Action

Fifteen assorted lowlifes -- contract killer, serial killer, rapist, terrorist, mafia boss, cartel kingpin, gang member and so forth -- awaken in an abandoned prison, where they are given until dawn to eliminate each other -- the soul survivor winning his or her life.  In addition to numerous video cameras -- their deaths being wagered on by rich viewers -- there are also weapons and boobytraps stashed throughout the prison.

Two of the combatants are sympathetic... Gillian, a detective guilty of gunning down unarmed scumbags, and Fiasco Damn, an ecological terrorist guilty of sinking whaling vessels.  Yeah, I know... Fiasco Damn.  WTF kind of name is that?  I’ve actually used the character before and since... a cool antihero.  If Billy Butcher screwed Snake Plissken and the condom broke, Fiasco would be their bastard child...

I wrote “Lockdown” in 2012, so no -- I’m not ripping off “Squid Game.”  It’s also quite similar to James Gunn’s “The Belko Experiment,” right down to the almost identical ending.  Although Belko was released five years after I wrote this, I was in no way ripped off.  Gunn never read my script, and the word “coincidence” exists for a reason.

Anyway, it’s non-stop action, with a few sprinkles of black comedy and horror, and some extremely unpleasant deaths.