Claustrophobes may want to steer clear, but otherwise Locked, directed by David Yarovesky from screenwriter Michael Arlen Ross’s adaptation of a 2019 movie, is an inventive thriller with more on its mind than thrills, turning this psychological-horror story into a Zeitgeist dialectic of class warfare in America.
Yes, Locked’s protagonist, Eddie Barrish (Bill Skarsgård), is an ass. He’s that guy who’s not totally stupid yet in no way capable of getting his act together — continually fumbling every aspect of his life because somewhere in his makeup there’s an imp of the perverse that keeps whispering irresistible, self-destructive suggestions. And the brain-part that’s supposed to put on the brakes is apparently on permanent vacation.
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