11/16/2023 0 Comments Cabin fever movie cabin bullholeVivarium “You’ll want to live here forever,” purrs the creepy estate agent as he shows Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots round an eerily generic starter home. The Lighthouse As its maker Robert Eggers put it: “Nothing good can happen when two men are left alone in a giant phallus.” We feel like we’re stuck inside this retro hallucination with them, caught in the crossfire as salty sea dogs Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson work, drink, fight and wank themselves into a florid, frenzied masculine face-off. Masculine face-off … Williem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse. Informed by director Deniz Gamze Erguven’s own experience, it’s a rousing mix of social critique, escape thriller and modern-day fairytale. Mustang A sobering reminder that house arrest is nothing new to some: in this case five, formerly carefree, Turkish sisters, whose conservative uncle decides to cage them indoors until they are ready to marry off. They do a better job than Tom Hanks in Cast Away – so good, in fact, that when rescue arrives, they don’t want to go back. Swiss Family Robinson Corny and creaky it may be, but the 1960 Disney adventure shows a shipwrecked family cheerily working together to make their desert island a happy makeshift home. The cat-and-mouse games are somewhat predictable, but David Fincher proves he can do his swoopy camerawork even in small spaces. That concrete security room seemed like an expensive extra but it sure comes in handy. Panic Room Self-isolation is a lifesaver for Jodie Foster and her daughter Kristen Stewart when her Upper West Side brownstone is besieged by celebrity marauders (Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto and Dwight Yoakam). As long as there are no ghosts, twins, psychic janitors, loud carpets or Native American burial grounds around, you’re probably fine. But then you remember how it worked out for Jack Nicholson and family at the Overlook Hotel. The Shining Use the time indoors to do something creative, they said. She makes the best of her appalling imprisonment for the sake of her son, conjuring games, activities and surprises out of practically nothing. Room Let Brie Larson be your guide in selfless, resourceful parenting in confinement situations. Photograph: Caitlin Cronenberg/Allstar/A24 Get creative … Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson in Room. This London sure ain’t swinging for Deneuve – trapped in her own psychosis as much as her sister’s apartment. Repulsion Should we airbrush Repulsion from history because it was directed by Roman Polanski? We’d also be erasing Catherine Deneuve’s incredible performance, and a vivid waking nightmare of mental illness and (problematically) male predation. Or leaving a note saying where you’re going. Staying at home never looked so sensible. Does her affliction come from within? Is she curing herself or making things worse? We can all relate to the uncertainty.ġ27 Hours Who needs the outdoors anyway? It’s not so great for James Franco’s carefree climber dude when he becomes stuck between a rock and a messy self-amputation on a solo canyon-jumping jaunt. Safe Chiming horribly with our present predicament, Todd Haynes’s 1995 masterpiece isolates Julianne Moore’s frail, privileged homemaker in a bubble of her own paranoia and anxiety, brought on by an ever-expanding palette of allergies. An unlikely scenario … Ryan Reynolds in Buried
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