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Like a Bug Under a Glass: Confined Spaces (Letterboxd Showdown)

This week's showdown is films set in confined spaces. How confined, you ask? The powers that be note a confined space is "smaller than a house or large spaceship or Titanic cruise liner." Since Buckingham Palace is a house, this leaves rather a lot of wiggle room—much more than is granted the characters in some of these films.

In any event, the films below are some combination of mostly-single location films in which a sense of claustrophobia or limited range of motion presents itself in some way or another, at least for me. Confinement-mileage may vary.

  • 12 Angry Men
  • Apollo 13
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • The Descent
  • Dial M for Murder
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • The Exterminating Angel
  • Knife in the Water
  • The Lady Vanishes
  • Lifeboat
  • Misery
  • The Mist
  • Moon
  • My Dinner with Andre
  • Rear Window
  • [REC]
  • Repulsion
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Rope
  • Saw
  • Sleuth
  • Snowpiercer
  • Speed