The Best of the Worst Claustrophobic Moments in Film
Steve Barton
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Jaws: the Revenge – Gonna catch some hell on this one, I’m sure. Fine – let me have it. But before you do…consider that I’m considering the circumstance of the character, and not the film itself. Lance Guest plays Michael, one of the haunted Brody brothers. Michael has been coping with shark attacks since puberty, so he’s grown up to be marine biologist who spends all day in the ocean. Director Joseph Sargent sticks Brody undersea with a potentially supernatural beheamoth…chasing him…into an abandoned ship…that Brody can’t get out of. The scene ends with Brody stuck between a rock and hundreds of razor sharp hard places. The film still sucks as much as you want it to suck, but watching Brody struggle with a sunken, sea-crusted door while a Megalodon’s ghostly cousin huffs down his wetsuit’s collar freaks me out. Freaks me right the fuck OUT. The scene also makes absolutely no sense, as sharks typically don’t enter tight spaces they can’t get out of, because they have no reverse shift. However, I think that’s part of what gets me about the scene – the shark doesn’t give a damn. All it wants is that sweet Brody blood, which must be more delicious than Sookie Stackhouse’s.
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