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Achievement List Unlocked for Resident Evil 4 HD
It seemed like it was only yesterday when we got our first look at Code Veronica’s Achievements, a list that would get even the least Resident Evil-friendly gamers salivating at its easy achievements. Most are story based, meaning you’ll have a majority of them unlocked by the end of the game, and Resident Evil 4’s cheevos look to be much of the same. My personal favorite is “Do Not Shoot the Water,” because I totally did after hearing from a friend that something happens if I do. Needless to say when that something happened I screamed like a little girl. Whereas I usually scream like a pre-pubescent boy.
I’ve included the full list of achievements after the jump, and for those of you who might be as lazy as me, I also threw in Code Veronica’ list. Why? Because I fucking love you, that’s why. Resident Evil 4’s Cheevos
It Begins With a Ring (50G): Ring the mysterious bell. What happens after that, is up to you.
Do Not Shoot the Water! (50G): Summon the master of the lake. Don’t rock the boat.
A Rock and a Hard Place (50G): Outmaneuver the rampaging beast, El Gigante.
Secure the Ballistics (50G): Rescue the president’s daughter, Ashley. Afterwards, the real fun begins.
A Bloodline Severed (50G): Defeat the village chief in battle.
A Terrifying Assassin (150G): Turn the tables on Verdugo, the right hand of Salazar.
The Castellan Falls (50G): Defeat Salazar, and make your escape from the castle.
The Ties That Bind (50G): Defeat Krauser, your former partner, in battle.
We’re Going Home (100G): Defeat Saddler in battle, and escape from the nightmare.
A Heart of Steel (150G): Clear the game on the highest difficulty.
What Are They Worth? (150G): Acquire all of the bottle caps in the game.
The S Stands for Stylish!! (100G): Acquire all of the costumes in the game.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica’s Cheevos
The Terror Begins (50g): Escape from the graveyard of terror
A Changed Father (50g): Liberate the changed man
Beyond The Shades (50g): Encounter a former S.T.A.R.S. captain
The Fallen Tyrant (100g): Flatten an unstoppable enemy
The Prisoner Who Lost Everything (100g): Defeat the nameless man and end his suffering
To The Frozen Land (50g): Begin the search for your sister
The Arrogant Queen (150g): Put an end to the Queen’s reign
Duty And Humanity (50g): Deliver some medicine to a man in need
Weapon Crazy (150g): Get the Rocket Launcher
Battle Master (150g): Get the Linear Launcher from Battle Game
From The Young Lady (50g): Receive encouragement from a young lady
The Green Giant (50g): Say farewell to your fallen comrade
Huge, sloppy thanks to Xbox360Achievements
Let’s start with the good news. Lockbox looks far better than its misleading marketing materials suggest, a supernatural horror movie so darkly lit and color graded that you’ll have to squint your way through jump scares. It’s also anchored by reliable genre performers. That’s also about where the good news ends with this rote adaptation of Knifepoint Horror Podcast story “Winthrop.”
The empathetic Carla Gugino gives her all as Ellen, a saint of a woman with boundless patience who takes on life’s hard luck with a kind smile. After giving up her career as a fashion designer to become caretaker for a dying mother, she’s then forced to reinvent herself once more when her caretaker role ends. That catches us up to the events of Lockbox, where Ellen is asked to take in a cousin she hasn’t seen in quite some time who’s dealing with severe PTSD.
Just as Ellen finally establishes a real connection with Winthrop (Lou Taylor Pucci), it’s interrupted by the arrival of peculiar neighbor Vahna (Katharine Isabelle), who spells clear trouble. When Vahna shows up dead, it sets in motion a supernatural battle of possession.
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Director Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism, Prey for the Devil) and screenwriter Justin Yoffe approach Lockbox in the broadest of brushstrokes, dooming it from the start with clunky storytelling and woefully underdeveloped themes of heady topics like PTSD. Winthrop is a character that comes loaded with emotional baggage and trauma that’s piled on throughout his tragic life, but much like its title, his interiority and history are treated like a tightly guarded secret meant to prolong the supernatural mystery.
The problem here, though, is that Lockbox is too sparse to sustain mystery at all, and it instead robs Winthrop of characterization. It winds up trapping the talented Pucci without anywhere to go, toggling between wounded animal and mentally disoriented.
From there, Lockbox bounds through plot developments without any sense of stakes or purpose, peppered by a smattering of haphazard paint-by-numbers jump scares. The only unwavering constant is Ellen’s resolute faith, and Stamm seems to leave it entirely to Gugino to guide confused audiences through this inconsequential story right up until its supernatural climax.
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To give more credit, Lockbox at least injects an unconventional exorcism here; just don’t expect much in the way of explanation. When the film finally reveals the meaning behind its title, it dangles a fascinating carrot it has zero interest in delivering. More than a severe lack of fleshing out its characters beyond plot drivers or devices, this faith-based flick also seems terrified to offer any worldbuilding whatsoever.
Yoffe’s script stretches the short story beyond its means instead of fleshing it out, and Stamm fills out the gaps with cheap CGI scares and overwrought performances; Isabelle’s Vahna is beyond cartoonish in her villainy. It’s also pretty nonsensical, treating only Ellen’s faith with the utmost sincerity and largely squandering its typically reliable talent. So much so that the final imagery, pure sunkissed saccharine sentimentality, leaves you with the feeling that this horror movie might be better suited as an entry in Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Lockbox releases in select theaters on July 3, 2026.
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