During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.
Direction
Sewell's suffocating vault sequences—pure spatial horror.
Acting
Derren Nesbitt's sweaty panic vs. Colin Gordon's crumbling dignity.
Director
Vernon Sewell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vernon Sewell shot this entire film in just two weeks on a shoestring budget, using a real bank vault location that genuinely terrified the cast.
The film inverts heist conventions: the 'villains' become desperate saviors while the 'respectable' banker reveals his hollow core—pure British class anxiety dressed as crime thriller.
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