The Best of the Worst Claustrophobic Moments in Film
The Descent – If you can’t breathe because you’re panicking, and stuck, miles below the surface, and you finally wriggle your way out of the cave’s narrow passage – the last thing you want to see is a humanoid life-form that is utterly at home in the place you might as well call Outer Space. It’s not so much the way Neil Marshall suffocates the character of Sarah when she gets stuck during her “fun’” adventure with her co-spelunking friends – it’s the intention behind it. We bought a ticket to a horror film. We know something awful is going to discover these women in this cave. Being temporarily stuck is a wicked trick – it must be hellish to be lodged between rocks underground. And we can sympathize all we want. But that’s not why we bought the ticket. We know something worse will happen, and that anticipation makes this moment of panic all the harder to watch.
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