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8 Great Movies That Are Set (Almost) Entirely In A Single Room

In Lenny Abrahamson's Room, a mother and her son are kept captive inside 'Room' - actually a garden shed behind the house of 'Old Nick', the disturbed man who keeps them locked in and fed. It's a bold concept, and one that director Abrahamson must have been mad or overly-ambitious (or both) to take on. And yet the ambition paid off, as Room is drawing rave reviews from critics, some of whom see it as an Oscar contender.

3) Wait Until Dark

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Audrey Hepburn, Wait until dark (1967) starring Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna

Little-seen today, Wait Until Dark is still a great little thriller that creates tension out of non-action, before spiralling brilliantly into terror and violence at the end.

After a drug deal goes wrong, photographer’s wife Susy (Audrey Hepburn) is paid a home visit by a trio of gangsters posing variously as police and friends of her husband in order to get their hands on the heroin-filled MacGuffin inside her apartment. What ensues is a con game slowly unraveling, made even more complicated by one crucial factor: the fact that Susy is totally blind.

Facing off against Alan Arkin’s nasal and supremely nasty gangster, Audrey Hepburn gives an Oscar-nominated turn, her last before she went into semi-retirement. Her Susy makes for an unexpected heroine, in a home invasion movie where the victim can’t even see the invasion taking place – probably for the best, considering the film is home to one of the most frightening jump-scares found outside of horror cinema.

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