Movies with big budgets lean to do a spate of world - hopping to alien fix ; others make tenseness or drama by restricting their character to one elbow room or location . curb out eight great films that kept it simple .
1.Dog Day Afternoon(1975)
Nearly two decade after12 Angry Men , Sidney Lumet directed thisoddball drama , based on a true story , about a duet of ill-chosen bank robber who mount a face-off with the confidence after their half - baked design descend apart . FeaturingAl Pacinoand John Cazale as the malefactor and Charles Durning as the cop specify to negotiate with these increasingly feckless criminals , Lumet captures the strange , funny , and oddly relatable relationships that evolve throughout the film — first as motive to put the plot of ground in apparent motion , but finally they emphasise the choice , paths taken and give up , that conduct us all to inevitable crossroads in our lives .
Where to watch it : HBO Max
2.Clue(1985)
As the first - ever flick base on aboard game , Cluetakes all the classic trope of the one it ’s based on and shinny them up into a delightful romp that has since become a cult classic . Set in a secluded New England sign , the movie feature an all - star cast including Eileen Brennan , Tim Curry , Madeline Kahn , Christopher Lloyd , and Michael McKean as theatrical role who all have a reasonableness to belt down , an official document to do it , and an alibi when they become the prime suspect . Three different endings were created to keep audience in the dark ( and offer up different options for multiple viewings ) , but the big thrill is getting lock inside that creaky mansion and trying to see out the mystery .
Where to watch it : Amazon Prime viaIMDb TV
3.Phone Booth(2003)
Colin Farrell realise the mistake of nibble up a public pay phone and getting grab in the crosshairs of a killer in this tense thriller from managing director Joel Schumacher .
Where to watch it : Amazon Prime
4.Reservoir Dogs(1992)
Quentin Tarantino ’s directorialdebutwas a bracing blast of stale weewee to Hollywood , a absorbing , character - rich drama about a mathematical group of thieves assembled for a heist that devolved into ferocity and infighting . Taking place almost solely inside a storage warehouse , the various members of this motley crew exchange profane barbs as they attempt to influence out what happened during the task , and what to do now that it ’s over . have one of the most sick scenes Tarantino ever save ( which , notably , you actually do n’t ever see ) , the picture feel as hefty and revelatory now as it did back in 1992 , as you ’re trapped inside that room while the frump turn on each other .
5.Clerks(1994)
shoot for a little over $ 25,000 at a polar present moment in the growth of independent cinema , Kevin Smith launch his vocation withthis film , which is set inside the restroom store where he used to sour . sport two twenty - something nobodies musing about romance , adulthood , andpop finish , Smith captured the articulation of a multiplication even as he conceived an intensify serial of side - carve up scenarios and create his own C-3PO and R2D2 , Jay and Silent Bob , who became the eventual observers and connective tissue of the View Askewniverse .
6.Pontypool(2008)
mastermind by Bruce McDonald from an adaptation of Tony Burgess ’s novel write by the author himself , Pontypoolconceives a unambiguously bewitching idea : what if an contagion or computer virus could be make not by blood or bacterium but the human interpreter ? Stephen McHattie plays a shock jock pin inside his radio place after masses in his consultation — and the outside world — lead off yield to this unknown , unexplainable phenomenon . A zombie movie that takes that intimate epidemic from a uniquely cerebral perspective , McDonald ’s film create both nonrational tension and the unique existential threat of an unseen , detectable , and yet impossible - to - trap - down menace .
Where to watch it : Amazon Prime viaAMC+
7.Dredd(2012)
Before moving on to directEx MachinaandAnnihilationand create FX’sDevs , Alex Garland wrote this enfranchisement reboot forJudge Dreddin which the comical character ( played here by Karl Urban ) gets locked inside a in high spirits - rise run by crime lord Ma - Ma ( Lena Headey , as unpitying as she was diddle Cersei Lannister onGame of Thrones ) . Brutally violent but visually gorgeous , Garland and director Pete Travis reinvent the graphic symbol for a fresh propagation in a decidedly more serious and imposing way , but it ’s the looming construction containing all the characters that create a pressure cooker that can not help but explode in the biggest , most glorious way possible .
Where to watch it : Hulu
8.Gerald’s Game(2017)
Mike Flanagan is easily one of the great journeymen of the modern era of horror , and his adaptation ofStephen King’sGerald ’s Gameexpertly entrance the hectic , hallucinatory uncertainty of a woman left to fend for herself — and project out a fashion to survive — when her husband dies of a heart attack after cuff her to a bedpost . Carla Gugino yield a showstopping performance as Jessie , stick in mad lot that prompt her through some particularly unhappy reflexion , pent-up memories , and ( possibly ? ) real visions as she attempts to escape the prison house of a beach - house bedchamber .
Where to watch it : Netflix
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