In The new B-movie "locked", Bill Scarsgard Game guy-on-case man named Eddie who breaks into a luxurious SUV in an attempt to make money to support his family. Unfortunately for Eddie, the owner of that SUV is a deceptive maniac named William (Anthony Hopkins), who remotely locked Eddie inside and tormented him for several days in an attempt to try to learn a lesson in proper and wrong. A huge percentage of the film takes place in this vehicle, as we are trapped there with Eddie, and in the wrong hands, exploring such a small space throughout the film can become very boring, very fast.

Fortunately, director David Jarovski ("Britburn") knows how to maintain things visually interesting. In a recent interview (which you can hear in full below), he told me everything about how he and his associates held two different kinematic languages ​​during the film: outside the vehicle, the hand camera moves in a way that suits an earthy indie film, reflecting it. But inside, we are in the world of William, and the movements of the camera are very smoother and more honest and methodical to represent the amount of control over this trap of the Bonkers it set.

The last style is best embodied in the strike where Eddie first breaks into the car. The Camera Circles Around the Vehicle Multiple Times as Eddie Searches Through It, Looking for Anything of Value, and Tracks Him as Tries to Kick The Windows Out After He Realizes He's Locked in. The camera in such a way that would have had to slice through the Physical Body of the SUV IN ORDER TO ACHEEEE That had its top half removed and then replacing it and everything outside the windows using visual effects on post-production.

No. It turns out that the right answer is more practical - and as a result, much cooler.

To facilitate the camera that circles around Eddie (Who was originally supposed to play Glenn Powell!) As he entered the SUV, production designer Grant Armstrong realized how to build a practical version of the vehicle that could do things that the audience would never notice. Here's how he explained Jaroveski:

"We have built the set of rails platform embedded in the platform. Segments sets. Each piece of the car can easily slip on the rails easily. You could only with one hand, slide it back and forth. But they had to develop a locking mechanism so that it could not only slide, but it could not be locked, but it could not be locked, but it could not be locked, but it could not be locked, but it could not be locked, but it could not only To try to get out of it.imitates an explosion outward) or enter like this (imitates the opposite action). So, what you see is happening is, one piece at once, a piece of the car slips as the camera enters and goes back so you don't see it. And so on, and so on, and we just rotate, 360 degrees around, and we just turn around and see the events that take place in this tense, methodic shot. "

Is my favorite 2025 movie locked? No. But that level of creativity and attention to the details resulted in the original "how they made a hook do This? "Moment to me, and I respect that from these directors to go to an extra mile to create a submersible experience for the audience - and to do it practically instead of removing the lazy output.

My colleague Bj Colangelo and I talked "Locked", based on the Argentine thriller in 2019 called "4x4", At today's episode of /film Daily Podka, which also contains my full interview with David Jarovski. Listen here:

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