> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# FILM REVIEW: Jackplot
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/film-review-jackplot/
- Published: 2020-12-05T14:14:31.000Z
- Updated: 2020-12-03T17:40:21.000Z
- Description: Brian Butler watches a modern morality tale that shocks
- Author: Brian Butler
- Tags: Arts, Reviews

[![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/director-marco-de-luca600400.png)](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/home/)

Director **Marco De Luca** won the Dekkoo Love and Distance Film competition and as a result was funded to produce another short movie.

The result – the 11-minute long Jackplot is not for the faint-hearted. Two newlyweds, Kevin and Jay ( **Jack Parr & Adam Redmore** ) are driving home having won what looks like a phenomenal amount of cash at the racetrack.

[![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jackplot-11600.png)](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/home/)

De Luca’s skill, using Hannah Hooton’s terse and tense dialogue, is to make the claustrophobic interior of their car at night on the motorway a place of foreboding.

We’re not long into the plot before the car interior is intercut with scenes of a badly injured man – difficult at that stage to tell who – with gruesomely bloody injuries .

Back in the car, the men argue about how the windfall is to be spent, one wanting a honeymoon, the other with hair-brained schemes, and all the time the money sits in an open bag menacingly taunting them. The air of tension builds and builds with false alarms and a deepening gloom.

When the inevitable accident happens, there’s a sad and scary resolution inside the car that brings you up short .

[![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jackplot-600.png)](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/home/)

As I repeatedly say, short films usually show promise of something bigger – difficult to see how this storyline could extend but there’s no doubt that De Luca is an atmospheric director of award-winning talent.

Jackplot is released on multiple platforms on December 2.

[![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jackplot_poster600.jpg)](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/home/)