![]() It’s a story that grabs you at the start and shakes you until you are disoriented and fearful, by throwing twist after twist at you, making you judge the characters and second guess your own thoughts as well as their actions. You can’t see twists coming and you really don’t know what’s going to happen next. This is not one of these “fun” edge-of-the-seat films but I mean that in the best sense. There are high walls and hedges on each side of the road and trees beyond so you never get an “open” outlook. There’s also a strong sense of almost claustrophobia, even though they are outside. The film was produced by PPSs partners in the NYC Streets Renaissance Campaign, Mark Gorton. Ian Hunt Duffy’s tight frame direction means that the sense of fear and confusion, and growing hatred, communicates very well to the viewer and our own discomfort grows as the agony of the father’s search is prolonged. New Film Shows Route to Livable, Gridlock-Free Streets. Anyway the plot centers around around Jim Belushi and Tupac accidentally killing a undercover DEA agent and try to find a fall guy, which they find in a. I've never seen his other 1997 film Gridlock'd, so maybe I'll have to check that out at some point. I really bought into all the characters and believed that each was dislikeable in such a way that would mean they could be involved in the girl’s disappearance. And this film holds the distinction of being the final film of the late/great Tupac Shakur. There’s deliberate misdirection, making very good use of “stereotype” and expected behaviour thanks to some superb casting, there’s mistaken judgements, apologies, finger pointing and double bluffs. This sense of anxiety is heightened by the frustration of the traffic jam and the physical shock of finding the cause of the jam, highly disturbing in its own right, pales as the girl is discovered missing and the mind games take over. This sense of tension and discomfort is set up very well from the start, with the implication of an argument between Eoin and his ex, which is why the daughter is in the car in the first place. The premise is simple, as a child goes missing from her father’s car, but is superbly written by Darach McGarrigle and incredibly effective as suspicion shifts from one person to the next to the next in the queue of traffic. This is a really tense, and intense, short film. But as panic takes hold among the other drivers, the search for a missing girl quickly descends into a frenzied witch-hunt, where no one is above suspicion. When Eoin's (Moe Dunford, Vikings) young daughter Emma (Robyn Dempsey) goes missing from their car, he forms a desperate search party to find her. Gridlock is an Irish spin on an American style thriller, set during a traffic jam on a narrow country road. Mark talks extensively about his childhood growing up in the ’90s, personal experiences, music and a meaningful meeting he had with actor, Ethan Hawke.There's much more than road rage involved in the Irish short film Gridlock. When a little girl goes missing from one of the cars, her father forms a desperate search party to find her, and soon everyone is a suspect. We are thrilled to interview him about his new drama feature, Pitch Black Heisthe’s producing and his period drama piece, Castlemont he will direct soon. Nonton Streaming Film Gridlockd (1997) Sub Indo - Ditonton BluRay TERPOPULER Home Comedy Gridlock’d (1997) Diterbitkan pada Janu5:26 am Oleh mamat. Two junkie musicians must rely on their gritty comedic spirit and strong emotional connection when they try to kick their drug habit after a friend dies from a drug overdose. A thriller set during a traffic jam on a country road. With GRIDLOCK, his noir crime drama his latest short film done and entered 2019 film festivals, Schoonmaker has been extremely busy with several projects, developing A Touch of Evil, his long awaited coming-of-age drama mystery feature which was originally called “Mordy.” Upcoming Filmmaker, Mark Schoonmaker Talks ‘Gridlock’ & Future Floyd’s patience and sanity are tested as he desperately struggles to find a man known as ‘The Sphinx,’ who is responsible for the death of his younger brother. Gridlock is a thriller set during a traffic jam on a country road. ![]() “ Gridlock” is a mystery crime drama about Floyd Tanager, a paranoid individual, who embarks on a life-changing journey to seek revenge. Directed by Ian Hunt Duffy Produced by Simon Doyle, Fail Safe Films. Schoonmaker mentioned: “I wanted to make a unique and fresh take on the revenge/crime drama movies with a noir element to it with a tone similar to films such as Death Sentence, The Usual Suspects & Seven.” Here’s his latest crime drama short film he helmed years ago starring Steve Wilcox ( Swamp Thing, The Liberator) and Stefan Rollins ( Powers, Cloak & Dagger). Mark Schoonmaker is making his feature directorial debut this summer with horror sci-fi drama ‘ Pitch Black Heist‘.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |