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2234

6.3

6.8

1408 (2007)

Who is trapped: Writer, Mike Enslin.
Trapped in Room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel.
Trapped how:The room is bleepin' evil.

Lex's rating:

513

6.5

7.1

Alive (1993)

Who is trapped: A Uruguayan rugby team and some of their family members
Trapped where: in the Andes mountains, with no food.
Trapped how: Their plane went down and the authorities believe they are dead and have stopped looking.

Lex's rating:

2215

7.5

Battle Royale (2000)

Who is trapped:42 delinquent high school students.
Trapped on: an island off the coast of Japan.
Trapped how:forced to kill each other by the government, have electric collars which will explode if they try to get off the island. They are supposed to fight to the death until only 1 student remains alive.

Lex's rating:

444

5.2

4.6

Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)

Who is trapped:A class of high school students
Trapped on: An island near Japan.
Trapped how: Unlike the class in the first BR movie, these kids are "soldiers" who have been rounded up to kill Shuya Nanahara, one of two survivors of the "game" in the first Battle Royale movie.

Lex's rating:

138

6.2

5.8

Boot Camp

Who is trapped: A bunch of juvenile delinquents.
Trapped where: On an island run by power-hungry psychos in Fiji.
Trapped how:Their parents sent them there, not understanding how sick and twisted the people running the place are.

Lex's rating:

4566

7.2

7.8

Cast Away (2000)

Who is trapped: Fed-ex executive, Chuck Noland.
Trapped on:An island in the South Pacific.
Trapped how:The plane he was on crashed, and he is stranded.

Lex's rating:

970

5.6

6.2

Devil (2010)

Who's trapped: 5 strangers on an elevator.
Trapped in: an elevator.
Trapped how: One of the 5 people in the elevator is really the Devil!

Lex's rating:

8098

7.2

8.2

Jurassic Park (1993)

Who's trapped:A bunch of scientists, engineers, lawyers, 2 kids and an eccentric inventor.
Trapped in:Jurassic Park, an island retreat surrounded by electrified fences and full of living dinosaurs.
Trapped how:The dinosaurs get loose and everything goes to hellll...

Lex's rating:

303

6.6

6.9

Lord of the Flies (1963)

Who's trapped:A bunch of young boys from a military academy.
Trapped on:An unknown island in the South Pacific.
Trapped how:The plane they were on went down and they are alone, and slowly becoming more and more violent without the rules of civilization to keep them in line...

Lex's rating:

383

6.2

6.4

Lord of the Flies (1990)

Who's trapped:A bunch of young boys from a military academy.
Trapped on: an unknown island in the South Pacific.
Trapped how: The plane they were on went down and they are stranded and alone, and slowly becoming more and more violent without the rules of society to keep them in line.

Lex's rating:

2110

7.5

7.8

Misery (1990)

Who's trapped: Paul Sheldon, writer of the popular "Misery" novels.
Trapped where: Inside the residence of his "biggest fan", Annie Wilkes, who saved him from freezing to death after his car went off the road in a snow storm.
Trapped how:Annie Wilkes is a total psycho who has no plans to let her favorite writer leave her expert care...

Lex's rating:

177

7.3

Storm of the Century (1999)

Who's trapped:The residents of "Little Tall" island.
Trapped on: Little Tall island, a fictional island supposedly located off the mainland (near Boston, apparently) in Maine.
Trapped how: A huge storm blankets the island (hence the name of the movie) and a strange, supernatural visitor named Andre Linoge arrives.

Lex's rating:

300

6.1

The Langoliers (1995)

Who's trapped: A bunch of unrelated strangers on a commercial airplane.
Trapped in: An airplane that is slowly running out of fuel.
Trapped how: All the trapped passengers went to sleep and woke up outside the usual time-space continuum and now have to get home or somewhere before they run out of fuel or the langoliers catch up to them...

Lex's rating:

6535

8.2

8.4

The Shining (1980)

Who's trapped:The Torrance family (Jack, the husband/father, Wendy, the wife/mother and little Danny, the son).
Trapped in:The Overlook Hotel in the secluded Colorado mountains.
Trapped how:A freakish snow-storm has them trapped at The Overlook. Oh yeah. And The Overlook is haunted.

Can't you just feel his growing claustrophobia?

Lex's rating:

201

5.8

6.1

The Shining (1997)

Who's trapped:The Torrance family (Jack, the husband/father; Wendy, the wife/mother and little Danny, the son).
Trapped in:The Overlook Hotel in the secluded Colorado mountains.
Trapped how:A freakish snow-storm has them trapped. And the Overlook happens to be haunted, to boot.

Lex's rating:

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A list of movies where, for a certain amount of time, the characters are trapped (housebound, in jail, stranded, whatever)...these are good movies to watch on cold, rainy days or snowy days. Get into your PJs, have some hot chocolate, pet the cat and be glad you aren't trapped like they are...