10 Movies Where Characters Get Trapped In Ridiculous Places

10. Open Water

Not necessarily the one which started it all, but close to it, and arguably the most important killer shark movie since Jaws.

Often imitated, rarely bettered, Open Water is an entirely waterlogged version of the subgenre flick that sets its two hapless leads adrift and surrounds them with bloodthirsty sharks.

Swapping the big beach, bigger boat thrills and spills of Jaws and its (increasingly ridiculous) sequels for tiny-scale tension and dread, to this day, it remains an effective, influential, terrifying piece of horror cinema that should have any would-be diver thinking twice about that long boat trip out into the open water.