STORAGE LOCKER movie poster | ©2023 Freestyle Digital Media

Rating: Not Rated
Stars: Mike Gassaway, Bobbie Grace, Meredyth Fowler, Avery Mayo, David Treviño, Hannah Hufford, Skeeta Jenkins, Jeannie Carter-Cruz, Jennifer Gunderson, Fritz Reinig, Allen Danziger, Connie Green, Nora Hunter, Leanne Smithers, Brian K. Jammer, Sydney Reyna, Victor Hinojosa, Alec Willrodt
Writer: Ray Spivey
Director: Ray Spivey
Distributor: Freestyle Digital Media
Release Date: August 22, 2023 (digital)

A storage locker is a thoroughly suitable setting for horror. The establishments are usually deserted, with confusing layouts, shady renters, and unknowable contents.

STORAGE LOCKER is definitely a horror film. It is also partially set at a storage locker, though it doesn’t use the facility in the way we might expect. Yes, the place does have some unconventional items inside, but it functions more as a hub for the action than as a site of essential fear.

A flash-forward shows us an elderly gentleman screaming in frustration when the large trunk he opens turns out to be empty.

Then we meet Packer Stanley (Avery Mayo), a young man who is a passionate comic book collector. He sets up a purchase in an isolated place, where naturally he gets rolled.

Worse, the stolen money was meant to go for Packer’s Hawaiian honeymoon with fiancée Jenni (Hannah Hufford). Jenni is furious when she finds out what happened. Demanding that Packer choose between her and his collection, Jenni winds up kicking him out of their shared home. Hence Packer’s need for a storage locker.

After finding most facilities full, Packer is finally able to rent a space in a complex owned by the beautiful Leto sisters, Diana (Meredyth Fowler) and Apollonia (Bobbie Grace). Diana turns out to be a fellow collector, albeit not of comic books.

Packer’s loyal friend Chas (David Treviño) tells Packer that the sisters are wealthy, both of them are attracted to Packer, and they offer him a job. Seems great, right?

Turns out that the sisters have complicated sibling, family, and financial dynamics. Apollonia is open about being both a witch and a scientist, although she’s a little less forthcoming about exactly what she’s trying to do with her magic.

Director/writer Ray Spivey has crafted a plot that can be described as novelistic in its complexity, with a Dickensian-sized cast of characters, each out for him or herself. There are some startling twists, and clever use of sets on what looks like a tight budget.

But STORAGE LOCKER has its drawbacks. The first is almost consistently on-the-nose dialogue. Then there are details that don’t make sense. Packer declares at one juncture that he’s finally found his own kind in terms of collectors. How has he not found any community before this? We know he has been in and out of local comic book stores. Without a collecting community, how is he able to buy and sell? And has he never heard of, say, Comic-Con, or at least the Internet?

Both Jenni and Chas’s estranged but jealous wife Wendy (Jennifer Gunderson) are written as completely unsympathetic to their significant others, to the point where we don’t understand why these people are ostensibly together.

Toward the climax, Packer goes back and forth on his devotion to collecting a few too many times for his ultimate choice to have impact.

There are a few moments that are genuinely startling, though the tone is a little too camp for real dread to rise.

If STORAGE LOCKER doesn’t land in some ways, it is still interesting in its ambitious storytelling.

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