Claustrophobic Horrors

[iluvdvds@Cult Labs]

Who here is claustrophobic?

Horror films have often focused on claustrophobia to build tense and scare the socks of you! This is probably why The Sqaud works as well as it does. But what are the most claustrophobic films you've ever seen?




Share your thoughts here.

Check out the blog about it at Locked In: Cinema’s Most Claustrophobic Horrors!

For me, I'd say Buried has got to take the number one spot!

[mark meakin]

The part in ALIEN where Dallas (Tom Skerritt) is searching for the title beastie in the airshafts is claustrophobic.

[Demoncrat]

Slightly tangential....but i've always thought Mike Leigh's Bleak Moments is very claustrophobic, but then i would

[Gojirosan]

I think on of the reasons I like water-based horror so much is that water offers both claustrophobic and agoraphobic fears simultaneously. Watch The Reef to understand what I mean.

But that's not what the thread is about...


Submarines! Das Boot, Below

Lifts! De Lift, Devil (though I thought this sucked, there was a sense of claustrophobia throughout)

Shopping malls? Dawn Of The Dead - all that space, but still trapped?

[Slippery Jack]

Friedkin's Bug, Polanski's Repulsion - slowly turning a familiar setting into a claustophobic and nightmarish space . . .

[Gojirosan]

The wonderful sleeper Altitude from a couple of years ago. Set on a tiny single engine aeroplane.

[suziginajackson]

Strange that no-one has mentioned the subterranean claustrophobia of 'The Descent'

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

I think on of the reasons I like water-based horror so much is that water offers both claustrophobic and agoraphobic fears simultaneously. Watch The Reef to understand what I mean.

I totally agree. That's exactly the reason why I stay away from the sea as far as possible.

I don't know why, but I think that Cabin Fever is a highly claustrophobic Horror film.

Greetings!

[ispydork]

The descent really made me claustrophobic and so did The Abyss.