Posts Tagged ‘claustrophobic’

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Hackman | Ernest Borgnine | Red Buttons | Carol Lynley | Roddy McDowall | Stella Stevens | Shelley Winters | Jack Albertson | Pamela Sue Martin | Arthur O'Connell | Eric Shea | Fred Sadoff | Sheila Allen | Jan Arvan | Byron Webster
Directors: Ronald Neame
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At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90′ tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.

Saw (2004)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cary Elwes | Dina Meyer | Danny Glover | Leigh Whannell | Ken Leung | Mike Butters
Directors: James Wan
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Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn’t. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn’t work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn’t unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn’t. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn’t actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire ‘game’ out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.

Rear Window (1954)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Grace Kelly | Wendell Corey | Thelma Ritter | Raymond Burr | Judith Evelyn | Ross Bagdasarian | Georgine Darcy | Sara Berner | Frank Cady | Jesslyn Fax | Rand Harper | Irene Winston | Havis Davenport | Marla English
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his “rear window” and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is “Miss Lonelyhearts,” so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. …And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife’s sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What’s in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What’s he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?

Desperate Hours (1990)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mickey Rourke | Anthony Hopkins | Mimi Rogers | Lindsay Crouse | Kelly Lynch | Elias Koteas | David Morse | Shawnee Smith | Danny Gerard | Gerry Bamman | Matt McGrath | John Christopher Jones | Dean Norris | John Finn | Christopher Curry
Directors: Michael Cimino
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Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their getaway, she’s left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells. Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated. And there’s an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth.

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Audrey Hepburn | Alan Arkin | Richard Crenna | Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | Jack Weston | Samantha Jones | Julie Herrod | Robby Benson | Jean Del Val | Gary Morgan | Frank O'Brien
Directors: Terence Young
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After an airplane trip, a young woman asks Susie’s husband, Sam, to keep a doll for her to avoid spoiling the surprise of her daughter’s gift. But the real reason is to avoid her partner, Harry Roat, whom she hopes to cheat of the drugs hidden in the doll. Harry discovers her treachery, murders her and leaves the body in Susie’s apartment, where he has tracked Sam and the doll. He concocts an elaborate plan, involving Mike and Carlino, small-time hoods, to get Susie, who recently lost her sight in a fire, to reveal the doll’s hiding place. They lure Sam away and take advantage of Susie’s blindness, posing as an old friend, a police detective, and a father-son pair of eccentrics. Susie eventually catches on and, with the help of her young neighbor, Gloria, shows everyone that she is indeed “a world-class blind lady.”

Single White Female (1992)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bridget Fonda | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Steven Weber | Peter Friedman | Stephen Tobolowsky | Frances Bay | Michele Farr | Tara Karsian | Christiana Capetillo | Jessica Lundy | Renée Estevez | Tiffany Mataras | Krystle Mataras | Amelia Campbell | Kenneth Tobey
Directors: Barbet Schroeder
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When a ‘Single White Female’ places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she’s just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.

Collateral (2004)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Cruise | Jamie Foxx | Jada Pinkett Smith | Mark Ruffalo | Peter Berg | Bruce McGill | Irma P. Hall | Barry Shabaka Henley | Richard T. Jones | Klea Scott | Bodhi Elfman | Debi Mazar | Javier Bardem | Emilio Rivera | Jamie McBride
Directors: Michael Mann
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Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he’s long since forgotten—until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they’re about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived—and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max’ taxicab, and Max becomes collateral—an expendable person who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent’s survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ellen Burstyn | Jared Leto | Jennifer Connelly | Marlon Wayans | Christopher McDonald | Louise Lasser | Marcia Jean Kurtz | Janet Sarno | Suzanne Shepherd | Joanne Gordon | Charlotte Aronofsky | Mark Margolis | Michael Kaycheck | Jack O'Connell | Chas Mastin
Directors: Darren Aronofsky
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Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you’re hooked, you’re hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Doing their best to succeed in the world, but failing miserably, four people get hooked on various drugs. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.

Cellular (2004)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Caroline Aaron | Jason Statham | Brenda Ballard | Kim Basinger | Will Beinbrinck | Jessica Biel | Chase Bloch | Chelsea Bloch | Chantille Boudousque | Robin Brenner | Richard Burgi | Nikki Christian | John Churchill | Greg Collins | Valerie Cruz | Marco DiMaio
Directors: David R. Ellis
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A young man (Evans) receives a call on his cellular phone from a woman (Basinger) who says she’s been kidnapped, and thinks she’s going to be killed soon, along with her husband and son who the kidnappers have gone after next. The catch? She doesn’t know where she is… and his cell phone battery might go dead soon.

Secret Window (2004)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | John Turturro | Maria Bello | Timothy Hutton | Charles S. Dutton | Len Cariou | Joan Heney | John Dunn-Hill | Vlasta Vrana | Matt Holland | Gillian Ferrabee | Bronwen Mantel | Elizabeth Marleau | Kyle Allatt | Richard Jutras
Directors: David Koepp
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Mort Rainey (Depp), a writer just coming off of a troublesome divorce with his ex-wife, Amy (Bello), finds himself stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger (Turturro) who claims Mort stole his best story idea (changing just the ending)… (Hutton plays Bello’s new boyfriend; Dutton plays a private investigator hired to make Turturro’s character leave Mort alone.)