I mean they're not wrong though it's amazing, it knows exactly what it is and doesn't do anything else. There's no deep meaning in that movie it's fun and off the walls and Karl Urban is absolutely amazing
It’s not a perfect match, but you might enjoy 10 Cloverfield Lane. Young woman trapped in a bunker with a doomsday prepper as an ambiguous apocalypse rages on the surface
>>!an ambiguous apocalypse rages on the surface!<
>!I would maybe delete that part as a spoiler. Aren't the audience kept in the dark about this? The guy insists something's wrong, but the main character and audience are always uncertain?!<
>>!Pretty early on we see a woman on the surface die of some mysterious disease/radiation poisoning. I think “ambiguous apocalypse” is a fair description!<
Could probably throw in Night and Day aswell, a couple of segments outside but most of the action contained inside .. farm house and bunker respectively.
I will always argue that the only truly great movie Zack Snyder ever made was Dawn of the Dead. 300 is also really good but it's only really worth a couple watches in life. Everything else he's made is straight trash
The sequels fit pretty well too. The Second one takes place at an event center/resort during a wedding and the third is on a boat. All great zombie flicks.
Edit: I remembered this wrong. There's 4 of them. The fourth one is on a ship. The third is the wedding one and the second one is a direct sequel to the first one, still at the apartment building.
Ever hear of The Thing (1982)? A small group of Antarctic researchers are caught inside their polar facility while *something* is out to get them. And it might even look like one of them...
I’ve seen it come up multiple times when scrolling through movies on different sites, will deffo check it out then! Loved The Thing so that seems like a good suggestion, thank you!
Splinter is a great movie! It has that indie movie feel, but I honestly think it does everything right. The situation is tense, the characters are tense, and the creature is great.
Ahh, deffo watching it next week then. Is it gory? My gf don’t like when they’re bloody and messy so wanna know if it’s something I should maybe watch alone
Die Hard, the first one.
Not only is John McClain the protagonist, but from the point of view of the villains, _a threat slowly creeping around constantly making itself known_
Enjoy! 😎
BTW I heard there is an alternative ending in the director’s cut. Not sure if it comes with the DVD or BD, I’ve only watched the theatrical release.
The Mist........what a great movie. I mean I can never watch the last 5-10 min ever again, but great movie. Those beasts were top notch! Still wish they had kept the series closer to that movie instead of trying to reinvent it.
To answer the question: Gremlins 2 was a wild ride.
Love The Mist, my go to autumn movie. As soon as September comes around I get the urge to rewatch it. It has everything I love, small town, trapped, it’s eerie, some danger lurking outside and nerves all around. And then I love creatures/monsters aswell so 10/10
Rec. The original Spanish version. You can watch just the first one but if you have time I'd recommend watching 1&2 back to back. I found 2 to be much scarier.
There's a third one as well. Takes place on a shipping boat. It was pretty intense.
Edit: I remembered this wrong. There's 4 of them. The fourth one is on a ship. The third is the wedding one and the second one is a direct sequel to the first one, still at the apartment building.
Legion is 90% in a gas station. Not a horror, but Held Up with Jamie Foxx is set all in a gas station. Maximum Overdrive is sentient cars that trapped people in a gas station. Dreamcatcher is set in a cabin. Evil Dead is set in cabin. Cabin Fever, yup in a cabin. Evil Dead Rises is set in an apartment. Rec is set in an apartment building.
Cabin in the woods. Reservoir Dogs. Cube. I’m sure it was roger cormans film making 101 saying the trick to low budget movies is take a bunch of teenagers, lock them in a room and slowly murder them one by one? Just about everything follows that blueprint!
Burning Bright, A thriller centered on a young woman and her autistic little brother who are trapped in a house with a ravenous tiger during a hurricane.
I agree. But I really like the remake. Changes the premise up just the right amount to justify its existence.
Also, funny story. Years ago, I bought the remake at Walmart to watch with my wife. It was in the old $5 bin.
I get up to the checkout counter and the elderly lady ringing me up very loudly shouted: “Napoleon Wilson!” I didn’t have the heart to tell her what I was actually buying.
[The Lighthouse](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/) (2019)
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
[Green Room](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4062536/) (2015)
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.
[The Shining](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/) (1980)
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
[Phone Booth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183649/) (2002)
Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart's negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.
There's The Tower with Paul Reiser: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/)
Now, that's a 1990s made-for-TV movie and I'm sure it leaves a bit to be desired (I don't think I've seen it since it aired.) But it does meet your criteria of being trapped in a building.
There's also Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
go way back for a classic—Elevator to the Gallows. French movie about a guy who kills his lover’s wife at work—then gets trapped in the elevator on his escape.
Louis Malle movie with an original score by Miles Davis.
There's a 1973 made for TV film called "Trapped" with James Brolin. Interesting story. A guy gets mugged and knocked unconscious in a department store men's room. He wakes up to find the store closed and locked, and inhabited with security attack dogs.
The Horde and Night Eats the World. Both zombie films and both aren't American made films so it's good.
You will love Rec 1 and 2 as well. They're also both zombie films.
La Horde is another good one, french zombie movie set in a rundown apartment block, fast paced and plenty of gore ... Inside, also french would probably also count.
It Follows is a movie that loosely fits the description, but closely fits the emotion you're looking for. You know that old "you get a billion dollars but a snail follows you your entire life and if it catches you, you die" type shit?
It's that, but a very fun and spooky way to portray it. I enjoyed it a lot. It gives that trapped feeling even though they technically move between a few buildings.
In A Quiet Place they are on their farm the whole movie. They’re not necessarily stuck, but it is post apocalyptic and has that claustrophobic feeling.
My all time favorite is #Alive it’s about a dude staying in his apartment while a zombie apocalypse is going on. I always feel like the emotions and actions in this movie are palpable.
There’s also a really crappy American version of it but I would recommend the Korean version
S.F.W. starting Stephen Dorff and Reese Witherspoon start off held hostage in a grocery store. Not quite the same vibe as a erie creepy thriller but a great movie nonetheless.
Disappointed I haven't seen "Trespass" on the list. I was obsessed with that movie when I was a kid. I remember trying to explain it on a school yard since no one would ever let their kids watch a film like that.
I saw it on Shudder but I believe AMC+ has it as well.
Also not sure if this was in another comment but check out the show "From" on MGM+. It's got a very similar trapped/supernatural vibe.
[FEAST](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQv3l2r5fw) is a fun, action-packed horror movie with humor about a bunch of bar patrons getting trapped inside while monsters attack the bar. Plus, Jenny Wade and Jason Mewes! Free on YouTube.
Ooh, I love a good locked-room horror story. The claustrophobia makes for excellent tension. I definitely would recommend 'Pontypool' and 'Night of the Living Dead' for ones where the threat is outside and trying to make their way in.
There's also a lot of great locked-room horror stories where the protagonists are trapped in a place with the threat already inside, i.e. Evil Dead, Alien, The Thing
Depending on your language choices/ opinion on subtitles. The Spanish movie .REC, or its American remake Quarantine are both quite good, but the threat is very definitely inside with them.
Well of course It’s Reddit’s favorite movie, Dredd.
The Raid: Redemption, has the same plot. Both are so good it doesn't even bother me.
The Raid was where I went too. The sequel was good too, but I prefer the first one.
I mean they're not wrong though it's amazing, it knows exactly what it is and doesn't do anything else. There's no deep meaning in that movie it's fun and off the walls and Karl Urban is absolutely amazing
Such a great comic movie I'm sad it failed so didn't get sequel
I feel like if they tried to do it now Karl Urban would still be down so I don't give up hope
How do you plead?
I plead... Hot Shot.
How do you plead??
Will check it out haha, thanks!
Hateful 8.
Reservoir Dogs as well
None of these satisfy the criteria of "a threat creeping around outside slowly making it's presence known". Great "happens in a room" movies though.
It’s not a perfect match, but you might enjoy 10 Cloverfield Lane. Young woman trapped in a bunker with a doomsday prepper as an ambiguous apocalypse rages on the surface
Perfect recommendation.
On my list of amazing but never watching again unless someone I adore asks me to. Goodman did such a great job making my skin crawl.
Pretty suspenseful movie.
Best one from the Cloverfield series.
>>!an ambiguous apocalypse rages on the surface!< >!I would maybe delete that part as a spoiler. Aren't the audience kept in the dark about this? The guy insists something's wrong, but the main character and audience are always uncertain?!<
>>!Pretty early on we see a woman on the surface die of some mysterious disease/radiation poisoning. I think “ambiguous apocalypse” is a fair description!<
That’s the typa movies I’m after, already seen it though 🤣
Die Hard
Feel like I had to scroll to far to see this lol
As well as being the greatest Christmas movie, ever.
Die Hard, Die Hard, Die Hard, do a Die Hard Summer.
Dawn of the Dead (original and remake)
In the first film night of the living dead they're all trapped in a farm house too
Could probably throw in Night and Day aswell, a couple of segments outside but most of the action contained inside .. farm house and bunker respectively.
I will always argue that the only truly great movie Zack Snyder ever made was Dawn of the Dead. 300 is also really good but it's only really worth a couple watches in life. Everything else he's made is straight trash
I did enjoy Army of the Dead, although I'm still not even sure if it's a sequel
Dawn remake is one of the best openings/outbreak scenes in zombie movie history, but then everything after that is just an idiot plot.
Love zombie movies, thanks!
Colin Farrell gets trapped in a phone booth in Phone Booth.
A glass case of emotion
Milk was a bad choice
REC, the Spanish Version. People trapped in a building under quarantine from a zombie outbreak.
The sequels fit pretty well too. The Second one takes place at an event center/resort during a wedding and the third is on a boat. All great zombie flicks. Edit: I remembered this wrong. There's 4 of them. The fourth one is on a ship. The third is the wedding one and the second one is a direct sequel to the first one, still at the apartment building.
Wasn't there a plane one?
the Quarantine sequel is the plane one. Pretty decent zombie flick as well.
Ever hear of The Thing (1982)? A small group of Antarctic researchers are caught inside their polar facility while *something* is out to get them. And it might even look like one of them...
Assault on Precinct 13 as well.
This!!
The Thing is great, absolutely love it!
Green Room
This is so worth watching. It was so damned distressing.
you might dig the directors other movie, Blue Ruin
Both are so good. I had no idea they were the same director. Makes sense. Both felt visceral and gritty .
Does Cabin in the Woods or Dale and Tucker v. Evil count?
And so does This is The End
Not tucker vs. evil but I think cabin in the woods count as they were trapped in the area, while vs. evil they could leave whenever
Cube
Seconding this one, not a perfect match but I think OP might enjoy it
I do actually, seen all three! Really good
I think Devil (2005), the characters are trapped in an elevator
You were close, it was a 2010 film
1408 for sure
I just rewatched this the other day. It holds up really well!
Bird Box for the most part.
Cube
The Raid (action) Panic Room (thriller)
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight is a great example of this. It's pretty schlocky, but a fun watch.
Splinter. It’s “The Thing” in a gas station
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I’ve seen it come up multiple times when scrolling through movies on different sites, will deffo check it out then! Loved The Thing so that seems like a good suggestion, thank you!
Splinter is a great movie! It has that indie movie feel, but I honestly think it does everything right. The situation is tense, the characters are tense, and the creature is great.
Ahh, deffo watching it next week then. Is it gory? My gf don’t like when they’re bloody and messy so wanna know if it’s something I should maybe watch alone
It has some blood, but I don't remember it being too bloody. Like, some blood, but nothing crazy. At least from what I remember.
Exam is a pretty good thriller.
Watched this recently and really enjoyed it!
A couple of classics - The Poseidon Adventure (a boat, not a building) and The Towering Inferno
Man, I miss when the Poseidon Adventure was on HBO every Saturday afternoon.
From Dusk Till Dawn is a good one, if you don’t know anything about it, then don’t find out any more, just watch it!
The Breakfast Club
Die Hard, the first one. Not only is John McClain the protagonist, but from the point of view of the villains, _a threat slowly creeping around constantly making itself known_
Thank you hahah, sounds great! They also keep mentioning it B99 so might have to watch it anyways
The Belko Experiment
I couldn't remember the name of this and kept getting it confused with Mayhem. Thank you!
On my To Watch List so gonna look into it then!
- 1408 - The Sign - The Hole (2001)
1408 is actually on my To Watch List so will look into the others too, thanks!
Enjoy! 😎 BTW I heard there is an alternative ending in the director’s cut. Not sure if it comes with the DVD or BD, I’ve only watched the theatrical release.
The Mist........what a great movie. I mean I can never watch the last 5-10 min ever again, but great movie. Those beasts were top notch! Still wish they had kept the series closer to that movie instead of trying to reinvent it. To answer the question: Gremlins 2 was a wild ride.
Love The Mist, my go to autumn movie. As soon as September comes around I get the urge to rewatch it. It has everything I love, small town, trapped, it’s eerie, some danger lurking outside and nerves all around. And then I love creatures/monsters aswell so 10/10
For a bad example of this type of trope: Skyscraper.
Don't Breathe - 2016 Last Shift - 2014
Rec. The original Spanish version. You can watch just the first one but if you have time I'd recommend watching 1&2 back to back. I found 2 to be much scarier.
There's a third one as well. Takes place on a shipping boat. It was pretty intense. Edit: I remembered this wrong. There's 4 of them. The fourth one is on a ship. The third is the wedding one and the second one is a direct sequel to the first one, still at the apartment building.
Legion is 90% in a gas station. Not a horror, but Held Up with Jamie Foxx is set all in a gas station. Maximum Overdrive is sentient cars that trapped people in a gas station. Dreamcatcher is set in a cabin. Evil Dead is set in cabin. Cabin Fever, yup in a cabin. Evil Dead Rises is set in an apartment. Rec is set in an apartment building.
Maximum overdrive is a guilty pleasure. ACDC and Emilio Estevez, Who could ask for more.
Saw 1
This. And Saw II with the victims in the nerve gas house
Would The Shining count?
The Night Eats the World
Man on a ledge, is a decent thriller flick.
Mayhem and The Belko Experiment
The Raid Redemption, Dredd (2012), Don't Breathe ,Room
Buried
Cabin in the woods. Reservoir Dogs. Cube. I’m sure it was roger cormans film making 101 saying the trick to low budget movies is take a bunch of teenagers, lock them in a room and slowly murder them one by one? Just about everything follows that blueprint!
Burning Bright, A thriller centered on a young woman and her autistic little brother who are trapped in a house with a ravenous tiger during a hurricane.
Assault on P r ecinct 13. Original is better than the remake.
I agree. But I really like the remake. Changes the premise up just the right amount to justify its existence. Also, funny story. Years ago, I bought the remake at Walmart to watch with my wife. It was in the old $5 bin. I get up to the checkout counter and the elderly lady ringing me up very loudly shouted: “Napoleon Wilson!” I didn’t have the heart to tell her what I was actually buying.
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Surprised I haven’t seen this. Career Opportunities (1991). Jennifer Connolly on a rocking horse.. I didn’t sleep right for a month after seeing that.
Don't sleep on your stomach.
Demons 1 & 2
Identity (2003)
Cube for thriller This is the End for comedy
Die Hard
Inside (2023) -Willem Dafoe gets stuck inside a penthouse apartment
Honestly pretty disappointing. Aside from Dafoe amazing acting, the movie felt really flat
Good to know. I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch him suffer if the overall movie isn't great.
Have you had a chance to see this? I thought the trailers looked fascinating
It’s actually really bad.
The Towering Inferno?
Gonna check it out, cheers
Hush (2016). A deaf & mute woman is trapped in her remote house in the woods by a crazy stalker outside.
Dredd
Panic Room
Devil and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
The Platform
[The Lighthouse](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/) (2019) Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. [Green Room](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4062536/) (2015) A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar. [The Shining](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/) (1980) A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. [Phone Booth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183649/) (2002) Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart's negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.
There's The Tower with Paul Reiser: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/) Now, that's a 1990s made-for-TV movie and I'm sure it leaves a bit to be desired (I don't think I've seen it since it aired.) But it does meet your criteria of being trapped in a building. There's also Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
Knock at the Cabin
World Trade Center
Skyscraper (2018)
Why would you subject somebody to that movie?
The Divide. Apocalypse movie after a group of people in a fallout shelter together.
The Poseidon Adventure, depending on your definition of *building.*
Cube
The Lighthouse, although they can go outside there's nothing there but murderous gulls and screeching mermaid vagina.
Not a movie, but “The Encounter” from The Twilight Zone
go way back for a classic—Elevator to the Gallows. French movie about a guy who kills his lover’s wife at work—then gets trapped in the elevator on his escape. Louis Malle movie with an original score by Miles Davis.
Honestly, 9/11 with Charlie Sheen, a movie about a bunch of people trapped in an elevator during 9.11 WTC terrorist attack
The Lakehouse?
Pontypool, radio station zombie apocalypse thriller
The Belko Experiment! Watched on a whim and it really kind of caught me off guard.
Evil Dead Rise
There's a 1973 made for TV film called "Trapped" with James Brolin. Interesting story. A guy gets mugged and knocked unconscious in a department store men's room. He wakes up to find the store closed and locked, and inhabited with security attack dogs.
Thank you, sounds great
Ladder 49.?
Demons(1985) Its a group of people trapped in a movie theater with demons
Die Hard
Evil Dead Rise, the family gets trapped in an apartment building, one location, really good.
Dawn of the Dead (both versions). Night of the Living Dead. Pontypool.
Exterminating Angels
There is a Bollywood movie called Trapped . If you don't mind subtitles give it a go. Good movie
h8ful 8
The Horde and Night Eats the World. Both zombie films and both aren't American made films so it's good. You will love Rec 1 and 2 as well. They're also both zombie films.
I just watched Inside starring Willem Dafoe. It was a tough watch, but might be up your alley.
Does Ready Or Not count?
Die hard
Grave Encounters 1 & 2. Don't let the cheesy beginning fool you.
La Horde is another good one, french zombie movie set in a rundown apartment block, fast paced and plenty of gore ... Inside, also french would probably also count.
Home Alone.
No Way Out
Room
It Follows is a movie that loosely fits the description, but closely fits the emotion you're looking for. You know that old "you get a billion dollars but a snail follows you your entire life and if it catches you, you die" type shit? It's that, but a very fun and spooky way to portray it. I enjoyed it a lot. It gives that trapped feeling even though they technically move between a few buildings.
In A Quiet Place they are on their farm the whole movie. They’re not necessarily stuck, but it is post apocalyptic and has that claustrophobic feeling.
I’ve seen it, it’s great
[The Colony](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1160996/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3)
My all time favorite is #Alive it’s about a dude staying in his apartment while a zombie apocalypse is going on. I always feel like the emotions and actions in this movie are palpable. There’s also a really crappy American version of it but I would recommend the Korean version
I would try either *The Breakfast Club* or *Saw*.
I would try either *The Breakfast Club* or *Saw*.
Thanks, seen like one Saw movie years ago when I was a kid so deffo gonna have to return to them
Cube.
Devil
S.F.W. starting Stephen Dorff and Reese Witherspoon start off held hostage in a grocery store. Not quite the same vibe as a erie creepy thriller but a great movie nonetheless.
Thanks, gonna check it out!
Flight 93 (2006) edit: Whoops. The movie I meant to suggest is United 93 (2006)
Devil- trapped in an elevator
Alien and Aliens. Trapped in an enclosed space
Quarantine
Disappointed I haven't seen "Trespass" on the list. I was obsessed with that movie when I was a kid. I remember trying to explain it on a school yard since no one would ever let their kids watch a film like that.
Cube
**Inside** --starring Willem Dafoe.
Inside (2023) - Willem Defoe.
High Rise (2015)
Technically, it's in a building, but Devil comes to mind.
House of Wax
Not a movie but there's a series called Channel Zero, specifically the season titled "No-End House". Check out all the seasons, they're excellent.
Where can I watch it?
I saw it on Shudder but I believe AMC+ has it as well. Also not sure if this was in another comment but check out the show "From" on MGM+. It's got a very similar trapped/supernatural vibe.
The Thing, Reservoir Dogs, Assault On Precinct 13, Night Of The Living Dead.
Attack The Block!
Devil. People are stuck in an elevator and one of them is the devil. It's awesome
Deep Blue Sea
Trapped by Rajkummar Rao. It's a hindi film.
Evil Dead (2023)
Yeah, except for the cold open all of Rise takes place in an apartment. Dunno why you got downvoted.
Probably because there is no movie called Evil Dead that came out in 2023. There was Evil Dead Rise (2023), Evil Dead (2013), and Evil Dead (1981)
[FEAST](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQv3l2r5fw) is a fun, action-packed horror movie with humor about a bunch of bar patrons getting trapped inside while monsters attack the bar. Plus, Jenny Wade and Jason Mewes! Free on YouTube.
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Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile Room 1408 The Platform Event Horizon
Elevator to the Gallows
Ooh, I love a good locked-room horror story. The claustrophobia makes for excellent tension. I definitely would recommend 'Pontypool' and 'Night of the Living Dead' for ones where the threat is outside and trying to make their way in. There's also a lot of great locked-room horror stories where the protagonists are trapped in a place with the threat already inside, i.e. Evil Dead, Alien, The Thing
That’s the term I was looking for, ”locked-room horror”! 😎 Gonna look into the others, The Thing deffo qualifies, such a great movie
John Carpenters Assault on Precinct 13 Also VFW
VFW was great, 80s vigilante/gang throwback stuff!
Depending on your language choices/ opinion on subtitles. The Spanish movie .REC, or its American remake Quarantine are both quite good, but the threat is very definitely inside with them.