In which it’s not clear what’s more terrifying, the threat outside or the people inside.

What is a siege movie?

The newly released10 Cloverfield Lanefits this bill quite nicely.

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and work effectively within each at creating dread, suspense, terror and excitement.

Heres a dozen of the scariest cinematic sieges weve encountered and managed to make it through intact.

A 2005 remake was decent if unmemorable.

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Arguably the first modern horror epic.

Theres no escape in Carpenters surreal, out-of-time-and-space setting.

Funny, ultra-violent and overly stylized, this is a siege movie that only Tarantino and Rodriguez could make.

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Everything is scarier when its inexplicable including this prototype home invasion film.

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