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"claustrophobia" Definitions
  1. an extreme fear of being shut in a small place; the unpleasant feeling that a person gets in a situation that limits them
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Especially if, like Mark Reisenauer's father, you have extreme claustrophobia.
So, more specifically, claustrophobia, panic and that type of thing.
Hyperloop One's Colin Rhys wants to assuage your claustrophobia fears.
I used this dissonance – joy and claustrophobia – in the book.
There's just a subtle sense that the claustrophobia has lifted.
Still, the room manifested the emotional claustrophobia of the story.
According to Laszlo Papp, MD, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, someone who has agoraphobia can also have claustrophobia (meaning, claustrophobia can definitely exist under the blanket of agoraphobia).
On Wednesday's episode, the survivalists face snakes, claustrophobia and treacherous paths.
It caused agoraphobia, claustrophobia, depression, and a debilitating phobia of fainting.
The video itself is an apocalyptic story about claustrophobia and bugs.
Common examples are arachnophobia (spiders), claustrophobia (confined spaces) and hydrophobia (water).
There are no big crises, just the mild claustrophobia of routine.
One of the earliest moments of the games is pure claustrophobia.
Aiming for warm, breezy ease, he veers into a quiet claustrophobia.
His session cleared his feelings of claustrophobia while stuck in traffic jams.
Technically, claustrophobia is an excessive fear of closed spaces, Dr. Schneier says.
Luckily, claustrophobia is definitely treatable through cognitive behavioral therapy, Dr. Schneier says.
The gossipy claustrophobia of small-town existence drives much of the action.
The perils of ketamine were being showcased, including suffocation, claustrophobia, and anxiety.
The piece now became an audience-participation exercise in claustrophobia and paranoia.
Dee astutely captures how claustrophobia and the comforts of home can coexist.
But Unfriended was an effective horror movie almost solely because of its claustrophobia.
The emotional claustrophobia is made more jarring by the openness of the set.
Inside, claustrophobia kicks in quickly with "Spoiled Foot," an intimidating, site-specific behemoth.
An adjacent gallery is filled with a claustrophobia-inducing arrangement of metal bunkers.
Samantha, a science fiction author, avoids the small-town claustrophobia at all costs.
In addition to nearsightedness and claustrophobia, I got a love for The Beatles.
Ifrah saw something beyond the bars, rules, claustrophobia and institutionalism of the place.
When it comes to the dramatizing of claustrophobia, Maoz is in his element.
Mr. Darwish struggles with insomnia and claustrophobia, but continues his work for accountability.
Their overlapping existences are routine-driven and cozy to the point of claustrophobia.
"Goddamn this claustrophobia/'cause I should be disrobing you," Jarvis Cocker semi-rhymes.
Since turning forty, I'd started to suffer from a heightened sense of claustrophobia.
I know claustrophobia is a condition, but I think that place was claustrophobic.
With its narrow passageways and suffocating sense of claustrophobia, the comparison is inevitable.
It's enough encasement to freak out those with even a mild case of claustrophobia.
Claustrophobia aside, this seems a solid solution if you've missed the last train home.
"Severe claustrophobia can have a very negative impact on a person's life," she says.
Maybe you've felt like this before, but does that mean that you have claustrophobia?
"But, a brain-based cause of claustrophobia specifically has not been identified," he says.
Although Beverly evokes the great outdoors with photographic ­clarity, claustrophobia effectively haunts his narrative.
Also, the claustrophobia that she feels, the voyeurism, the creepiness of her bad choices.
I suffer from claustrophobia: simply being in an elevator sets my teeth on edge.
After all, I was born and raised in London, and have rarely experienced claustrophobia.
For one, it's dark and pitch-black, exploiting the fears over darkness and claustrophobia.
Claustrophobia hit, and I started to have PTSD from The Weeknd's 27th birthday party.
"19703 Light Years From Home" makes the solitude and claustrophobia of space travel palpable.
This emotional compression creates a sense of claustrophobia that mimics the reality of the siege.
These sweeping shots help balance the film's claustrophobia with a parallel sense of chilly expansiveness.
Troy: Most of my work has to do with claustrophobia and isolation in some sense.
So, perhaps there's something to be said about Reddit's r/claustrophobia for people like me.
This job, in particular, is not for anyone with even a mild case of claustrophobia.
Berninger writes frequently of a suffocating claustrophobia, particularly when he's been cornered at a party.
She succeeds in conveying the sense of claustrophobia and disorientation that are the refugee condition.
He writes about claustrophobia and about his adrenaline spikes, his fatigue and his stomach flips.
At first, I told people my problem was claustrophobia, and I believed it was true.
It was shocking at first, and I suffered more than a few bouts of claustrophobia.
Claustrophobia sufferers may have a problem, however, as the cabins don't appear to have windows.
This created a feeling of claustrophobia and enhanced the opera's fixation on eavesdropping and spying.
"The greatest" is her "Life on Mars," an ode to the claustrophobia of pop culture.
The claustrophobia hits as the seatbelt tightens, preventing me from even leaning forward in my seat.
One of those sessions, he said, cleared his feelings of claustrophobia while stuck in traffic jams.
Lindsay Johnson*, 28, has generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, agoraphobia, and claustrophobia.
The simple claustrophobia of a coffin-sized shuttle might have been too much for some passengers.
That more players get in on the action only adds to the mounting sense of claustrophobia.
Shortly after, the woman found herself in the emergency room for shortness of breath and claustrophobia.
Once I get over my initial feelings of claustrophobia, I let go and try to focus.
In high school, Dan couldn't wait to get out—he felt stifled by a moral claustrophobia.
The claustrophobia and the seeming inability of the ship to go anywhere bear out those words.
It takes nearly three weeks to cross the Pacific, plenty of time for claustrophobia to grow.
And every reminder adds to the oppressive sense of claustrophobia that this show evokes so well.
Adding to that sense of claustrophobia is the unrelenting Freudian analysis constantly running through these characters' heads.
The Source of My Claustrophobia Jeez, this is a screenshot from that nauseating Windows 95 maze screensaver.
Of course, there was turmoil behind their facades, their lives riddled with violence and smothered in claustrophobia.
Instead, it is heavy-handed in the best way, dramatizing Offred's claustrophobia through gorgeous tableaux of repression.
My sister's death had one other effect on me: it triggered a very severe case of claustrophobia.
But the truer story of my drinking is really a story about tedium, about claustrophobia and repetition.
Foreign workers, unable to party in Dubai on weekends, grumble about the claustrophobia of buttoned-up Doha.
They're shuddering icons of digital life, reflecting both its spirit of innovation and its moments of claustrophobia.
The store is claustrophobia inducing, and as rowdy as the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Rather than exude gratitude, Gyllenhaal goes for something far more original and distressing in its direness: claustrophobia.
The focus gradually shifts from the vastness of the desert to the claustrophobia of Mr Cantú's troubled mind.
At a first glance, none of this seems to be particularly helpful for people who struggle with claustrophobia.
For anyone with a touch of claustrophobia – like yours truly – this may be the biggest hurdle of all.
But that sense of dread, and the almost nauseating claustrophobia and despair is absolutely part of both shows.
This was space as humans would really live in it, with dirt and claustrophobia and hard, hard drinking.
I'm trying to keep everything boiled down into small spaces to add to the claustrophobia as much as possible.
He is rattled by a Sarcophagus and develops Claustrophobia, or is distressed by a Beast Carcass and becomes Zoophobic.
"L'Attesa," while it is about the stasis and confinement of its characters, suffers from a different kind of claustrophobia.
The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that a little over 3 percent of the American population has claustrophobia.
But he soon began experiencing panic attacks, claustrophobia, sleeplessness and anxiety and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
They're all outfitted with red flashlights, and the claustrophobia of the scene creates one of Riverdale's scariest tableaus yet.
The claustrophobia of interwar England is further suggested, in the Griffin production, by narrowing the action to one room.
It was a great test of what level of claustrophobia I have, which turned out to be quite high.
The ones without a view of the sea and with more limited space must be a nightmare of claustrophobia.
But there's none of the claustrophobia and sense of dread that isolated her in the armored cars of Kabul.
The flat terrain, narrow road and low-hanging sky all conspired to give me an unexpected feeling of claustrophobia.
Acknowledging this would not have made "Rabin, the Last Day" less upsetting but might have relieved some of the claustrophobia.
But the deeper you delve into it, a generic fantasy plot turns into a tale about the claustrophobia of destiny.
I had never identified as someone who struggled with claustrophobia until I passed out at a concert two years ago.
Oddly enough, this online space dedicated entirely to inducing nausea and panic allowed me to regain control of my claustrophobia.
Each of his films foreground the claustrophobia of the civilized and an almost primordial struggle to survive within its confines.
The director Reed Morano couches the domestic persona in soft diffused light and the hardened one in shallow-focus claustrophobia.
The Shibuya mob is insane and just looking at Porter in the crowd can give someone a case of claustrophobia.
Although we loved both these images, what struck us about our final select was the claustrophobia and voyeurism it evoked.
Half outhouse, half torture chamber, the rudimentary bathroom option is usually weirdly hot, emits a revolting smell, and induces claustrophobia.
In fact, Alien: Covenant hews closest to that 1979 film, with its foreboding sense of claustrophobia and carnival-of-horrors malaise.
One form of treatment for claustrophobia is exposure therapy, in which patients are gradually exposed to the source of their phobia.
Claustrophobia does run in families, and it can be genetic or just a trait you pick up from your family members.
But the room, which is kept at a steady 95 degrees for the duration of class elevates those feelings of claustrophobia.
Part of what made Atwood's book work so well was its claustrophobia: June knew nothing; she escaped with such limited knowledge.
In this week's mini-comic masterclass, Strip Panel Naked, host Hass Otsmane-Elhaou takes a look at how comics create claustrophobia.
Smaller figures are often stacked up along the edges with enough space separating them that there is no feeling of claustrophobia.
"I get whatever the opposite of claustrophobia is out here," the person I checked out these magic mountains with told me.
His movies are talky, intimate to the point of claustrophobia, and populated by characters that can be charitably described as prickly.
Gradually he became fascinated by "the idea that claustrophobia might possess this vicarious power to move people, grip them," he said.
But I struggled with claustrophobia in our so-called triple, which came with a bunk bed cantilevered over a king bed.
For those with severe claustrophobia or anxiety, the open float pool in a dark room is initially a more attractive option.
The future scenes evoke the creepiness and claustrophobia of "Ex Machina" and, like that film, hark back to the "Frankenstein" story.
In the more than 30 years since, she said she's been plagued by PTSD-like symptoms like anxiety, claustrophobia and panic.
Yet the change of scenery, however welcome, only intensifies the claustrophobia engendered by the movie's bland corridors and blank-faced persecutors.
The first three songs on The Road Dissolved the View, Kyle Wall's fourth LP as Wharfer, are a study in frustrated claustrophobia.
This is a character who's retreating, retracting, burrowing in, and I wanted to create claustrophobia for him without having a congested frame.
Some of the triggers for people with claustrophobia are elevators, tunnels, medical facilities such as MRI scanners, crowded areas, and public bathrooms.
The novel's touchstone is the crushing claustrophobia of Gilead, and we get plenty of that—but events carry a sense of continuity.
His adolescent self hates the claustrophobia of his upbringing, but the narrating self has an ungrudging affection for its many communal virtues.
So, claustrophobia or any kind of social phobia could be triggered by the sense of reduced space, or even a panic attack.
The country has a dominant religion, a powerful nationalism, and family structures that tend to be close to the point of claustrophobia.
"Macbeth" demands a claustrophobia and intensity — and a forensic fury — that seems frustratingly tricky to capture, though not for wont of trying.
Handmaid's Tale pilot director Reed Moreno and series cinematographer Colin Watkinson play up the claustrophobia of Handmaid's both in wide and tight shots.
But Dr. Chambless says that agoraphobia, just by nature of encompassing so many issues, has the potential to be more serious than claustrophobia.
The latter may look like an aircraft cockpit shrunk down to induce claustrophobia, but it has proven itself over and over for decades.
As someone who struggles with anxiety, I was curious as to whether or not other anxious people had faced similar symptoms of claustrophobia.
In a genre whose default sound tends toward minor-chord claustrophobia, Yachty has planted his flag on a hill of exuberance and lightheartedness.
Beginning with Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette) and Gypsy's (Joey King) arrival in Springfield, Missouri, The Act tells a story of manipulation and claustrophobia.
Director David Moore makes us feel the claustrophobia — sailors crowding the frame, low ceilings, dark rooms, punishing sun and the wide, blank sea.
The intimate claustrophobia of the S.U.V. is an emblem of the larger interior-exterior divide faced by all the characters, particularly the women.
I didn't want to submit him to the claustrophobia of a car-ride disquisition on the way to school ("Hugs not drugs, kid").
On the low, staticky murmur of "Uvas," the sonic walls close in tight around you: You might hear it as claustrophobia, or comfort.
You can almost smell the sweat and sense the languor and claustrophobia out of which so many great pieces of writing were created.
The sense of claustrophobia becomes acute—you can look behind you or above you, but you'll find only close walls and low ceilings.
I shook off the claustrophobia with a stroll through the sleepy, sunbaked center of historic Christiansted, on the north shore of the island.
Lil Me The sooty atmosphere, the complex rhyme structure, the tactile combination of claustrophobia and swagger: New York rap is a religion in decline.
From the start, with antiqued detail, naturalistic lighting and tightly packed bodies, he signals the claustrophobia of the plantation, where religious fanaticism meets groupthink.
Later on she refreshed her gaze, she said, trying to show women in the context of their spaces to avoid mistaking claustrophobia for intimacy.
That customary claustrophobia was not the case for this U.K. couple who recently flew from Krabi, Thailand to Penang, Malaysia — without any other passengers.
It's a "situational phobia," so people with claustrophobia experience a variety of super fearful and anxious feelings when they're in closed spaces, he says.
"Somehow, in people with claustrophobia, the fear of this extreme situation has become generalized to situations that are not, in fact, dangerous," he says.
"I've never thought about this before," Hopkins said, musing that claustrophobia might have been the reason why they tend to write in enclosed spots.
On Sunday, a clash between the sun and Mars can give us all a case of claustrophobia if we fence ourselves in too tight.
The reflective and repetitive aspect of the image—the back of the girl, juxtaposed with a seemingly endless army of faceless officers—invokes claustrophobia.
But the movie is also trapped in the same claustrophobia it depicts, unsure of how much it can or wants to get away with.
Toward the end, as he cracks in frustrated claustrophobia, he raps his knuckles against the isolation chamber's chronometer — again breaking it at 6:15.
Instead, the true-to-life claustrophobia of living in a New York City shoebox is palpable in the cinematography and influential to the plot.
Paul Shaffer says he had an awesome time on "The Masked Singer" despite his early exit ... once he overcame a small case of claustrophobia.
From the immediate beginning of the record, you can feel a kind of metallic claustrophobia with loud percussive elements striking over a voice whispering out.
Claustrophobia has a strong foothold deep on an Amtrak train; you realize very distinctly that you're in a cramped metal tube with no way off.
She continued to have feelings of claustrophobia, anxiety, and eventually chest pain, in addition to the numbness and pain in her right shoulder and arm.
Claustrophobia can be an "exaggerated form of a natural instinct" to avoid dangerous situations where you'd get trapped and lose air supply, Dr. Schneier says.
I don't think it's a matter of claustrophobia, so much as we just see it as just a storage area and not a bomb shelter.
She then listed the most common complaints: claustrophobia, a need for frequent trips to the bathroom, flight-induced panic attacks and a penchant for airsickness.
For a young person growing up there, every field, every hamlet, every idyllic country lane is suffused with a rank combination of agoraphobia and claustrophobia.
In terms of style and tone, "Opera" is a departure for the director: Gone are the flashy colors and claustrophobia-inducing corridors and secret passageways.
The film was shot on location in the Dominican Republic's Najayo and La Victoria prisons, where the stifling claustrophobia of those settings infuses every frame.
The grimy neighborhood — part of a vast complex of original sets — reproduces physically what Ferrante's prose communicated, the claustrophobia of the setting and the relationships.
The devices used at many medical centers are now wider and shallower — no longer claustrophobia-inducing tunnels — and the loud banging noises have been dampened.
Close-ups amplify the claustrophobia; Ms. Moss said that the camera sometimes came so near to her face that she would bump up against it.
From every angle, Laurey is hemmed in by the claustrophobia of the community and by the very landscape that Curly praised in the musical's opening number.
All the same — despite the claustrophobia and the solipsism and the Freud — there is an undeniable joy to be had in reading Foer's textured, playful prose.
In many ways, caves are an ideal testbed for space, affording a similar sense of claustrophobia and sensory deprivation while also screwing with human circadian rhythms.
A few months ago, I wrote a story on Reddit's r/claustrophobia—a subreddit devoted to the irrational fear of enclosed spaces, like elevators and tunnels.
On this episode of Grierson & Leitch, Tim Grierson and Will Leitch discuss the claustrophobia-inducing thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.
"I'm looking for an open door/but all I see is a broken mirror," sings Carter, capturing the band's need to escape confinement and quash claustrophobia.
Both because it never nails the claustrophobia so characteristic of the Alien franchise—and because it doesn't stand up next to many of the classics above.
Too many light touches and soft hues crammed into the same space produce an unlikely claustrophobia — a distancing effect that is striking, but antithetical to intimacy.
Muting the usual cacophony of manipulative musical cues and assaultive sound effects — for long stretches, the movie is almost hushed — Mr. Mikkelsen stirs claustrophobia into panic.
Konstantin Roth's intimate in-the-round set (with murky lighting by Kia Rogers, and video projections by David J. Palmer) creates an appropriate sense of claustrophobia.
In addition to anxiety, Ford told senators that she also suffers from "claustrophobia," part of the reason that she has two front doors on her house.
It's harrowing stuff that just might give you an idea of where the crushing claustrophobia of World Eater comes from, so you'll want to listen here.
The venture also has offered binding and gagging, claustrophobia, stress and physical tests, water, electric, coffin burials, sound and sight deprivation, for around $343 per pop.
She provided painful insights into that: she said she insisted that her house have two front-doors, for example, in order to accommodate her post-attack claustrophobia.
Although often considered its own condition, claustrophobia is actually a form of anxiety disorder that is provoked by a fear of being enclosed or having no escape.
The boat is large and luxurious, though, and the wide-screen Aegean vistas captured by Ms. Tsangari and Christos Karamanis, her director of photography, hardly suggest claustrophobia.
The earliest moment I recall from the day is lying in an industrial tube with a kind of upturned colander over my face, fighting waves of claustrophobia.
Gustav Klimt's unraveling painting, "Posthumous Portrait of Ria Munk III," combines loose brushwork and looser drawing, avoiding the claustrophobia busyness of some of his fully finished efforts.
A veteran BMX racer, he was accustomed to the claustrophobia of the pack, the thrown elbows, and the barely controlled choreography of speed on the dirt track.
And more riskily, he strays farther from Hill House than previous adaptations do, which sacrifices some of the claustrophobia that a good haunted house story can generate.
It was as if Opie had taken the feelings from her own suburban childhood—loneliness, tenderness, yearning, claustrophobia—and distributed them across the tract houses of Valencia.
Mr. Fabiano's Don José is ultimately not very different from those found in many a traditional "Carmen," though the claustrophobia of this staging increases the standard intensity.
The show's tight focus on Offred's field of vision coupled with the wider scope it gives to the world around her re-create the perfect amount of claustrophobia.
All this makes our window into Joker's world necessarily narrow, and the film relies a lot on simple aesthetic shorthand to heighten its sense of fear and claustrophobia.
Beatriz shivered; her mother, Antonia, said she had the heart of a lizard—and it was true that she had a reptile's preference for the claustrophobia of heat.
We were struck by the claustrophobia and voyeurism this image evokes—how you look at it and want to know what's happening in each of these building's rooms.
The problem of hunger, the problem of exhaustion, the problem of claustrophobia in this goddam coffin, and the very real threat of escalating discord between driver and passenger.
I've always been curious about just what goes into designing a superhero suit so that it won't be too claustrophobia-inducing for those who have to wear it.
It's a halfway-effective conceit, showcasing his skill at pacing and crosscutting and relieving some of the claustrophobia of the tense indoor scenes in Entebbe and Tel Aviv.
All these layers evoke claustrophobia and remind me about horror vacui—[the] fear of empty space, quite common for people who are mentally unstable or [in] Outsider art.
During her testimony, Dr. Ford said that she suffered from long-term mental health effects after being sexually assaulted, including anxiety, claustrophobia, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
To avoid the feeling of claustrophobia, Wheeler installed a subtle sound element, so the room hums at the frequency of pink noise, which is lower than its white counterpart.
The walls of this virtual environment, along with the frame of the video, wax and wane in time with the music, giving this viewer a pressured sense of claustrophobia.
And in "Dora Bruder," Patrick Modiano's book about a Jewish teenager who disappeared during the war, the author makes us feel the claustrophobia of a city under constant ­surveillance.
She took a job at a Manhattan department store, only to discover that she had debilitating claustrophobia, which prevented her from riding in elevators or venturing far from home.
But I felt that claustrophobia come back, just a little, in that shot of June trapped at the corner of the set with Aunt Lydia pushing her head down.
The cramped jail cells where we public defenders spend so much of our working day frequently triggered PTSD symptoms, bringing me right back to the claustrophobia of forced confinement.
I first saw "Operation Crucible" three years ago in London, at the tiny Finborough Theater (even smaller than the upstairs space at 59E59), and the claustrophobia was almost overwhelming.
With control and precision, expressionist lighting and an old-fashioned square film frame that adds to the claustrophobia, Eggers seamlessly blurs the lines between physical space and head space.
Fortified by this reserve, the team undertook two adventures at once—one of the body and one on the page, both involving extreme conditions, endless vistas and unsettling claustrophobia.
Their severe discomfort is shared by passengers with claustrophobia or post-traumatic stress disorder, who may not necessarily qualify as aviophobes, but still dread a ten-hour flight in economy.
All of it is more than enough to remind you that you're watching a television show, to cut through the claustrophobia just enough to keep you from finding it unbearable.
Mike Britton's set, in which claustrophobia-inducing gray walls hint at eternal captivity, makes deft use of a revolving stage to usher us through the disjointed chapters of Susan's life.
The claustrophobia of the Wanamaker abets the horror-show theatrics of the director Robert Hastie, who at various points plunges the audience into darkness while fearsome noises pierce the air.
Meanwhile, the central courtyard, much like the proclaimed source of its inspiration — Central Park — suggests that the claustrophobia of urban development can be allayed with the right dosage of nature.
"I turned my cell into a university, a hall of debate, a law school," he writes of the years of solitary confinement (and debilitating bouts of claustrophobia) that swiftly followed.
Thrice a week for over 10 years, I would take the stairs to the seventh floor of the building (I suffer from claustrophobia) to lie at an elderly woman's feet.
More times than I can count, I've been Renata and Bonnie's bystander panic, feeling the claustrophobia of being near a volatile man, the bile of fear rising in my throat.
The overall effect is akin to your body floating weightless, as if you're inside a sensory deprivation tank, but without all of the claustrophobia, or the need to be completely naked.
Time 'n' Place sets that blend of claustrophobia and warmth to sound, feeling like an album about coming into your own as a person, without strictly being an album about adolescence.
The hotel's design, a mixed bag that's more likely to induce claustrophobia than vertigo, is easy to overlook because of the excellent central location, affordable price, comfortable beds and quiet rooms.
As she thrashes her limbs around the dark, cavernous space, it's hard not to find yourself sharing her claustrophobia, a feeling that renders you, as well as Bjork, unable to breathe.
Unlike Mr. Lee's New York stories, which give their neighborhoods the finiteness and theatricality of stage sets, Mr. Singleton examines a more sprawling form of claustrophobia and a more adolescent angst.
As Nora allows the doctor to examine her — a process which includes stuffing her into a crate to test her claustrophobia — it doesn't seem as though she's out to debunk anyone.
The photographs strike notes of dislocation or claustrophobia about which his human subjects look immune, as if they have already internalized incongruity to the extent that it is as normal as breathing.
I have a complex and often contradictory relationship to my own body, one of both care and disgust, a sense of expansion and uncontainability as well as one of entrapment and claustrophobia.
Though Revelations was not without problems, the locked-on-a-ship spin-off was the closest the series had come to capturing the claustrophobia that helped define the Resident Evil series originally.
At 41, the author is himself afflicted by "a disconcerting mixture of nostalgia, regret, claustrophobia, emptiness and fear", beneath which lie "questions of loss and regret, success and failure...mortality and finitude".
The Claustrophobia that one hero develops from being trapped in an Iron Maiden is identical to that which another hero spawns out of thin air at the end of a dungeon dive.
As beautiful as it is to look at, Turner imbues this digital labyrinth with a sense of claustrophobia akin to GoldenEye, which will have the viewers hoping for sunlight and fresh air.
Other chains are vying for global domination: The UK-based Escape Hunt operates nearly 50 in 27 countries; the Russian mega-franchise Claustrophobia boasts 109 different rooms with more on the way.
She lives day to day under the cloud of claustrophobia and menace that dominates the Syrian capital, where her presence poses a significant risk both to herself and to her Syrian family.
In the more intricate fight scenes, Wan likes to play with the idea of space and visuals, making you feel the claustrophobia of a submarine or the familiarity of a family room.
Yes, this series spends way too long with a bunch of people trapped in glass cages — like, several episodes — and it starts to take on some of the claustrophobia of its setting.
All shade aside, the US version is worthwhile in its own right, using the shaky-cam style to its advantage: It has an immediacy and claustrophobia that make for a harrowing viewing experience.
It's about heroin addiction, escaping the claustrophobia of small town life, the excitement of falling in love, the heartbreak of falling out of it, and the blissful escape of getting pissed and dancing.
In some cases, you can develop claustrophobia after a particularly traumatic event, like getting stuck in an elevator for a long period of time — but often, there's no precipitating event, Dr. Schneier says.
An HTC Vive horror experience that served around 2,500 fans a day, AHS Fearless VR served up a series of themed mini-scenes focusing on common phobias: claustrophobia, acrophobia, of gettingburnedalive-o-phobia.
For "UnREAL," coming off an intense first season, the stakes were high, and it's understandable to anyone who saw it that the creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro would be worried about duplicating its claustrophobia.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.Obviously you've got you mainstream phobias—arachnophobia, agoraphobia, claustrophobia—which come backed up with a ton of research, official Greek and Latin names, and lengthy Wikipedia pages.
What largely distinguishes "Midnight Traveler" is its anxious intimacy, a sense of uneasy closeness that pulls you into a family circle that at times gets very small, creating a sense of appropriate claustrophobia.
Those people who fear flying yet board a plane anyway deal with their anxiety and claustrophobia in a variety of ways but mostly by trying to make the discomfort as tolerable as possible.
Those movies, in particular "Tony Manero," set during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, and "The Club," about a group of disgraced priests, are studies in claustrophobia, with cloudy cinematography and grubby behavior.
In fact, part of what makes agoraphobia complicated is that many people who have it also have a fear of being closed into confined spaces — a key characteristic of a condition known as claustrophobia.
Set in a small Northwestern town somewhere outside Portland, the book vibrates with the nerve-jangling claustrophobia of a seismic cultural shift — a spectral panic as diffuse and ever-present as the Oregon fog.
There she was, her limbs suspended in a room full of clear water, her eyes blank to the point of looking dead, with that feeling of claustrophobia intensifying with every second she remained submerged.
Offill's whittled narrative bursts are apt vessels for the daily experience of scale-shifting they document — the vertigo of moving between the claustrophobia of domestic discontent and the impossibly vast horizon of global catastrophe.
Lanthimos, his camera gliding through gilded corridors and down stone staircases — in exquisitely patterned light and shadow, with weird lenses and startling angles — choreographs an elaborate pageant of decorum and violence, claustrophobia and release.
As Isaiah Berlin wrote in his essay "John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life," Mill was living in a Victorian moment when the chief problem was claustrophobia — the individual being smothered by society.
And it gave me a good opportunity to really hammer home the circumstances this ghost finds himself trapped in, and to dig into and break down the claustrophobia of his life within these four walls.
Most people with claustrophobia feel fine until they're triggered, and some people just experience more frequent triggers because they're exposed to them regularly (because they have to commute in traffic or ride an elevator everyday).
The chance that someone will have claustrophobia at one point in their life is only 4%, and Dr. Schneier says people usually experience it for long periods of time, and then they get over it.
In her review for The Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote, "'Kill List' compels with a dreamy approach to violence that infuses everyday situations — a spousal tiff or an informal dinner party — with undercurrents of pulsing claustrophobia."
Containing samples of Tupac, Lumidee, and Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, the release finds the Fake Accent and KUNQ-affiliated artist pairing themes of urgent political engagement with an ambiance of unwavering claustrophobia.
Structured around the questioning of Joan Stanley (Judi Dench, reliably flawless), an English octogenarian charged with treason for leaking classified information to the Soviets, the movie strains to shed the claustrophobia of the interrogation room.
Fierce claustrophobia sets in — what had seemed an odd mother-child monastery is now Rapunzel's tower or Anne Frank's annex or a story from the news about a stolen child living in a hidden compound.
And to maintain the intimacy — not to say claustrophobia — that is the Stone's trademark, the number of seats offered at the Glass Box Theater will be 74: precisely the same as in the East Village.
But Esmail's bag of tricks now includes long tracking shots that only increase the claustrophobia the characters feel, as we watch them discover how unable they are to escape their current situations, in real time.
It describes the claustrophobia of Chinese planners when they contemplate paths to the ocean that run through narrow choke-points between South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines, or through the Strait of Malacca near Singapore.
Six years ago, he and Rau bought a second-hand Lexus hard-top convertible, which Krasner drove with the roof down whenever he went to see imprisoned clients, as an antidote to the claustrophobia of prison.
The teenagers of "The Get Down" are all in different stages of self-invention — around them are unforgiving families, the burning buildings of the South Bronx, as well as the cultural claustrophobia of the disco era.
In that film, Mr. Maleh used the themes of surveillance and claustrophobia in a society rigidly controlled by both the government and strict social mores to make a larger statement about life in an authoritarian state.
Amid the claustrophobia of modern life, he suggests a new generation is taking drugs such as LSD, magic mushrooms, and DMT in order to reboot themselves, to step away from modern life, to explore and be happy.
The claustrophobia and cacophony of it isn't wrong, exactly—turn the wrong corner in a conversation with basketball fans and you will find yourself lost amid punctilious Legacy Assessors and feral stans, and you will regret it.
What little light makes it through appears weak and suffocated, and though the claustrophobia abates when she walks through the California brambles, even nature isn't immune to the enervating pallor of Ms. Zyzak and Mr. Cotler's compositions.
Hicks has deep acid burns on his face, Newt's being treated for psychological damage, and it's all illustrated in a vivid black-and-white with crowded, messy panels that create an extra layer of claustrophobia in the work.
With few exceptions, none of Wildflower's guest vocalists sound bad, per se—but they don't add anything but more noise, either, making for the first time in the Avalanches' albeit brief discography where breeziness gives way to claustrophobia.
The strongest of these slim narratives capture the claustrophobia of being caught in a disintegrating partnership in which two people have wrapped themselves around each other so tightly that neither one can move without causing the other pain.
This new collection also makes broad jumps in time, space and tone — most notably between the claustrophobia of British submarine life and the slightly different pressures of working at a fund-raising job for a small-town college.
The police visited at least one person, the Guardian reported, after he was reported by a government clinic that he called to ask for advice on how to handle his claustrophobia if he were arrested during a protest.
Claustrophobia, the "irrational fear of being shut in, or fear of enclosed spaces, such as elevators and tunnels," is believed to affect roughly five to seven percent of the world's population, with an even smaller amount actually seeking treatment.
And as you continue to wander down the length of the narrow lava canyon, despite the open sky, the clean desert light, and the quiet conversation of the people around you, a feeling of claustrophobia begins to assert itself.
As the days grow short and most of life must be spent inside the confines of a trailer, the claustrophobia Stella feels inside a body that might soon betray her is mirrored by what is happening in the world.
"A Tale of Love and Darkness," a conscientious adaptation of a difficult book, breathes a little more freely when it leaves the claustrophobia of the Klausner household and allows young Amos to confront the world outside his parents' shadow.
Atwood's dystopias, which go from the immersive claustrophobia of The Handmaid's Tale to the telescoping world building of the MaddAddam trilogy to the comic sex farce of The Heart Goes Last, tend to concern themselves with pyramids of power.
I play when I'm talking on the phone with someone who makes me nervous and when I'm in the car at a red light trying not to let the claustrophobia of being trapped in line tip me into panic.
It was Scott-Heron's first album in 40 years not to feature a full band; instead it centered on the spare, gunmetal beats that Mr. Russell draped around Scott-Heron's voice, fostering a sense of both claustrophobia and remove.
The record was conceived during a "year of intense personal upheavals"—the Bandcamp page for the release compares some of its moments to claustrophobia and migraines—but there's an overwhelming optimism to much of what Billington's working with here.
What stands out to me the most here is how Ergüven continues to feature the claustrophobia, energy, and wonderful chaos of a cramped household filled with kids like she did in Mustang, even in a movie about something much bigger.
When I read stories about ordinary people working to take down a dystopian government, I don't get the same physical sense of claustrophobia and tension that I did when I read The Handmaid's Tale and the opening chapters of Vox.
Writer-director Benjamin Cleary gives his short a suffocating sense of claustrophobia, as if everything the character is trying to express is building a wall around him, and his inability to get the words out is swallowing all his air.
Her new clip for Selena Gomez's recent single "Fetish" is a complete 180 from that, focusing on dark, suburban claustrophobia and rage on some real Revolutionary Road or The Bell Jar vibes ("vibes" is probably an extremely inaccurate word for this).
As if growing up female in 24.993th-century London weren't hard enough on its own, Nan's job keeps her perpetually filthy, malnourished, deprived of affection and forced to squeeze into lung-blackening spaces tight enough to give a hamster claustrophobia.
A separate row of metal storage lockers bisected the center of the room, adding to the jarring overall motif, a blend of fanatical organization and claustrophobia, as if a squatter had taken over a secluded wing of a research library.
Ford, who alleged that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers in the early 1980s, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee first -- and told of how she struggled with claustrophobia and anxiety since the incident more than three decades ago.
The music's languid warmth presents her dilemma with clarity: this character is stuck, in Southern California and in her own life, as claustrophobia sets in and her songwriting resorts to smaller and smaller gestures, barely perceptible flinches, to convey quiet desperation.
In order for someone to be diagnosed with claustrophobia, they have to have excessive and marked fears or anxieties about being in closed spaces that persist for at least six months, and lead to avoidance of those places or activities, Dr. Schneier says.
A scene in the new season's third episode in which Daredevil (Charlie Cox) has to escape a building down a long stairwell, fighting at every step — and carrying a gun that he refuses to fire — is a balletic exercise in brutality and claustrophobia.
If you find yourself thinking that it was, actually, a light-hearted track, skip forward again to the closing one-two of "Fine" and "Are You Sure," in which Musgraves admitted to lying about her depression and then sung against her claustrophobia.
Two evenings a week, guests ascend a claustrophobia-inducing elevator to the sixth floor of an office building near Herald Square, creep down a hall past dodgy looking travel agencies and sidle into Tannen's Magic, the 82-year-old conjurer supply shop.
And in filleting a play that, in Elinor Cook's new version, has been relocated from the Norwegian fjords to an unidentified island in the Caribbean of the 1950s, Ibsen's vaunted claustrophobia finds release amid a climate of rum cocktails and steel drums.
The name "Willa" invokes Cather's bleakly tender depictions of the Midwest, but I kept thinking of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" as I read, and the special brand of Midwestern claustrophobia felt by those who are trapped and unable to imagine any exit.
Dividing many of his chapters into one slow year at a time, Cesarani achieves a sense of profound claustrophobia by tracing the extreme difficulty of hiding without being caught, blackmailed, denounced and handed over to the Germans in most of occupied Eastern Europe.
And when my hero's Claustrophobia acts up during a tense battle in a narrow hallway, and he suffers a mental break, a subtle shift of momentum signaling the moment when I no longer have the upper hand—my distraught hero is referencing that decision too.
The imagery is arresting — shots of made-up women posing in colorful tableaus recall glossy fashion magazine photography — but as the film progresses, things feel increasingly off, as Cwynar, seen onscreen, hangs upside-down and the monotone voiceover builds a vague sensation of claustrophobia.
The idea is to keep viewers hanging around through the commercial breaks, to keep them engaged and enraged enough to continue watching and just frightened enough to believe that they're better off staying indoors; the desired outcome is a disorienting combination of claustrophobia and loneliness.
After awhile, another local, the hardened, jaded Jessica (Amelia McClain) strolls in, but then the small-town claustrophobia is shaken by two new arrivals: Walter's long-absent daughter, Marley (Mikaela Feely-Lehmann, in an attention-getting performance), and her fiancé, Ben (KeiLyn Durrel Jones).
After giving a brief primer on the way camera lenses work on adjusting width and depth of field, Otsmane-Elhaou shows how a similar technique is applied toward creating claustrophobia in the comic "Daredevil #37" by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, and Matt Hollingsworth.
" She took down a book from a shelf and read me a letter in which Boito warned Verdi about the risk of dissipating the scene's claustrophobia—"like a fist breaking the window of a room where two people are about to die of asphyxiation.
Drinking and cheating might seem like odd ways to avoid friction, but for me they were often just that: a way to handle whatever felt difficult inside me — boredom or claustrophobia or jealousy — without acknowledging those difficult feelings to my partner or asking him to fix them.
And, of course, the time my Long Island Railroad train car was stalled without power for four hours and I, in a fit of starvation and claustrophobia, opened my breast pump cooler, chugged a five-ounce bottle of my own breast milk, and felt worlds better.
The daughter of overprotective parents from Bensonhurst, she left the claustrophobia of home for Las Vegas, where she worked as a cocktail waitress and went to bed with musicians and blackjack dealers until her roommate had a nearly fatal back-alley abortion, which initiated a feminist awakening.
I thought that what the show did best was evoke the horror and claustrophobia and dread of living under a totalitarian government, and I had no interest in watching it become a rape revenge superhero show, as the final episodes of season two seemed to portend.
When I first went to bed I grappled with some claustrophobia, as I wanted to zip the sleeping bag up as high as I could go and tighten it around me as much as possible, but this meant not really being able to move my arms.
The stakes feel higher upon seeing the literal gloom and doom of Elena's formative years in the 1950s: all muted tones, gray skies, dirty streets, shoddy clothing, the claustrophobia of the scrutiny from gossipy neighbors all of whom have dark circles under their eyes—even the children.
As the directors behind the video for King Krule's "Octopus" and Horsey's "Arms & Legs" (among many others), their grasp of the strange interplay between humour, darkness and seediness is an ideal match for the grand vision of the track itself, a three-part tale of claustrophobia and denied redemption.
Most of the action takes place in the "Money Monster" studio, but the claustrophobia — or the lingering threat of staginess — is relieved by visits to the sleek corporate suites of Ibis Clear Capital, a company whose stock, repeatedly plugged by Lee on the air, has recently taken a tumble.
Most of the city's subway stations are ancient snug burrows forested with steel columns, but these new ones, benefitting from advances in construction techniques and materials, have unbroken sight lines and tracts of open space, which mitigate whatever claustrophobia one might feel, deep in the belly of the bedrock.
The house at the center of It Comes at Night is as haunted as any house in horror, and cinematographer Drew Daniels indulges in long, slow pans through its endless empty corridors, as well as lush shots of deeply isolated woods that slowly heighten the film's growing claustrophobia.
We all feel jam-packed or congested from time to time, but claustrophobia can be a very serious phobia that can rise to the level of a mental disorder, explains Franklin Schneier, MD, co-director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and special lecturer in psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.
The midsection of "Commerce" forces the listener to endure minute after minute of abrasive feedback and minimalistic drum accents– by playing so little, the claustrophobia becomes palpable and the "release" of the following section, itself an unsettling barrage of delay-soaked dyads and distorted bass, is made even more satisfying.
One memorable detail from her testimony has the ring of truth, in its specificity: Her assault came up in couples therapy with her husband because the traumatic memory triggered anxiety and claustrophobia, and that made her insist on adding a second front door to her house, to his understandable confusion.
Ford had to choke back tears describing Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge trapping her in a room, Kavanaugh pinning her to the bed, grinding on top of her and putting his hand over her mouth when she tried to cry for help, leaving her with lifelong claustrophobia, anxiety and other symptoms.
Ford had to choke back tears describing Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge trapping her in a room, Kavanaugh pinning her to a bed, grinding on top of her and putting his hand over her mouth when she tried to cry for help, leaving her with lifelong claustrophobia, anxiety and other symptoms.
The difference is that Wölfli worked in colored pencils on paper, with his largely symmetrical works conveying a horror vacui that  culminates in a feeling of inescapable claustrophobia, while Thornton works in oil on panel, which affords him some breathing room as he layers his compositions with elaborate linear patterns and repeated images and signs.
Rachel Hauck's scenic design loosely suggests a New Orleans bar for the part of the show that takes place above ground, but her whirling pendulum-swinging lamps and spinning turntables can just as easily create a sense of overwhelming oppression and claustrophobia, like being stuck in a factory or a mine — or in hell.
We might further notice the attention Greenwold lavishes on the furniture or how the mirror on the right-hand wall opens the painting up, offering us a view of things we cannot otherwise see; the reflection become an aperture that relieves the room of its claustrophobia as well as underscores its closed, narrow space.
I have never seen anything onscreen before or since that made me fully feel the claustrophobia of living under patriarchy like the first three episodes of Handmaid's Tale did, and that's why I always feel disappointed when the show gives into the easy catharsis of letting June talk back to whoever she wants to.
"Being a young and sometimes frustrated filmmaker / writer who spends a lot of time at home, I felt very quickly drawn to the concept of someone stuck in a cycle of deja vu and the nauseating claustrophobia that comes with it—waking up everyday with the same routine, unable to breakthrough and find a way out," explains Halsall.
Moreover, her claims about claustrophobia and fear of flying appear to be specious; and, as Thomas Lipscomb details at RealClear Politics, Ford's story about how and why there came to be a second front door to her home (which she attributed to "PTSD-like symptoms" from being attacked by Kavanaugh) is, to say the least, dubious.
Brian Ham of Seoul, South Korea, chose an article headlined "The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet" and wrote: What could possibly motivate someone to wear a 180-pound suit with diapers and drink tubes, rotate senselessly in a centrifuge, induce claustrophobia and risk death, all while coughing up 55 million dollars in the process?
Palansky leans on his fine-arts background to create stunning tableaus that tell the stories through meticulous sensory details like the sound of skateboard wheels echoing through a tunnel, the roughness of sand between one's fingers, the close-up claustrophobia of being lost among tall hedges, the small light given off by candles on a cake.
A case could be made that many of the techniques Orson Welles employed in "Citizen Kane" — low angles, a dynamic play of light and shadow, an innovative use of sets and scale — reached full flower in "The Trial," a 1962 adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel in which the sense of claustrophobia is as much visual as it is literary.
We've talked a lot in these recap discussions about how much The Handmaid's Tale has struggled to make its end-of-episode catharsis tonally consistent with the claustrophobia of the rest of the show's universe, but that kind of release — which is also somehow a little oppressive — is exactly the kind of emotional register Atwood excels at capturing.
Come December, when work crescendos into a frenzy and exams render school near-impossible, when the sky turns gray and the bitter wind begins to howl, when endlessly crowding onto packed buses and subway cars sparks in one a claustrophobia so severe it's physically exhausting, a single thought, one burning desire, rises to the surface: I want to go home.
Film Series A case could be made that many of the techniques Orson Welles employed in "Citizen Kane" — low angles, a dynamic play of light and shadow, an innovative use of sets and scale — reached full flower in "The Trial," a 1962 adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel in which the sense of claustrophobia is as much visual as it is literary.
I've said a few times now that the thing that made me go all in on The Handmaid's Tale in season one was the sense of claustrophobia it was able to create, the feeling of being trapped within this oppressive world and then within your own body, too, the feeling that there was no escape because everything that you were could be used against you.
With every choice he makes, from music direction to Nocturama's loose pacing to the claustrophobia of his shots, Bonello tries to put us in the same mental space as his young criminals; left to their own devices in a giant adult playground, they play dress-up with designer clothes and blast Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" and Chief Keef's "I Don't Like" on deluxe speaker systems.
Every weekday, an average of 100,000 commuters navigate this hellish maze of a hub, running up and down steep stairs to catch buses and five different subway lines: the A/C, J/Z, and L. Maneuvering through it at rush hour is kind of an "every rider for themselves" bundle of claustrophobia that actually ushers you to the next train or exit faster because you want to get out as soon as possible.

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