A traffic jam becomes a claustrophobic nightmare when a child vanishes — and everyone's trapped together.
Gridlock is a thriller set during a traffic jam on a country road. 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.
Direction
Hunt Duffy squeezes Hitchcock-level tension from standing traffic.
Acting
Dunford's frantic father anchors the chaos with raw desperation.
Editing
Ruthless economy — no frame wasted in this sprint.
Director
Ian Hunt Duffy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely on a single stretch of road in County Wicklow during actual traffic conditions — the director used real driver frustration for atmosphere.
Premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh and became a calling card for Ireland's lean, mean short thriller scene that birthed later features like 'The Hole in the Ground.'
US
