10 Best Movie Lockdowns

"They're coming to get you, Bar..ba...ra!"

A lesson in choosing your isolation pals carefully, this classic horror flick from 1968 sees a group of people barricading themselves in a farmhouse against an unexplained incursion of shambling zombies. As the monsters moan and shuffle around the perimeter, the occupants bicker and brawl inside.

Hugely influential in essentially creating the zombie genre, Night Of The Living Dead also deals with sensitive themes of the time such as racial tension and cold war paranoia. It invents the concept of the modern zombie (as an animated corpse rather than a voodoo slave), even though the word "zombie" is never used in the movie, where the characters refer to them as "ghouls."