of the 'horror department' at [RKO Pictures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RKO_Pictures \"RKO Pictures\")—[Cat People](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cat_People_\$1942_film\$ \"Cat People (1942 film)\"), [Isle of the Dead](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isle_of_the_Dead_\$film\$ \"Isle of the Dead (film)\"), [The Seventh Victim](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Seventh_Victim \"The Seventh Victim\") and [I Walked with a Zombie](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie \"I Walked with a Zombie\").\"\n22. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-RottenTomatoes_23-0)**\n    Daniels, Derek (December 1, 2010). [\"The Ninth Configuration (Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane)\"](https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/ninth_configuration). *[Rotten Tomatoes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotten_Tomatoes \"Rotten Tomatoes\")*. [Flixster](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flixster \"Flixster\"). [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171206144106\/https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/ninth_configuration\/) from the original on December 6, 2017. 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Retrieved September 8, 2011. \"A better version of this basic story was done 29 years ago by William Peter Blatty: The Ninth Configuration.\"\n24. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-book_25-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shutter_Island_\$film\$#cite_ref-book_25-1)\n    Packer, Sharon (September 5, 2012). [*Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists: from Caligari to Hannibal*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5cD43szvc-QC). New York, NY: McFarland. p. 197. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [9780786463909](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/9780786463909 \"Special:BookSources\/9780786463909\")\n    \n    . [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161117155831\/https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5cD43szvc-QC) from the original on November 17, 2016. 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Boilerpipe Text	Shutter Island Theatrical release poster Directed by Martin Scorsese Screenplay by Laeta Kalogridis Based on Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Produced by Mike Medavoy Arnold W. Messer Bradley J. Fischer Martin Scorsese Starring Leonardo DiCaprio Mark Ruffalo Ben Kingsley Michelle Williams Emily Mortimer Patricia Clarkson Max von Sydow Cinematography Robert Richardson Edited by Thelma Schoonmaker Production companies Paramount Pictures [ 1 ] Phoenix Pictures Sikelia Productions Appian Way Productions Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release dates February 13, 2010 ( Berlinale ) February 19, 2010 (United States) Running time 139 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $80 million [ 2 ] Box office $294.8 million [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Shutter Island is a 2010 American neo-noir psychological thriller film [ 5 ] directed by Martin Scorsese . The screenplay was adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane . It follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his partner Chuck, who come to the fictional Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to investigate its criminal psychiatric facility after one of its patients goes missing; Daniels has his own ulterior motives for taking the case. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo , with Ben Kingsley , Max von Sydow and Michelle Williams in supporting roles. Development began when Phoenix Pictures acquired the film rights to the novel directly from Lehane after Columbia Pictures had allowed their rights to lapse in 2003. Phoenix hired Laeta Kalogridis to work on a screenplay for a year, and in 2007, announced that both Scorsese and DiCaprio had joined the project. Production began on March 6, 2008, at various locations in Massachusetts ; filming ended on July 2, 2008. Partnering with Paramount Pictures , the film had its wide release on February 19, 2010, and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2010 , and grossed $295 million worldwide. The film is also noted for its soundtrack, which prominently used classical music by composers such as Gustav Mahler , Krzysztof Penderecki , György Ligeti , John Cage , Ingram Marshall and Max Richter . In 2025, the film was voted for the "Readers' Choice" edition of The New York Times ' list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century", finishing at number 169. [ 6 ] Plot In 1954, U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island in Boston Harbor . The purpose of their visit is to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient of the hospital who had killed her three children by drowning. The staff, led by psychiatrist Dr. John Cawley and his colleague Dr. Jerimiah Naehring, appears uncooperative. The marshals learn that Dr. Lester Sheehan, who was treating Solando, left the island on vacation immediately after Solando disappeared. Teddy experiences migraines , flashbacks of his time as a U.S. soldier in the liberation of Dachau , and vivid dreams of his wife Dolores, who was killed in a fire in their building set by pyromaniac Andrew Laeddis. Teddy tells Chuck he took this case to find Laeddis, whom he believes is a patient. Solando suddenly resurfaces, but believes Teddy is her husband. Teddy breaks into the restricted Ward C to find Laeddis, but meets patient George Noyce, who knows Teddy from his past. Noyce says the doctors experiment on patients and lobotomize them in the lighthouse. He warns Teddy that everyone will deceive him and not to trust his partner Chuck. Teddy and Chuck climb the cliffs toward the lighthouse, but are separated. Believing he saw Chuck's body on the rocks below, Teddy climbs down but finds only a cave where a woman claiming to be the real Rachel Solando is hiding. She reveals she is a former psychiatrist; after discovering clandestine experiments on mind control at the facility, she was silenced by being forcibly committed. She warns that Cawley and Naehring will use Teddy's war trauma to feign a psychotic break, allowing them to have him committed as well. Teddy returns to the hospital. When he asks about Chuck, Cawley insists that Teddy arrived at Shutter Island alone. Convinced Chuck has been taken to the lighthouse, Teddy is intercepted by Naehring, who attempts to sedate him. Teddy overpowers him and breaks into the lighthouse to discover Cawley waiting for him. Cawley tells him that Rachel Solando never existed. He adds that Teddy has not been drugged but is experiencing withdrawal from chlorpromazine , a neuroleptic medication Teddy has been taking for the past two years. Chuck arrives and reveals he is actually Dr. Sheehan. "Teddy" is really Andrew Laeddis, a former U.S. Marshal. Laeddis was incarcerated at Ashecliffe for killing his manic depressive wife Dolores Chanal after she killed their three children by drowning. Andrew had failed to seek treatment for Dolores after she burned down their apartment; instead, he moved his family to the lakehouse, which is where Dolores carried out the killings. As a result of his guilt, Andrew became delusional and created the alternate persona of Edward Daniels. [ a ] The "investigation" of Rachel Solando was an elaborate roleplay, supported by hospital staff, to help Andrew play out his delusion so he might break out of it and return to reality. Overwhelmed, Andrew faints. Awakening, Andrew recounts the truth, satisfying the doctors that he is lucid. Cawley notes they had achieved this state nine months ago, but Andrew had quickly regressed. He warns this will be Andrew's last chance; if he lapses into his delusion again, he will be lobotomized due to his violent conduct toward the guards and other patients, such as Noyce. Some time later, Andrew relaxes on the hospital grounds with Sheehan. Appearing delusional, he refers to Sheehan as "Chuck" and says they must leave the island. Sheehan signals to a watching Cawley, who orders that Andrew be lobotomized. Andrew asks Sheehan if it would be worse "to live as a monster or to die as a good man". A stunned Sheehan calls Andrew "Teddy", but the latter does not respond and leaves peacefully with the orderlies for his operation. Cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Edward "Teddy" Daniels, a former U.S. Marshal who investigates the Shutter Island insane asylum Mark Ruffalo as Chuck Aule, Teddy's Marshal partner Ben Kingsley as Dr. John Cawley, a senior psychiatrist at Shutter Island Max von Sydow as Dr. Naehring, a colleague of Cawley Michelle Williams as Dolores Chanal, Teddy's wife Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson as Rachel Solando Jackie Earle Haley as George Noyce, a patient in Ward C Ted Levine as Warden John Carroll Lynch as Deputy Warden McPherson Joseph Sikora as Glen Miga Elias Koteas as Laeddis Robin Bartlett as Bridget Kearns Christopher Denham as Peter Breene Curtiss Cook as Trey Washington Production Development The rights to Dennis Lehane 's novel Shutter Island were first optioned to Columbia Pictures in 2003. Columbia did not act on the option, and it lapsed back to Lehane, who sold it to Phoenix Pictures . Phoenix hired Laeta Kalogridis , and together, they developed the film for a year. Director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio were both attracted to the project. [ 7 ] Production began on March 6, 2008. [ 8 ] Lehane's inspiration for the hospital and island setting was Long Island in Boston Harbor , which he had visited as a child with his uncle and family during the blizzard of 1978 . [ 9 ] Filming Shutter Island was mainly filmed in Massachusetts , with Taunton being the location for the World War II flashback scenes. [ 10 ] Old industrial buildings in Taunton's Whittenton Mills Complex replicated the Dachau concentration camp . [ 11 ] The old Medfield State Hospital in Medfield , Massachusetts, was another key location. Cawley's office scenes were the second floor of the chapel during the late evening. Lights were shone through the windows to make it appear to be daytime. The crew painted the hospital's brick walls to look like plywood. This served the dual purpose of acting as scenery and blocking the set from view of a local road. The crew wanted to film at the old Worcester State Hospital , but demolition of surrounding buildings made it impossible. The stone lodge next to Leach Pond at Borderland State Park in Easton , Massachusetts, was used for the cabin scene. [ 12 ] The film used Peddocks Island as a setting for the story's island. East Point , in Nahant , Massachusetts, was the location for the lighthouse scenes. [ 13 ] The scenes in which Teddy and Chuck are caught in the hurricane were filmed at the Wilson Mountain Reservation in Dedham , Massachusetts. [ 14 ] Filming ended on July 2, 2008. [ 15 ] Music Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack album by various artists Released February 2, 2010 Genre Film soundtrack Length 116 : 41 Label Rhino Records Producer Robbie Robertson John Powell The film does not have an original score. Instead, Scorsese's longtime collaborator Robbie Robertson created an ensemble of previously recorded material to use in the film. Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture was released on February 2, 2010, by Rhino Records . According to a statement on Paramount's website: "The collection of modern classical music [on the soundtrack album] was hand-selected by Robertson, who is proud of its scope and sound. 'This may be the most outrageous and beautiful soundtrack I've ever heard.' [Robertson stated]". [ 16 ] Los Angeles Times ' classical music reviewer Mark Swed noted that "Robertson went through a lot of trouble to make things work as well". [ 17 ] He argues that while other reviewers have called the music "melodramatic", "nothing could be further from the truth". [ 17 ] Another reviewer noted that "Scorsese has abandoned his oft-used classic rock soundtrack habits and, almost positively taking a queue from Stanley Kubrick's soundtracks, adopted a selection mostly of various modern classical pieces", [ 18 ] and that "this set of pieces certainly suggests a different mood rather than a conventional score". [ 18 ] Pop culture critic Noel Murray lists the album at #24 in Vulture 's 2018 "40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time", saying, "Besides drawing attention to the modern geniuses of a wholly different genre, the unfamiliar, almost alien sounds of the Shutter Island soundtrack reinforce the movie's tale of hallucinatory madness". [ 19 ] A full track listing of the album is below. All the musical works are featured in the final film. [ 18 ] Disc 1 "Fog Tropes" ( Ingram Marshall ) – Orchestra of St. Lukes & John Adams " Symphony No. 3: Passacaglia – Allegro Moderato" ( Krzysztof Penderecki ) – National Polish Radio Symphony & Antoni Wit " Music for Marcel Duchamp " ( John Cage ) – Philipp Vandré "Hommage à John Cage " – Nam June Paik "Lontano" ( György Ligeti ) – Wiener Philharmoniker & Claudio Abbado "Rothko Chapel 2" ( Morton Feldman ) – UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus " Cry " – Johnnie Ray " On the Nature of Daylight " – Max Richter " Uaxuctum : The Legend of the Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed for Religious Reasons – 3rd Movement" ( Giacinto Scelsi ) – Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra " Quartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor " ( Gustav Mahler ) – Prazak Quartet Disc 2 " Christian Zeal and Activity " (John Adams) – The San Francisco Symphony & Edo de Waart "Suite for Symphonic Strings: Nocturne" ( Lou Harrison ) – The New Professionals Orchestra & Rebecca Miller " Lizard Point " – Brian Eno "Four Hymns: II for Cello and Double Bass" ( Alfred Schnittke ) – Torleif Thedéen & Entcho Radoukanov " Root of an Unfocus " (John Cage) – Boris Berman "Prelude – The Bay" – Ingram Marshall " Wheel of Fortune " – Kay Starr " Tomorrow Night " – Lonnie Johnson " This Bitter Earth "/"On the Nature of Daylight" – Dinah Washington & Max Richter; arrangement by Robbie Robertson Genre Shutter Island is a period piece with nods to different films in the film noir and horror genres, paying particular homage to Alfred Hitchcock 's works. [ 20 ] Scorsese stated in an interview that the main reference to Teddy Daniels was Dana Andrews 's character in Laura , and he was also influenced by several very low-budget 1940s zombie movies by Val Lewton . [ 21 ] The main plot resembles William Peter Blatty 's The Ninth Configuration , [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] as well as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari . [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] La Croix noted Shutter Island was a "complex and puzzling" work that borrowed from genres as diverse as detective, fantasy, and the psychological thriller. [ 27 ] There have been differing opinions of the film's ending of the film, in which Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan "which would be worse—to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?", a line that does not appear in the book. Professor James Gilligan of New York University was Scorsese's psychiatric adviser, and he said that Laeddis's last words mean: "I feel too guilty to go on living. I'm not going to actually commit suicide, but I'm going to vicariously commit suicide by handing myself over to these people who're going to lobotomize me." [ 28 ] Dennis Lehane, however, said, "Personally, I think he has a momentary flash.... It's just one moment of sanity mixed in the midst of all the other delusions." [ 28 ] Release Director Martin Scorsese at the film's premiere at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival The film was originally scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009. [ 29 ] Paramount announced it was pushing back the release date to February 19, 2010. [ 30 ] Reports attribute the pushback to Paramount not having "the financing in 2009 to spend the $50 to $60 million necessary to market a big awards pic like this", to DiCaprio's unavailability to promote the film internationally, and to Paramount's hope the economy might rebound enough by February 2010 that a film geared toward adult audiences would be more viable financially. [ 31 ] The film premiered at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival as part of the competition screening on February 13, 2010. [ 32 ] Spanish distributor Manga Films distributed the film in Spain after winning a bidding war that reportedly reached the $6 million to $8 million range. [ 33 ] Reception Critical response Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 69% based on 263 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "It may not rank with Scorsese's best work, but Shutter Island ' s gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained." [ 34 ] On Metacritic , the film received a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [ 35 ] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average "C+" grade on a scale of A+ to F. [ 36 ] Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer gave the film four stars out of four, claiming, "After four decades, Martin Scorsese has earned the right to deliver a simple treatment of a simple theme with flair". [ 37 ] Writing for The Wall Street Journal , John Anderson highly praised the film, suggesting it "requires multiple viewings to be fully realized as a work of art. Its process is more important than its story, its structure more important than the almost perfunctory plot twists it perpetrates. It's a thriller, a crime story and a tortured psychological parable about collective guilt." [ 38 ] Awarding the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "The movie is about: atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy's confidence and even his identity. It's all done with flawless directorial command. Scorsese has fear to evoke, and he does it with many notes." [ 39 ] The Orlando Sentinel ' s Roger Moore, who gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, wrote, "It's not bad, but as Scorsese, America's greatest living filmmaker and film history buff should know, even Hitchcock came up short on occasion. See for yourself." [ 40 ] Dana Stevens of Slate described the film "an aesthetically and at times intellectually exciting puzzle, but it's never emotionally involving". [ 41 ] The Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday negatively described the film as being "weird". [ 42 ] A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote, "Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself." [ 43 ] In 2025, it was on the "Readers' Choice" edition of The New York Times ' list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century", finishing at number 169. [ 44 ] Keith Uhlich of Time Out (New York) named Shutter Island the fifth-best film of 2010. [ 45 ] Box office Shutter Island was released with The Ghost Writer , and, earning $41 million, finished first at the box office and gave Scorsese his highest-grossing box office opening to date. [ 46 ] The film remained at #1 in its second weekend, with $22.2 million. [ 47 ] Eventually, it grossed worldwide $294,805,697 [ 3 ] and became Scorsese's second highest-grossing film worldwide. [ 48 ] It is Scorsese's fifth movie to debut at the box office at #1, following Taxi Driver , Goodfellas , Cape Fear and The Departed . Home media Shutter Island was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 8, 2010, in the US, [ 49 ] and on August 2, 2010, in the UK. [ 50 ] The UK release features two editions: a standard edition and a limited steel-case edition. [ 51 ] For the tenth anniversary of the film's release, Paramount Pictures released a 4K steelbook and Blu-ray version on February 11, 2020. [ 52 ] A Shutter Island video game was released for PC in 2010. [ 53 ] A Nintendo DS version was canceled. [ 54 ] In August 2014, Paramount Television and HBO were reported to be developing a prequel TV series, Ashecliffe . [ 55 ] Notes ^ "Edward Daniels" is an anagram of Andrew Laeddis, and "Rachel Solando" is an anagram of his dead wife's name, Dolores Chanal. References ^ "AFI Catalog - Shutter Island" . American Film Institute . Retrieved January 1, 2025 . ^ "Films \| Shutter Island" . DarkHorizons.com . Archived from the original on November 29, 2015 . Retrieved February 18, 2010 . ^ a b "Shutter Island (2010)" . 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"Martin Scorsese interview for Shutter Island" . The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on November 10, 2019 . Retrieved October 13, 2010 . 'The key film I showed Leo and Mark,' Scorsese says, 'was Laura—Dana Andrews, the way he wears his tie, and the way he walks through a room, and he doesn't even look at anybody; he's always playing that little game. He's just trying to get the facts.' But the films, he adds, that he had 'really tied up tight' in mood and tone were the lower-than-low-budget schlockers made in the 1940s by Val Lewton when he was the head of the 'horror department' at RKO Pictures — Cat People , Isle of the Dead , The Seventh Victim and I Walked with a Zombie . ^ Daniels, Derek (December 1, 2010). "The Ninth Configuration (Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane)" . Rotten Tomatoes . Flixster . Archived from the original on December 6, 2017 . 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[বাংলা](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1_$%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0$ "শাটার আইল্যান্ড (চলচ্চিত্র) – Bangla") - [Català](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island – Catalan") - [Čeština](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proklet%C3%BD_ostrov_$film$ "Prokletý ostrov (film) – Czech") - [Cymraeg](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island – Welsh") - [Dansk](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island – Danish") - [Deutsch](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$Film$ "Shutter Island (Film) – German") - [Ελληνικά](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%BF_%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%AF_%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD_$%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1$ "Το νησί των καταραμένων (ταινία) – Greek") - [Esperanto](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island – Esperanto") - [Español](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$pel%C3%ADcula$ "Shutter Island (película) – Spanish") - [Euskara](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$filma$ "Shutter Island (filma) – Basque") - [فارسی](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1_$%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85$ "جزیره شاتر (فیلم) – Persian") - [Suomi](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suljettu_saari "Suljettu saari – Finnish") - [Français](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$ "Shutter Island (film) – French") - [Galego](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island – Galician") - [Hausa](https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$fim$ "Shutter Island (fim) – Hausa") - [עברית](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%93 "שאטר איילנד – Hebrew") - [हिन्दी](https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1 "शटर आइलैंड – Hindi") - [Hrvatski](https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otok_Shutter_$2010.$ "Otok Shutter (2010.) – Croatian") - [Kreyòl ayisyen](https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$fim$ "Shutter Island (fim) – Haitian Creole") - [Magyar](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viharsziget_$film$ "Viharsziget (film) – Hungarian") - [Հայերեն](https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%AE%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%AE%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%AF%D5%B2%D5%A6%D5%AB "Անիծվածների կղզի – Armenian") - [Bahasa Indonesia](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$ "Shutter Island (film) – Indonesian") - [Íslenska](https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fangaeyjan "Fangaeyjan – Icelandic") - [Italiano](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island – Italian") - [日本語](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC_%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89 "シャッターアイランド – Japanese") - [Jawa](https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$filem$ "Shutter Island (filem) – Javanese") - [ქართული](https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AC%E1%83%A7%E1%83%94%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%97%E1%83%90_%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AB%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_$%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98$ "წყეულთა კუნძული (ფილმი) – Georgian") - 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[Bahasa Melayu](https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$filem$ "Shutter Island (filem) – Malay") - [Nederlands](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island – Dutch") - [Norsk bokmål](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$ "Shutter Island (film) – Norwegian Bokmål") - [Polski](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyspa_tajemnic_$film$ "Wyspa tajemnic (film) – Polish") - [Português](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island – Portuguese") - [Română](https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insula_Shutter_$film$ "Insula Shutter (film) – Romanian") - [Русский](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%85_$%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC$ "Остров проклятых (фильм) – Russian") - [Simple English](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$movie$ "Shutter Island (movie) – Simple English") - [Shqip](https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$ "Shutter Island (film) – Albanian") - 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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2010 film by Martin Scorsese \| Shutter Island \| \| \|---\|---\| \| [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Shutterislandposter.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shutterislandposter.jpg)Theatrical release poster \| \| \| Directed by \| [Martin Scorsese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese "Martin Scorsese") \| \| Screenplay by \| [Laeta Kalogridis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laeta_Kalogridis "Laeta Kalogridis") \| \| Based on \| [Shutter Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island") by [Dennis Lehane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane "Dennis Lehane") \| \| Produced by \| [Mike Medavoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Medavoy "Mike Medavoy") Arnold W. Messer [Bradley J. Fischer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_J._Fischer_$producer$ "Bradley J. Fischer (producer)") Martin Scorsese \| \| Starring \| [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio "Leonardo DiCaprio") [Mark Ruffalo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo "Mark Ruffalo") [Ben Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Kingsley "Ben Kingsley") [Michelle Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Williams_$actress$ "Michelle Williams (actress)") [Emily Mortimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Mortimer "Emily Mortimer") [Patricia Clarkson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Clarkson "Patricia Clarkson") [Max von Sydow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Sydow "Max von Sydow") \| \| Cinematography \| [Robert Richardson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Richardson_$cinematographer$ "Robert Richardson (cinematographer)") \| \| Edited by \| [Thelma Schoonmaker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Schoonmaker "Thelma Schoonmaker") \| \| Production companies \| [Paramount Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures "Paramount Pictures")[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-1) [Phoenix Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Pictures "Phoenix Pictures") [Sikelia Productions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikelia_Productions "Sikelia Productions") [Appian Way Productions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way_Productions "Appian Way Productions") \| \| Distributed by \| Paramount Pictures \| \| Release dates \| February 13, 2010 (2010-02-13) ([Berlinale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival "60th Berlin International Film Festival")) February 19, 2010 (2010-02-19) (United States) \| \| Running time \| 139 minutes \| \| Country \| United States \| \| Language \| English \| \| Budget \| \$80 million[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-2) \| \| Box office \| \$294.8 million[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-BoxOfficeMojo-3)[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-4) \| *Shutter Island* is a 2010 American [neo-noir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-noir "Neo-noir") [psychological thriller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_thriller "Psychological thriller") film[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-5) directed by [Martin Scorsese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese "Martin Scorsese"). The screenplay was adapted by [Laeta Kalogridis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laeta_Kalogridis "Laeta Kalogridis") from [the 2003 novel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island") by [Dennis Lehane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane "Dennis Lehane"). It follows Deputy [U.S. Marshal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service "United States Marshals Service") Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his partner Chuck, who come to the fictional Shutter Island in [Boston Harbor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Harbor "Boston Harbor") to investigate its criminal psychiatric facility after one of its patients goes missing; Daniels has his own ulterior motives for taking the case. The film stars [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio "Leonardo DiCaprio") and [Mark Ruffalo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo "Mark Ruffalo"), with [Ben Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Kingsley "Ben Kingsley"), [Max von Sydow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Sydow "Max von Sydow") and [Michelle Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Williams_$actress$ "Michelle Williams (actress)") in supporting roles. Development began when [Phoenix Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Pictures "Phoenix Pictures") acquired the film rights to the novel directly from Lehane after [Columbia Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures "Columbia Pictures") had allowed their rights to lapse in 2003. Phoenix hired [Laeta Kalogridis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laeta_Kalogridis "Laeta Kalogridis") to work on a screenplay for a year, and in 2007, announced that both Scorsese and DiCaprio had joined the project. Production began on March 6, 2008, at various locations in [Massachusetts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts "Massachusetts"); filming ended on July 2, 2008. Partnering with [Paramount Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures "Paramount Pictures"), the film had its wide release on February 19, 2010, and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was chosen by the [National Board of Review](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Board_of_Review "National Board of Review") as one of the [top ten films of 2010](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Board_of_Review_Awards_2010#Top_10_Films "National Board of Review Awards 2010"), and grossed \$295 million worldwide. The film is also noted for its soundtrack, which prominently used classical music by composers such as [Gustav Mahler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler "Gustav Mahler"), [Krzysztof Penderecki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki "Krzysztof Penderecki"), [György Ligeti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti "György Ligeti"), [John Cage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage "John Cage"), [Ingram Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingram_Marshall "Ingram Marshall") and [Max Richter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Richter "Max Richter"). In 2025, the film was voted for the "Readers' Choice" edition of [The New York Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times "The New York Times")' list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century", finishing at number 169.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-nytimes.com-6) ## Plot In 1954, [U.S. Marshal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service "United States Marshals Service") Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the [criminally insane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity_defense "Insanity defense") on Shutter Island in [Boston Harbor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Harbor "Boston Harbor"). The purpose of their visit is to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient of the hospital who had killed her three children by drowning. The staff, led by psychiatrist Dr. John Cawley and his colleague Dr. Jerimiah Naehring, appears uncooperative. The marshals learn that Dr. Lester Sheehan, who was treating Solando, left the island on vacation immediately after Solando disappeared. Teddy experiences [migraines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migraine "Migraine"), flashbacks of his time as a U.S. soldier in the [liberation of Dachau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp#Liberation "Dachau concentration camp"), and vivid dreams of his wife Dolores, who was killed in a fire in their building set by [pyromaniac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyromaniac "Pyromaniac") Andrew Laeddis. Teddy tells Chuck he took this case to find Laeddis, whom he believes is a patient. Solando suddenly resurfaces, but believes Teddy is her husband. Teddy breaks into the restricted Ward C to find Laeddis, but meets patient George Noyce, who knows Teddy from his past. Noyce says the doctors experiment on patients and [lobotomize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy "Lobotomy") them in the lighthouse. He warns Teddy that everyone will deceive him and not to trust his partner Chuck. Teddy and Chuck climb the cliffs toward the lighthouse, but are separated. Believing he saw Chuck's body on the rocks below, Teddy climbs down but finds only a cave where a woman claiming to be the real Rachel Solando is hiding. She reveals she is a former psychiatrist; after discovering clandestine experiments on [mind control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing "Brainwashing") at the facility, she was silenced by being forcibly committed. She warns that Cawley and Naehring will use Teddy's war trauma to feign a psychotic break, allowing them to have him committed as well. Teddy returns to the hospital. When he asks about Chuck, Cawley insists that Teddy arrived at Shutter Island alone. Convinced Chuck has been taken to the lighthouse, Teddy is intercepted by Naehring, who attempts to sedate him. Teddy overpowers him and breaks into the lighthouse to discover Cawley waiting for him. Cawley tells him that Rachel Solando never existed. He adds that Teddy has not been drugged but is experiencing withdrawal from [chlorpromazine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine "Chlorpromazine"), a [neuroleptic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic "Neuroleptic") medication Teddy has been taking for the past two years. Chuck arrives and reveals he is actually Dr. Sheehan. "Teddy" is really Andrew Laeddis, a former U.S. Marshal. Laeddis was incarcerated at Ashecliffe for killing his [manic depressive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder "Bipolar disorder") wife Dolores Chanal after she killed their three children by drowning. Andrew had failed to seek treatment for Dolores after she burned down their apartment; instead, he moved his family to the lakehouse, which is where Dolores carried out the killings. As a result of his guilt, Andrew became delusional and created the alternate persona of Edward Daniels.[\[a\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-7) The "investigation" of Rachel Solando was an elaborate roleplay, supported by hospital staff, to help Andrew play out his delusion so he might break out of it and return to reality. Overwhelmed, Andrew faints. Awakening, Andrew recounts the truth, satisfying the doctors that he is lucid. Cawley notes they had achieved this state nine months ago, but Andrew had quickly regressed. He warns this will be Andrew's last chance; if he lapses into his delusion again, he will be lobotomized due to his violent conduct toward the guards and other patients, such as Noyce. Some time later, Andrew relaxes on the hospital grounds with Sheehan. Appearing delusional, he refers to Sheehan as "Chuck" and says they must leave the island. Sheehan signals to a watching Cawley, who orders that Andrew be lobotomized. Andrew asks Sheehan if it would be worse "to live as a monster or to die as a good man". A stunned Sheehan calls Andrew "Teddy", but the latter does not respond and leaves peacefully with the orderlies for his operation. ## Cast [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg/120px-Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Mark_Ruffalo_%2836201774756%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Mark_Ruffalo_%2836201774756%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Ruffalo_$36201774756$_$cropped$.jpg) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Michelle_Williams_%28Berlinale_2010%29.jpg/120px-Michelle_Williams_%28Berlinale_2010%29.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelle_Williams_$Berlinale_2010$.jpg) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/120px-Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg) (Clockwise) Shutter Island stars [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio "Leonardo DiCaprio"), [Mark Ruffalo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo "Mark Ruffalo"), [Ben Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Kingsley "Ben Kingsley"), and [Michelle Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Williams_$actress$ "Michelle Williams (actress)") - [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio "Leonardo DiCaprio") as Edward "Teddy" Daniels, a former [U.S. Marshal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Marshal "U.S. Marshal") who investigates the Shutter Island [insane asylum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_asylum "Insane asylum") - [Mark Ruffalo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo "Mark Ruffalo") as Chuck Aule, Teddy's Marshal partner - [Ben Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Kingsley "Ben Kingsley") as Dr. John Cawley, a senior psychiatrist at Shutter Island - [Max von Sydow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Sydow "Max von Sydow") as Dr. Naehring, a colleague of Cawley - [Michelle Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Williams_$actress$ "Michelle Williams (actress)") as Dolores Chanal, Teddy's wife - [Emily Mortimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Mortimer "Emily Mortimer") and [Patricia Clarkson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Clarkson "Patricia Clarkson") as Rachel Solando - [Jackie Earle Haley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Earle_Haley "Jackie Earle Haley") as George Noyce, a patient in Ward C - [Ted Levine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Levine "Ted Levine") as Warden - [John Carroll Lynch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carroll_Lynch "John Carroll Lynch") as Deputy Warden McPherson - [Joseph Sikora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sikora "Joseph Sikora") as Glen Miga - [Elias Koteas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Koteas "Elias Koteas") as Laeddis - [Robin Bartlett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Bartlett "Robin Bartlett") as Bridget Kearns - [Christopher Denham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Denham "Christopher Denham") as Peter Breene - [Curtiss Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_Cook "Curtiss Cook") as Trey Washington ## Production ### Development The rights to [Dennis Lehane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane "Dennis Lehane")'s novel [Shutter Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island") were first optioned to [Columbia Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures "Columbia Pictures") in 2003. Columbia did not act on the option, and it lapsed back to Lehane, who sold it to [Phoenix Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Pictures "Phoenix Pictures"). Phoenix hired [Laeta Kalogridis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laeta_Kalogridis "Laeta Kalogridis"), and together, they developed the film for a year. Director [Martin Scorsese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese "Martin Scorsese") and actor [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio "Leonardo DiCaprio") were both attracted to the project.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Team-8) Production began on March 6, 2008.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Trio-9) Lehane's inspiration for the hospital and island setting was [Long Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_$Massachusetts$ "Long Island (Massachusetts)") in [Boston Harbor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Harbor "Boston Harbor"), which he had visited as a child with his uncle and family during the [blizzard of 1978](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States_blizzard_of_1978 "Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978").[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-PATRIOTLEDGER02192010-10) ### Filming Shutter Island was mainly filmed in [Massachusetts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts "Massachusetts"), with [Taunton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton,_Massachusetts "Taunton, Massachusetts") being the location for the World War II flashback scenes.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-11) Old industrial buildings in Taunton's [Whittenton Mills Complex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittenton_Mills_Complex "Whittenton Mills Complex") replicated the [Dachau concentration camp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp "Dachau concentration camp").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-12) The old [Medfield State Hospital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medfield_State_Hospital "Medfield State Hospital") in [Medfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medfield,_Massachusetts "Medfield, Massachusetts"), Massachusetts, was another key location. Cawley's office scenes were the second floor of the chapel during the late evening. Lights were shone through the windows to make it appear to be daytime. The crew painted the hospital's brick walls to look like plywood. This served the dual purpose of acting as scenery and blocking the set from view of a local road. The crew wanted to film at the old [Worcester State Hospital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_State_Hospital "Worcester State Hospital"), but demolition of surrounding buildings made it impossible. The stone lodge next to Leach Pond at [Borderland State Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderland_State_Park "Borderland State Park") in [Easton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easton,_Massachusetts "Easton, Massachusetts"), Massachusetts, was used for the cabin scene.[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-13) The film used [Peddocks Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peddocks_Island "Peddocks Island") as a setting for the story's island. [East Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Point_Military_Reservation "East Point Military Reservation"), in [Nahant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahant,_Massachusetts "Nahant, Massachusetts"), Massachusetts, was the location for the lighthouse scenes.[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-14) The scenes in which Teddy and Chuck are caught in the hurricane were filmed at the [Wilson Mountain Reservation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Mountain_Reservation "Wilson Mountain Reservation") in [Dedham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedham,_Massachusetts "Dedham, Massachusetts"), Massachusetts.[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-15) Filming ended on July 2, 2008.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-16) ## Music \| Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture \| \| \|---\|---\| \| [Soundtrack album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack_album "Soundtrack album") by various artists \| \| \| Released \| February 2, 2010 \| \| [Genre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre "Music genre") \| [Film soundtrack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_soundtrack "Film soundtrack") \| \| Length \| 116:41 \| \| [Label](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label "Record label") \| [Rhino Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_Records "Rhino Records") \| \| [Producer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer "Record producer") \| [Robbie Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson "Robbie Robertson") [John Powell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Powell_$composer$ "John Powell (composer)") \| The film does not have an original score. Instead, Scorsese's longtime collaborator [Robbie Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson "Robbie Robertson") created an ensemble of previously recorded material to use in the film. Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture was released on February 2, 2010, by [Rhino Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_Records "Rhino Records"). According to a statement on Paramount's website: "The collection of [modern classical music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_classical_music "Modern classical music") \[on the soundtrack album\] was hand-selected by Robertson, who is proud of its scope and sound. 'This may be the most outrageous and beautiful soundtrack I've ever heard.' \[Robertson stated\]".[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-17) [Los Angeles Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times "Los Angeles Times")' classical music reviewer [Mark Swed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Swed "Mark Swed") noted that "Robertson went through a lot of trouble to make things work as well".[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Swed-18) He argues that while other reviewers have called the music "melodramatic", "nothing could be further from the truth".[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Swed-18) Another reviewer noted that "Scorsese has abandoned his oft-used classic rock soundtrack habits and, almost positively taking a queue from Stanley Kubrick's soundtracks, adopted a selection mostly of various modern classical pieces",[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19) and that "this set of pieces certainly suggests a different mood rather than a conventional score".[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19) Pop culture critic Noel Murray lists the album at \#24 in [Vulture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_$website$ "Vulture (website)")'s 2018 "40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time", saying, "Besides drawing attention to the modern geniuses of a wholly different genre, the unfamiliar, almost alien sounds of the Shutter Island soundtrack reinforce the movie's tale of hallucinatory madness".[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-20) A full track listing of the album is below. All the musical works are featured in the final film.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19) Disc 1 1. "Fog Tropes" ([Ingram Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingram_Marshall "Ingram Marshall")) – Orchestra of St. Lukes & [John Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_$composer$ "John Adams (composer)") 2. "[Symphony No. 3: Passacaglia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_$Penderecki$ "Symphony No. 3 (Penderecki)") – Allegro Moderato" ([Krzysztof Penderecki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki "Krzysztof Penderecki")) – National Polish Radio Symphony & [Antoni Wit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Wit "Antoni Wit") 3. "[Music for Marcel Duchamp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Marcel_Duchamp "Music for Marcel Duchamp")" ([John Cage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage "John Cage")) – Philipp Vandré 4. "Hommage à [John Cage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage "John Cage")" – [Nam June Paik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_June_Paik "Nam June Paik") 5. "Lontano" ([György Ligeti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti "György Ligeti")) – Wiener Philharmoniker & [Claudio Abbado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Abbado "Claudio Abbado") 6. "Rothko Chapel 2" ([Morton Feldman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Feldman "Morton Feldman")) – UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus 7. "[Cry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_$Johnnie_Ray_song$ "Cry (Johnnie Ray song)")" – [Johnnie Ray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Ray "Johnnie Ray") 8. "[On the Nature of Daylight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Nature_of_Daylight "On the Nature of Daylight")" – [Max Richter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Richter "Max Richter") 9. "[Uaxuctum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uaxactun "Uaxactun"): The Legend of the Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed for Religious Reasons – 3rd Movement" ([Giacinto Scelsi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacinto_Scelsi "Giacinto Scelsi")) – [Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Radio_Symphony_Orchestra "Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra") 10. "[Quartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Quartet_$Mahler$ "Piano Quartet (Mahler)")" ([Gustav Mahler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler "Gustav Mahler")) – Prazak Quartet Disc 2 1. "[Christian Zeal and Activity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zeal_and_Activity "Christian Zeal and Activity")" (John Adams) – The San Francisco Symphony & [Edo de Waart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_de_Waart "Edo de Waart") 2. "Suite for Symphonic Strings: Nocturne" ([Lou Harrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Harrison "Lou Harrison")) – The New Professionals Orchestra & Rebecca Miller 3. "[Lizard Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Point_$composition$ "Lizard Point (composition)")" – [Brian Eno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno "Brian Eno") 4. "Four Hymns: II for Cello and Double Bass" ([Alfred Schnittke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke "Alfred Schnittke")) – Torleif Thedéen & Entcho Radoukanov 5. "[Root of an Unfocus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_of_an_Unfocus "Root of an Unfocus")" (John Cage) – [Boris Berman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berman_$musician$ "Boris Berman (musician)") 6. "Prelude – The Bay" – [Ingram Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingram_Marshall "Ingram Marshall") 7. "[Wheel of Fortune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_$1951_song$ "Wheel of Fortune (1951 song)")" – [Kay Starr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Starr "Kay Starr") 8. "[Tomorrow Night](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Night_$Coslow_and_Grosz_song$ "Tomorrow Night (Coslow and Grosz song)")" – [Lonnie Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Johnson_$musician$ "Lonnie Johnson (musician)") 9. "[This Bitter Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Bitter_Earth "This Bitter Earth")"/"On the Nature of Daylight" – [Dinah Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Washington "Dinah Washington") & Max Richter; arrangement by [Robbie Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson "Robbie Robertson") ## Genre Shutter Island is a [period piece](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_piece "Period piece") with nods to different films in the [film noir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir "Film noir") and [horror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film "Horror film") genres, paying particular homage to [Alfred Hitchcock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock "Alfred Hitchcock")'s works.[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-21) Scorsese stated in an interview that the main reference to Teddy Daniels was [Dana Andrews](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Andrews "Dana Andrews")'s character in [Laura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_$1944_film$ "Laura (1944 film)"), and he was also influenced by several very low-budget 1940s [zombie movies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_movies "Zombie movies") by [Val Lewton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton "Val Lewton").[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-22) The main plot resembles [William Peter Blatty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Peter_Blatty "William Peter Blatty")'s [The Ninth Configuration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninth_Configuration "The Ninth Configuration"),[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-RottenTomatoes-23)[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-LATimes-24)[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-book-25) as well as [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari").[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-book-25)[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-adaptation-26)[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-constructing-27) La Croix noted Shutter Island was a "complex and puzzling" work that borrowed from genres as diverse as detective, fantasy, and the psychological thriller.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Schwartz-28) There have been differing opinions of the film's ending of the film, in which Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan "which would be worse—to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?", a line that does not appear in the book. Professor [James Gilligan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gilligan "James Gilligan") of [New York University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University "New York University") was Scorsese's psychiatric adviser, and he said that Laeddis's last words mean: "I feel too guilty to go on living. I'm not going to actually commit suicide, but I'm going to vicariously commit suicide by handing myself over to these people who're going to lobotomize me."[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Cox-Guardian-29) Dennis Lehane, however, said, "Personally, I think he has a momentary flash.... It's just one moment of sanity mixed in the midst of all the other delusions."[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Cox-Guardian-29) ## Release [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg/250px-Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg) Director [Martin Scorsese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese "Martin Scorsese") at the film's premiere at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival The film was originally scheduled to be released by [Paramount Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures "Paramount Pictures") in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009.[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-30) Paramount announced it was pushing back the release date to February 19, 2010.[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-31) Reports attribute the pushback to Paramount not having "the financing in 2009 to spend the \$50 to \$60 million necessary to market a big awards pic like this", to DiCaprio's unavailability to promote the film internationally, and to Paramount's hope the economy might rebound enough by February 2010 that a film geared toward adult audiences would be more viable financially.[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-32) The film premiered at the [60th Berlin International Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival "60th Berlin International Film Festival") as part of the competition screening on February 13, 2010.[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-33) Spanish distributor Manga Films distributed the film in Spain after winning a bidding war that reportedly reached the \$6 million to \$8 million range.[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-34) ## Reception ### Critical response [Rotten Tomatoes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes "Rotten Tomatoes") gives the film an approval rating of 69% based on 263 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "It may not rank with Scorsese's best work, but Shutter Island's gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained."[\[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-35) On [Metacritic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacritic "Metacritic"), the film received a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[\[35\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Metacritic-36) Audiences surveyed by [CinemaScore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScore "CinemaScore") gave the film an average "C+" grade on a scale of A+ to F.[\[36\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-37) Lawrence Toppman of [The Charlotte Observer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charlotte_Observer "The Charlotte Observer") gave the film four stars out of four, claiming, "After four decades, Martin Scorsese has earned the right to deliver a simple treatment of a simple theme with flair".[\[37\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-38) Writing for [The Wall Street Journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal "The Wall Street Journal"), John Anderson highly praised the film, suggesting it "requires multiple viewings to be fully realized as a work of art. Its process is more important than its story, its structure more important than the almost perfunctory plot twists it perpetrates. It's a thriller, a crime story and a tortured psychological parable about collective guilt."[\[38\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-39) Awarding the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, [Roger Ebert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert "Roger Ebert") of the [Chicago Sun-Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times "Chicago Sun-Times") wrote, "The movie is about: atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy's confidence and even his identity. It's all done with flawless directorial command. Scorsese has fear to evoke, and he does it with many notes."[\[39\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-40) [The Orlando Sentinel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orlando_Sentinel "The Orlando Sentinel")'s Roger Moore, who gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, wrote, "It's not bad, but as Scorsese, America's greatest living filmmaker and film history buff should know, even [Hitchcock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock "Alfred Hitchcock") came up short on occasion. See for yourself."[\[40\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-41) [Dana Stevens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Stevens_$critic$ "Dana Stevens (critic)") of [Slate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_$magazine$ "Slate (magazine)") described the film "an aesthetically and at times intellectually exciting puzzle, but it's never emotionally involving".[\[41\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-42) [The Washington Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post "The Washington Post") film critic [Ann Hornaday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hornaday "Ann Hornaday") negatively described the film as being "weird".[\[42\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-43) [A. O. Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._O._Scott "A. O. Scott") of [The New York Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times "The New York Times") wrote, "Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself."[\[43\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-44) In 2025, it was on the "Readers' Choice" edition of [The New York Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times "The New York Times")' list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century", finishing at number 169.[\[44\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-nytimes.com2-45) Keith Uhlich of [Time Out (New York)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_$magazine$ "Time Out (magazine)") named Shutter Island the fifth-best film of 2010.[\[45\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-46) ### Box office Shutter Island was released with [The Ghost Writer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Writer_$film$ "The Ghost Writer (film)"), and, earning \$41 million, finished first at the box office and gave Scorsese his highest-grossing box office opening to date.[\[46\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-47) The film remained at \#1 in its second weekend, with \$22.2 million.[\[47\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-48) Eventually, it grossed worldwide \$294,805,697[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-BoxOfficeMojo-3) and became Scorsese's second highest-grossing film worldwide.[\[48\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-49) It is Scorsese's fifth movie to debut at the box office at \#1, following [Taxi Driver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver "Taxi Driver"), [Goodfellas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas "Goodfellas"), [Cape Fear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Fear_$1991_film$ "Cape Fear (1991 film)") and [The Departed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Departed "The Departed"). ### Home media Shutter Island was released on [DVD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD "DVD") and [Blu-ray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc "Blu-ray Disc") on June 8, 2010, in the US,[\[49\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-50) and on August 2, 2010, in the UK.[\[50\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-51) The UK release features two editions: a standard edition and a limited steel-case edition.[\[51\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-52) For the tenth anniversary of the film's release, Paramount Pictures released a 4K [steelbook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc_packaging "Optical disc packaging") and Blu-ray version on February 11, 2020.[\[52\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-53) ## Other media A Shutter Island video game was released for [PC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_computer "Desktop computer") in 2010.[\[53\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-54) A [Nintendo DS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS "Nintendo DS") version was canceled.[\[54\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-55) In August 2014, [Paramount Television](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Television "Paramount Television") and [HBO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO "HBO") were reported to be developing a [prequel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prequel "Prequel") TV series, Ashecliffe.[\[55\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-globe-56) ## Notes 1. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-7) "Edward Daniels" is an [anagram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagram "Anagram") of Andrew Laeddis, and "Rachel Solando" is an anagram of his dead wife's name, Dolores Chanal. ## References 1. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-1) ["AFI Catalog - Shutter Island"](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/66592). [American Film Institute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Film_Institute "American Film Institute"). Retrieved January 1, 2025. 2. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-2) ["Films \\| Shutter Island"](https://web.archive.org/web/20151129000223/http://www.darkhorizons.com/films/216/Shutter-Island/). DarkHorizons.com. Archived from [the original](http://www.darkhorizons.com/films/216/Shutter-Island) on November 29, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2010. 3. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-BoxOfficeMojo_3-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-BoxOfficeMojo_3-1) ["Shutter Island (2010)"](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1130884/). [Box Office Mojo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Office_Mojo "Box Office Mojo"). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190714080224/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shutterisland.htm) from the original on July 14, 2019. Retrieved December 26, 2010. 4. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-4)* ["Shutter Island (2010) - Financial Information"](https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Shutter-Island). [The Numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Numbers_$website$ "The Numbers (website)"). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210214051604/https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Shutter-Island) from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2020. 5. 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Readable Markdown	\| Shutter Island \| \| \|---\|---\| \| [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Shutterislandposter.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shutterislandposter.jpg)Theatrical release poster \| \| \| Directed by \| [Martin Scorsese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese "Martin Scorsese") \| \| Screenplay by \| [Laeta Kalogridis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laeta_Kalogridis "Laeta Kalogridis") \| \| Based on \| [Shutter Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island") by [Dennis Lehane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane "Dennis Lehane") \| \| Produced by \| [Mike Medavoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Medavoy "Mike Medavoy") Arnold W. Messer [Bradley J. Fischer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_J._Fischer_$producer$ "Bradley J. Fischer (producer)") Martin Scorsese \| \| Starring \| [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio "Leonardo DiCaprio") [Mark Ruffalo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo "Mark Ruffalo") [Ben Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Kingsley "Ben Kingsley") [Michelle Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Williams_$actress$ "Michelle Williams (actress)") [Emily Mortimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Mortimer "Emily Mortimer") [Patricia Clarkson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Clarkson "Patricia Clarkson") [Max von Sydow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Sydow "Max von Sydow") \| \| Cinematography \| [Robert Richardson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Richardson_$cinematographer$ "Robert Richardson (cinematographer)") \| \| Edited by \| [Thelma Schoonmaker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Schoonmaker "Thelma Schoonmaker") \| \| Production companies \| [Paramount Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures "Paramount Pictures")[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-1) [Phoenix Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Pictures "Phoenix Pictures") [Sikelia Productions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikelia_Productions "Sikelia Productions") [Appian Way Productions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way_Productions "Appian Way Productions") \| \| Distributed by \| Paramount Pictures \| \| Release dates \| February 13, 2010 ([Berlinale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival "60th Berlin International Film Festival")) February 19, 2010 (United States) \| \| Running time \| 139 minutes \| \| Country \| United States \| \| Language \| English \| \| Budget \| \$80 million[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-2) \| \| Box office \| \$294.8 million[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-BoxOfficeMojo-3)[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-4) \| *Shutter Island* is a 2010 American [neo-noir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-noir "Neo-noir") [psychological thriller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_thriller "Psychological thriller") film[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-5) directed by [Martin Scorsese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese "Martin Scorsese"). The screenplay was adapted by [Laeta Kalogridis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laeta_Kalogridis "Laeta Kalogridis") from [the 2003 novel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island") by [Dennis Lehane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane "Dennis Lehane"). It follows Deputy [U.S. Marshal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service "United States Marshals Service") Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his partner Chuck, who come to the fictional Shutter Island in [Boston Harbor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Harbor "Boston Harbor") to investigate its criminal psychiatric facility after one of its patients goes missing; Daniels has his own ulterior motives for taking the case. The film stars [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio "Leonardo DiCaprio") and [Mark Ruffalo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo "Mark Ruffalo"), with [Ben Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Kingsley "Ben Kingsley"), [Max von Sydow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Sydow "Max von Sydow") and [Michelle Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Williams_$actress$ "Michelle Williams (actress)") in supporting roles. Development began when [Phoenix Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Pictures "Phoenix Pictures") acquired the film rights to the novel directly from Lehane after [Columbia Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures "Columbia Pictures") had allowed their rights to lapse in 2003. Phoenix hired [Laeta Kalogridis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laeta_Kalogridis "Laeta Kalogridis") to work on a screenplay for a year, and in 2007, announced that both Scorsese and DiCaprio had joined the project. Production began on March 6, 2008, at various locations in [Massachusetts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts "Massachusetts"); filming ended on July 2, 2008. Partnering with [Paramount Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures "Paramount Pictures"), the film had its wide release on February 19, 2010, and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was chosen by the [National Board of Review](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Board_of_Review "National Board of Review") as one of the [top ten films of 2010](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Board_of_Review_Awards_2010#Top_10_Films "National Board of Review Awards 2010"), and grossed \$295 million worldwide. The film is also noted for its soundtrack, which prominently used classical music by composers such as [Gustav Mahler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler "Gustav Mahler"), [Krzysztof Penderecki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki "Krzysztof Penderecki"), [György Ligeti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti "György Ligeti"), [John Cage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage "John Cage"), [Ingram Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingram_Marshall "Ingram Marshall") and [Max Richter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Richter "Max Richter"). In 2025, the film was voted for the "Readers' Choice" edition of [The New York Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times "The New York Times")' list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century", finishing at number 169.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-nytimes.com-6) Plot In 1954, [U.S. Marshal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service "United States Marshals Service") Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the [criminally insane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity_defense "Insanity defense") on Shutter Island in [Boston Harbor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Harbor "Boston Harbor"). The purpose of their visit is to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient of the hospital who had killed her three children by drowning. The staff, led by psychiatrist Dr. John Cawley and his colleague Dr. Jerimiah Naehring, appears uncooperative. The marshals learn that Dr. Lester Sheehan, who was treating Solando, left the island on vacation immediately after Solando disappeared. Teddy experiences [migraines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migraine "Migraine"), flashbacks of his time as a U.S. soldier in the [liberation of Dachau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp#Liberation "Dachau concentration camp"), and vivid dreams of his wife Dolores, who was killed in a fire in their building set by [pyromaniac](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyromaniac "Pyromaniac") Andrew Laeddis. Teddy tells Chuck he took this case to find Laeddis, whom he believes is a patient. Solando suddenly resurfaces, but believes Teddy is her husband. Teddy breaks into the restricted Ward C to find Laeddis, but meets patient George Noyce, who knows Teddy from his past. Noyce says the doctors experiment on patients and [lobotomize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy "Lobotomy") them in the lighthouse. He warns Teddy that everyone will deceive him and not to trust his partner Chuck. Teddy and Chuck climb the cliffs toward the lighthouse, but are separated. Believing he saw Chuck's body on the rocks below, Teddy climbs down but finds only a cave where a woman claiming to be the real Rachel Solando is hiding. She reveals she is a former psychiatrist; after discovering clandestine experiments on [mind control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing "Brainwashing") at the facility, she was silenced by being forcibly committed. She warns that Cawley and Naehring will use Teddy's war trauma to feign a psychotic break, allowing them to have him committed as well. Teddy returns to the hospital. When he asks about Chuck, Cawley insists that Teddy arrived at Shutter Island alone. Convinced Chuck has been taken to the lighthouse, Teddy is intercepted by Naehring, who attempts to sedate him. Teddy overpowers him and breaks into the lighthouse to discover Cawley waiting for him. Cawley tells him that Rachel Solando never existed. He adds that Teddy has not been drugged but is experiencing withdrawal from [chlorpromazine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine "Chlorpromazine"), a [neuroleptic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic "Neuroleptic") medication Teddy has been taking for the past two years. Chuck arrives and reveals he is actually Dr. Sheehan. "Teddy" is really Andrew Laeddis, a former U.S. Marshal. Laeddis was incarcerated at Ashecliffe for killing his [manic depressive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder "Bipolar disorder") wife Dolores Chanal after she killed their three children by drowning. Andrew had failed to seek treatment for Dolores after she burned down their apartment; instead, he moved his family to the lakehouse, which is where Dolores carried out the killings. As a result of his guilt, Andrew became delusional and created the alternate persona of Edward Daniels.[\[a\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-7) The "investigation" of Rachel Solando was an elaborate roleplay, supported by hospital staff, to help Andrew play out his delusion so he might break out of it and return to reality. Overwhelmed, Andrew faints. Awakening, Andrew recounts the truth, satisfying the doctors that he is lucid. Cawley notes they had achieved this state nine months ago, but Andrew had quickly regressed. He warns this will be Andrew's last chance; if he lapses into his delusion again, he will be lobotomized due to his violent conduct toward the guards and other patients, such as Noyce. Some time later, Andrew relaxes on the hospital grounds with Sheehan. Appearing delusional, he refers to Sheehan as "Chuck" and says they must leave the island. Sheehan signals to a watching Cawley, who orders that Andrew be lobotomized. Andrew asks Sheehan if it would be worse "to live as a monster or to die as a good man". A stunned Sheehan calls Andrew "Teddy", but the latter does not respond and leaves peacefully with the orderlies for his operation. Cast [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg/120px-Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leonardo_DiCaprio_2010.jpg) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Mark_Ruffalo_%2836201774756%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Mark_Ruffalo_%2836201774756%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Ruffalo_$36201774756$_$cropped$.jpg) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Michelle_Williams_%28Berlinale_2010%29.jpg/120px-Michelle_Williams_%28Berlinale_2010%29.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelle_Williams_$Berlinale_2010$.jpg) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/120px-Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_Kingsley_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg) - [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio "Leonardo DiCaprio") as Edward "Teddy" Daniels, a former [U.S. Marshal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Marshal "U.S. Marshal") who investigates the Shutter Island [insane asylum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_asylum "Insane asylum") - [Mark Ruffalo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo "Mark Ruffalo") as Chuck Aule, Teddy's Marshal partner - [Ben Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Kingsley "Ben Kingsley") as Dr. John Cawley, a senior psychiatrist at Shutter Island - [Max von Sydow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Sydow "Max von Sydow") as Dr. Naehring, a colleague of Cawley - [Michelle Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Williams_$actress$ "Michelle Williams (actress)") as Dolores Chanal, Teddy's wife - [Emily Mortimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Mortimer "Emily Mortimer") and [Patricia Clarkson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Clarkson "Patricia Clarkson") as Rachel Solando - [Jackie Earle Haley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Earle_Haley "Jackie Earle Haley") as George Noyce, a patient in Ward C - [Ted Levine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Levine "Ted Levine") as Warden - [John Carroll Lynch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carroll_Lynch "John Carroll Lynch") as Deputy Warden McPherson - [Joseph Sikora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sikora "Joseph Sikora") as Glen Miga - [Elias Koteas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Koteas "Elias Koteas") as Laeddis - [Robin Bartlett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Bartlett "Robin Bartlett") as Bridget Kearns - [Christopher Denham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Denham "Christopher Denham") as Peter Breene - [Curtiss Cook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_Cook "Curtiss Cook") as Trey Washington Production Development The rights to [Dennis Lehane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane "Dennis Lehane")'s novel [Shutter Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island "Shutter Island") were first optioned to [Columbia Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures "Columbia Pictures") in 2003. Columbia did not act on the option, and it lapsed back to Lehane, who sold it to [Phoenix Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Pictures "Phoenix Pictures"). Phoenix hired [Laeta Kalogridis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laeta_Kalogridis "Laeta Kalogridis"), and together, they developed the film for a year. Director [Martin Scorsese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese "Martin Scorsese") and actor [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio "Leonardo DiCaprio") were both attracted to the project.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Team-8) Production began on March 6, 2008.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Trio-9) Lehane's inspiration for the hospital and island setting was [Long Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_$Massachusetts$ "Long Island (Massachusetts)") in [Boston Harbor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Harbor "Boston Harbor"), which he had visited as a child with his uncle and family during the [blizzard of 1978](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States_blizzard_of_1978 "Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978").[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-PATRIOTLEDGER02192010-10) Filming Shutter Island was mainly filmed in [Massachusetts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts "Massachusetts"), with [Taunton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taunton,_Massachusetts "Taunton, Massachusetts") being the location for the World War II flashback scenes.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-11) Old industrial buildings in Taunton's [Whittenton Mills Complex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittenton_Mills_Complex "Whittenton Mills Complex") replicated the [Dachau concentration camp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp "Dachau concentration camp").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-12) The old [Medfield State Hospital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medfield_State_Hospital "Medfield State Hospital") in [Medfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medfield,_Massachusetts "Medfield, Massachusetts"), Massachusetts, was another key location. Cawley's office scenes were the second floor of the chapel during the late evening. Lights were shone through the windows to make it appear to be daytime. The crew painted the hospital's brick walls to look like plywood. This served the dual purpose of acting as scenery and blocking the set from view of a local road. The crew wanted to film at the old [Worcester State Hospital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_State_Hospital "Worcester State Hospital"), but demolition of surrounding buildings made it impossible. The stone lodge next to Leach Pond at [Borderland State Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderland_State_Park "Borderland State Park") in [Easton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easton,_Massachusetts "Easton, Massachusetts"), Massachusetts, was used for the cabin scene.[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-13) The film used [Peddocks Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peddocks_Island "Peddocks Island") as a setting for the story's island. [East Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Point_Military_Reservation "East Point Military Reservation"), in [Nahant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahant,_Massachusetts "Nahant, Massachusetts"), Massachusetts, was the location for the lighthouse scenes.[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-14) The scenes in which Teddy and Chuck are caught in the hurricane were filmed at the [Wilson Mountain Reservation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Mountain_Reservation "Wilson Mountain Reservation") in [Dedham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedham,_Massachusetts "Dedham, Massachusetts"), Massachusetts.[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-15) Filming ended on July 2, 2008.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-16) Music \| Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture \| \| \|---\|---\| \| [Soundtrack album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack_album "Soundtrack album") by various artists \| \| \| Released \| February 2, 2010 \| \| [Genre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre "Music genre") \| [Film soundtrack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_soundtrack "Film soundtrack") \| \| Length \| 116:41 \| \| [Label](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label "Record label") \| [Rhino Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_Records "Rhino Records") \| \| [Producer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer "Record producer") \| [Robbie Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson "Robbie Robertson") [John Powell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Powell_$composer$ "John Powell (composer)") \| The film does not have an original score. Instead, Scorsese's longtime collaborator [Robbie Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson "Robbie Robertson") created an ensemble of previously recorded material to use in the film. Shutter Island: Music from the Motion Picture was released on February 2, 2010, by [Rhino Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_Records "Rhino Records"). According to a statement on Paramount's website: "The collection of [modern classical music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_classical_music "Modern classical music") \[on the soundtrack album\] was hand-selected by Robertson, who is proud of its scope and sound. 'This may be the most outrageous and beautiful soundtrack I've ever heard.' \[Robertson stated\]".[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-17) [Los Angeles Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times "Los Angeles Times")' classical music reviewer [Mark Swed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Swed "Mark Swed") noted that "Robertson went through a lot of trouble to make things work as well".[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Swed-18) He argues that while other reviewers have called the music "melodramatic", "nothing could be further from the truth".[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Swed-18) Another reviewer noted that "Scorsese has abandoned his oft-used classic rock soundtrack habits and, almost positively taking a queue from Stanley Kubrick's soundtracks, adopted a selection mostly of various modern classical pieces",[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19) and that "this set of pieces certainly suggests a different mood rather than a conventional score".[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19) Pop culture critic Noel Murray lists the album at \#24 in [Vulture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_$website$ "Vulture (website)")'s 2018 "40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time", saying, "Besides drawing attention to the modern geniuses of a wholly different genre, the unfamiliar, almost alien sounds of the Shutter Island soundtrack reinforce the movie's tale of hallucinatory madness".[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-20) A full track listing of the album is below. All the musical works are featured in the final film.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Jagernauth-19) Disc 1 1. "Fog Tropes" ([Ingram Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingram_Marshall "Ingram Marshall")) – Orchestra of St. Lukes & [John Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_$composer$ "John Adams (composer)") 2. "[Symphony No. 3: Passacaglia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_$Penderecki$ "Symphony No. 3 (Penderecki)") – Allegro Moderato" ([Krzysztof Penderecki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki "Krzysztof Penderecki")) – National Polish Radio Symphony & [Antoni Wit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Wit "Antoni Wit") 3. "[Music for Marcel Duchamp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Marcel_Duchamp "Music for Marcel Duchamp")" ([John Cage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage "John Cage")) – Philipp Vandré 4. "Hommage à [John Cage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage "John Cage")" – [Nam June Paik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_June_Paik "Nam June Paik") 5. "Lontano" ([György Ligeti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Ligeti "György Ligeti")) – Wiener Philharmoniker & [Claudio Abbado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Abbado "Claudio Abbado") 6. "Rothko Chapel 2" ([Morton Feldman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Feldman "Morton Feldman")) – UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus 7. "[Cry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_$Johnnie_Ray_song$ "Cry (Johnnie Ray song)")" – [Johnnie Ray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Ray "Johnnie Ray") 8. "[On the Nature of Daylight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Nature_of_Daylight "On the Nature of Daylight")" – [Max Richter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Richter "Max Richter") 9. "[Uaxuctum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uaxactun "Uaxactun"): The Legend of the Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed for Religious Reasons – 3rd Movement" ([Giacinto Scelsi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacinto_Scelsi "Giacinto Scelsi")) – [Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Radio_Symphony_Orchestra "Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra") 10. "[Quartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Quartet_$Mahler$ "Piano Quartet (Mahler)")" ([Gustav Mahler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler "Gustav Mahler")) – Prazak Quartet Disc 2 1. "[Christian Zeal and Activity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zeal_and_Activity "Christian Zeal and Activity")" (John Adams) – The San Francisco Symphony & [Edo de Waart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_de_Waart "Edo de Waart") 2. "Suite for Symphonic Strings: Nocturne" ([Lou Harrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Harrison "Lou Harrison")) – The New Professionals Orchestra & Rebecca Miller 3. "[Lizard Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Point_$composition$ "Lizard Point (composition)")" – [Brian Eno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno "Brian Eno") 4. "Four Hymns: II for Cello and Double Bass" ([Alfred Schnittke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke "Alfred Schnittke")) – Torleif Thedéen & Entcho Radoukanov 5. "[Root of an Unfocus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_of_an_Unfocus "Root of an Unfocus")" (John Cage) – [Boris Berman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berman_$musician$ "Boris Berman (musician)") 6. "Prelude – The Bay" – [Ingram Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingram_Marshall "Ingram Marshall") 7. "[Wheel of Fortune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_$1951_song$ "Wheel of Fortune (1951 song)")" – [Kay Starr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Starr "Kay Starr") 8. "[Tomorrow Night](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Night_$Coslow_and_Grosz_song$ "Tomorrow Night (Coslow and Grosz song)")" – [Lonnie Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Johnson_$musician$ "Lonnie Johnson (musician)") 9. "[This Bitter Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Bitter_Earth "This Bitter Earth")"/"On the Nature of Daylight" – [Dinah Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Washington "Dinah Washington") & Max Richter; arrangement by [Robbie Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson "Robbie Robertson") Genre Shutter Island is a [period piece](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_piece "Period piece") with nods to different films in the [film noir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir "Film noir") and [horror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film "Horror film") genres, paying particular homage to [Alfred Hitchcock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock "Alfred Hitchcock")'s works.[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-21) Scorsese stated in an interview that the main reference to Teddy Daniels was [Dana Andrews](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Andrews "Dana Andrews")'s character in [Laura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_$1944_film$ "Laura (1944 film)"), and he was also influenced by several very low-budget 1940s [zombie movies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_movies "Zombie movies") by [Val Lewton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton "Val Lewton").[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-22) The main plot resembles [William Peter Blatty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Peter_Blatty "William Peter Blatty")'s [The Ninth Configuration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninth_Configuration "The Ninth Configuration"),[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-RottenTomatoes-23)[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-LATimes-24)[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-book-25) as well as [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari").[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-book-25)[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-adaptation-26)[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-constructing-27) La Croix noted Shutter Island was a "complex and puzzling" work that borrowed from genres as diverse as detective, fantasy, and the psychological thriller.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Schwartz-28) There have been differing opinions of the film's ending of the film, in which Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan "which would be worse—to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?", a line that does not appear in the book. Professor [James Gilligan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gilligan "James Gilligan") of [New York University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University "New York University") was Scorsese's psychiatric adviser, and he said that Laeddis's last words mean: "I feel too guilty to go on living. I'm not going to actually commit suicide, but I'm going to vicariously commit suicide by handing myself over to these people who're going to lobotomize me."[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Cox-Guardian-29) Dennis Lehane, however, said, "Personally, I think he has a momentary flash.... It's just one moment of sanity mixed in the midst of all the other delusions."[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Cox-Guardian-29) Release [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg/250px-Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010.jpg) Director [Martin Scorsese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese "Martin Scorsese") at the film's premiere at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival The film was originally scheduled to be released by [Paramount Pictures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures "Paramount Pictures") in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009.[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-30) Paramount announced it was pushing back the release date to February 19, 2010.[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-31) Reports attribute the pushback to Paramount not having "the financing in 2009 to spend the \$50 to \$60 million necessary to market a big awards pic like this", to DiCaprio's unavailability to promote the film internationally, and to Paramount's hope the economy might rebound enough by February 2010 that a film geared toward adult audiences would be more viable financially.[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-32) The film premiered at the [60th Berlin International Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival "60th Berlin International Film Festival") as part of the competition screening on February 13, 2010.[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-33) Spanish distributor Manga Films distributed the film in Spain after winning a bidding war that reportedly reached the \$6 million to \$8 million range.[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-34) Reception Critical response [Rotten Tomatoes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes "Rotten Tomatoes") gives the film an approval rating of 69% based on 263 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "It may not rank with Scorsese's best work, but Shutter Island's gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained."[\[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-35) On [Metacritic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacritic "Metacritic"), the film received a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[\[35\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-Metacritic-36) Audiences surveyed by [CinemaScore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScore "CinemaScore") gave the film an average "C+" grade on a scale of A+ to F.[\[36\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-37) Lawrence Toppman of [The Charlotte Observer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charlotte_Observer "The Charlotte Observer") gave the film four stars out of four, claiming, "After four decades, Martin Scorsese has earned the right to deliver a simple treatment of a simple theme with flair".[\[37\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-38) Writing for [The Wall Street Journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal "The Wall Street Journal"), John Anderson highly praised the film, suggesting it "requires multiple viewings to be fully realized as a work of art. Its process is more important than its story, its structure more important than the almost perfunctory plot twists it perpetrates. It's a thriller, a crime story and a tortured psychological parable about collective guilt."[\[38\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-39) Awarding the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, [Roger Ebert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert "Roger Ebert") of the [Chicago Sun-Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times "Chicago Sun-Times") wrote, "The movie is about: atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy's confidence and even his identity. It's all done with flawless directorial command. Scorsese has fear to evoke, and he does it with many notes."[\[39\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-40) [The Orlando Sentinel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orlando_Sentinel "The Orlando Sentinel")'s Roger Moore, who gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, wrote, "It's not bad, but as Scorsese, America's greatest living filmmaker and film history buff should know, even [Hitchcock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock "Alfred Hitchcock") came up short on occasion. See for yourself."[\[40\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-41) [Dana Stevens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Stevens_$critic$ "Dana Stevens (critic)") of [Slate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_$magazine$ "Slate (magazine)") described the film "an aesthetically and at times intellectually exciting puzzle, but it's never emotionally involving".[\[41\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-42) [The Washington Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post "The Washington Post") film critic [Ann Hornaday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hornaday "Ann Hornaday") negatively described the film as being "weird".[\[42\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-43) [A. O. Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._O._Scott "A. O. Scott") of [The New York Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times "The New York Times") wrote, "Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself."[\[43\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-44) In 2025, it was on the "Readers' Choice" edition of [The New York Times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times "The New York Times")' list of "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century", finishing at number 169.[\[44\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-nytimes.com2-45) Keith Uhlich of [Time Out (New York)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_$magazine$ "Time Out (magazine)") named Shutter Island the fifth-best film of 2010.[\[45\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-46) Box office Shutter Island was released with [The Ghost Writer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Writer_$film$ "The Ghost Writer (film)"), and, earning \$41 million, finished first at the box office and gave Scorsese his highest-grossing box office opening to date.[\[46\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-47) The film remained at \#1 in its second weekend, with \$22.2 million.[\[47\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-48) Eventually, it grossed worldwide \$294,805,697[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-BoxOfficeMojo-3) and became Scorsese's second highest-grossing film worldwide.[\[48\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-49) It is Scorsese's fifth movie to debut at the box office at \#1, following [Taxi Driver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver "Taxi Driver"), [Goodfellas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas "Goodfellas"), [Cape Fear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Fear_$1991_film$ "Cape Fear (1991 film)") and [The Departed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Departed "The Departed"). Home media Shutter Island was released on [DVD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD "DVD") and [Blu-ray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc "Blu-ray Disc") on June 8, 2010, in the US,[\[49\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-50) and on August 2, 2010, in the UK.[\[50\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-51) The UK release features two editions: a standard edition and a limited steel-case edition.[\[51\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-52) For the tenth anniversary of the film's release, Paramount Pictures released a 4K [steelbook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc_packaging "Optical disc packaging") and Blu-ray version on February 11, 2020.[\[52\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-53) A Shutter Island video game was released for [PC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_computer "Desktop computer") in 2010.[\[53\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-54) A [Nintendo DS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS "Nintendo DS") version was canceled.[\[54\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-55) In August 2014, [Paramount Television](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Television "Paramount Television") and [HBO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO "HBO") were reported to be developing a [prequel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prequel "Prequel") TV series, Ashecliffe.[\[55\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_note-globe-56) Notes 1. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-7) "Edward Daniels" is an [anagram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagram "Anagram") of Andrew Laeddis, and "Rachel Solando" is an anagram of his dead wife's name, Dolores Chanal. References 1. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-1) ["AFI Catalog - Shutter Island"](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/66592). [American Film Institute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Film_Institute "American Film Institute"). Retrieved January 1, 2025. 2. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-2) ["Films \\| Shutter Island"](https://web.archive.org/web/20151129000223/http://www.darkhorizons.com/films/216/Shutter-Island/). DarkHorizons.com. Archived from [the original](http://www.darkhorizons.com/films/216/Shutter-Island) on November 29, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2010. 3. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-BoxOfficeMojo_3-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-BoxOfficeMojo_3-1) ["Shutter Island (2010)"](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1130884/). [Box Office Mojo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Office_Mojo "Box Office Mojo"). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190714080224/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shutterisland.htm) from the original on July 14, 2019. Retrieved December 26, 2010. 4. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_$film$#cite_ref-4)* ["Shutter Island (2010) - Financial Information"](https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Shutter-Island). [The Numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Numbers_$website$ "The Numbers (website)"). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210214051604/https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Shutter-Island) from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2020. 5. 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External links - [Shutter Island](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/66592) at the [AFI Catalog of Feature Films](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI_Catalog_of_Feature_Films "AFI Catalog of Feature Films") - [Shutter Island](https://www.facebook.com/ShutterIsland) on [Facebook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_$identifier$ "Facebook (identifier)") - [Shutter Island](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/) at [IMDb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb_$identifier$ "IMDb (identifier)") - [Shutter Island](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shutterisland.htm) at [Box Office Mojo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Office_Mojo "Box Office Mojo") - [Shutter Island](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1198124-shutter_island) at [Rotten Tomatoes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes "Rotten Tomatoes") - [Shutter Island](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/shutter-island) at [Metacritic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacritic "Metacritic") [![Edit this at Wikidata](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210364#P1712 "Edit this at Wikidata")
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