Lockdown (2022)

Original title

The Audition

Directed by

Bizhan M. Tong

Genre

thriller, horror

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

15

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An actor goes to an audition where a casting director forces him to complete a series of tests or someone close to him will die. The film was shot in multiple countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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What happens

Lockdown is a 2022 global pandemic thriller film written and directed by Bizhan Tong. The film stars Xander Berkeley and Kevin Leslie, with an international cast including Anita Chui, John Savage, Alix Wilton Regan, Pamela Nomvete, and Mike Leeder in supporting roles. Lockdown tells the story of an actor who enters an audition and is forced by the casting director to pass a series of tests or else someone around him will die. Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic the movie was written, financed, and filmed around the world including Hong Kong, the UK, USA, Italy, and Japan entirely during that period. In September 2021, Lockdown made history as the world's 1st hybrid NFT feature and Asia's 1st NFT feature film with 5 copies minted as NFTs in advance of a traditional release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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