In the new film B “Locked”, Bill Skarsgård plays a guy down by the name of Eddie who turns into a luxury SUV in order to earn money to support his family. Unfortunately for Eddie, the owner of this SUV is a disturbed maniac named William (Anthony Hopkins), who locks Eddie inside and torture at several days in order to try to teach him a lesson on good and evil. A huge percentage of the film takes place inside this vehicle while we are trapped with Eddie, and in bad hands, exploring such a small space during an entire film could become very boring, very quickly.
Fortunately, director David Yarovesky (“Brightburn”) knows how to keep things visually interesting. In a recent interview (which you can hear in full below), he told me everything about the way in which he and his collaborators have held in two distinct cinematographic languages during the film: apart from the vehicle, the portable camera moves in a way to an anchored indie film, reflecting the difficult life of Eddie. But inside, we are in William’s world, and the movements of the camera are much smoother and more planned and methodical to represent the amount of control he has on this trap of goodkers he put.
This last style is better embodied in the photo where Eddie is first penetrated into the car. The camera turns around the vehicle several times while Eddie searches him, looking for something of value, and follows him while he tries to launch the windows after he realized that he is locked up. Apart from windows using visual effects in post-production.
No. It turns out that the real answer is much more practical – and consequently, much cooler.
Locked should not have been so strong with its production design, but the film is better because of this
To facilitate the camera that revolves around Eddie (which was originally going to be played by Glen Powell!) While entering the SUV, the production designer Grant Armstrong understood how to build a practical version of the vehicle that could do the things that the public would never notice. Here’s how Yarovesky explained:
“We have built the whole on a platform with rails integrated into the platform. The set is in segments. Each piece of the car can simply slip easily on the rails. [mimics an explosion outward] or come like that [mimics the opposite action]. So what you see is happening is a piece at a time, a piece of the car slides when the camera arrives and goes up so you don’t see it. And so on, and so on, and we only turn, 360 degrees, and simply turn and watch the events take place in this tense methodical shot. “”
Is “locked” my favorite film of 2025? No. But this level of creativity and attention to detail resulted in a real “how devil have they TO DO Is it a moment?
My colleague BJ Colangelo and I spoke of “Locked”, which is based on an Argentinian thriller 2019 called “4×4”, on the today’s episode of the Daily Daily Podcast, which also contains my full interview with David Yarovesky. Listen here:
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