UNIT 234_ THE LOCK UP Trailer (2024) Isabelle Fuhrman

UNIT 234_ THE LOCK UP Trailer (2024) Isabelle Fuhrman

UNIT 234: THE LOCK UP Trailer (2024) Isabelle Fuhrman, Don Johnson, Thriller Movie
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"We're all guilty of something." That might be true, but so what? Signature Ent. has revealed the official UK trailer for Unit 234: The Lock Up, a "tense white-knuckle thriller" from filmmaker Andy Tennant. It's currently set for a VOD release in the UK this October, though there's no US date confirmed yet. After the shocking discovery of an unconscious man in a locked unit, the lone employee of a remote storage facility must fight to survive the night against a ruthless gang, dead set on retrieving their precious cargo – at any cost. Who is this guy locked in there anyway, what do they want with him? Starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Don Johnson, and Jack Huston, along with Christopher James Baker, Anirudh Pisharody, and James DuMont. Why does this look like another Saw spin-off movie? Definitely a direct-to-video concept despite this cast coming aboard to try and make it actually seem like a legitimate movie. Take a look below.

Here's the official UK trailer (+ poster) for Andy Tennant's Unit 234: The Lock Up, direct from YouTube:

Unit 234: The Lock Up Poster

Overtime is hell for Isabelle Fuhrman in this tense white-knuckle thriller. After a shocking discovery of an unconscious man in a locked unit, the lone employee of a remote storage facility must fight to survive the night against a ruthless gang, dead set on retrieving their precious cargo - at any cost. Unit 234: The Lock Up, also known as just Unit 234, is directed by American producer / filmmaker Andy Tennant, director of the films It Takes Two, Fools Rush In, Ever After, Anna and the King, Sweet Home Alabama, Hitch, Fool's Gold, The Bounty Hunter, Wild Oats, and The Secret: Dare to Dream previously, plus TV series recently. The screenplay is written by Derek Steiner. Produced by Lee Dreyfuss, Blythe Frank, Doug Murray, Hadeel Reda, William G. Santor. This hasn't premiered at any festivals or elsewhere, as far as we know. Signature debuts Unit 234: The Lock Up direct-to-VOD in the UK on September 30th, 2024. No US date is set yet.
Signature Entertainment has shared a poster and trailer for director Andy Tennant’s upcoming thriller Unit 234: The Lock Up.

Starring alongside Don Johnson and Jack Huston, the film sees Isabelle Fuhrman as Laurie, a woman working the night shift alone at a storage facility when she discovers an unconscious man in a unit and is forced to fight for her life against the gang set on retrieving their cargo. Watch the trailer below…

After a shocking discovery of an unconscious man in a locked unit, the lone employee of a remote storage facility must fight to survive the night against a ruthless gang, dead set on retrieving their precious cargo – at any cost.

Unit 234: The Lock Up is set for release on September 30th.
‘Unit 234: The Lock Up' is coming to digital platforms later this month and you can now watch the trailer for the thriller.

Starring Isabelle Fuhrman (‘Orphan: First Kill'), Don Johnson (‘Knives Out') and Jack Huston (‘Kill Your Darlings'), ‘Unit 234: The Lock Up' is written by Derek Steiner and directed by Andy Tennant (‘Fool’s Gold'). Watch the trailer below:

Overtime is hell for Isabelle Fuhrman in this tense white-knuckle thriller. After a shocking discovery of an unconscious man in a locked unit, the lone employee of a remote storage facility must fight to survive the night against a ruthless gang, dead set on retrieving their precious cargo – at any cost.

Take a look at the key art for the film below:
Love a good B-movie? Well, get ready to love Unit 234: The Lockup, an unwieldy but unique title that disguises a fun eighty-minute action thriller, hitting digital platforms this week and likely to unlock a cult following. Ok, sure, it’s Die Hard in a storage facility, but wait till you get a load of the names on the teamsheet. Instead of some lantern-jawed hunk of wood in the lead, it’s Isabelle Fuhrman, star of Orphan and Orphan: First Kill, dressing like an adult for a change. She’s in the red corner, and in the blue, it’s the mighty Don Johnson, cultivating his post-Knives Out career renaissance with memorable bad-guy turns in Rebel Ridge and this. And who or what are they fighting over? Let’s not even speculate on whether he’s a good guy or not, but Jack Huston turns up on a gurney sporting a missing kidney and….

OK, that beep, beep, beep sound is this review backing up to give you a better look at the goods on show. Laurie Saltair (Fuhrman) is a gal in a pickle; not only is she let down by a co-worker and forced to work front desk at her family’s storage facility in the sticks for the weekend, but it’s her birthday weekend and she’s meant to be partying with her boyfriend in Nashville. Even worse, we later find out that Laurie has a ‘fine arts and philosophy’ degree, so get out your handkerchiefs; this girl is going nowhere fast. Except things do get worse, much worse when a mysterious smooth-talking stranger (Johnson) turns up seeking access to a storage facility that he doesn’t have a key for. Laurie fobs him off, but when she opens up Unit 234, she finds Clayton (Huston) who is recovering from kidney-removal surgery….

‘You people are sick…not everyone, just me,’ says Johnson as he coughs red blood into his white handkerchief; he’s in a bad way, but what does this dying man want from Clayton? Johnson wants to bash Huston’s napper into next week with a golf club for one thing, but as Laurie evades various circling factions in and around the storage unit area, she’s running out of time to figure out how to protect poor Clayton from his pursuers as the storage wars commence…

Filmed in the Cayman Islands, and executive produced by Johnson and Colleen Camp, Unite 234 maintains admirable tension for the first hour, and then, as the action leaves the facility, throws in a few twists which just about stick the landing out over the 20 minute home straight. Fuhrman is a fresh and funky ‘dumpster-diving’ heroine, pissed-off at life and easy to empathise with, while Johnson adds another malevolent turn to his run of villainous form of late, and Huston is great value as an ambiguous character who….but you’ll need to grab a key or a crowbar and open up Unit 234: The Lockup for yourself to find out the secrets that lie within. Directed by Andy Tennant and scripted by Derek Steiner, and with a George Fenton soundtrack to boot, this is one of 2024’s most unexpectedly enjoyable films, tough, entertaining AF and a straight home run from absolutely nowhere.

Unit 234: The Lock Up is available on UK Digital Platforms 30 September. Distributed by Signature Entertainment

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Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Irish rights to Unit 234, a thriller starring Don Johnson (Knives Out), Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan: First Kill) and Jack Huston (Kill Your Darlings) from sales agent Radiant Films.

The feature is directed by Andy Tennant from a script written by Derek Steiner and is produced by Blythe Frank (Being Charlie), Hadeel Reda (The Ride), Lee Dreyfuss (The Misfits) and Productivity Media’s William Santor (Stockholm) and Doug Murray (Unplugging).

Synopsis reads: After the shocking discovery of an unconscious man in a locked unit, the lone employee of a remote storage facility must fight to survive the night against a ruthless gang, dead set on retrieving their precious cargo – at any cost.

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The deal was negotiated between Signature Entertainment’s Acquisitions and Development Manager Katie Wilkinson and Radiant Films’ founder Mimi Steinbauer.

“We’re always happy to do business with Radiant, and to be able to bring another cast-led high-octane thriller to UK audiences is a real pleasure. Unit 234 is not to be missed – Fuhrman once again proves she’s a force to be reckoned with,” Wilkinson said today of the pic.

Karis Aldridge, London-based Head of Sales for Radiant Films International added: “I’m so glad we’re partnering with Signature on the Unit 234 release, it’s the perfect home for this film. This is a wildly thrilling watch that I know UK and Irish audiences are going to love. It’s yet another reminder of Isabelle Fuhrman’s rising star.”

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Radiant Films Intl. has unveiled a first-look image of thriller “Unit 234,” pictured above. Isabelle Fuhrman, who had a breakout role in 2009’s “Orphan,” and reprised the role in this year’s hit “Orphan: First Kill” essays the lead. Pic follows Fuhrman, and employee of a remote storage facility, who discovers an unconscious man in a locked unit. She must fight to survive the night against a ruthless gang, who are dead set on retrieving their precious cargo at any cost.

Andy Tennant (“The Kominsky Method,” “Fool’s Gold”) directs from a script by Derek Steiner.

“Unit 234” is currently in post-production, and also stars Jack Huston (“House of Gucci,” “Manhunt”) and Don Johnson (“Knives Out,” “Watchmen”).

Lee Dreyfuss, Blythe Frank, Doug Murray, Hadeel Reda and William G. Santor produce; Colleen Camp, Don Johnson Radiant’s Mimi Steinbauer executive producer. Radiant Films Intl. is handling sales.

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