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May 7, 2014 · If you enjoy feeling trapped and anxious, check out this list of films that create a sense of confinement and dread. From space to elevators, from horror to drama, these movies will make you squirm in your seat.
14 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Pandorum. 2009 1h 48m R. 6.7 (160K) Rate. 28 Metascore. Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone. Director Christian Alvart Stars Dennis Quaid Ben Foster Cam Gigandet. Honorable Mention.
- 101 VOTES. The Descent. It's the classic choice when looking for a claustrophobic horror flick. The Descent follows a group of friends who head out to explore an underground cave system and end up discovering horrific beings also living down there.
- 70 VOTES. Buried. Pictures. Ryan Reynolds carries this one-man performance in a role that's a bit unsung for the A-List actor. He plays a trucker who wakes up to find himself buried in a coffin underground.
- 50 VOTES. The Cave. Cave systems are scary. Tight spaces coupled with the unknown of it all are mined for horrific gold in The Cave. The story follows a group of thrill seekers who are hired to explore a newly discovered cave system beneath a Romanian abbey.
- 59 VOTES. As Above, So Below. A found footage movie that's bound to terrify the claustrophobic, As Above, So Below follows an archaeologist who's searching – of all things – for the Philosopher's Stone and learns that it's hidden in the catacombs below Paris.
- Buried
- The 33
- The Descent
- The Cave
- Devil
- Phone Booth
- 127 Hours
- Green Room
- Misery
- Ex Machina
So it’s fair to say that Ryan Reynolds earned every cent of however much he was paid for playing Paul Conroy in this incredibly nerve-shredding thriller inspired by the Hitchcock classic, Rope. The star was forced to endure 16 days crouched in a wooden box in a Barcelona studio while starring as an Iraq-based American civilian truck driver buried a...
As with Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center, the fact that everyone witnessed the real-life disaster of The 33 unfold on television just a few years prior practically rendered the film redundant. But although it’s hard to argue for the necessity of Patricia Riggen’s English-language take on Chile’s most famous survival story, it still makes for an in...
And so now for an altogether more fantastical (and inarguably more frightening) cinematic experience set deep underground. Neil Marshall’s acclaimed 2005 horror might not have been filmed in the real Appalachian Mountains – in fact, most of the shoot took place at sets specially built at Pinewood Studios near London – but its nightmarish imagery st...
Released in the States twelve months earlier, The Cave may have beaten The Descentto the underground monster punch, but it lacked the psychological chills, gripping tension and competent performances that made Neil Marshall’s flick such a cut above the rest. Nevertheless, Bruce Hunt’s fairly unremarkable film still contains plenty of moments to mak...
It’s one of those enclosed spaces that even non-claustrophobes can often get anxious about, and producer M. Night Shyamalan undoubtedly elevated the fear of getting in one with this supernatural horror. A semi return-to-form following the critically-mauled Lady in the Water and preposterous The Happening, Devil thankfully avoided the unnecessary na...
A claustrophobic film doesn’t necessarily have to take place in the darkened indoors at night to be effective. Director Joel Schumacher’s taut and tense 2002 thriller is set almost entirely in a very public outdoor phone box in the broad daylight of New York, and yet still manages to get the heart racing quicker than you can say "connect call." The...
Sticking with the outdoors, the majority of 127 Hoursis set in the Blue John Canyon in Southeastern Utah. And to be more specific, in a highly isolated slot canyon where no-one is around to hear you scream — something which the real-life Aron Ralston knows all too well after a boulder trapped him there for five days back in 2003. Based on the true ...
Having graced both instalments of the Star Trek reboot, Anton Yelchinwas no stranger to playing characters forced to inhabit a confined space, but Jeremy Saulnier’s psychological horror was a different beast altogether. Here, the Russian-born actor plays the frontman of a destitute hardcore punk band, The Ain’t Rights, who take a gig at a backwater...
Forget the Candyman, the masked Scream killer and the clown from It, one of the scariest ‘90s horror baddies was a frumpy middle-aged nurse named Annie Wilkes. Indeed, Kathy Bates deservedly received both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her iconic performanceas the sledgehammer-wielding villainess who took fan worship to a whole new level in this 1...
Having previously explored the wide open spaces of an idyllic paradise island in The Beach, a terrifying zombie apocalypse in28 Days Later and the final frontier in Sunshine, writer, novelist and producer Alex Garland created a far more insular world with his highly acclaimed directorial debut. Indeed, Ex Machina takes place entirely in the luxurio...
65 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The Bar. 2017 1h 42m. 6.3 (29K) Rate. In bustling downtown Madrid, a loud gunshot and two mysterious deaths trap a motley assortment of common urbanites in a decrepit central bar, while paranoia and suspicion force the terrified regulars to turn on each other.
Oct 8, 2010 · 20 Most Claustrophobic Movies Ever. Ryan Reynolds gets ''Buried'' alive this weekend; here are past films that left us begging for wide open spaces, from ''Apollo 13'' and ''Phone Booth'' to...
Jun 22, 2023 · If you’re in the mood to feel stuck, closed-off, confined, check out our list of the best claustrophobic movies. There are classic horror films like The Descent (2006) and 1408 (2007), along with genre-benders like The Lighthouse (2019) and The Abyss (1989). Table of Contents.
