10 Horror Movie Deaths That Get Worse The More You Think About It

10. What's In The Box?! - Buried (2010)

Buried has never really received the attention it deserves, being written off by some as 'Phonebooth underground' and generally not finding traction on the big or small screens, despite its star draw in Ryan Reynolds.

Reynolds plays Paul Conroy, a truck driver working in Iraq who falls prey to a gang of terrorists, who kidnap him, nail him in a coffin, and bury him alive. With time and air supply running out, Paul has to use the limited resources available to him - namely a Blackberry, a Zippo, and a pen - to direct the FBI to his burial site.

It should go without saying that things don't go as planned, and Paul signs off with sand up to his neck, no rescue team in sight. Far from a quick death, this one plays on a whole plethora of our greatest fears: there's the claustrophobia of being trapped in a restrictive box, becoming all the more restricted as the sand flows in; there's the slow suffocation as air runs out; and there's the pain of swallowing and breathing in the sand that takes its place. But more than all of this, Paul dies with full and certain knowledge that nobody is coming to save him, going to his doom feeling, well, doomed.

Truly, the stuff of nightmares.