Isolation Horror, The King Kong Effect

REC is the first movie that comes to mind. Wasn't there a movie that was release recently, a few years ago, named like above/below something, would that qualify? I haven't seen it, coz i dont watch horror movies too much these days, as i get scared a lot!

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As Above, So Below (2014)
Yeah it'd fit the theme tbh, they get trapped under ground

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Gone through the thread, and put the list together.
Will add this to the OP as well


10 Cloverfield Lane
30 Days Of Night
127 Hours
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien: Resurrection
Anaconda (1997)
As Above, So Below (2014)
ATM (2012)
Battle Royale
Black Water (2007)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Breathing Room (2007)
The Breed (2006)
Buried (2010)
The Cabin In The Woods
Circle (2015)
Crawl Or Die (2014)
Creep (2004)
Cube (1997)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Deep Rising (1998)
The Descent (2005)
Devil (2010)
The Dyatlov Pass Incident (aka; Devil’s Pass)
The Edge (1997)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Ex_Machina
Exam
Frozen (Adam Green 2010)
Green Room
The Grey
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Hole (2001)
Howl (2015)
Hunger (2009)
Identity (2003)
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1976)
Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005)
Kong: Skull Island
Life (2017)
Life Of Pi
Open Water
Pandorum (2009)
Predator
Predators
REC
The Ruins (2008)
Saw (2004)
Shutter Island
Splinter (2008)
The Thing (1982)
Tremors
Triangle (2009)
Vile (2011)

Freely available on UK Amazon which is where I got my copy from some years back.

Might be region code problems with other countries.


Try this

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The Shining

@The Rodent Are you going to watch these movies? Write about them? What???? You're after some horror movies, what does that mean?!?!?!?!

Just after a decent list of this theme, as it appears I like these kinds of horrors/thrillers judging from my past viewing experiences.


Any I've not seen, I can have a look at them... but it'd be nice to have a comprehensive list to mull over

Also, it'd be cool to have a list somewhere on MoFo, namely this thread, for other people to scan over as well.

You might wanna add Dead Birds to your list as well then.

Upon further consideration, I think Texas Chain Saw Massacre counts (or at least doesn't fit the disqualifying criteria). The setting is self-contained (a farmhouse and the surrounding acreage), the threat of a single family of serial killers is not "widespread" in the same sense that zombies or giant monsters are, there's no influence from the outside up until the very last minute, and the main character's initial attempt to run away and use a phone does not work.

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You could add The Belko Experiment and also The Ritual. Two I've seen recently.

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Why is it called The King Kong effect, when King Kong took place, all the way from an island in the South Pacific, to New York City? Not exactly a contained setting, is it?

It's something I picked up on watching Predator with John McTiernan's commentary.
He says that "Predator is basically King Kong... like a lot of films, they main cast go to a place that's remote to find something... only what they find is bigger than they expected and they have to run away."

Don’t breathe - trapped in that house

Event horizon - ?

Yeah got Event Horizon down.


Don't Breathe could be a good addition... wanted to check that out.
I've been wanting to see A Quiet Place as well. Looks like it could fit the criteria. No spoilers though please, I want to see that one spoiler free.

Ok so far then:


10 Cloverfield Lane
30 Days Of Night
127 Hours
A Quiet Place
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien: Resurrection
Anaconda (1997)
As Above, So Below (2014)
ATM (2012)
Battle Royale
The Belko Experiment
Black Water (2007)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Breathing Room (2007)
The Breed (2006)
Buried (2010)
The Cabin In The Woods
Circle (2015)
Crawl Or Die (2014)
Creep (2004)
Cube (1997)
Dead Birds (2018)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Deep Rising (1998)
The Descent (2005)
Devil (2010)
Dog Soldiers
Don’t Breathe
The Dyatlov Pass Incident (aka; Devil’s Pass)
The Edge (1997)
Event Horizon
The Evil Dead (1981)
Ex_Machina
Exam
Frozen (Adam Green 2010)
Green Room
The Grey
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Hole (2001)
Howl (2015)
Hunger (2009)
Identity (2003)
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1976)
Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005)
Kong: Skull Island
Life (2017)
Life Of Pi
Open Water
Pandorum (2009)
Predator
Predators
REC
The Ritual
The Ruins (2008)
Saw (2004)
The Shining
Shutter Island
Splinter (2008)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing (1982)
Tremors
Triangle (2009)
Vile (2011)

Ah, another super cheesy one.
Maximum Overdrive

Titanic .......

Even scarier

The Poseidon adventure

Water is the horror

Poseidon is a pretty good shout tbh