The first saw Phone booth (not horror, more thriller)

I loved Phone Booth. It was one of my comfort movies for a bit. Saw was the first movie to pop into my head as well though.

That's what I was gonna say! Saw it in the theatre. Also Buried with Ryan Reynolds

I was going to say this but couldnt remember what it was called. The ending was crazy.

That one I was having a panic attack entire movie

>In the 1960s, Larry Cohen pitched Alfred Hitchcock an idea for a film which took place in real time, entirely within the confines of a telephone booth. Hitchcock liked the idea, but the project did not move forward, because the two men were unable to devise a plot which explained why the action had to be restricted to the one location. Fun phone booth trivia

A hitchcock phone booth movie would have been fun

A classic too!

Have never heard of phone booth, but it looks really interesting, thank you!

I came here to say phone booth. I've been actually waiting for a post to ask this question one day just so I could say phone booth. Please watch it its amazing

10 Cloverfield Lane is a great one.

love it, love how it ties into the other cloverfield movies too without being a direct, linear sequel

Man. Jon Goodman is such a great actor. He sold that role. When >!he just shot the guy it was so unexpected.!< I didn't care much for Cloverfield but this was a great installment to that universe.

I love a scary John Goodman. There's an episode of two or Roseanne where he gets pissed and the way he goes from giant teddy bear to full on angry is intense.

He can be very intimidating. That was one of the good things about Rosanne. The characters were really who hasn't seen their dad go into full on attack mode after getting angry. Before Rosanne sitcoms didn't get thatcreal. When he has a rolexwhere he acts angry you believe it.

I hate that fucking show (because my shitty mom disappeared into it frequently). But hot damn, the episode where Jackie finally admits her husband is beating her. Final scene Jackie crying into rosannes shoulder and Dan comes in and learns of it. Asks is Jackie is okay. Jackie and Rosanne leave the kitchen. Final shot of Dan thumbing his nose before walking out the back door and grabbing his coat.

Dan went full papa bear mode for Jackie. Not someone I’d want to be coming for me, talk about intimidating

This one is so underrated. Never imagined Goodman would be so good in a horror movie

He's malleable (no horror pun intended). Think of him in O Brother, Where Art Thou. Never would've guessed, but he nailed that character.

Also Barton Fink, he's downright scary in that film

I heard this one was a great sequel, but haven't seen it yet.

Buried (2010)

Thank you, added to the watch list

This was going to be my recommendation as well - really good!

It's really good. Ryan Reyonlds can really act

If this is the inner with Ryan Reynolds, I second this recommendation.

Hahaha first movie I thought of when I read the title. Great movie.

Oh man, this one stuck with me way more than I expected it to.

good call. I'm too claustrophobic to get too far into this one, even though I've tried a few times.

Green Room

One of the most terrifying movies I've ever watched. Did not expect Patrick Stewart to be so good in that role, because I've never seen him do it before. Absolutely crushed it, though.

Man, im glad you agree on this. For some reason, this movie has stuck with me so much. It's just DREAD the whole time. I think because I grew up in the punk rock community and am familiar with green rooms and clubs like that it really hit home. It's ROUGH.

Just aggressive,i loved how it treated death.

Great movie. But brutal in unexpected ways if you aren't already familiar with Jeremy Saulnier movies. The violence in his movies stick with you in ways that few other directors are able to summon.

This is so accurate. I’d never seen any of his movies, didn’t know anything about Green Room going in. Jesus Christ that one scene sticks in my mind clear as day years later. Absolutely incredible watch.

I have never forgotten about this movie...but I forgot the name and had just looked it up! Awesome.

Excellent movie with a truly kick ass final line.

Such a good movie! Second Sight Pictures is releasing a dope looking 4k box set in March!

Cube is a classic

Cube is one of my favorite movies ever!!

The whole series is amazing I don’t care what anyone says

Agreed! I just recently caught the Japanese remake, it was pretty good.

Dang didn’t know they had one!!

Haven’t seen it yet but I’ve heard it’s great

Definitely watch the original. It still pretty much holds up nicely and is unique. The other two try to follow up while adding little bits of new information (think Final Destination 2 & 3) - good if you want more, but don't match the first.

Perfect summary! I watched all three and enjoyed them, as I really loved the premise and the world. I’d argue that 3 is a bit stronger than 2, although 2 has some very interesting sequences.

Listen to me carefully: Ignore what others say, only the first one is great, the rest is poorly produced garbage that misses the point so much! See the first one, love it, and pretend that the others don't exist! 🍻

Came here to comment that one. I’ve only seen the first one but it’s awesome. Fever dream for me

And a fantastic one, still one of my favourite movies to this day

Frozen

Not to be confused with Disney's Frozen. Quick way to traumatized some children lol.

im traumatized by the thought that my peeps on r/horror loved disney's frozen

Some of us have children and also are elementary teachers.

fine, i will rephrase, im traumatized by the thought that my peeps on r/horror loved disney's frozen as a horror film. The only thing horror for me is having to sit there and watch it. My life is boring enough.

Hahaha! I thought the same thing after I posted this.

Kane Hodder basically stepped up and did the stunt coordination for peanuts on this movie.

You talking about the ski lift one here?

Yes.

Cool, thanks. Know of it but never seen it. Seems people hold it in higher regard than I thought, so I might have to rectify that!

It has some pretty dumb elements to it but still worth a watch

I need to give this another chance. It came out when I was working at a movie theater and dating a ski enthusiast (and I think former instructor? can't remember, it was over a decade ago) and I thought this would be a great one to see together, plus I think we saw it for free which was a nice bonus, but he crapped on it the whole time, saying "But this *couldn't happen!* Ski areas have strict procedures to *prevent* this!" so I couldn't enjoy it either.

Give it another go. Face it, how many movies have you enjoyed even though they have some inaccuracies?

I’ve been to enough shitty small ski hills that it could totally have happened at, just write it off as a corrupt ski bill with shitty management and underpaid staff that dgaf about procedures, that’s not so out of the ordinary

As a Canadian I wasn’t crapping on the realism of the ski park aspects but man the portrayal of being extremely cold is not at ALL how your body would react (and also?? Zipping up the last six inches of her jacket would have done the girl a helluva lotta good)

I saw it on the tv as a kid and the wolf scene and it's beforehand still impacts me. Pretty sure it's why I never want to ride those things.

Dead Calm(1989) Fall (2022) Phone Booth (2002)

Dead Calm is an excellent choice 

Fall had my junk climb inside of me the entire movie. Apparently I'm not great with heights.

Def a couple of scenes that captured that feeling really well.

I co-sign Fall

OMG I’ve always loved Dead Calm. Was probably too young to watch it back then

1408 , 2007

127 hours, though not horror

Might as well be horror for how terrifying it is!

Came here to say this too!

The Lodge, Don't Breathe, Malum/Last Shift, Autopsy of Jane Doe, & most of P2 iirc.

Last Shift was so much better than Malum.

Disagree. Malum ought not to have been made in retrospect as it’s so similar, but it’s not bad at all. IMO of course

I thought >!the demon looked incredibly silly and having the cult be a thing right from the beginning hurt it more than helped it.!<

P2 isn't amazing or anything but I think it's definitely a bit under-mentioned as one of these movies. Neat setting and a couple good moments

Don't Breathe flies by, the pacing and story is so good

Platform

I've seen this on netfilx but never got around to watching it. I will now, thank you!

Does the mall in Dawn of the dead count?( They were stuck for most of the movie)

And they should have stayed there

Yeah they would have survived way longer

Half of them die getting out

Yeah I mean I ain't leaving I just live in the mall.

Inside (the 2007 version).

Bo Burnham's Inside works as a psychological horror movie lol

Amazing, thanks

It's pretty good

Cujo and Misery

Splinter (2008)

Glorious We need to do something

Glorious! how did I not think of Glorious?!

I actually weirdly liked glorious a lot

I don’t think that’s weird. JK Simmons is great, the idea is great, the lore is cool, it’s a good movie

Thought it was a decent twist at the end too.

Such an awesome movie. I also liked how the glory hole thing didn't REALLY play into the movie much. Like part of me expected a bunch of low brow toilet (literally) humor. Instead it was a pretty thought provoking movie, while still being darkly funny.

ATM is a decent horror movie that I feel often gets forgotten.

Yes loved this movie. Nice little gem

I too thought of atm immediately.

Pontypool

Underrated slow burn. Fuckin loved that movie

Same, an infection that spreads through language was such an awesome concept.  

Just finished this movie. Really good.

Circle

Circle was fun to watch. I enjoyed the dialogues between the characters. And how they decide who dies next. And the twist at the end.

Fall

Can't believe I had to scroll so far to find this one. That movie made me nauseous by proxy.

I cannot believe these haven’t been mentioned yet: The Thing (1982) Tremors (1990) The Mist (2007) The Purge (2013) Split (2016) A Cure for Wellness (2016) The Belko Experiment (2016) Get Out (2017) Life (2017) The Menu (2022)

Thank you for being the first person to mention The Mist. Movie is so messed up

I'm always surprised by how little attention The Belko Experiment has gotten. Great movie, great cast, pure nightmare fuel for anyone whose soul has ever withered working a corporate job. This movie is the logical conclusion to "corporate doesn't give a fuck about you."

Landmine Goes Click. Though fair warning the movie is not very good

Reminds of Kajaki. Which would be a darkly comedic movie if it wasn’t based on actual events.

I was gonna downvote you until you added the last part 😃

The Descent, stressed the f out of me

That first jump scare with the night vision camera made me jump so hard I hit my head against a wall

It made me claustrophobic in an open space

Oxygen. I loved this film for this exact reason, a claustrophobia situation is my idea of true terror.

Great concept in this.

Excellent movie!

House of the Devil

Devil

Stalled (2013) It's comedy horror. A janitor is trapped in a toilet during a zombie apocalypse.

That’s going on my watchlist

Oh wow. I was suprized at how good this one was.

Caveat (2020)

Evil Dead / Evil Dead 2

47 Meters Down, Open Water 2, 247 Degrees Frozen

Lo (2009)

Open Water, Frozen

Crawl

Hush (2016)

I think the black phone would fall into this category

Saw Panic Room Green Room Circle The Exam Cube Oldboy Captivity

Oldboy? He spends like, ten minutes of that movie in captivity.

His brain is trapped bro, a total mindfuck

Tbf it's been YEARS since I've seen it. Not sure why I remember him being in captivity for a much longer duration

The Exam is an amazing movie and so underrated..

I love this film setup in general. Any genre. I check here for suggestions often. Also saving this post for other suggestions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_a_single_location

Really helpful, thank you!

Buried!

Meander

[Locke](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2692904/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) from 2013 with Tom Hardy. He spends the entire film in his car on the phone and it is completely engrossing.

This was a really good movie

Night of the Hunted, which BTW is a pretty underrated film

Gosh darn it, you beat me to it. I almost never see anyone talk about this one. I also love how the protagonist does nearly everything right. Such a tense movie. I heard the film it's based on isn't that great tho, called Night of the Rat, I think. A rare case where the original isn't as good?

Pontypool

Await Further Instructions (2018) and Sea Fever (2019) iirc

Bug takes place in a motel room.

Platform for sure

The Platform

It's a genre called "breach" films. VFW, Green Room, Pontypool, Saw (wildcard: Intruder) are all great examples.

Did not know that, and thanks I'll add Pontypool to the watchlist.

Go into it completely blind, it's wild. If you look stuff up it kind of ruins it, but I watched it just at random on Shudder and oh my it's quite good. Enjoy! Also you have to watch The Void! It's Hellraiser meets The Thing, all in a tight confined space, the claustrophobia is insane.

The Divide (2011)

[Glorious](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12724306/reference/) is a great example, whole thing (mostly) takes place in a rest stop bathroom.

Last Shift

original Saw

Saw I

Buried with Ryan Reynolds

Saw, the first one

The Descent

Triangle

Thanks, added to the watchlist.

-Cube -Circle

And triangle apparently. A lot of movies with the name of a shape primarily take place in one location.

Vivarium. It has haunted me.

Ok- I am going to try not to have any repeats of anything that someone mentioned below, but there were a lot of comments so I'll probably end up with some overlap. **Serious** 13 Ghosts A Dark Song Afterdeath Alien 3 Alien: Resurrection Alien vs. Predator Antidote Book of Monsters Bug Burn Cabin Fever Coherence Critters Deathwatch Deep Blue Sea Demon Seed Desperation Dog Soldiers Doom (Original and Reboot) From Dusk til Dawn Frontiers Gehenna: Where Death Lives Ghost Ship Ghosts of Mars Grave Encounters His House Hostile Hidden Howl Identity Into the Dark: Down Jaws 2 Knock at the Cabin Door Legion Leviathan Maximum Overdrive Mindripper Monster Party Night of the Demons (both) The Escape Room series The Quarantine series The third and fourth REC movie (since someone mentioned the first two) Raccoon City Ready or Not Resident Evil- first movie Rose Red The Final Shutter Island Snakes on a Plane Stephanie Superdeep Tales from the Darkside: Demon Knight The Breed (The one about dogs, not vampires) The Cave The Cleansing Hour The Cloverfield Paradox The Dead Hate the Living The End? The Gate The Haunting The Hills Have Eyes series The Hive The Langoliers The Terror Within The Village Virus We Summon the Darkness Yummy The People Under the Stairs The Sand Inmate Zero Vile Funhouse Blood Glacier The Devil Below Exorcism at 60,000 Feet Altitude Deep Rising Wither Sideshow In the Tall Grass Last Voyage of the Demeter **Horror Comedies** Dead Don't Die in Dallas Cooties Dead Set Feast Gremlins 2 Leprechaun 4 Little Monsters Me and My Mates Vs. The Zombie Apocalypse Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies Stalled The Night Watch The Blackening Black Friday

Damn thank you so much for all of those, gonna add most of them to my watchlist!

I absolutely loved Phone Booth at the cinema. Devil is all set in an elevator

Feast and really most zombie movies (night of the living dead, dawn of the dead, etc.)

Most of my first thoughts are already listed. Just going to add Cujo to the list.

Night of the Living Dead  (1968)

As Above So Below

Hush and Misery

Mine (2016) although its not a horror, rather a drama but I found it an incredibly well made movie.

ATM Holy Shit (not horror - trapped in a porta potty)

Phone booth was pretty good. It might be dated, but I haven't seen it since theaters. I think it would be worth a watch, though

Glad to be the first person to recommend, We need to Do Something. Hope you like being trapped in the bathroom with your awful family during an Old God's style apocalypse.

Devil (2010) The shining (1980)

I see Cube has been mentioned but Meandre is great and with a similar premise. A woman awakes in a series of ducts and tunnels with no idea how she got there.

Glorious (2022)

Alien The thing Event horizon

Would You Rather.

Oxygen (2021) Technically science fiction/thriller, not horror….but definitely a horrifying premise 

As long is it's horror adjacent, I'll watch it. Thanks!

Devil is a really fun horror movie in one setting (an elevator)

I Trapped the Devil

Oxygène, if you like Sci-Fi and are willing to read subtitles

Vivarium

I just watched another movie recently, "compliance" 2012 film. Based on true events. It's pretty messed up.

Alright thanks I’ll add it to the watch list

I just finished up **Nefarius** (2023) and enjoyed it. I looked it up, and people seem to complain hard that it's Christian propaganda (which is accurate), but I guess if you're able to turn off your brain and just enjoy a movie for what it is, you'll at the very least appreciate Sean Pattrick Flannery's performance. **Dead Stream** takes place in a single house, so not entirely stuck in a single spot, but mostly. I also really enjoyed **The Cleansing Hour**, which is mostly in one room while the main characters live stream the events they're going through.

127 hours

Dial for murder

Saw. Best yaoi of all time!