Emily gave a glowing review to Landlocked following its screening as part of Nighstream in 2021, impressed by its unique approach of blending reality with fiction. With the film now available in select theaters and on VOD platforms, we have an exclusive look just for Daily Dead readers!
"Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers an old VHS camera that can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed house is destroyed. Utilizing the director's own home movies, filming in the actual locations where he spent his youth and casting real-life family members to play fictionalized versions of themselves, LandLocked combines narrative and documentary with horror and sci-fi to create a movie unlike any other...
Taking ten years to complete, Landlocked is the feature directorial debut of Paul Owens. Owens creatively incorporates actual footage in the form of childhood home movies...
"Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers an old VHS camera that can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed house is destroyed. Utilizing the director's own home movies, filming in the actual locations where he spent his youth and casting real-life family members to play fictionalized versions of themselves, LandLocked combines narrative and documentary with horror and sci-fi to create a movie unlike any other...
Taking ten years to complete, Landlocked is the feature directorial debut of Paul Owens. Owens creatively incorporates actual footage in the form of childhood home movies...
- 1/13/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Stars: Jeffrey Owens, Mason Owens, Paul Owens, Seth Owens, Jane Gale | Written and Directed by Paul Owens
LandLocked is an interesting twist on both the found footage film and the time travel film, one that combines reality and fiction in an unsettling manner. Much like Kyle Edward Ball did with Skinamarink, writer/director Paul Owens shot the film in his own childhood home. Owens however takes it even further, he interweaves actual home movies from his and his siblings Mason and Jeff’s childhood and cast not only them but their father Jeff as well, all playing fictionalized versions of themselves.
Jeff has arranged for the family home to be demolished a year after his death. We learn this via his voice on a tape spanning several years of the boys’ childhood. Apparently, he’s been dead for a while because he tells them they need to get anything they want to save soon.
LandLocked is an interesting twist on both the found footage film and the time travel film, one that combines reality and fiction in an unsettling manner. Much like Kyle Edward Ball did with Skinamarink, writer/director Paul Owens shot the film in his own childhood home. Owens however takes it even further, he interweaves actual home movies from his and his siblings Mason and Jeff’s childhood and cast not only them but their father Jeff as well, all playing fictionalized versions of themselves.
Jeff has arranged for the family home to be demolished a year after his death. We learn this via his voice on a tape spanning several years of the boys’ childhood. Apparently, he’s been dead for a while because he tells them they need to get anything they want to save soon.
- 1/12/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
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