Top 7 Films To Watch In Self Quarantine
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With the whole world seemingly on lockdown for the foreseeable future, everyone's got a lot more free time on their hands. Fortunately, we've compiled a list of our top 7 films to watch while in self isolation.
So put your feet up and for God's sake, stay indoors, as we run down our highlights.
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We live in strange times. The pandemic is spreading faster than butter on a warm crumpet, and whether you’re of the persuasion that it’s over-hyped hooey or the literal end of days, chances are it’ll affect all of us for some time to come. And with all of the UK, and indeed much of the rest of the world on lockdown, it’s difficult to predict how long this disruption will go on for.
All of us will have to spend some time in self quarantine, which depending on who you’re talking to, either offers the tempting prospect of guilt-free dossing off, or confinement to isolation and boredom.
If you’re worried about cabin fever, fret not! We’ve compiled our definitive list of the best films to watch while stuck indoors. So pop open a bottle of Lucozade, grab a pack of tissues and put your feet up as we run down our picks...
Starring Ryan Reynolds as a truck driver, who gets abducted and buried in the Iraqi desert, Buried will make you go from feeling cooped up to down right agoraphobic.
Armed with little more than a mobile phone and a lighter, Reynolds’ Paul Conroy has to race against time to negotiate between his captors and those they’re demanding ransom from, lest he be left to rot in his grave. It’s a testament to Rodrigo Cortés’ directing that the 95 minute runtime flies by, despite all shots taking place from within the coffin.
It’s a nuanced, psychological thriller of Hitchcockian finesse, and will make your bedroom feel 10 miles wide.
The most interesting take on the zombie outbreak formula for the past few decades, 28 Days Later is one of the few films that transcends the genre. From the opening scenes of Jim wandering a deserted central London to the scathing critique of the fragility of patriarchal society, personified by Christopher Eccleston’s Major Henry West, it’s a film that balances heady concepts with a thrilling plot.
It also helps to kill the boredom to think you’re isolating yourself from a zombie invasion. 28 Days Later will definitely add some meat to this fantasy.
Another classic exploring the theme of a mind altering virus/alien/thingamajig, The Thing might be the best entry in John Carpenter’s iconic filmography. Starring a bearded Kurt Russell (which is reason enough to watch it), an alien parasite is uncovered by a research team in the polar wilderness, and quickly gets to work taking over the bodies of our American researcher friends.
Utilising arguably the best practical creature effects ever committed to film, The Thing combines visceral violence, a chilling sense of isolation and disorientating confusion as you struggle to keep track of who’s human and who’s alien. A situation oddly reminiscent to our own, given we have no idea who’s infected by the invisible interloper.
Mind you, I haven’t seen any head spiders…
Yet.
In our humble opinion, Ready Player One was one of the most underrated films of 2018. Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel is one of the few cases of a film surpassing the quality of its source material. No one can conjure cinematic magic quite like Spielberg, and Ready Player One is dripping with this charm...
