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LANCASTER -- An independent film titled "Lockdown," in which a psychopathic college student holds several students and staff hostage in a library and goes on a shooting spree, is currently being filmed at Atlantic Union College.
According to director and Princeton resident John Stimpson, the film is inspired by the 2007 Virginia Tech and 1999 Columbine High School shootings and other similar events, and he hopes to shed some light on the difficult subject matter.
"With anything like this, you hope to bring awareness to a real problem, and in this case, it's a real mental illness, a real problem that people fight with and have to overcome and that our legal and penal system has to deal with," Stimpson said.
The lead character of the film, Suzanne, played by Katee Sackhoff, of "Battlestar Galactica" and "24" fame, is a psychology professor at the fictional Gambles College, the location of which is never revealed. When Suzanne was six years old, her mother shot and killed her father, and Suzanne worries she will also become a psychopath. She has been studying and working with a troubled young student named Connor, played by Grant Harvey, of the ABC Family series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," who becomes obsessed with her.
"When she tells him he's gone too...