‘Locked’ Review: Anthony Hopkins Terrorizes Bill Skarsgard In An SUV From Hell
deadline.comYou would not be crazy if you confused Steven Knight’s 2013 man-confined-in-a-car movie, Locke with director David Yarovesky’s new thriller, Locked, which has Bill Skarsgard trapped in a nightmare car with no way out.
The former had Tom Hardy as a troubled guy named Locke watching his life unravel during a feature-length road trip. This one has Skarsgard as Eddie, a deadbeat but well-meaning dad to Sarah (Ashley Cartwright) and petty thief whose attempt to steal a luxury SUV turns into disaster because its unseen psycho vigilante owner named William (Anthony Hopkins) has rigged it so bad things happen.
And there is no way out as he continues to pull the strings remotely in this motorized fortress as he carries on a conversation with the imprisoned Eddie.
That is the premise of Locked, latest in a series of horror concepts set in a automobile, except this is no talking car like KITT in Knight Rider r lovable free thinker like Herbie in The Love Bug (an inside joke in Michael Arlen Ross’ screenplay has Eddie refer to his daughter as “love bug”).
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