10 Psychological Movies Where Horror Is Greater In Closed Spaces

If you take a single room and a small number of characters as elements, and then add a tense and dramatic situation, you will always have an excellent film as a result. It is precisely in these cinematic conditions that one can observe the depths of the human soul, and the experience turns out to be a hundred times more tense, because the protagonists simply have nowhere to escape.

O awesome.club presents 10 films of different genres, whose action takes place in claustrophobically reduced spaces with no escape.

This movie was shot in Los Angeles in just 10 days. Remember the TV game The Weakest Link (The weakest link), and with a farewell, literally speaking. Imagine: in a room, 50 people of different social status, age, race, gender and beliefs are gathered. But they are united by one thing, a game in which they have to decide who will die next. Interestingly, all the action of the characters is based on the so-called “prisoner’s dilemma”, which mainly assumes that players choose to betray their peers, for their own benefit.

But, sincerely, we warn you that, here, the questions are more than the answers🇧🇷 That is why the film is recommended not for those who are easily confused by the plot, but for those who are interested in the behavior of human nature in extreme situations.

A favorite of the independent Sundance Film Festival, held at $100,000 (which would be pennies for Hollywood), with big-name stars, an incredible operator and a perfect lack of publicity: that’s all in shadows of life🇧🇷 Yep, you guessed it: in the image above there really is a ghost, wrapped in a simple white sheet. But who could imagine a movie about a guy in a sheet, trapped in his house after he died and his story could be so widespread? Virtually all of the characters’ dialogues and emotions are replaced by long, static shots, which, paradoxically, show the speed of time and, at the same time, a sense of pain.

To be honest, this film is not recommended for lovers of action or cinema in a deep sense. It is a story of emotions that must not be understood, but felt.

The Belko Experiment is a kind of variation of Lord of the Flies, when viewers are shown what human beings are capable of in order to survive, from the moment when the moral rules and norms of a civilized society no longer work. A simple scene here changed to an “Open Space”. To be exact, 80 employees of a company are locked in an office and then explain that they must kill everyone who bothers them. At first, the guys take it as a joke, but literally after half an hour, they start swinging axes. In general, everything that happens is completely predictable: honesty, violence and something meaningless, namely life itself.

A bonus for lovers of the series: the participation of the actor who plays Dr. Perry Cox in Scrubsbut here he is not entirely amused.

Panic on the High Seas is possibly a classic in the drama genre, transferring an unlimited sea surface to open space. In the plot, some young people rent a yacht. When going out to the open sea, in the middle of playing, everyone jumps in the water, but suddenly they realize that they forgot to throw the ladder, without it being impossible to get back to the boat… Well, how come they didn’t think of that?

This is a story of fear between people’s struggle with nature and each other to get back on the yacht. Also, it becomes more intriguing when you see the caption at the end of the credits. “Inspired by real facts”.

French cinema is always distinguished mainly by its emotionality, and The Day of the Skirt fully supports this. The film talks about a teacher who works at a school for juvenile offenders. Before classes, the teacher takes antidepressants. The teenagers don’t perceive her as a teacher until she finds a gun in one of her students’ backpack and takes them hostage…

We think that the same situation, by itself, reflects how tense everything that happens afterwards will be. In addition, leaving emotions aside, the film shows practically all of society’s current problems, taking as material a single school lesson.

If you’re not new to the psychological thriller genre, then you’re probably familiar with the name Vincenzo Natali, or at least the name of his legendary movie Cube. In Nothing, he again experiments with this format, after all the word “experiment” is the one that best fits here: Nothing is an unusual film. It’s a half-comedy, half-drama story that tells of two failures who discover in themselves the ability to transform everything they don’t like into “nothing” and change the reality around them, to such an extent that practically nothing remains.

Watch until the end credits. After them there is a completely funny episode.

We have included this Italian comic drama for a long time in our compilations. However, we cannot omit when we talk about this topic, since it is a reference in its genre. Just imagine: a group of friends organizes meetings from time to time and, in one of them, they come up with the idea of ​​a curious game: read all messages aloud and answer cell phone calls only on speakerphone. Surely you will imagine that all this does not end in a happy way. They have a lot to hide on their phones! Probably like on the smartphones of each of us.

Spoiler: the ending is amazing.

If we start from the synopsis, then before us we have a copy of 8 previous films: 8 candidates in a closed room for 80 minutes try to answer a single question from a large company, which designed this test to determine the best candidate for a position of prestige. But in fact, this film differs from others in that there are no fights, blood, special effects or surprising mysteries. But he’ll all make you worried and tense, and in the end, you’ll say: “Seriously, it was all that simple!?”

Well, we get an anthropologist, an archaeologist, a biologist, a psychologist, a Christian, a young student, a passionate young lady and a man in one room, and all of a sudden you tell everyone that they are 14,000 years old. And no, this is not a joke, but a drama that shows us how inflexible our faith is when everything is tense and repressed, and the inability to accept facts that differ from our perception of the world.

If you’re a person who loves to speculate, maybe it’s a fantastic story (or maybe not).

At the end of this compilation, we arrive at a work by the film’s screenwriter Fragmented, further aggravating the theme: the action does not take place in captivity, but in an elevator cabin. Yes, we agree that the name here gives us an idea that the movie is about demons or some other strange creature, but it’s not quite that. Indeed, here the supernatural is in the background, the main thing is the psychological aspect of people’s behavior in extreme situations. To be more specific about the plot: 5 people are trapped in an elevator and, at some point, they realize that among them is the presence of the devil himself.

It is a recommended film for people who like to play the detective, because in this film it is very difficult to guess who the devil is “because people pretend to be the devil”.

Do you know any other similar movies that we can add to this list? We’d love for you to share the names in the comments.