10 Most Claustrophobic Movies Of All Time
3. The Descent (2005)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86%
After the success of his horror-comedy Dog Soldiers in 2002, future Game of Thrones director Neil Marshall was in high demand. At first unwilling to commit to a project that would peg him down as a horror director, the Brit signed on to helm The Descent after being impressed by the script. The film went on to earn in excess of $57 million from a budget of less than $5 million and won numerous independent film awards in the UK.
It follows a group of six female friends as they head to North Carolina to spend some time exploring caves a year on from Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) losing her family in a car crash. Though her friends apologise profusely for not being fully there for her after the tragedy, Sarah remains reserved over the matter, though any animosity she feels towards her caving companions is put on hold when a collapse traps them inside a deep and narrow cave that has never been mapped.
Just like Romero's survivors, the girls have to contend with flesh eating monsters, this time in the form of troglofaunal humanoids, though in this instance they have to do it miles underground and in near-pitch black. The Descent is a claustrophobic's nightmare, a nerve-wrecking 100 minutes of imposing darkness, impending danger, and little chance of escape.