LOCKOUT is a poor quality indie horror flick that will make little sense to anybody who bothers watching it. It starts out on a relatively simple footing with a man fired from his job and moving to an old house in Wisconsin and is subsequently haunted by strange events and characters. At this point coherency takes a nose dive and I had no idea what was going on or who the characters were - the scriptwriter doesn't bother explaining any of this. It's really not worth sticking it out to the end where you finally discover just what on earth is going on.

First off, Lockout is low budget. If you don't care for low budget horror then you will probably wish to pass on this film. Personally, I believe a good low budget horror film is a true piece of work and the film makers have to work that much harder to make up for tight funding. Lockout was a surprisingly disturbingly edgy tale.Dan (Kris Desautels) finds himself out of a job, a victim to outsourcing. For a change of pace and to soften the financial hit, he, his insecure wife Chris (Cyn Dulay), and her younger obnoxiously, self-deluded sister Roweena (Claire Davenport II) move to Dan's second home in Wisconsin. Matters turn dark when Roweena attempts to set up shop as a call girl in the rural area and is contacted to entertain a grisly fetish.Save the constant barrage of four letter expletives reminiscent of a Rob Zombie film, acting is solid here. The film is careful and stingy with story clues. Shock and gore is viciously let loose in masterfully timed shotgun bursts that slap hard and without warning. It is a far from perfect film, but it is engaging.

I give a movie about ten minutes to get my attention. If I don't care then it's proved itself a safe bet to move on. This movie captured me. I kept watching and but at the same time wondered why.I think I did because the actors felt somewhat real and I started caring for them. Also it had a 1970s (early 80s)-feel I quite liked. Like when I was young and saw Amityville Horror for the first time. For people like me, who enjoys horror-movies and miss those days when they really frightened you, this is a great movie... in that weird nostalgic way only a true horror-fan who liked "Alice sweet Alice", "Butcher, Baker Nightmaremaker" and "Antropophagus" can appreciate.

The story line of this film is almost completely non-sensical. The director/writer of this film took ideas/concepts from other films and tried to put them together into a 'uniquely' drawn out story (with the always great 'twist' ending), however, the end product is a piece of garbage. The characters in this story lack any depth whatsoever. The film contains no original scoring, poor editing, and at times, even worse acting. The director/writer clearly did not care about his characters and it shows in his work. While I hate to slam the 'efforts' of a low budget film maker, everyone should steer clear of this wasted effort. I did manage to sit through the entire 'experience' and can only offer that if you are feeling sad, lonely or just misunderstood, watch this film, you will laugh at how ridiculous it is.