Isolation

9 works in the index tagged ISOLATION, across every medium we score — film, television, print, audio and objects.

The Wicker Man

Robin Hardy · 1973 · Film

Sunlit, folky, and cheerful right up until it isn't.

The Shining

Stephen King · 1977 · Book

The novel is about alcoholism. The hotel is just the venue.

Alien

Ridley Scott · 1979 · Film

Working people in a haunted house that happens to be a spaceship.

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick · 1980 · Film

A hotel doing slow arithmetic on a family. The dread is architectural.

The Blair Witch Project

D. Myrick & E. Sánchez · 1999 · Film

Three people get lost and the woods do the rest. Almost nothing is shown.

Session 9

Brad Anderson · 2001 · Film

An asbestos crew in an empty asylum. The building wins on patience.

The Descent

Neil Marshall · 2005 · Film

Claustrophobia first, creatures second. The cave was already enough.

The Terror

AMC · 2018 · Television

Scurvy, lead poisoning and a bear. The ice was the monster first.

The Lighthouse

Robert Eggers · 2019 · Film

Two men, one rock, and a slow collapse of the difference between them.