Claustrophobia is indeed one of the most common phobias that a lot of people in this whole wide world would suffer in their own life. For those who are not familiar, claustrophobia could be easily understood as a disorder in anyone’s anxiety that would cause an undeniable fear of really enclosed spaces. It could make them feel like they are trapped.
Talking about the phobia of enclosed spaces, there are actually so many movies that are made which can make all the people with claustrophobia feel uneasy when watching them. Lots of the movies show people that got trapped in various different close encounters such as caves, coffins, elevators, and others. These are 5 of the related movies.
1) Buried (2010)
Buried is actually a 2010 English-language Spanish psychological thriller movie that was directed by Rodrigo Cortés. This movie stars Ryan Reynolds and was written by Chris Sparling. It is about an Iraq-based American civilian truck driver named Paul Conroy who, after being attacked finds himself buried alive in a wooden coffin, with only a lighter, flask, flashlight, knife, glowsticks, pen, pencil, and a mobile phone.
2) Devil (2010)
Devil is actually a 2010 American supernatural horror movie directed by John Erick Dowdle. The movie stars Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Geoffrey Arend, Bojana Novakovic, Jenny O’Hara, and Bokeem Woodbine. It was released on the 17th of September 2010. The Devil movie follows a group of people that got trapped in an elevator and the devil is mysteriously amongst them.
3) Frozen (2010)
Frozen is actually a 2010 American survival movie written and directed by Adam Green. It stars Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, and Kevin Zegers as three friends stranded in a chairlift after a day of skiing, forced to make life-or-death choices in order to avoid freezing to death, while also trying to survive being killed by a hungry pack of wolves.
4) Moon (2009)
Moon is actually a 2009 science fiction movie directed by Duncan Jones and written by Nathan Parker from a story by Jones. The film follows Sam Bell which is a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon.
5) Quarantine (2008)
Quarantine is actually a 2008 American-found footage horror movie directed and co-written by John Erick Dowdle. The movie follows a reporter and her cameraman assigned to a pair of Los Angeles firemen who follow a distress call to an apartment building where they discover a deadly mutated strain of rabies is spreading among the building’s occupants. Escape becomes impossible once the government descends upon the building to prevent the virus from spreading beyond it, and the pair continue to record the events that unfold inside, of which the film itself is the final result.
Sources: Buried, Devil, Frozen, Moon, Quarantine.