lockdown tower

One morning everything has changed: the residents of a multi-storey social housing building wake up surrounded by impenetrable darkness that has settled in front of all doors and windows. Any attempt to pierce through the black void ends fatally. Trapped in a building complex populated by people of all backgrounds, the tenants have to organise to master their hopeless situation – but when food runs out, the first conflicts begin. And soon it is down to the survival of the fittest.

Guillaume Nicloux, in France renowned as a director of arthouse cinema, now ventures into the realm of survival horror and delivers a frighteningly pessimistic commentary on the status of modern society. In the profoundly nihilistic scenario of LOCKDOWN TOWER, which rises to the level of a cinematic dare, man is again wolf to man, with sharp teeth – and no morals whatsoever.