7 Movies That Scared You Away From Ever Taking Public Transport Again

5. Ferry - War Of The Worlds (2005)

The sluggish nature of ferries doesn't make them great getaway vehicles in the face of catastrophe, and this is never more apparent then during Steven Spielberg's dark rendition of War Of The Worlds from 2005. Tom Cruise stars as Ray Ferrier, a man who's desperately trying to take his two children from New Jersey to be with their mother in Boston. The only problem is the little matter of an alien invasion in progress, and the three characters happen to be on board a ferry where one of the alien machines launches an attack. Everything seems reasonably mundane until a whirlpool begins to spin and one of the Tripods rises up from below the water with a menacing whir; proceeding to flip the ferry, its cargo, and its passengers upside-down - with the parked cars on the deck tumbling in after them. Spielberg repeats the same sort of filming techniques here that he used in that infamously powerful opening scene from Saving Private Ryan - with the camera bobbing above and below water from a POV perspective, placing viewers right in the centre of the disaster zone as random citizens are hooked up into the towering alien tripods above. It's pretty frightening stuff. Of course, this isn't to say that War Of The Worlds caused people to abandon ferry rides in fear of potential alien invasion. It's simply the way in which Spielberg so convincingly plunges the ferry into the depths of the black waters that makes you realise how sickeningly scary it would be to be a passenger on such a vehicle if any kind of disaster struck - be it alien, natural or man-induced.