LANDLOCKED Paul Owens’ Unique, Intriguing and Ambitious Directorial Debut Comes to Select Theaters, VOD and Digital Platforms January 6, 2023
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 and delivered a unique film that has been adored adored by critics on the festival circuit. Hailed as, “…one of the most intriguing films to come out of Nightstream 2021” by the Daily Dead and a “remarkable lo-fi creeper…” by Fangoria, LANDLOCKED is among the many highly anticipated genre releases of 2023.
LANDLOCKED
Directed, Produced & Written by: Paul Owens
Mason OSwens as Mason
Jeffrey Owens as Dad
Seth Owens as Seth
Paul Owens as Paul
Writer/Director Paul Owens
Archival VHS material directed by Jeffrey Owens
Country of Origin: USA
Language: English
Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller
Distributor: Dark Sky Films
Run Time: 75 minute