Nine minutes. One car. A lie that could cost everything.
Tommy, an out of work building contractor, faces up to the consequences when a series of phone calls expose a lie that spirals out of control. With his family in danger and everything he knows rapidly unravelling around him, he must make the toughest decision of his life. Set entirely within the claustrophobic confines of a parked car, HOLD brings an atmospheric and tense twist on a familiar genre.
Direction
Blagrove squeezes maximum dread from zero movement.
Acting
Whitelock's face does all the screaming.
Sound
Vicky McClure's voice performance is devastating.
Director
Jonathan Blagrove
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Whitelock performed the entire shoot in a single stationary car with no set movement, relying entirely on lighting changes to indicate time passing.
The film was made during early 2020 lockdown, making its single-location constraint eerily prescient of the isolation audiences would soon experience.
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