{"id":254713,"date":"2021-05-20T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T20:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:00:39","slug":"10-great-single-location-movies-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#10 Great Single-Location Movies \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bd71c16e84\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bd71c16e84\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#Rear_Window_1954\" >Rear Window (1954)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#12_Angry_Men_1957\" >12 Angry Men (1957)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#My_Dinner_with_Andre_1981\" >My Dinner with Andre (1981)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#Clerks_1994\" >Clerks (1994)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#Buried_2010\" >Buried (2010)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#The_Raid_2011\" >The Raid (2011)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#Coherence_2013\" >Coherence (2013)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#The_One_I_Love_2014\" >The One I Love (2014)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#The_Invitation_2015\" >The Invitation (2015)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-great-single-location-movies-film\/#Wheelman_2017\" >Wheelman (2017)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#10 Great Single-Location <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a> \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671774 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/rear-window-buried-wheelman-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/rear-window-buried-wheelman-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/rear-window-buried-wheelman-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/rear-window-buried-wheelman-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/rear-window-buried-wheelman.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For over a year now, many of us have been stuck in the same location: doing remote work, going out and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing less, living like cloistered movie monks. Everyone has their own personal\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">quarantine stream<\/span>\u00a0and we\u2019ve already seen the Zoom-based horror film\u00a0<i>Host<\/i>\u00a0explore a confined, coronavirus-adjacent narrative. Even before the pandemic, however, there was a robust tradition of filmmakers shooting one-location features on a low budget. Often, these were first-time directors striving for innovations amid limitations. The claustrophobic setting was perhaps their best chance to get a movie made and be in control of all the variables involved. Fewer locations, fewer setups, fewer chances for things to go wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This last week alone has seen the release of no less than four single-location movies. On Netflix, there\u2019s <em>Oxygen<\/em>, which seals Melanie Laurent inside a cryogenic pod, and <em>The Woman in the Window<\/em>, which has Amy Adams playing a homebound agoraphobic. On VOD, there\u2019s <em>The Djinn<\/em>, which traps a mute boy in his apartment with an evil genie. In theaters, there\u2019s <em>Profile<\/em>, which uses Screenlife as the basis for a terrorist thriller. If any of these flicks put you in the mood for the cinematic equivalent of a chamber play, here are 10 more titles that deserve an im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te spot on your to-view list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A note about methodology: this a chronological listing, not a ranking. All of the movies featured here had a budget below $10 million. That includes inflation adjustments for older films like the first one ($1 million in 1954 comes out to $9.9 million in 2021). Preference is given to films that truly stay in one location and don\u2019t stray from it except perhaps at the beginning or end when they\u2019re on their way into or out of that setting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671700 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Rear-Window-1-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Rear-Window-1-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Rear-Window-1-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Rear-Window-1-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Rear-Window-1.jpg 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rear_Window_1954\"><\/span><i>Rear Window<\/i> (1954)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">There\u2019s so much to see in a single place. In <i>Rear Window<\/i>, Hitchcock and his go-to cinematographer, Robert Burks, weaponize the act of looking. <i>Dial M for Murder, <\/i>their other 1954 collaboration with Grace Kelly, also sequestered itself in an apartment, but this one has a bigger window to the outside world. <i>The Woman in the Window <\/i>can only suffer in comparison as it invokes similar images of icy blondes and white-haired neighbors along with voyeuristic glimpses of across-the-street murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Right from the start, <i>Rear Window <\/i>trains the audience to watch and learn. After the opening credits, the camera floats out and surveys the courtyard, then the balcony and fire escape and apartment windows, where people get ready for work and sleep and brush their hair. Back inside, we see the sweat dripping from Jimmy Stewart\u2019s brow, the 94-degree temperature on the wall thermometer, his broken leg and wheelchair, his own busted camera and wall of photojournalism highlights, and a darkroom negative that matches a nearby magazine cover. Even before a single line of dialogue is spoken, Hitchcock has parceled out enough visual information to communicate the character\u2019s situation. It\u2019s pure cinema.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671701 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/12-Angry-Men-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/12-Angry-Men-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/12-Angry-Men-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/12-Angry-Men-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/12-Angry-Men.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"12_Angry_Men_1957\"><\/span><i>12 Angry Men<\/i> (1957)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Director Sidney Lumet made his feature-film debut with <i>12 Angry Men<\/i>, which isn\u2019t strictly a \u201ccourtroom\u201d drama, since it\u2019s the jury room where the movie is set. Henry Fonda plays Juror #8, who deliberates a murder trial with eleven of his peers. He\u2019s the only one who isn\u2019t ready to convict the defendant right away. The old <i>Perry Mason<\/i> TV series premiered the same year; I like to think its star, <i>Rear Window<\/i>\u2019s Raymond Burr, was somewhere in the same courthouse, arguing a case of his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Made on a $337,000 budget (about $3 million when adjusted for inflation), <i>12 Angry Men<\/i> is a good illustration of how a moving picture keeps moving even when it\u2019s marooned in one place. To keep the film visually interesting, the camera mixes and matches characters and moves into different corners and spots around the table. It reduces the room to sections \u2014 a coat rack here, a window there, a restroom through that door \u2014 thereby changing locations within the same location and giving the eye new images to process. As the story progresses, it also tightens around the men\u2019s faces, framing them more subjectively and ratcheting up the claustrophobia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671702 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/My-Dinner-with-Andre-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/My-Dinner-with-Andre-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/My-Dinner-with-Andre-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/My-Dinner-with-Andre-768x329.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"My_Dinner_with_Andre_1981\"><\/span><i>My Dinner with Andre<\/i> (1981)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn play fictionalized versions of themselves in this $475,000 two-hander set in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriately named Cafe des Artistes. On his way to the restaurant, Wallace\u2019s voiceover builds Andre up as an enigmatic figure. He\u2019s a theater director who left behind his family and career in Manhattan to go travel the world. Yet something\u2019s gone wrong with him and maybe it all somehow relates to that Ingmar Bergman quote, \u201cI could always live in my art, but never in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Brace yourself for a dialogue-heavy motion picture where the motion comes more from the characters\u2019 mouths and the viewer\u2019s brain. <i>My Dinner with Andre<\/i> does what it says on the tin. It sits you down for dinner with the eccentric Andre and lets him talk and tell stories and compare everything to the Nazis like the pre-Internet embodiment of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/1994\/10\/godwin-if-2\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Godwin\u2019s law<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That may not sound like much of a movie plot, but Andre happens to be a gifted raconteur, capable of \u201cpainting word pictures on the imagination of the listener,\u201d as Robert McKee noted in his book <i>Story<\/i>. His vivid monologues trigger one\u2019s inner production designer so that we, in effect, construct mental set pieces of places like the Polish forest where he and a group of strangers apply method acting techniques to the self. At the heart of it is the question of what it takes to keep in touch with one\u2019s humanity in the modern world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671703 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Clerks-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Clerks-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Clerks-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Clerks-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Clerks.jpg 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Clerks_1994\"><\/span><i>Clerks<\/i> (1994)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Shot in black-and-white on a $27,000 budget, <i>Clerks <\/i>is unique in that the song licensing for its soundtrack cost more than the movie itself. Kevin Smith\u2019s breakthrough indie feature \u2014 which is <span class=\"s1\">now in the National Film Registry<\/span> \u2014 reimagines Dante\u2019s <i>Inferno<\/i> as the life of a college dropout, wasting his potential while \u201cjockeying a register\u201d at a New Jersey convenience store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The movie spends its first two minutes in Dante\u2019s house before he gets called into work on his day off. Later, it makes another two-minute detour by car to a funeral wake. (We never see the actual wake.) Other than that, the entirety of the film takes place in and around the same building. Contrast this with its Miramax cousin, <i>Reservoir Dogs<\/i>, which is more liberal about venturing outside its main warehouse setting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dante works at Quick Stop and his best friend Randal works at a video store next door. They play hockey on the roof and wax philosophical about the independent contractors who died on the second Death Star. Each scene states its theme with a chapter heading that sounds like a circle of hell. \u201cPurgation,\u201d for instance, leads into a scene where Randal encourages Dante to vent his frustrations. The film\u2019s frank discussions about \u201csnowballing\u201d and the definition of sex versus oral almost earned it an NC-17 rating. What\u2019s funny is that they predicted the semantics of the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clinton%E2%80%93Lewinsky_scandal\"><span class=\"s1\">Clinton\u2013Lewinsky scandal<\/span><\/a>, which would erupt in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> just a few years later.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671704 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Buried-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Buried-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Buried-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Buried-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Buried.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Buried_2010\"><\/span><i>Buried<\/i> (2010)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\">At dinner, Andre Gregory talked about being buried alive. Here, we actually see that happen to Ryan Reynolds\u2019s character, Paul, a civilian truck driver who awakens in a coffin underground after his convoy\u2019s been ambushed in Iraq. Unlike The Bride in <i>Kill Bill, Vol. 2<\/i>, he\u2019s not going to be able to punch his way out. He does have a lighter, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The film opens with black silence before we hear Paul moving around inside the coffin. He\u2019s in a tight space, running out of air, and <i>Buried <\/i>holds the viewer in the same suffocating grip. It gives urgency to the horror-movie cliche of a phone with no reception. The coffin becomes a literal hourglass, filling with sand; and because this is <span class=\"s1\">a Lionsgate film<\/span>, there\u2019s even a bit of torture porn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">If you\u2019re streaming <i>Oxygen <\/i>on Netflix and parts of it ring familiar, it\u2019s probably because it hits some of the same beats as <i>Buried <\/i>(that spotty phone connection, calls to the cops and Mom, an animal in the box with our protagonist, the camera defying the box\u2019s dimensions, pulling back in the darkness and X-raying it). Screenwriter Chris Sparling originally <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/2-million-buried-was-originally-5-000-film-wbna39214605\"><span class=\"s1\">planned to make <em>Buried<\/em> for $5,000<\/span><\/a>, so its $2 million budget almost feels extravagant, but at least some of that went toward the film\u2019s music and title sequence, which keys it up as a polished, old-school thriller. Director Rodrigo Cortes <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2010-sep-12-la-ca-buried-20100912-story.html\"><span class=\"s1\">cited <em>Rear Window<\/em><\/span><\/a> and other Hitchcock classics like <i>Rope <\/i>and <i>Lifeboat <\/i>as influences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671705 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-Raid-1-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-Raid-1-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-Raid-1-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-Raid-1-768x329.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Raid_2011\"><\/span><i>The Raid <\/i>(2011)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">There\u2019s <span class=\"s1\">a whole sub-genre<\/span> of single-location action movies that have cropped up since the original <i>Die Hard<\/i>. In <i>The Raid, <\/i>we\u2019re a long way from one-liners and the skyscrapers of L.A. The budget is $1.1 million and the setting is a squalid Indonesian apartment block. It\u2019s a drug lord\u2019s stronghold, usually a no-go zone for police, but that doesn\u2019t stop them from storming the building, anyway. The problem is, the shifty lieutenant who organized this particular raid has done so outside the purview of police command, which means there won\u2019t be any backup coming after the bad guys lock the building down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Marketed in the U.S. as <i>The Raid: Redemption<\/i>, this film was a gateway for global audiences into the ultra-violent world of Iko Uwais actioners. It\u2019s not as much of a gratuitous bloodbath as his 2018 reunion with Joe Taslim, <i>The Night Comes for Us<\/i>, but there are still some gory moments.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One of the film\u2019s strengths is that it builds character through action. Even secondary characters distinguish themselves through interesting choices. Yayan Ruhian, who appeared with Uwais in <i>The Force Awakens<\/i>, is especially memorable as Mad Dog, who isn\u2019t afraid to set aside his gun and kill men with his bare hands. Nothing quite raises a villain\u2019s threat level like putting him in a two-on-one fight, either. The hero, Rama, can hold his own, too: he takes on four guys with machetes at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671706 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Coherence-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Coherence-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Coherence-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Coherence-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Coherence.jpg 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Coherence_2013\"><\/span><i>Coherence<\/i> (2013)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">First-time director James Ward Byrkit shot <i>Coherence <\/i>at his own house over five nights\u2014with a skeleton crew and eight improvisational actors. The most recognizable face is probably Nicholas Brendon of <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i> fame, though you can also spot <i>Hustlers<\/i> helmer Lorene Scafaria in there beside stars Emily Baldoni and Maury Serling. The film had one of the smallest budgets on this list, $50,000, yet it brims with some of the biggest ideas. It\u2019s not the only dinner-party movie here, nor is it the only film where characters meet duplicates of themselves; but it is the only one that had no script, just an elaborately plotted outline.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The intention was to bring a spontaneous, naturalistic feel to a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> fiction thriller in which a passing comet splinters reality and keeps a group of friends looping back on the same location (or some parallel-universe copy of it). If you can forgive the occasional leap in logic, dialogue-wise, you\u2019ll find yourself getting caught up in a real mind-bender.<\/p>\n<p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_2 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671707 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-One-I-Love-700x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-One-I-Love-700x300.png 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-One-I-Love-360x154.png 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-One-I-Love-768x329.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_One_I_Love_2014\"><\/span><i>The One I Love<\/i> (2014)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">A two-hander becomes a four-hander when Ethan and Sophie (Mark Duplass and Elizabeth Moss) encounter their doppelgangers on a retreat at a weekend hideaway. It\u2019s meant to be a form of couples therapy but complications ensue when Sophie starts falling for the other Ethan, who represents a more ideal version of her husband.<i> <\/i>Call it <i>The Stepford Spouses<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Estimated budget: $100,000. Ted Danson, who appears in the first scene as Ethan and Sophie\u2019s therapist, and Mary Steenburgen, who does a voice cameo as Ethan\u2019s mom, lent their real guesthouse to director Charlie McDowell (Steenburgen\u2019s son from her previous marriage to actor Malcolm McDowell.) Justin Lader\u2019s screenplay teases the idea that the not-so-happy couple is stepping through the door to another dimension. If so, it\u2019s one that comedically reflects the themes of another 2014 thriller, <i>Gone Girl. <\/i>People put on their best face to attract a partner but what happens when they drop the picture-perfect facade and their partner has to live with their true self?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671708 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-Invitation-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-Invitation-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-Invitation-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-Invitation-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/The-Invitation.jpg 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Invitation_2015\"><\/span><i>The Invitation<\/i> (2015)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you feel some deja vu during <i>The Invitation<\/i>\u2019s cold open, it may be because it fades in on a scene similar to one from another horror movie that came out two years later. That would be <i>Get Out<\/i>, which also put us in the car with an interracial couple as they hit an animal on the road. In <i>The Invitation<\/i>, it\u2019s a coyote instead of a deer and the driver, Will, puts it out of its misery with a tire iron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That sets the tone for a $1-millon thriller about dealing with grief and the loss of loved ones. Logan Marshall-Green sports a Jesus beard as Will and he\u2019s headed for a Last Supper where the wine flows red\u2014and the guests might, too. There are twelve of them, like the Apostles, though one is suspiciously MIA.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Unlike <i>Get Out<\/i>, <i>The Invitation<\/i> doesn\u2019t cut to comic relief in the outside world. It stays right there in one Hollywood Hills home and lets us share Will\u2019s perspective and feel the destabilizing effect of his anxiety. At this party, Manson-girl attire is accepted and the tension is thick even before Will articulates, \u201cSomething bad is happening here.\u201d It\u2019s all in service to a nail-biter that enabled Karyn Kusama to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/how-karyn-kusama-broke-out-of-movie-jail\"><span class=\"s1\">escape director\u2019s jail<\/span><\/a> and make\u00a0<i>Destroyer<\/i> with Nicole Kidman next.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671709 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Wheelman-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Wheelman-700x300.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Wheelman-360x154.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Wheelman-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Wheelman.jpg 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Wheelman_2017\"><\/span><i>Wheelman<\/i> (2017)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Frank Grillo was once tapped to star in a remake of <i>The Raid.<\/i> (It\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/the-raid-remake-joe-carnahan-update-new-title\/\"><span class=\"s1\">no longer a remake<\/span><\/a>.) Here, he stars as an unnamed getaway driver who finds himself in over his head when the bank robbery he\u2019s involved in doesn\u2019t go according to plan. Like <span class=\"s1\">Toshiro Mifune in <em>Yojimbo<\/em><\/span>, he\u2019s soon caught in the middle of a mob war.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Wheelman<\/i> puts a $5-million, action-oriented spin on the premise of a film set entirely in a car. The talky Tom Hardy vehicle,\u00a0<i>Locke,\u00a0<\/i>famously nurtured the same conceit but it hinged more on the speakerphone drama of a man\u2019s personal and professional life unraveling.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In <i>Wheelman, <\/i>the stakes are life-or-death, fought over pulse-pounding shootouts and car chases. The movie makes things interesting by letting people in the car with Grillo (who\u2019s more grizzled, less baby-faced, than <span class=\"s1\">other 2017 drivers<\/span>) and it takes advantage of the windshield and windows to show outside action. Technically, the car visits numerous places, so maybe we\u2019ve bent the one-location rule, here at the end. However, the only time the passenger-like camera exits the vehicle is for a few exterior shots and one climactic car switch.<\/p>\n<p>                            <strong>Cool Posts From Around the Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- \/post -->\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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