Exclusive Held Behind-the-Scenes Clip Featuring Writer & Star Jill Awbrey
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An Intruder Threatens Sleeping Couple in Our Exclusive Clip from Home Invasion Horror HELD
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Ever since
The Invisible Man, the upper-class wife whose luxury real estate becomes an overbearing metaphor for her isolating marriage seems to have become a go-to set-up for indie filmmakers. Last year we had
Swallow and
The Nest, and this year that plot gets a straight-up genre treatment in
Held. The perennially pained-looking Emma (Jill Awbrey, who also wrote the script) is clearly over her square-jawed husband Henry (Bart Johnson), but they’re giving it one more try by escaping to a secluded, automated smart house vacation rental. Naturally, the property’s version of Alexa has other plans drugging them and forcing them into chivalrous machinations straight out of a 1950s marriage manual. Held doesn’t hold back, skimping on character development, rushing into the concept and mainly using the first act to set things up to pay off later. Basic druggy montages, a visually uninteresting set and an even more uninspired baddie sap
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Henry (Bart Johnson) and Emma Barrett s (Jill Awbrey) marriage is falling apart. Trying to save their relationship, the couple celebrate their nine-year anniversary by renting out a modern vacation home for one weekend, equipped with the top-of-the-line smart home features and security.
However, their weekend getaway takes a turn for the worse when Emma wakes up the next morning in different clothes, and a stranger reveals he s been watching them the whole time, knowing every little secret of their relationship. Henry and Emma attempt to escape, only to be locked in due to the house s automated security system. Held hostage, Henry and Emma must now obey the stranger s every command if they want to live.