Locked (2025), directed by David Yarovesky and written by Michael Arlen Ross, is a lean, claustrophobic thriller that thrives on the tension between two men who never share the same physical space. A remake of the 2019 Argentine film 4x4, it strips its story to the bare essentials: a man trapped inside a car, a voice in his ear pulling the strings, and an audience forced to share every second of his panic. The premise is deceptively simple, but the execution transforms it into an uneasy meditation on desperation, vengeance, and the lengths people will go when they feel cornered. At the center of the story is Eddie Barrish, played with raw physicality and emotional depth by Bill Skarsgård. Eddie isn’t an aspiring career criminal or a hardened thug; he’s a man with few options, scraping by as a delivery driver, struggling to care for his daughter Sarah. His immediate need is heartbreakingly mundane—just four hundred dollars to get his van repaired so he can keep working. That small, rela...