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!!Film -- Animated
* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' shows that until his lamp is rubbed, a genie's existence is depressingly restrictive and empty. They are near omnipotent, but until summoned are confined in that small object with nothing to do - as Genie summed up: "PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS - itty bitty living space". And before Aladdin released him, Genie had to wait for ten thousand years! Jafar was bound to the same fate when he requested to become a genie himself, becoming sealed in his own lamp, which Genie then tossed away. However, Jafar dragged Iago along while being sucked by the lamp, and the sequel ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'' shows the lamp only resurfaced because the parrot managed to get through its nozzle and then dig through tons of sand. Iago even notes "If it weren't for me, you'd be stuck down there forever!"
* Antonia Chillingsworth in the animated interquel ''WesternAnimation/DarkFury'' has a better example. She keeps criminals frozen into statues, and well... I'll let her explain it.
-->'''Antonia:''' They are all very much alive. Each one sustained in a form of cryo so profound... That seconds seem weeks, and to blink an eye is a day's work. The brain, however, continues to function unimpeded. The mind continues to think and feel, swarming with whatever dark thoughts it's trapped alone with, as it will be for hundreds of years. So much more fitting a fate than dropping them off at the nearest slam.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'':
** Master Builders are locked up by the BigBad in "Think Tanks", machines that suck away all of their creativity... while they're fully conscious. ''Yikes.''
** Anyone affected by the Kragle is completely frozen in place. The BigBad's plan was to inflict this on the whole universe so that [[ControlFreak nobody would be able to mess up his stuff]].
** This also happens to [[spoiler: Emmet after he falls off the edge of the universe.]]
* Tai Lung in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' was locked away for twenty years, in the bottom of a TailorMadePrison. His arms were held tight by chains, and his back covered with a turtle-like shell that prevented him from moving anything but his tail. It's not strange he is absolutely pissed when he escapes, and he already had anger management problems.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' has this gem from "Be Prepared":
-->Ohhhhh an avalanche is coming and I do not feel prepared\\
It's running like a mountain lion, I must say that I'm scared\\
But if not for the witch's spell, you'd hear just how I scream\\
But since I'm only singing, I'll just yodel 'til we're creamed!
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries''
** The zombies from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland''. [[spoiler:They were once normal people who had their life force drained by the cat people, turning them into immortal zombie monsters but still retain their consciousness.]]
** The fate of [[spoiler:Ben Ravencroft]] from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost''. Sarah pulls off a TakingYouWithMe by sealing him inside of her wicked book, making him suffer an eternity of being mercilessly haunted by her.
** In ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooFrankencreepy Frankencreepy]]'', [[spoiler:it's implied that Velma is aware of the terrible things she's doing while she's hypnotized.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'': [[spoiler:Dave's ultimate fate - trapped inside a snow globe.]]
* [[spoiler: Turbo's death]] in ''Disney/WreckItRalph''. [[spoiler:In his Cy Bug form, he's forced to fly towards the beacon and be incinerated.... while being aware the whole time.]]
** This is also the general concept of the movie: Ralph is always--''always''--the bad guy in "Fix It Felix Jr." The Nicelanders always treat him like garbage, he's always thrown off the roof, and then it all starts all over again. And if he (or any other video game character) ever leaves his own game, the game itself will be unplugged, leaving every resident homeless (or, if they're still in the game world when it's unplugged, [[FateWorseThanDeath sucked into an endless black void]]). The plot kicks off when Ralph has been doing this for thirty years, and finally can't take it any more, which is why he leaves his game in an attempt to become a hero.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': The number one rule of being a toy is that you must '''always''' pretend to be lifeless if you can be seen by a human. Even if you know that a human is about to do something horrible, including strapping an explosive to your body.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': Jessie, Bullseye, and Stinky Pete having been kept in storage for who knows how long. It can be reasonably assumed that they were conscious of it at the time, based on Jessie's reaction to the prospect of going back into the storage box. Then there is the idea of them being sold to the museum and ultimately being trapped in a glass case for who knows how long.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', the BigBad, [[spoiler: Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, gets strapped to the front of a garbage truck as an ornament, doomed to be pelted with dead bugs and the elements while being unable to move for years to come.]]
* In the film, ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Jack Frost's whole existence is exactly this. [[spoiler: After dying to save his younger sister from falling in an icy pond,]] he is revived by The Man in the Moon and forced to wander for ''300 years'' in silence. No one can see him, no one can hear him, no one even knows he ''exists''. He has had minimal contact with other spirits of his kind, but it was never really confirmed he had someone to call a friend. Even worse, Jack has no memories of his past and was forced into isolation ''without even knowing why'', no matter how much he ''pleaded'' to The Man in the Moon.
!!Film -- Live-Action
* The titular character of ''Film/AmericanMary'' [[spoiler:gets revenge on her rapist by kidnapping him and using him as an involuntary guinea pig for her body modification career. He ends up a limbless torso hanging from the ceiling by chains hooked into his skin and his mouth sewn shut.]]
* ''Film/{{Anaconda}} 4'': The main villain, right after giving himself immortality, gets eaten by an immortal snake and never gets out.
* A similar fate is suffered by one of the characters in ''Film/AnacondasTheHuntForTheBloodOrchid'', only in this case, he gets bitten by a spider whose venom will paralyze him completely for two days, outside of breathing and retaining consciousness. He gets discovered but is obviously unable to communicate his situation and then gets swallowed alive by one of the snakes. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse The other characters then burn down the hut that the snake is in, presumably roasting it, and him, alive]].]]
* ''Film/{{Awakenings}}'', based on RealLife Dr. Oliver Sachs' experiences with catatonic patients. There is one exchange that expounds the true FridgeHorror of the situation.
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' Most died during the acute stage of the illness, during a sleep so deep they couldn't be roused. A sleep that in most cases lasted several months. Those who survived, who awoke, seemed fine, as though nothing had happened. Years went by - five, ten, fifteen - before anyone suspected they were not well... they were not. I began to see them in the early 1930's - old people brought in by their children, young people brought in by their parents - all of them complaining they weren't themselves anymore. They'd grown distant, aloof, anti-social, they daydreamed at the dinner table. I referred them to psychiatrists. Before long they were being referred back to me. They could no longer dress themselves or feed themselves. They could no longer speak in most cases. Families went mad. People who were normal, were now elsewhere.
-->'''Dr. Sayer:''' What must it be like to be them? What are they thinking?
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' They're not. The virus didn't spare the higher faculties.
-->'''Dr. Sayer:''' We know that for a fact?
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' Yes.
-->'''Dr. Sayer:''' Because?
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' [[FridgeHorror Because the alternative would be unthinkable.]]
** Leonard Lowe actually manages to convey his being trapped by directing Dr. Sayer to the poem ''[[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-panther/ The Panther]]'':
--->His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
--->has grown so weary that it cannot hold
--->anything else. It seems to him there are
--->a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
--->
--->As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
--->the movement of his powerful soft strides
--->is like a ritual dance around a center
--->in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
--->
--->Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
--->lifts, quietly--. An image enters in,
--->rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
--->plunges into the heart and is gone.
* In ''Film/CultOfChucky'' Andy has imprisoned Chucky's still conscious, decapitated head which he routinely tortures.
* In ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'', both of the immortal women have this. Their souls are bonded to their bodies, but their bodies do NOT repair themselves. At the end, they fall down a set of stairs and their bodies shatter. Their heads are intact, but they cannot move. So now they can bicker with each other for all eternity, or at least until their heads are damaged.
* Imohtep in both versions of ''The Mummy'' ([[Film/TheMummy1932 the 1932 original]] and [[Film/TheMummy1999 1999 remake]]). The novelization of the 1999 film explains that Imhotep's soul is locked in his body, even after it dies, and in the meantime, he's buried alive with flesh eating scarabs devouring him, and his tongue cut out so he can't scream, at least not effectively.
* In ''Film/WarlockTheArmageddon'', the Warlock gets an art collector to hand over one of the gems that he is seeking by offering him "the greatest piece your gallery has ever seen". He didn't tell him that the collector himself [[TakenForGranite would become that piece.]] Fully conscious and aware.
* End fate of the [[SlasherMovie slasher]] in ''Film/MonsterMan'', where the survivors manage to steal his monster truck and proceed to avert OnceIsNotEnough with it. They plough into him, run him over, reverse over him, and then run him over, again and again for hours. As he's been rendered essentially unkillable thanks to his sister's BlackMagic, he's still alive and aware even after they finally get sick of it and drive away, leaving behind a great greasy smear of meat-pulp screaming that they haven't killed him yet.
* ''Film/{{Awake}}'' is about a man who undergoes surgery, during which the anesthetic had worn off but the neuromuscular blocking agents holding him still had not. Sadly, there's a handful of surgeries in RealLife where this had happened.
* In ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich''
** [[spoiler:John Cusack's]] character attempts to travel through the portal [[spoiler:at a particularly inappropriate time, leaving his consciousness stranded in the body of a young girl that he cannot control.]]
** [[spoiler:Mr. Malkovich himself -- being helplessly forced to watch somebody else control his body for the rest of his life? Eesh.]]
* In ''Film/TheBurrowers'', the monsters' venom causes near-total paralysis, save breathing and slight movement of the toes or fingers. Once their victims are paralyzed, the creatures bury their prey with nothing but the nose exposed, ensuring the captive won't suffocate and will provide fresh meat when the time comes. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:once the monsters have been killed, the surviving humans don't realize they need to look for a still-living victim, who is left buried up to his nose without hope of rescue. This leads to some FridgeLogic when you realize the missing family may have been buried near the house.]]
* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', Bootstrap Bill was tied to a cannon and sent to the bottom of the ocean by Captain Barbossa prior to the events of the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl first film]]. However, because of the curse of the Aztec gold, which rendered him immortal, he was fated to spend an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and unable to free himself, until the BigBad of the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second film]] came along.
* In ''Film/PitchBlack'', a bound, gagged and sedated Riddick tells (in voiceover) how the animal part of the brain never goes to sleep - which is why he is still fully aware of what's going on during the space voyage. Downplayed because Riddick, while certainly not the most well-adjusted individual, doesn't seem to be bothered that much by the sensation.
* At the end of the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' movie, the villain Victor van Doom is fully transformed into living metal. His body is heated up and then rapidly cooled, resulting in a crystallisation process that leaves him unable to move, and everyone to believe he is dead. Unfortunately for him, he is still fully conscious.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': In the belly of the Sarlacc, victims find a new definition of suffering as they are "slowly digested over a thousand years".
** The ExpandedUniverse story "A Barve Like That", describing Boba Fett's escape from the Sarlacc is a freaking ''study'' in this trope... there's something in the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarlacc Sarlacc's]] digestive fluids that keeps people alive and conscious, though immobile and in pain, since the thing rarely feeds. Not only that, it's telepathic, can force people to relive their, its, and each other's memories, and apparently becomes sentient through its victims - even after death, they become part of its psyche. When Fett does eventually escape, the Sarlacc appears to express some satisfaction that Fett will "release it from the long cycle". He does not, implying that its own existence is an example of this trope.
** It's noticible that a Heroic, Republic-side mission for ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' involves charging a Sarlacc pit with a load of explosives - not to destroy the Sarlacc (you'd probably have to nuke it from orbit), but to MercyKill the poor Republic grunts a Gammorean gang tossed inside. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even the darkest Jedi, mercenary Smuggler, or sociopath Trooper isn't going to go against the plan]].
** See the AndIMustScream/{{Literature}} section for what carbonite prisons do...
** Vader's existence in a cybernetic iron lung is not pleasant. The novelization of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''The Rise of Darth Vader'' both by Matt Stover make this clear. Supplementary materials imply that Palpatine gave him shoddy cybernetics to punish him for his failure and to keep him in line.
** After [[spoiler:the droid L3-37]] is killed in Film/{{Solo}}, [[spoiler:her brain is uploaded into the computer of the Millennium Falcon. She is able to assist with navigation, but is forever bound to the ship. This is particularly ironic given her outspoken stance on "droid rights."]]
* Victims of [[spoiler:Cecile and Justify]] in ''Film/TheSkeletonKey'' tend to wind up in elderly, stroke ridden bodies, unable to take care of themselves, let alone tell anyone what had happened.
* The climax of ''Film/{{Audition}}'' sees the protagonist injected with a drug that paralyzes his muscles but heightens his pain sensation while his girlfriend starts torturing him with piano wire and acupuncture needles. He is trying very ''very'' hard to scream, you better believe it.
** Though he was released from that before too long. This trope applies better to the guy stuffed in the burlap sack in her apartment.
* The victim of the "Sloth" punishment in ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' is kept paralysed in his own apartment for a year by the villain, occasionally given antibiotics so as not to die from his bedsores. By the time he is taken to a hospital, his mind no longer functions.
* Although the effect is mostly killed by the movie's cheese factor, ''Film/CasperMeetsWendy'' has a vortex that is magically opened and used to throw victims into which drags them away. After it's closed, very few people can open it again, so a later rescue is out of the question. It's particularly horrific for the ghosts, since a human might be lucky and get bashed in the head but someone already dead wouldn't have that option.
* Phil Conners in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' becomes trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where he is forced to relive the same day over and over again, and be the only person aware of what is happening. [[ResurrectiveImmortality He tries to kill himself multiple times, but always wakes upon the next day in perfect condition.]] At the end of the film he manages to escape the loop, but only have spending possibly thousands of years in it.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix''.
** Given a twist. Since the machines are interested in the energy created by human bodies they need to keep them in a good state, which turns out to be much easier to do if their minds believe they are leading normal lives.
** Early in the first ''Film/TheMatrix'', Neo gets a brief, literal, experience of this type when Agent Smith erases his mouth and implants a tracking bug in him.
-->'''Agent Smith:''' So tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are ''unable to speak''?
* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'' reveals that Freddy actually devours the souls of his victims, keeping them contained in his body while leeching power from them. Some of their screaming, writhing faces periodically appear on his torso. [[spoiler:They actually rip him apart in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster the fourth film]], though by [[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare the sixth]], he presumably trapped more]].
** Freddy's plan for Nancy in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010 the remake]] was to trap her in this type of situation.
* The fate of the villain in ''Film/TheFlyII'', when [[spoiler:fly Marty replaces his mutated genes with the villain ones, thus trapping the villain in a tumorous, deformed mutated body that can barely crawl.]]
* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'': [[spoiler: This is Lindsay's ultimate fate, with Heiter and the other two members of the "centipede" dead, [[FateWorseThanDeath leaving her stuck between two dead bodies]] with nobody to help her.]]
* [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} SpaceGodzilla]] falls under this at the end of his only film appearance (''Film/GodzillaVsSpacegodzilla''). Being one of the few truly immortal Kaiju, he's trapped in the form of tiny particles floating through space for all of eternity.
* In ''Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends'', after trying to steal the Plasma Spark, Ultraman King punishes Belial by imprisoning him inside the moon for all eternity. However, he is freed by Alien Zarab.... ''20,000 years'' later.
* In ''Film/TheFinal'', one of the outcasts' victims is drugged so that he can't move but can feel everything. Then, Emily sticks him in the throat with needle after needle, all while she remains [[EmotionlessGirl completely silent]] and his friends beg for her to stop.
* Happens to [[spoiler:Sara Goldfarb]] in ''Film/RequiemForADream''. And to an extent, the other three protagonists during the final sequence as well.
* Two examples in ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice''.
** First, the Grimhold kept Morgana and Veronica trapped for a millennium. Morgana and Veronica were trapped in the Grimhold for over a millennium, though, unlike the urn, it isn't expressly stated that the Grimhold prisoners are conscious.
** A second, shorter version happens when Balthazar and Horvath are trapped inside an urn for ten years. They do have things to read Horvath has Dave's essay on Napoleon (and probably a few of his other papers) and Blake was hinted to have the Encantus.
* In the German horror Splatter movie ''Film/{{Anatomy}}'' (orig. ''Anatomie'', 2000), a female medical student who enters a prestigious Heidelberg medical school uncovers a conspiracy by an Antihippocratic secret society operating within the university grounds who are masters of plastination of corpses but due to a lack of fresh, perfect, undamaged corpses have decided to obtain their own "study material". Certain selected victims (people that no-one will miss but also a co-student who discovered what was going on) are injected with a drug that completely paralyses the victim within a few minutes and suppresses all lifesigns so that the victims appears dead on first glance, while still semi-conscious. The drug then transforms the blood, slowly plastinating the victim from within, while the members of the conspiracy pose the body and start to dissect and flay away skin and muscles from the organs and bones. One such victim wakes up, unable to move more than his eyes, and sees his hand has been artfully dissected down to the bones, and he himself is posed naked as a plastinated "scientific show piece".
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'', it's alluded that this occurs when someone dies in a dream sedated enough that they can't simply wake up from it. Supposedly they go to a "limbo" where they can trapped for [[YearInsideHourOutside what seems like years or even decades.]] [[spoiler: Cobb and Mal (before she died) have been there and by the end, so has Saito.]]
* ''Film/{{Dreamkeeper}}'' shows this in the ShowWithinAShow. Along with WhoWantsToLiveForever, the protagonist is granted clairvoyance. And can see the 20th century.
* John Blaylock, as well as Miriam Blaylock's other past lovers in ''Film/TheHunger'', deserve a mention. In short, not only do they age rapidly, they can't physically die, meaning someone else has to kill them. Instead, they are encased alive in coffins kept by Miriam.
* Part of the DownerEnding in ''Film/TheAlphabetKiller''. Detective Megan Paige, who [[ISeeDeadPeople can see the spirits]] of the eponymous killer's victims, also has a [[DefectiveDetective history of mental illness]]. In the end the stress of the case and her confrontation with the killer leads to a psychotic break. This results in her being hospitalized and sedated to the point where she can't move or speak, and thus is helpless to stop the murderer (whose identity remains a mystery to the rest of the police force.) The final scenes chillingly show the detective in a near catatonic where it is implied she will remain for years, her bed slowly being surrounded by the ghosts of more and more of the killer's victims.
* ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'':
** the titular Vampire [[spoiler: is sealed into a coffin and set into a solid cement wall]]. Naturally, being a vampire and thus immortal, he [[spoiler: does not need the oxygen, food or water that this denies him - and in context, lack of blood does not kill a vampire, it simply torments him and drives him slowly insane. Or it would, if he wasn't rescued shortly after to avoid this fate.]]
** This may have happened to another vampire during the time that Louis and Claudia were traveling the world in search of their kin. So for several decades, [[spoiler: Lestat was left barely alive in the old manor, seemingly killed for a SECOND time. Instead of dying, he survives as a charcoal covered corpse that feeds on rats, all alone and afraid of the changing outside world.]]
* The film adaptation of ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun''. See the entry under AndIMustScream/{{Literature}}.
* The fate of any ghost captured by the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}.
* Because [[spoiler:Robert]]'s fate is left ambiguous, this could be the case in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
* Those murdered by the killer in ''Film/MidnightMovie'' become trapped in the film world he originates from, unable to die and held in a TortureCellar. Escape is possible, but highly unlikely.
* The victims of the killer in the ''Film/RestStop'' duology become unhinged ghosts, trapped haunting the lonely stretch of highway the killer prowls.
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': The Black Sleep of the Kali Ma, a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy cursed trance]] that a person falls under when forced to drink the Blood of Kali. One victim describes the experience as a nightmare from which you can't wake up, and openly prefers death to being forced under it.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Stryker's mind control serum makes the victim obedient, but their real self is still in there, fully aware and incapable of controlling their own body. Look at the sheer ''horror'' on Deathstryke's face when the serum controlling her briefly wears off. Particularly when she looks at her hands and remembers the pain of being bonded with adamantium, likely because she was being controlled during that process as well. Scott similarly tells Jean he couldn't stop himself from trying to kill her.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': [[spoiler:Wade Wilson's fate. He turned from a nice-looking, fast-talking, somewhat funny guy to a pale, disfigured person. He has no hair and [[MouthStitchedShut his mouth was sewn shut]]. He got all the powers of the mutants Weapon X captured, but he was completely under their control with no free will.]]
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': The death of [[spoiler:Sebastian Shaw. He's held immobile while a coin is pushed slowly through his skull. Xavier, who's psychically linked to Shaw in order to hold him immobile, does the screaming instead.]]
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': In the final attempt to activate Wade's powers, Ajax sticks him in a decompression chamber designed to keep him suffering on the edge of suffocation, then leaves him there for a weekend. After it succeeds, Ajax decides to leave him in there even longer, just because he likes Wade suffering.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Apocalypse seals the street vendor into a wall when the guy threatens Ororo, so just his eyes (which are still moving) are visible.
* The [[PsychicPowers "precogs"]] of ''Film/MinorityReport''. Daily life for them involves being forced to watch- and in some cases, relive- future murders in a drugged stupor, incapable of waking up or drifting off into too deep a sleep. Those convicted by their predictions are kept in stasis, while their minds remain active- though there's some debate as to what they experience, mentally speaking.
* In ''[[Film/TheInfernalAffairsTrilogy Infernal Affairs III]]'', [[spoiler:Ming is left in a paralyzed and catatonic state after a botched suicide attempt. However, he is still semi-conscious and essentially trapped in an eternal nightmare where he is forced to deal with the guilt of his past crimes. In the very last scene, he is seen tapping his fingers, which is Morse code for "HELL".]]
* In Creator/CliveBarker's ''Film/{{Dread}}'', [[spoiler: a woman is locked into a room with the dead body of her boyfriend, the implication being that she'll be forced to eat it.]]
* In ''Film/HanselAndGretel2007'', a woman is turned into a tree.
* Claudia attempted to do this to Lilli with the apple in ''Film/SnowWhiteATaleOfTerror''. The apple would completely paralyze her, but give her full awareness in the "prison of her mind" as she was buried alive.
* In ''Film/{{Livid}}'', [[spoiler:Anna is trapped for years as part of a twisted "music box" with her eyes stapled shut.]]
* ''Film/TheDivingBellAndTheButterfly'' centres around a man having to cope with falling victim to this fate, as a stroke leaves him paralyzed everywhere except his eyes (and one of them is sewn up early on due to infection, so he can only use one eye). It's suggested that it is temporary (the doctors keep talking about how they hope to help him eventually regain the ability to move, [[spoiler: though the epilogue reveals that he died of a heart attack before this could happen,]] but he still ends up like this long enough to ''write a book'' about his feelings. And it bears mentioning that this was based on a true story.
* In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', criminals aren't supposed to be aware of the time spent as a HumanPopsicle. But John spent the time dreaming of the innocents that he didn't save, and seeing his wife pounding on the ice cube he was in. The police are appropriately horrified to learn this. When pressed, Cocteau uncomfortably states that "The side effects of the freezing process are unavoidable".
* ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'':
** The souls the Djinn captures are placed in ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}''-like dimension, presumably for eternal torture.
** In the first film, a woman gets turned into a sentient but inanimate mannequin when she wishes to be beautiful forever, and Alexandra's sister gets frozen inside a painting.
* Cobra Commander and Destro start ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' immobilized in tanks and pumped full of drugs that leave them incapable of moving anything but their eyes.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' averted for The Tin Man, whom if Dorothy didn't come along he would have been in a sentient statue position forever.
* In the film ''Film/TheBlackHole'', the finale includes a sequence showing the primary and secondary antagonists [[spoiler: Maximilian and Dr Hans Reinhardt]] being fused together into one hellish hybrid, paralyzed, doomed to forever watch over a dimension of fire and brimstone
* ''Franchise/RoboCop''
** ''Film/RoboCop1987'' has the scenes of [=RoboCop=]'s creation from his point of view. The moment that is closest to this trope is surely when Bob Morton and Donald Johnson are commenting in front of him that his memory is going to be wiped, as well as ordering his left arm to be removed and replaced by a cybernetic one.
** ''Film/RoboCop2'' gives, too, an example with Cain: his brain and eyeball are surgically removed from his skull, leaving him to stare out at his own autopsy without even eyelids to close.
* The revenge method of the main villain of ''Film/BloodSuckingPharaohsInPittsburgh'' involves using a ritual to trap a victim's soul in their decaying body forever.
* The Japanese horror films ''Film/{{Juon}}'' screams this. As each film's opening spiel explains, when a person dies in the grip of a powerful rage they may be consumed by a HatePlague which begins in the place that their death took place, then spreads and consumes everyone that enters said location, and then may infect other people that come into contact with the infected. The Saekis become rage-filled ghosts after Kayako's infidelity leads to the deaths of her whole family, often reacting their murders. Anyone who enters their house are doomed, sooner or later Kayako, her dead son or dead husband will come for them and there is nothing they can do but be killed and consumed by the curse. Most victims disappear [[NeverFoundTheBody body and all]].
** To make matters worse, a lot of the victims can materialize as ghosts themselves, tormenting those who failed to save them. A poor school girl suffers this in the fourth film when three friends are consumed by the curse and their ghosts haunt her, watching her through holes in her papered up windows. That is until the ghosts get in and slowly stalk her through the house, then Kayako herself appears and drags the girl to her doom, with the ghost girls still trying to get her.
** It is implied that the protagonist of the third film was haunted by Kayako and Toshio for a good few years, since the aforementioned school girl was young when introduced.
** The spin-off films, ''White Ghost / Black Ghost'', it is implied that another curse was responsible for the creation of another. In ''Black Ghost'', a FetusTerrible who absorbed by her twin sister possesses her body during an exorcism and murders her aunt's family. The house they die in is the same in ''White Ghost'', where a man is possessed is implied to be possessed by the same ghost and murders his family before hanging himself. Several of his relatives return as ghosts, including his young niece who haunts her childhood friend for not saving her when he sexually abused her.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/TheExtraordinaryAdventuresOfAdeleBlancSec'': Adèle undresses for a bath in front of a mummy, which, unknown to her, is being revived and can see, but not move or speak. After the mummy regains speech and movement, he thanks her for the show.
* In ''Film/{{Found}}'', this is [[spoiler:Marty's ultimate fate. He's left bound and gagged on his bed surrounded by the dismembered corpses of his parents and doesn't know when someone will eventually investigate.]]
* A new monster of the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' universe is introduced in ''[[Film/SilentHillRevelation3D Silent Hill: Revelation 3D]]''. It is a multi-handed mannequin that assimilates people by transforming them into mannequins and putting them on its body. As we watch it assimilate a women, we see the mannequin's head scream.
* ''Film/{{Stitches 2001}}'': Mrs. Albright stores her victims' souls in paper dolls, which she keeps in a scrapbook. Opening the pages makes their screams audible.
* Victims of the mirror in ''Film/{{Mirrors}}'' have their souls imprisoned inside of it, a world where everything is mute and backwards. [[spoiler:This becomes our protagonist from the first film's fate.]]
* ''Film/WeAreStillHere'': The souls of sacrifices to [[EldritchAbomination the Darkness]] are said to be "burning till the stars go dark."
* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''
** [[spoiler:Through the Eye of Agamatto, Strange sets a time loop on the moment where he arrives to bargain with Dormammu. [[GroundhogDayLoop It repeats over and over, no matter how many times Strange is killed]] - he even says "you are my prisoner". Strange, by the end, is willing to endure an eternity of torture in Dormammu's hands for the sake of the Earth. Eventually, Dormammu gets tired of being trapped and agrees to withdraw from Earth.]]
** [[spoiler:One of the conditions of Strange's bargain is that Dormammu leaves Earth for good, and takes Kaecilius and his Zealots with him to the dark dimension. Strange tells them they're getting eternal life as they wanted, and [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor they're not gonna like it]].]]
* ''Film/GetOut2017'' involves black people [[spoiler: having a white person's brain implanted in their head, with only a tiny bit of the black person's consciousness still in the body. This means the victims can see and hear anything that is happening but are unable to do anything about it unless they see the flash of a camera, which causes their original consciousness to activate.]]
* ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'': One subset of the immortal Eternals are the Apathetics, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever who are so bored by immortality]] that they literally cannot do ''anything'' anymore.
* In ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', the Enchantress's curse works this way. The servants are still transformed into [[AnimateInanimateObject household items that can walk and talk]], but there's a new codicil to the spell: if the Beast can't learn to love and be loved in turn, they'll be transformed into ''completely'' inanimate objects ''forever''. Lumiere notes that as each day passes, they lose more and more of their humanity--they can feel it happening, but are unable to do anything to stop it. [[spoiler: And the ending ''shows this happening to the servants''--we watch their bodies lock up in a state of utter panic and despair as their faces fade away. Maestro Cadenza has to watch his wife Garderobe freeze first; their beloved dog Frou-Frou, who's been turned into a small table, desperately tries to wake them up before he too keels over; Mrs. Potts, who can feel the transformation happening, screams for her son, while Chip himself cries for her, only to change before they can reunite; and Cogsworth actually chokes out how the final transformation feels: "Lumiere, I...I can't...speak..." Thank GOD the Enchantress decided to undo the curse despite the Beast technically dying.]]
* The fate of Seth Richards in ''Film/{{Looper}}.'' After he ends up letting his future self escape, Abe is not pleased. He knows he can't just kill Seth (he needs to survive long enough to be sent back in time and complete the loop), so Seth is instead condemned to spend 30 years without his limbs, tongue, ears, or nose. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see any of it directly.]] Instead, as a result of TemporalMutability, we watch [[BodyHorror Future Seth's body parts disappear one by one]] as he tries to get to his past self [[HalfTheManHeUsedTobe until he's left a barely intelligible torso and head]], then put out of his mercy by [[BoomHeadshot a bullet to the cranium.]]
* The title character in ''Film/{{Patrick}}'' is left in a vegetative state after [[SelfMadeOrphan murdering his mother]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse and her lover]]. His only means of communication is via a typewriter, which he is able to control using his powers, or through occasional facial tics.
* Janet van Dyne from ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' shrunk between molecules to disarm a bomb headed for Washington, DC. However, in doing so she got stuck in the [[AcidTripDimension Quantum Realm]], alone, for ''thirty years'', with her husband and daughter convinced she was dead.
** [[spoiler: In TheStinger, Scott is sent into the Quantum Realm in order to get healing particles for Ghost. However, before Hank, Hope and Janet can pull him back out, they're ''turned to dust'' by [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Thanos's finger snap]], leaving Scott alone and [[HistoryRepeats stuck in the Quantum Realm]] as he screams for help over the radio. But unlike with Janet, the only people who even ''know'' where he is and how to bring him back are gone, and Scott not coming home would likely mean he'd be chalked up as another of Thanos's victims, meaning no-one would look for him.]]
* In the first ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' movie, the pharaoh Akhmenrah was locked in a vault from 1952 to the mid-2000s, when the films take place. The tablet that makes the museum come alive at night is ''his'' tablet, and the previous night guards and the other exhibits assumed he'd be evil if they let him out. So they left him to come alive and scream every night in the vault for five decades. When he's finally let out, he turns out to be a NiceGuy who did ''not'' GoMadFromTheIsolation.
* ''Film/TheEmptyMirror'': Implied to be Hitler's fate. After spending the whole film trying to justify his legacy and the atrocities committed in his name, a white-haired Hitler is eventually left alone with his thoughts, then the walls burst open and submerge him in a river of blood and human bones. By the end he realizes he's trapped, all alone, and can't escape his past as darkness moves in over him.
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* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' shows that until his lamp is rubbed, a genie's existence is depressingly restrictive and empty. They are near omnipotent, but until summoned are confined in that small object with nothing to do - as Genie summed up: "PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS - itty bitty living space". And before Aladdin released him, Genie had to wait for ten thousand years! Jafar was bound to the same fate when he requested to become a genie himself, becoming sealed in his own lamp, which Genie then tossed away. However, Jafar dragged Iago along while being sucked by the lamp, and the sequel ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'' shows the lamp only resurfaced because the parrot managed to get through its nozzle and then dig through tons of sand. Iago even notes "If it weren't for me, you'd be stuck down there forever!"
* Antonia Chillingsworth in the animated interquel ''WesternAnimation/DarkFury'' has a better example. She keeps criminals frozen into statues, and well... I'll let her explain it.
-->'''Antonia:''' They are all very much alive. Each one sustained in a form of cryo so profound... That seconds seem weeks, and to blink an eye is a day's work. The brain, however, continues to function unimpeded. The mind continues to think and feel, swarming with whatever dark thoughts it's trapped alone with, as it will be for hundreds of years. So much more fitting a fate than dropping them off at the nearest slam.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'':
** Master Builders are locked up by the BigBad in "Think Tanks", machines that suck away all of their creativity... while they're fully conscious. ''Yikes.''
** Anyone affected by the Kragle is completely frozen in place. The BigBad's plan was to inflict this on the whole universe so that [[ControlFreak nobody would be able to mess up his stuff]].
** This also happens to [[spoiler: Emmet after he falls off the edge of the universe.]]
* Tai Lung in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' was locked away for twenty years, in the bottom of a TailorMadePrison. His arms were held tight by chains, and his back covered with a turtle-like shell that prevented him from moving anything but his tail. It's not strange he is absolutely pissed when he escapes, and he already had anger management problems.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' has this gem from "Be Prepared":
-->Ohhhhh an avalanche is coming and I do not feel prepared\\
It's running like a mountain lion, I must say that I'm scared\\
But if not for the witch's spell, you'd hear just how I scream\\
But since I'm only singing, I'll just yodel 'til we're creamed!
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries''
** The zombies from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland''. [[spoiler:They were once normal people who had their life force drained by the cat people, turning them into immortal zombie monsters but still retain their consciousness.]]
** The fate of [[spoiler:Ben Ravencroft]] from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost''. Sarah pulls off a TakingYouWithMe by sealing him inside of her wicked book, making him suffer an eternity of being mercilessly haunted by her.
** In ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooFrankencreepy Frankencreepy]]'', [[spoiler:it's implied that Velma is aware of the terrible things she's doing while she's hypnotized.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'': [[spoiler:Dave's ultimate fate - trapped inside a snow globe.]]
* [[spoiler: Turbo's death]] in ''Disney/WreckItRalph''. [[spoiler:In his Cy Bug form, he's forced to fly towards the beacon and be incinerated.... while being aware the whole time.]]
** This is also the general concept of the movie: Ralph is always--''always''--the bad guy in "Fix It Felix Jr." The Nicelanders always treat him like garbage, he's always thrown off the roof, and then it all starts all over again. And if he (or any other video game character) ever leaves his own game, the game itself will be unplugged, leaving every resident homeless (or, if they're still in the game world when it's unplugged, [[FateWorseThanDeath sucked into an endless black void]]). The plot kicks off when Ralph has been doing this for thirty years, and finally can't take it any more, which is why he leaves his game in an attempt to become a hero.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': The number one rule of being a toy is that you must '''always''' pretend to be lifeless if you can be seen by a human. Even if you know that a human is about to do something horrible, including strapping an explosive to your body.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': Jessie, Bullseye, and Stinky Pete having been kept in storage for who knows how long. It can be reasonably assumed that they were conscious of it at the time, based on Jessie's reaction to the prospect of going back into the storage box. Then there is the idea of them being sold to the museum and ultimately being trapped in a glass case for who knows how long.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', the BigBad, [[spoiler: Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, gets strapped to the front of a garbage truck as an ornament, doomed to be pelted with dead bugs and the elements while being unable to move for years to come.]]
* In the film, ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Jack Frost's whole existence is exactly this. [[spoiler: After dying to save his younger sister from falling in an icy pond,]] he is revived by The Man in the Moon and forced to wander for ''300 years'' in silence. No one can see him, no one can hear him, no one even knows he ''exists''. He has had minimal contact with other spirits of his kind, but it was never really confirmed he had someone to call a friend. Even worse, Jack has no memories of his past and was forced into isolation ''without even knowing why'', no matter how much he ''pleaded'' to The Man in the Moon.
!!Film -- Live-Action
* The titular character of ''Film/AmericanMary'' [[spoiler:gets revenge on her rapist by kidnapping him and using him as an involuntary guinea pig for her body modification career. He ends up a limbless torso hanging from the ceiling by chains hooked into his skin and his mouth sewn shut.]]
* ''Film/{{Anaconda}} 4'': The main villain, right after giving himself immortality, gets eaten by an immortal snake and never gets out.
* A similar fate is suffered by one of the characters in ''Film/AnacondasTheHuntForTheBloodOrchid'', only in this case, he gets bitten by a spider whose venom will paralyze him completely for two days, outside of breathing and retaining consciousness. He gets discovered but is obviously unable to communicate his situation and then gets swallowed alive by one of the snakes. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse The other characters then burn down the hut that the snake is in, presumably roasting it, and him, alive]].]]
* ''Film/{{Awakenings}}'', based on RealLife Dr. Oliver Sachs' experiences with catatonic patients. There is one exchange that expounds the true FridgeHorror of the situation.
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' Most died during the acute stage of the illness, during a sleep so deep they couldn't be roused. A sleep that in most cases lasted several months. Those who survived, who awoke, seemed fine, as though nothing had happened. Years went by - five, ten, fifteen - before anyone suspected they were not well... they were not. I began to see them in the early 1930's - old people brought in by their children, young people brought in by their parents - all of them complaining they weren't themselves anymore. They'd grown distant, aloof, anti-social, they daydreamed at the dinner table. I referred them to psychiatrists. Before long they were being referred back to me. They could no longer dress themselves or feed themselves. They could no longer speak in most cases. Families went mad. People who were normal, were now elsewhere.
-->'''Dr. Sayer:''' What must it be like to be them? What are they thinking?
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' They're not. The virus didn't spare the higher faculties.
-->'''Dr. Sayer:''' We know that for a fact?
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' Yes.
-->'''Dr. Sayer:''' Because?
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' [[FridgeHorror Because the alternative would be unthinkable.]]
** Leonard Lowe actually manages to convey his being trapped by directing Dr. Sayer to the poem ''[[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-panther/ The Panther]]'':
--->His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
--->has grown so weary that it cannot hold
--->anything else. It seems to him there are
--->a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
--->
--->As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
--->the movement of his powerful soft strides
--->is like a ritual dance around a center
--->in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
--->
--->Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
--->lifts, quietly--. An image enters in,
--->rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
--->plunges into the heart and is gone.
* In ''Film/CultOfChucky'' Andy has imprisoned Chucky's still conscious, decapitated head which he routinely tortures.
* In ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'', both of the immortal women have this. Their souls are bonded to their bodies, but their bodies do NOT repair themselves. At the end, they fall down a set of stairs and their bodies shatter. Their heads are intact, but they cannot move. So now they can bicker with each other for all eternity, or at least until their heads are damaged.
* Imohtep in both versions of ''The Mummy'' ([[Film/TheMummy1932 the 1932 original]] and [[Film/TheMummy1999 1999 remake]]). The novelization of the 1999 film explains that Imhotep's soul is locked in his body, even after it dies, and in the meantime, he's buried alive with flesh eating scarabs devouring him, and his tongue cut out so he can't scream, at least not effectively.
* In ''Film/WarlockTheArmageddon'', the Warlock gets an art collector to hand over one of the gems that he is seeking by offering him "the greatest piece your gallery has ever seen". He didn't tell him that the collector himself [[TakenForGranite would become that piece.]] Fully conscious and aware.
* End fate of the [[SlasherMovie slasher]] in ''Film/MonsterMan'', where the survivors manage to steal his monster truck and proceed to avert OnceIsNotEnough with it. They plough into him, run him over, reverse over him, and then run him over, again and again for hours. As he's been rendered essentially unkillable thanks to his sister's BlackMagic, he's still alive and aware even after they finally get sick of it and drive away, leaving behind a great greasy smear of meat-pulp screaming that they haven't killed him yet.
* ''Film/{{Awake}}'' is about a man who undergoes surgery, during which the anesthetic had worn off but the neuromuscular blocking agents holding him still had not. Sadly, there's a handful of surgeries in RealLife where this had happened.
* In ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich''
** [[spoiler:John Cusack's]] character attempts to travel through the portal [[spoiler:at a particularly inappropriate time, leaving his consciousness stranded in the body of a young girl that he cannot control.]]
** [[spoiler:Mr. Malkovich himself -- being helplessly forced to watch somebody else control his body for the rest of his life? Eesh.]]
* In ''Film/TheBurrowers'', the monsters' venom causes near-total paralysis, save breathing and slight movement of the toes or fingers. Once their victims are paralyzed, the creatures bury their prey with nothing but the nose exposed, ensuring the captive won't suffocate and will provide fresh meat when the time comes. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:once the monsters have been killed, the surviving humans don't realize they need to look for a still-living victim, who is left buried up to his nose without hope of rescue. This leads to some FridgeLogic when you realize the missing family may have been buried near the house.]]
* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', Bootstrap Bill was tied to a cannon and sent to the bottom of the ocean by Captain Barbossa prior to the events of the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl first film]]. However, because of the curse of the Aztec gold, which rendered him immortal, he was fated to spend an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and unable to free himself, until the BigBad of the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second film]] came along.
* In ''Film/PitchBlack'', a bound, gagged and sedated Riddick tells (in voiceover) how the animal part of the brain never goes to sleep - which is why he is still fully aware of what's going on during the space voyage. Downplayed because Riddick, while certainly not the most well-adjusted individual, doesn't seem to be bothered that much by the sensation.
* At the end of the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' movie, the villain Victor van Doom is fully transformed into living metal. His body is heated up and then rapidly cooled, resulting in a crystallisation process that leaves him unable to move, and everyone to believe he is dead. Unfortunately for him, he is still fully conscious.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': In the belly of the Sarlacc, victims find a new definition of suffering as they are "slowly digested over a thousand years".
** The ExpandedUniverse story "A Barve Like That", describing Boba Fett's escape from the Sarlacc is a freaking ''study'' in this trope... there's something in the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarlacc Sarlacc's]] digestive fluids that keeps people alive and conscious, though immobile and in pain, since the thing rarely feeds. Not only that, it's telepathic, can force people to relive their, its, and each other's memories, and apparently becomes sentient through its victims - even after death, they become part of its psyche. When Fett does eventually escape, the Sarlacc appears to express some satisfaction that Fett will "release it from the long cycle". He does not, implying that its own existence is an example of this trope.
** It's noticible that a Heroic, Republic-side mission for ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' involves charging a Sarlacc pit with a load of explosives - not to destroy the Sarlacc (you'd probably have to nuke it from orbit), but to MercyKill the poor Republic grunts a Gammorean gang tossed inside. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even the darkest Jedi, mercenary Smuggler, or sociopath Trooper isn't going to go against the plan]].
** See the AndIMustScream/{{Literature}} section for what carbonite prisons do...
** Vader's existence in a cybernetic iron lung is not pleasant. The novelization of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''The Rise of Darth Vader'' both by Matt Stover make this clear. Supplementary materials imply that Palpatine gave him shoddy cybernetics to punish him for his failure and to keep him in line.
** After [[spoiler:the droid L3-37]] is killed in Film/{{Solo}}, [[spoiler:her brain is uploaded into the computer of the Millennium Falcon. She is able to assist with navigation, but is forever bound to the ship. This is particularly ironic given her outspoken stance on "droid rights."]]
* Victims of [[spoiler:Cecile and Justify]] in ''Film/TheSkeletonKey'' tend to wind up in elderly, stroke ridden bodies, unable to take care of themselves, let alone tell anyone what had happened.
* The climax of ''Film/{{Audition}}'' sees the protagonist injected with a drug that paralyzes his muscles but heightens his pain sensation while his girlfriend starts torturing him with piano wire and acupuncture needles. He is trying very ''very'' hard to scream, you better believe it.
** Though he was released from that before too long. This trope applies better to the guy stuffed in the burlap sack in her apartment.
* The victim of the "Sloth" punishment in ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' is kept paralysed in his own apartment for a year by the villain, occasionally given antibiotics so as not to die from his bedsores. By the time he is taken to a hospital, his mind no longer functions.
* Although the effect is mostly killed by the movie's cheese factor, ''Film/CasperMeetsWendy'' has a vortex that is magically opened and used to throw victims into which drags them away. After it's closed, very few people can open it again, so a later rescue is out of the question. It's particularly horrific for the ghosts, since a human might be lucky and get bashed in the head but someone already dead wouldn't have that option.
* Phil Conners in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' becomes trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where he is forced to relive the same day over and over again, and be the only person aware of what is happening. [[ResurrectiveImmortality He tries to kill himself multiple times, but always wakes upon the next day in perfect condition.]] At the end of the film he manages to escape the loop, but only have spending possibly thousands of years in it.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix''.
** Given a twist. Since the machines are interested in the energy created by human bodies they need to keep them in a good state, which turns out to be much easier to do if their minds believe they are leading normal lives.
** Early in the first ''Film/TheMatrix'', Neo gets a brief, literal, experience of this type when Agent Smith erases his mouth and implants a tracking bug in him.
-->'''Agent Smith:''' So tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are ''unable to speak''?
* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'' reveals that Freddy actually devours the souls of his victims, keeping them contained in his body while leeching power from them. Some of their screaming, writhing faces periodically appear on his torso. [[spoiler:They actually rip him apart in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster the fourth film]], though by [[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare the sixth]], he presumably trapped more]].
** Freddy's plan for Nancy in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010 the remake]] was to trap her in this type of situation.
* The fate of the villain in ''Film/TheFlyII'', when [[spoiler:fly Marty replaces his mutated genes with the villain ones, thus trapping the villain in a tumorous, deformed mutated body that can barely crawl.]]
* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'': [[spoiler: This is Lindsay's ultimate fate, with Heiter and the other two members of the "centipede" dead, [[FateWorseThanDeath leaving her stuck between two dead bodies]] with nobody to help her.]]
* [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} SpaceGodzilla]] falls under this at the end of his only film appearance (''Film/GodzillaVsSpacegodzilla''). Being one of the few truly immortal Kaiju, he's trapped in the form of tiny particles floating through space for all of eternity.
* In ''Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends'', after trying to steal the Plasma Spark, Ultraman King punishes Belial by imprisoning him inside the moon for all eternity. However, he is freed by Alien Zarab.... ''20,000 years'' later.
* In ''Film/TheFinal'', one of the outcasts' victims is drugged so that he can't move but can feel everything. Then, Emily sticks him in the throat with needle after needle, all while she remains [[EmotionlessGirl completely silent]] and his friends beg for her to stop.
* Happens to [[spoiler:Sara Goldfarb]] in ''Film/RequiemForADream''. And to an extent, the other three protagonists during the final sequence as well.
* Two examples in ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice''.
** First, the Grimhold kept Morgana and Veronica trapped for a millennium. Morgana and Veronica were trapped in the Grimhold for over a millennium, though, unlike the urn, it isn't expressly stated that the Grimhold prisoners are conscious.
** A second, shorter version happens when Balthazar and Horvath are trapped inside an urn for ten years. They do have things to read Horvath has Dave's essay on Napoleon (and probably a few of his other papers) and Blake was hinted to have the Encantus.
* In the German horror Splatter movie ''Film/{{Anatomy}}'' (orig. ''Anatomie'', 2000), a female medical student who enters a prestigious Heidelberg medical school uncovers a conspiracy by an Antihippocratic secret society operating within the university grounds who are masters of plastination of corpses but due to a lack of fresh, perfect, undamaged corpses have decided to obtain their own "study material". Certain selected victims (people that no-one will miss but also a co-student who discovered what was going on) are injected with a drug that completely paralyses the victim within a few minutes and suppresses all lifesigns so that the victims appears dead on first glance, while still semi-conscious. The drug then transforms the blood, slowly plastinating the victim from within, while the members of the conspiracy pose the body and start to dissect and flay away skin and muscles from the organs and bones. One such victim wakes up, unable to move more than his eyes, and sees his hand has been artfully dissected down to the bones, and he himself is posed naked as a plastinated "scientific show piece".
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'', it's alluded that this occurs when someone dies in a dream sedated enough that they can't simply wake up from it. Supposedly they go to a "limbo" where they can trapped for [[YearInsideHourOutside what seems like years or even decades.]] [[spoiler: Cobb and Mal (before she died) have been there and by the end, so has Saito.]]
* ''Film/{{Dreamkeeper}}'' shows this in the ShowWithinAShow. Along with WhoWantsToLiveForever, the protagonist is granted clairvoyance. And can see the 20th century.
* John Blaylock, as well as Miriam Blaylock's other past lovers in ''Film/TheHunger'', deserve a mention. In short, not only do they age rapidly, they can't physically die, meaning someone else has to kill them. Instead, they are encased alive in coffins kept by Miriam.
* Part of the DownerEnding in ''Film/TheAlphabetKiller''. Detective Megan Paige, who [[ISeeDeadPeople can see the spirits]] of the eponymous killer's victims, also has a [[DefectiveDetective history of mental illness]]. In the end the stress of the case and her confrontation with the killer leads to a psychotic break. This results in her being hospitalized and sedated to the point where she can't move or speak, and thus is helpless to stop the murderer (whose identity remains a mystery to the rest of the police force.) The final scenes chillingly show the detective in a near catatonic where it is implied she will remain for years, her bed slowly being surrounded by the ghosts of more and more of the killer's victims.
* ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'':
** the titular Vampire [[spoiler: is sealed into a coffin and set into a solid cement wall]]. Naturally, being a vampire and thus immortal, he [[spoiler: does not need the oxygen, food or water that this denies him - and in context, lack of blood does not kill a vampire, it simply torments him and drives him slowly insane. Or it would, if he wasn't rescued shortly after to avoid this fate.]]
** This may have happened to another vampire during the time that Louis and Claudia were traveling the world in search of their kin. So for several decades, [[spoiler: Lestat was left barely alive in the old manor, seemingly killed for a SECOND time. Instead of dying, he survives as a charcoal covered corpse that feeds on rats, all alone and afraid of the changing outside world.]]
* The film adaptation of ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun''. See the entry under AndIMustScream/{{Literature}}.
* The fate of any ghost captured by the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}.
* Because [[spoiler:Robert]]'s fate is left ambiguous, this could be the case in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
* Those murdered by the killer in ''Film/MidnightMovie'' become trapped in the film world he originates from, unable to die and held in a TortureCellar. Escape is possible, but highly unlikely.
* The victims of the killer in the ''Film/RestStop'' duology become unhinged ghosts, trapped haunting the lonely stretch of highway the killer prowls.
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': The Black Sleep of the Kali Ma, a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy cursed trance]] that a person falls under when forced to drink the Blood of Kali. One victim describes the experience as a nightmare from which you can't wake up, and openly prefers death to being forced under it.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Stryker's mind control serum makes the victim obedient, but their real self is still in there, fully aware and incapable of controlling their own body. Look at the sheer ''horror'' on Deathstryke's face when the serum controlling her briefly wears off. Particularly when she looks at her hands and remembers the pain of being bonded with adamantium, likely because she was being controlled during that process as well. Scott similarly tells Jean he couldn't stop himself from trying to kill her.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': [[spoiler:Wade Wilson's fate. He turned from a nice-looking, fast-talking, somewhat funny guy to a pale, disfigured person. He has no hair and [[MouthStitchedShut his mouth was sewn shut]]. He got all the powers of the mutants Weapon X captured, but he was completely under their control with no free will.]]
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': The death of [[spoiler:Sebastian Shaw. He's held immobile while a coin is pushed slowly through his skull. Xavier, who's psychically linked to Shaw in order to hold him immobile, does the screaming instead.]]
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': In the final attempt to activate Wade's powers, Ajax sticks him in a decompression chamber designed to keep him suffering on the edge of suffocation, then leaves him there for a weekend. After it succeeds, Ajax decides to leave him in there even longer, just because he likes Wade suffering.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Apocalypse seals the street vendor into a wall when the guy threatens Ororo, so just his eyes (which are still moving) are visible.
* The [[PsychicPowers "precogs"]] of ''Film/MinorityReport''. Daily life for them involves being forced to watch- and in some cases, relive- future murders in a drugged stupor, incapable of waking up or drifting off into too deep a sleep. Those convicted by their predictions are kept in stasis, while their minds remain active- though there's some debate as to what they experience, mentally speaking.
* In ''[[Film/TheInfernalAffairsTrilogy Infernal Affairs III]]'', [[spoiler:Ming is left in a paralyzed and catatonic state after a botched suicide attempt. However, he is still semi-conscious and essentially trapped in an eternal nightmare where he is forced to deal with the guilt of his past crimes. In the very last scene, he is seen tapping his fingers, which is Morse code for "HELL".]]
* In Creator/CliveBarker's ''Film/{{Dread}}'', [[spoiler: a woman is locked into a room with the dead body of her boyfriend, the implication being that she'll be forced to eat it.]]
* In ''Film/HanselAndGretel2007'', a woman is turned into a tree.
* Claudia attempted to do this to Lilli with the apple in ''Film/SnowWhiteATaleOfTerror''. The apple would completely paralyze her, but give her full awareness in the "prison of her mind" as she was buried alive.
* In ''Film/{{Livid}}'', [[spoiler:Anna is trapped for years as part of a twisted "music box" with her eyes stapled shut.]]
* ''Film/TheDivingBellAndTheButterfly'' centres around a man having to cope with falling victim to this fate, as a stroke leaves him paralyzed everywhere except his eyes (and one of them is sewn up early on due to infection, so he can only use one eye). It's suggested that it is temporary (the doctors keep talking about how they hope to help him eventually regain the ability to move, [[spoiler: though the epilogue reveals that he died of a heart attack before this could happen,]] but he still ends up like this long enough to ''write a book'' about his feelings. And it bears mentioning that this was based on a true story.
* In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', criminals aren't supposed to be aware of the time spent as a HumanPopsicle. But John spent the time dreaming of the innocents that he didn't save, and seeing his wife pounding on the ice cube he was in. The police are appropriately horrified to learn this. When pressed, Cocteau uncomfortably states that "The side effects of the freezing process are unavoidable".
* ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'':
** The souls the Djinn captures are placed in ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}''-like dimension, presumably for eternal torture.
** In the first film, a woman gets turned into a sentient but inanimate mannequin when she wishes to be beautiful forever, and Alexandra's sister gets frozen inside a painting.
* Cobra Commander and Destro start ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' immobilized in tanks and pumped full of drugs that leave them incapable of moving anything but their eyes.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' averted for The Tin Man, whom if Dorothy didn't come along he would have been in a sentient statue position forever.
* In the film ''Film/TheBlackHole'', the finale includes a sequence showing the primary and secondary antagonists [[spoiler: Maximilian and Dr Hans Reinhardt]] being fused together into one hellish hybrid, paralyzed, doomed to forever watch over a dimension of fire and brimstone
* ''Franchise/RoboCop''
** ''Film/RoboCop1987'' has the scenes of [=RoboCop=]'s creation from his point of view. The moment that is closest to this trope is surely when Bob Morton and Donald Johnson are commenting in front of him that his memory is going to be wiped, as well as ordering his left arm to be removed and replaced by a cybernetic one.
** ''Film/RoboCop2'' gives, too, an example with Cain: his brain and eyeball are surgically removed from his skull, leaving him to stare out at his own autopsy without even eyelids to close.
* The revenge method of the main villain of ''Film/BloodSuckingPharaohsInPittsburgh'' involves using a ritual to trap a victim's soul in their decaying body forever.
* The Japanese horror films ''Film/{{Juon}}'' screams this. As each film's opening spiel explains, when a person dies in the grip of a powerful rage they may be consumed by a HatePlague which begins in the place that their death took place, then spreads and consumes everyone that enters said location, and then may infect other people that come into contact with the infected. The Saekis become rage-filled ghosts after Kayako's infidelity leads to the deaths of her whole family, often reacting their murders. Anyone who enters their house are doomed, sooner or later Kayako, her dead son or dead husband will come for them and there is nothing they can do but be killed and consumed by the curse. Most victims disappear [[NeverFoundTheBody body and all]].
** To make matters worse, a lot of the victims can materialize as ghosts themselves, tormenting those who failed to save them. A poor school girl suffers this in the fourth film when three friends are consumed by the curse and their ghosts haunt her, watching her through holes in her papered up windows. That is until the ghosts get in and slowly stalk her through the house, then Kayako herself appears and drags the girl to her doom, with the ghost girls still trying to get her.
** It is implied that the protagonist of the third film was haunted by Kayako and Toshio for a good few years, since the aforementioned school girl was young when introduced.
** The spin-off films, ''White Ghost / Black Ghost'', it is implied that another curse was responsible for the creation of another. In ''Black Ghost'', a FetusTerrible who absorbed by her twin sister possesses her body during an exorcism and murders her aunt's family. The house they die in is the same in ''White Ghost'', where a man is possessed is implied to be possessed by the same ghost and murders his family before hanging himself. Several of his relatives return as ghosts, including his young niece who haunts her childhood friend for not saving her when he sexually abused her.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/TheExtraordinaryAdventuresOfAdeleBlancSec'': Adèle undresses for a bath in front of a mummy, which, unknown to her, is being revived and can see, but not move or speak. After the mummy regains speech and movement, he thanks her for the show.
* In ''Film/{{Found}}'', this is [[spoiler:Marty's ultimate fate. He's left bound and gagged on his bed surrounded by the dismembered corpses of his parents and doesn't know when someone will eventually investigate.]]
* A new monster of the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' universe is introduced in ''[[Film/SilentHillRevelation3D Silent Hill: Revelation 3D]]''. It is a multi-handed mannequin that assimilates people by transforming them into mannequins and putting them on its body. As we watch it assimilate a women, we see the mannequin's head scream.
* ''Film/{{Stitches 2001}}'': Mrs. Albright stores her victims' souls in paper dolls, which she keeps in a scrapbook. Opening the pages makes their screams audible.
* Victims of the mirror in ''Film/{{Mirrors}}'' have their souls imprisoned inside of it, a world where everything is mute and backwards. [[spoiler:This becomes our protagonist from the first film's fate.]]
* ''Film/WeAreStillHere'': The souls of sacrifices to [[EldritchAbomination the Darkness]] are said to be "burning till the stars go dark."
* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''
** [[spoiler:Through the Eye of Agamatto, Strange sets a time loop on the moment where he arrives to bargain with Dormammu. [[GroundhogDayLoop It repeats over and over, no matter how many times Strange is killed]] - he even says "you are my prisoner". Strange, by the end, is willing to endure an eternity of torture in Dormammu's hands for the sake of the Earth. Eventually, Dormammu gets tired of being trapped and agrees to withdraw from Earth.]]
** [[spoiler:One of the conditions of Strange's bargain is that Dormammu leaves Earth for good, and takes Kaecilius and his Zealots with him to the dark dimension. Strange tells them they're getting eternal life as they wanted, and [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor they're not gonna like it]].]]
* ''Film/GetOut2017'' involves black people [[spoiler: having a white person's brain implanted in their head, with only a tiny bit of the black person's consciousness still in the body. This means the victims can see and hear anything that is happening but are unable to do anything about it unless they see the flash of a camera, which causes their original consciousness to activate.]]
* ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'': One subset of the immortal Eternals are the Apathetics, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever who are so bored by immortality]] that they literally cannot do ''anything'' anymore.
* In ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', the Enchantress's curse works this way. The servants are still transformed into [[AnimateInanimateObject household items that can walk and talk]], but there's a new codicil to the spell: if the Beast can't learn to love and be loved in turn, they'll be transformed into ''completely'' inanimate objects ''forever''. Lumiere notes that as each day passes, they lose more and more of their humanity--they can feel it happening, but are unable to do anything to stop it. [[spoiler: And the ending ''shows this happening to the servants''--we watch their bodies lock up in a state of utter panic and despair as their faces fade away. Maestro Cadenza has to watch his wife Garderobe freeze first; their beloved dog Frou-Frou, who's been turned into a small table, desperately tries to wake them up before he too keels over; Mrs. Potts, who can feel the transformation happening, screams for her son, while Chip himself cries for her, only to change before they can reunite; and Cogsworth actually chokes out how the final transformation feels: "Lumiere, I...I can't...speak..." Thank GOD the Enchantress decided to undo the curse despite the Beast technically dying.]]
* The fate of Seth Richards in ''Film/{{Looper}}.'' After he ends up letting his future self escape, Abe is not pleased. He knows he can't just kill Seth (he needs to survive long enough to be sent back in time and complete the loop), so Seth is instead condemned to spend 30 years without his limbs, tongue, ears, or nose. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see any of it directly.]] Instead, as a result of TemporalMutability, we watch [[BodyHorror Future Seth's body parts disappear one by one]] as he tries to get to his past self [[HalfTheManHeUsedTobe until he's left a barely intelligible torso and head]], then put out of his mercy by [[BoomHeadshot a bullet to the cranium.]]
* The title character in ''Film/{{Patrick}}'' is left in a vegetative state after [[SelfMadeOrphan murdering his mother]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse and her lover]]. His only means of communication is via a typewriter, which he is able to control using his powers, or through occasional facial tics.
* Janet van Dyne from ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' shrunk between molecules to disarm a bomb headed for Washington, DC. However, in doing so she got stuck in the [[AcidTripDimension Quantum Realm]], alone, for ''thirty years'', with her husband and daughter convinced she was dead.
** [[spoiler: In TheStinger, Scott is sent into the Quantum Realm in order to get healing particles for Ghost. However, before Hank, Hope and Janet can pull him back out, they're ''turned to dust'' by [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Thanos's finger snap]], leaving Scott alone and [[HistoryRepeats stuck in the Quantum Realm]] as he screams for help over the radio. But unlike with Janet, the only people who even ''know'' where he is and how to bring him back are gone, and Scott not coming home would likely mean he'd be chalked up as another of Thanos's victims, meaning no-one would look for him.]]
* In the first ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' movie, the pharaoh Akhmenrah was locked in a vault from 1952 to the mid-2000s, when the films take place. The tablet that makes the museum come alive at night is ''his'' tablet, and the previous night guards and the other exhibits assumed he'd be evil if they let him out. So they left him to come alive and scream every night in the vault for five decades. When he's finally let out, he turns out to be a NiceGuy who did ''not'' GoMadFromTheIsolation.
* ''Film/TheEmptyMirror'': Implied to be Hitler's fate. After spending the whole film trying to justify his legacy and the atrocities committed in his name, a white-haired Hitler is eventually left alone with his thoughts, then the walls burst open and submerge him in a river of blood and human bones. By the end he realizes he's trapped, all alone, and can't escape his past as darkness moves in over him.
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* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' shows that until his lamp is rubbed, a genie's existence is depressingly restrictive and empty. They are near omnipotent, but until summoned are confined in that small object with nothing to do - as Genie summed up: "PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS - itty bitty living space". And before Aladdin released him, Genie had to wait for ten thousand years! Jafar was bound to the same fate when he requested to become a genie himself, becoming sealed in his own lamp, which Genie then tossed away. However, Jafar dragged Iago along while being sucked by the lamp, and the sequel ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'' shows the lamp only resurfaced because the parrot managed to get through its nozzle and then dig through tons of sand. Iago even notes "If it weren't for me, you'd be stuck down there forever!"
* Antonia Chillingsworth in the animated interquel ''WesternAnimation/DarkFury'' has a better example. She keeps criminals frozen into statues, and well... I'll let her explain it.
-->'''Antonia:''' They are all very much alive. Each one sustained in a form of cryo so profound... That seconds seem weeks, and to blink an eye is a day's work. The brain, however, continues to function unimpeded. The mind continues to think and feel, swarming with whatever dark thoughts it's trapped alone with, as it will be for hundreds of years. So much more fitting a fate than dropping them off at the nearest slam.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'':
** Master Builders are locked up by the BigBad in "Think Tanks", machines that suck away all of their creativity... while they're fully conscious. ''Yikes.''
** Anyone affected by the Kragle is completely frozen in place. The BigBad's plan was to inflict this on the whole universe so that [[ControlFreak nobody would be able to mess up his stuff]].
** This also happens to [[spoiler: Emmet after he falls off the edge of the universe.]]
* Tai Lung in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' was locked away for twenty years, in the bottom of a TailorMadePrison. His arms were held tight by chains, and his back covered with a turtle-like shell that prevented him from moving anything but his tail. It's not strange he is absolutely pissed when he escapes, and he already had anger management problems.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' has this gem from "Be Prepared":
-->Ohhhhh an avalanche is coming and I do not feel prepared\\
It's running like a mountain lion, I must say that I'm scared\\
But if not for the witch's spell, you'd hear just how I scream\\
But since I'm only singing, I'll just yodel 'til we're creamed!
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries''
** The zombies from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland''. [[spoiler:They were once normal people who had their life force drained by the cat people, turning them into immortal zombie monsters but still retain their consciousness.]]
** The fate of [[spoiler:Ben Ravencroft]] from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost''. Sarah pulls off a TakingYouWithMe by sealing him inside of her wicked book, making him suffer an eternity of being mercilessly haunted by her.
** In ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooFrankencreepy Frankencreepy]]'', [[spoiler:it's implied that Velma is aware of the terrible things she's doing while she's hypnotized.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'': [[spoiler:Dave's ultimate fate - trapped inside a snow globe.]]
* [[spoiler: Turbo's death]] in ''Disney/WreckItRalph''. [[spoiler:In his Cy Bug form, he's forced to fly towards the beacon and be incinerated.... while being aware the whole time.]]
** This is also the general concept of the movie: Ralph is always--''always''--the bad guy in "Fix It Felix Jr." The Nicelanders always treat him like garbage, he's always thrown off the roof, and then it all starts all over again. And if he (or any other video game character) ever leaves his own game, the game itself will be unplugged, leaving every resident homeless (or, if they're still in the game world when it's unplugged, [[FateWorseThanDeath sucked into an endless black void]]). The plot kicks off when Ralph has been doing this for thirty years, and finally can't take it any more, which is why he leaves his game in an attempt to become a hero.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': The number one rule of being a toy is that you must '''always''' pretend to be lifeless if you can be seen by a human. Even if you know that a human is about to do something horrible, including strapping an explosive to your body.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': Jessie, Bullseye, and Stinky Pete having been kept in storage for who knows how long. It can be reasonably assumed that they were conscious of it at the time, based on Jessie's reaction to the prospect of going back into the storage box. Then there is the idea of them being sold to the museum and ultimately being trapped in a glass case for who knows how long.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', the BigBad, [[spoiler: Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, gets strapped to the front of a garbage truck as an ornament, doomed to be pelted with dead bugs and the elements while being unable to move for years to come.]]
* In the film, ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Jack Frost's whole existence is exactly this. [[spoiler: After dying to save his younger sister from falling in an icy pond,]] he is revived by The Man in the Moon and forced to wander for ''300 years'' in silence. No one can see him, no one can hear him, no one even knows he ''exists''. He has had minimal contact with other spirits of his kind, but it was never really confirmed he had someone to call a friend. Even worse, Jack has no memories of his past and was forced into isolation ''without even knowing why'', no matter how much he ''pleaded'' to The Man in the Moon.
!!Film -- Live-Action
* The titular character of ''Film/AmericanMary'' [[spoiler:gets revenge on her rapist by kidnapping him and using him as an involuntary guinea pig for her body modification career. He ends up a limbless torso hanging from the ceiling by chains hooked into his skin and his mouth sewn shut.]]
* ''Film/{{Anaconda}} 4'': The main villain, right after giving himself immortality, gets eaten by an immortal snake and never gets out.
* A similar fate is suffered by one of the characters in ''Film/AnacondasTheHuntForTheBloodOrchid'', only in this case, he gets bitten by a spider whose venom will paralyze him completely for two days, outside of breathing and retaining consciousness. He gets discovered but is obviously unable to communicate his situation and then gets swallowed alive by one of the snakes. [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse The other characters then burn down the hut that the snake is in, presumably roasting it, and him, alive]].]]
* ''Film/{{Awakenings}}'', based on RealLife Dr. Oliver Sachs' experiences with catatonic patients. There is one exchange that expounds the true FridgeHorror of the situation.
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' Most died during the acute stage of the illness, during a sleep so deep they couldn't be roused. A sleep that in most cases lasted several months. Those who survived, who awoke, seemed fine, as though nothing had happened. Years went by - five, ten, fifteen - before anyone suspected they were not well... they were not. I began to see them in the early 1930's - old people brought in by their children, young people brought in by their parents - all of them complaining they weren't themselves anymore. They'd grown distant, aloof, anti-social, they daydreamed at the dinner table. I referred them to psychiatrists. Before long they were being referred back to me. They could no longer dress themselves or feed themselves. They could no longer speak in most cases. Families went mad. People who were normal, were now elsewhere.
-->'''Dr. Sayer:''' What must it be like to be them? What are they thinking?
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' They're not. The virus didn't spare the higher faculties.
-->'''Dr. Sayer:''' We know that for a fact?
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' Yes.
-->'''Dr. Sayer:''' Because?
-->'''Dr. Ingham:''' [[FridgeHorror Because the alternative would be unthinkable.]]
** Leonard Lowe actually manages to convey his being trapped by directing Dr. Sayer to the poem ''[[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-panther/ The Panther]]'':
--->His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
--->has grown so weary that it cannot hold
--->anything else. It seems to him there are
--->a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
--->
--->As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
--->the movement of his powerful soft strides
--->is like a ritual dance around a center
--->in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
--->
--->Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
--->lifts, quietly--. An image enters in,
--->rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
--->plunges into the heart and is gone.
* In ''Film/CultOfChucky'' Andy has imprisoned Chucky's still conscious, decapitated head which he routinely tortures.
* In ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'', both of the immortal women have this. Their souls are bonded to their bodies, but their bodies do NOT repair themselves. At the end, they fall down a set of stairs and their bodies shatter. Their heads are intact, but they cannot move. So now they can bicker with each other for all eternity, or at least until their heads are damaged.
* Imohtep in both versions of ''The Mummy'' ([[Film/TheMummy1932 the 1932 original]] and [[Film/TheMummy1999 1999 remake]]). The novelization of the 1999 film explains that Imhotep's soul is locked in his body, even after it dies, and in the meantime, he's buried alive with flesh eating scarabs devouring him, and his tongue cut out so he can't scream, at least not effectively.
* In ''Film/WarlockTheArmageddon'', the Warlock gets an art collector to hand over one of the gems that he is seeking by offering him "the greatest piece your gallery has ever seen". He didn't tell him that the collector himself [[TakenForGranite would become that piece.]] Fully conscious and aware.
* End fate of the [[SlasherMovie slasher]] in ''Film/MonsterMan'', where the survivors manage to steal his monster truck and proceed to avert OnceIsNotEnough with it. They plough into him, run him over, reverse over him, and then run him over, again and again for hours. As he's been rendered essentially unkillable thanks to his sister's BlackMagic, he's still alive and aware even after they finally get sick of it and drive away, leaving behind a great greasy smear of meat-pulp screaming that they haven't killed him yet.
* ''Film/{{Awake}}'' is about a man who undergoes surgery, during which the anesthetic had worn off but the neuromuscular blocking agents holding him still had not. Sadly, there's a handful of surgeries in RealLife where this had happened.
* In ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich''
** [[spoiler:John Cusack's]] character attempts to travel through the portal [[spoiler:at a particularly inappropriate time, leaving his consciousness stranded in the body of a young girl that he cannot control.]]
** [[spoiler:Mr. Malkovich himself -- being helplessly forced to watch somebody else control his body for the rest of his life? Eesh.]]
* In ''Film/TheBurrowers'', the monsters' venom causes near-total paralysis, save breathing and slight movement of the toes or fingers. Once their victims are paralyzed, the creatures bury their prey with nothing but the nose exposed, ensuring the captive won't suffocate and will provide fresh meat when the time comes. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:once the monsters have been killed, the surviving humans don't realize they need to look for a still-living victim, who is left buried up to his nose without hope of rescue. This leads to some FridgeLogic when you realize the missing family may have been buried near the house.]]
* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', Bootstrap Bill was tied to a cannon and sent to the bottom of the ocean by Captain Barbossa prior to the events of the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl first film]]. However, because of the curse of the Aztec gold, which rendered him immortal, he was fated to spend an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and unable to free himself, until the BigBad of the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second film]] came along.
* In ''Film/PitchBlack'', a bound, gagged and sedated Riddick tells (in voiceover) how the animal part of the brain never goes to sleep - which is why he is still fully aware of what's going on during the space voyage. Downplayed because Riddick, while certainly not the most well-adjusted individual, doesn't seem to be bothered that much by the sensation.
* At the end of the ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' movie, the villain Victor van Doom is fully transformed into living metal. His body is heated up and then rapidly cooled, resulting in a crystallisation process that leaves him unable to move, and everyone to believe he is dead. Unfortunately for him, he is still fully conscious.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': In the belly of the Sarlacc, victims find a new definition of suffering as they are "slowly digested over a thousand years".
** The ExpandedUniverse story "A Barve Like That", describing Boba Fett's escape from the Sarlacc is a freaking ''study'' in this trope... there's something in the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarlacc Sarlacc's]] digestive fluids that keeps people alive and conscious, though immobile and in pain, since the thing rarely feeds. Not only that, it's telepathic, can force people to relive their, its, and each other's memories, and apparently becomes sentient through its victims - even after death, they become part of its psyche. When Fett does eventually escape, the Sarlacc appears to express some satisfaction that Fett will "release it from the long cycle". He does not, implying that its own existence is an example of this trope.
** It's noticible that a Heroic, Republic-side mission for ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' involves charging a Sarlacc pit with a load of explosives - not to destroy the Sarlacc (you'd probably have to nuke it from orbit), but to MercyKill the poor Republic grunts a Gammorean gang tossed inside. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even the darkest Jedi, mercenary Smuggler, or sociopath Trooper isn't going to go against the plan]].
** See the AndIMustScream/{{Literature}} section for what carbonite prisons do...
** Vader's existence in a cybernetic iron lung is not pleasant. The novelization of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''The Rise of Darth Vader'' both by Matt Stover make this clear. Supplementary materials imply that Palpatine gave him shoddy cybernetics to punish him for his failure and to keep him in line.
** After [[spoiler:the droid L3-37]] is killed in Film/{{Solo}}, [[spoiler:her brain is uploaded into the computer of the Millennium Falcon. She is able to assist with navigation, but is forever bound to the ship. This is particularly ironic given her outspoken stance on "droid rights."]]
* Victims of [[spoiler:Cecile and Justify]] in ''Film/TheSkeletonKey'' tend to wind up in elderly, stroke ridden bodies, unable to take care of themselves, let alone tell anyone what had happened.
* The climax of ''Film/{{Audition}}'' sees the protagonist injected with a drug that paralyzes his muscles but heightens his pain sensation while his girlfriend starts torturing him with piano wire and acupuncture needles. He is trying very ''very'' hard to scream, you better believe it.
** Though he was released from that before too long. This trope applies better to the guy stuffed in the burlap sack in her apartment.
* The victim of the "Sloth" punishment in ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' is kept paralysed in his own apartment for a year by the villain, occasionally given antibiotics so as not to die from his bedsores. By the time he is taken to a hospital, his mind no longer functions.
* Although the effect is mostly killed by the movie's cheese factor, ''Film/CasperMeetsWendy'' has a vortex that is magically opened and used to throw victims into which drags them away. After it's closed, very few people can open it again, so a later rescue is out of the question. It's particularly horrific for the ghosts, since a human might be lucky and get bashed in the head but someone already dead wouldn't have that option.
* Phil Conners in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' becomes trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where he is forced to relive the same day over and over again, and be the only person aware of what is happening. [[ResurrectiveImmortality He tries to kill himself multiple times, but always wakes upon the next day in perfect condition.]] At the end of the film he manages to escape the loop, but only have spending possibly thousands of years in it.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix''.
** Given a twist. Since the machines are interested in the energy created by human bodies they need to keep them in a good state, which turns out to be much easier to do if their minds believe they are leading normal lives.
** Early in the first ''Film/TheMatrix'', Neo gets a brief, literal, experience of this type when Agent Smith erases his mouth and implants a tracking bug in him.
-->'''Agent Smith:''' So tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are ''unable to speak''?
* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'' reveals that Freddy actually devours the souls of his victims, keeping them contained in his body while leeching power from them. Some of their screaming, writhing faces periodically appear on his torso. [[spoiler:They actually rip him apart in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster the fourth film]], though by [[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare the sixth]], he presumably trapped more]].
** Freddy's plan for Nancy in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010 the remake]] was to trap her in this type of situation.
* The fate of the villain in ''Film/TheFlyII'', when [[spoiler:fly Marty replaces his mutated genes with the villain ones, thus trapping the villain in a tumorous, deformed mutated body that can barely crawl.]]
* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'': [[spoiler: This is Lindsay's ultimate fate, with Heiter and the other two members of the "centipede" dead, [[FateWorseThanDeath leaving her stuck between two dead bodies]] with nobody to help her.]]
* [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} SpaceGodzilla]] falls under this at the end of his only film appearance (''Film/GodzillaVsSpacegodzilla''). Being one of the few truly immortal Kaiju, he's trapped in the form of tiny particles floating through space for all of eternity.
* In ''Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends'', after trying to steal the Plasma Spark, Ultraman King punishes Belial by imprisoning him inside the moon for all eternity. However, he is freed by Alien Zarab.... ''20,000 years'' later.
* In ''Film/TheFinal'', one of the outcasts' victims is drugged so that he can't move but can feel everything. Then, Emily sticks him in the throat with needle after needle, all while she remains [[EmotionlessGirl completely silent]] and his friends beg for her to stop.
* Happens to [[spoiler:Sara Goldfarb]] in ''Film/RequiemForADream''. And to an extent, the other three protagonists during the final sequence as well.
* Two examples in ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice''.
** First, the Grimhold kept Morgana and Veronica trapped for a millennium. Morgana and Veronica were trapped in the Grimhold for over a millennium, though, unlike the urn, it isn't expressly stated that the Grimhold prisoners are conscious.
** A second, shorter version happens when Balthazar and Horvath are trapped inside an urn for ten years. They do have things to read Horvath has Dave's essay on Napoleon (and probably a few of his other papers) and Blake was hinted to have the Encantus.
* In the German horror Splatter movie ''Film/{{Anatomy}}'' (orig. ''Anatomie'', 2000), a female medical student who enters a prestigious Heidelberg medical school uncovers a conspiracy by an Antihippocratic secret society operating within the university grounds who are masters of plastination of corpses but due to a lack of fresh, perfect, undamaged corpses have decided to obtain their own "study material". Certain selected victims (people that no-one will miss but also a co-student who discovered what was going on) are injected with a drug that completely paralyses the victim within a few minutes and suppresses all lifesigns so that the victims appears dead on first glance, while still semi-conscious. The drug then transforms the blood, slowly plastinating the victim from within, while the members of the conspiracy pose the body and start to dissect and flay away skin and muscles from the organs and bones. One such victim wakes up, unable to move more than his eyes, and sees his hand has been artfully dissected down to the bones, and he himself is posed naked as a plastinated "scientific show piece".
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'', it's alluded that this occurs when someone dies in a dream sedated enough that they can't simply wake up from it. Supposedly they go to a "limbo" where they can trapped for [[YearInsideHourOutside what seems like years or even decades.]] [[spoiler: Cobb and Mal (before she died) have been there and by the end, so has Saito.]]
* ''Film/{{Dreamkeeper}}'' shows this in the ShowWithinAShow. Along with WhoWantsToLiveForever, the protagonist is granted clairvoyance. And can see the 20th century.
* John Blaylock, as well as Miriam Blaylock's other past lovers in ''Film/TheHunger'', deserve a mention. In short, not only do they age rapidly, they can't physically die, meaning someone else has to kill them. Instead, they are encased alive in coffins kept by Miriam.
* Part of the DownerEnding in ''Film/TheAlphabetKiller''. Detective Megan Paige, who [[ISeeDeadPeople can see the spirits]] of the eponymous killer's victims, also has a [[DefectiveDetective history of mental illness]]. In the end the stress of the case and her confrontation with the killer leads to a psychotic break. This results in her being hospitalized and sedated to the point where she can't move or speak, and thus is helpless to stop the murderer (whose identity remains a mystery to the rest of the police force.) The final scenes chillingly show the detective in a near catatonic where it is implied she will remain for years, her bed slowly being surrounded by the ghosts of more and more of the killer's victims.
* ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'':
** the titular Vampire [[spoiler: is sealed into a coffin and set into a solid cement wall]]. Naturally, being a vampire and thus immortal, he [[spoiler: does not need the oxygen, food or water that this denies him - and in context, lack of blood does not kill a vampire, it simply torments him and drives him slowly insane. Or it would, if he wasn't rescued shortly after to avoid this fate.]]
** This may have happened to another vampire during the time that Louis and Claudia were traveling the world in search of their kin. So for several decades, [[spoiler: Lestat was left barely alive in the old manor, seemingly killed for a SECOND time. Instead of dying, he survives as a charcoal covered corpse that feeds on rats, all alone and afraid of the changing outside world.]]
* The film adaptation of ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun''. See the entry under AndIMustScream/{{Literature}}.
* The fate of any ghost captured by the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}.
* Because [[spoiler:Robert]]'s fate is left ambiguous, this could be the case in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
* Those murdered by the killer in ''Film/MidnightMovie'' become trapped in the film world he originates from, unable to die and held in a TortureCellar. Escape is possible, but highly unlikely.
* The victims of the killer in the ''Film/RestStop'' duology become unhinged ghosts, trapped haunting the lonely stretch of highway the killer prowls.
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': The Black Sleep of the Kali Ma, a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy cursed trance]] that a person falls under when forced to drink the Blood of Kali. One victim describes the experience as a nightmare from which you can't wake up, and openly prefers death to being forced under it.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Stryker's mind control serum makes the victim obedient, but their real self is still in there, fully aware and incapable of controlling their own body. Look at the sheer ''horror'' on Deathstryke's face when the serum controlling her briefly wears off. Particularly when she looks at her hands and remembers the pain of being bonded with adamantium, likely because she was being controlled during that process as well. Scott similarly tells Jean he couldn't stop himself from trying to kill her.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': [[spoiler:Wade Wilson's fate. He turned from a nice-looking, fast-talking, somewhat funny guy to a pale, disfigured person. He has no hair and [[MouthStitchedShut his mouth was sewn shut]]. He got all the powers of the mutants Weapon X captured, but he was completely under their control with no free will.]]
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': The death of [[spoiler:Sebastian Shaw. He's held immobile while a coin is pushed slowly through his skull. Xavier, who's psychically linked to Shaw in order to hold him immobile, does the screaming instead.]]
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': In the final attempt to activate Wade's powers, Ajax sticks him in a decompression chamber designed to keep him suffering on the edge of suffocation, then leaves him there for a weekend. After it succeeds, Ajax decides to leave him in there even longer, just because he likes Wade suffering.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Apocalypse seals the street vendor into a wall when the guy threatens Ororo, so just his eyes (which are still moving) are visible.
* The [[PsychicPowers "precogs"]] of ''Film/MinorityReport''. Daily life for them involves being forced to watch- and in some cases, relive- future murders in a drugged stupor, incapable of waking up or drifting off into too deep a sleep. Those convicted by their predictions are kept in stasis, while their minds remain active- though there's some debate as to what they experience, mentally speaking.
* In ''[[Film/TheInfernalAffairsTrilogy Infernal Affairs III]]'', [[spoiler:Ming is left in a paralyzed and catatonic state after a botched suicide attempt. However, he is still semi-conscious and essentially trapped in an eternal nightmare where he is forced to deal with the guilt of his past crimes. In the very last scene, he is seen tapping his fingers, which is Morse code for "HELL".]]
* In Creator/CliveBarker's ''Film/{{Dread}}'', [[spoiler: a woman is locked into a room with the dead body of her boyfriend, the implication being that she'll be forced to eat it.]]
* In ''Film/HanselAndGretel2007'', a woman is turned into a tree.
* Claudia attempted to do this to Lilli with the apple in ''Film/SnowWhiteATaleOfTerror''. The apple would completely paralyze her, but give her full awareness in the "prison of her mind" as she was buried alive.
* In ''Film/{{Livid}}'', [[spoiler:Anna is trapped for years as part of a twisted "music box" with her eyes stapled shut.]]
* ''Film/TheDivingBellAndTheButterfly'' centres around a man having to cope with falling victim to this fate, as a stroke leaves him paralyzed everywhere except his eyes (and one of them is sewn up early on due to infection, so he can only use one eye). It's suggested that it is temporary (the doctors keep talking about how they hope to help him eventually regain the ability to move, [[spoiler: though the epilogue reveals that he died of a heart attack before this could happen,]] but he still ends up like this long enough to ''write a book'' about his feelings. And it bears mentioning that this was based on a true story.
* In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', criminals aren't supposed to be aware of the time spent as a HumanPopsicle. But John spent the time dreaming of the innocents that he didn't save, and seeing his wife pounding on the ice cube he was in. The police are appropriately horrified to learn this. When pressed, Cocteau uncomfortably states that "The side effects of the freezing process are unavoidable".
* ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'':
** The souls the Djinn captures are placed in ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}''-like dimension, presumably for eternal torture.
** In the first film, a woman gets turned into a sentient but inanimate mannequin when she wishes to be beautiful forever, and Alexandra's sister gets frozen inside a painting.
* Cobra Commander and Destro start ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' immobilized in tanks and pumped full of drugs that leave them incapable of moving anything but their eyes.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' averted for The Tin Man, whom if Dorothy didn't come along he would have been in a sentient statue position forever.
* In the film ''Film/TheBlackHole'', the finale includes a sequence showing the primary and secondary antagonists [[spoiler: Maximilian and Dr Hans Reinhardt]] being fused together into one hellish hybrid, paralyzed, doomed to forever watch over a dimension of fire and brimstone
* ''Franchise/RoboCop''
** ''Film/RoboCop1987'' has the scenes of [=RoboCop=]'s creation from his point of view. The moment that is closest to this trope is surely when Bob Morton and Donald Johnson are commenting in front of him that his memory is going to be wiped, as well as ordering his left arm to be removed and replaced by a cybernetic one.
** ''Film/RoboCop2'' gives, too, an example with Cain: his brain and eyeball are surgically removed from his skull, leaving him to stare out at his own autopsy without even eyelids to close.
* The revenge method of the main villain of ''Film/BloodSuckingPharaohsInPittsburgh'' involves using a ritual to trap a victim's soul in their decaying body forever.
* The Japanese horror films ''Film/{{Juon}}'' screams this. As each film's opening spiel explains, when a person dies in the grip of a powerful rage they may be consumed by a HatePlague which begins in the place that their death took place, then spreads and consumes everyone that enters said location, and then may infect other people that come into contact with the infected. The Saekis become rage-filled ghosts after Kayako's infidelity leads to the deaths of her whole family, often reacting their murders. Anyone who enters their house are doomed, sooner or later Kayako, her dead son or dead husband will come for them and there is nothing they can do but be killed and consumed by the curse. Most victims disappear [[NeverFoundTheBody body and all]].
** To make matters worse, a lot of the victims can materialize as ghosts themselves, tormenting those who failed to save them. A poor school girl suffers this in the fourth film when three friends are consumed by the curse and their ghosts haunt her, watching her through holes in her papered up windows. That is until the ghosts get in and slowly stalk her through the house, then Kayako herself appears and drags the girl to her doom, with the ghost girls still trying to get her.
** It is implied that the protagonist of the third film was haunted by Kayako and Toshio for a good few years, since the aforementioned school girl was young when introduced.
** The spin-off films, ''White Ghost / Black Ghost'', it is implied that another curse was responsible for the creation of another. In ''Black Ghost'', a FetusTerrible who absorbed by her twin sister possesses her body during an exorcism and murders her aunt's family. The house they die in is the same in ''White Ghost'', where a man is possessed is implied to be possessed by the same ghost and murders his family before hanging himself. Several of his relatives return as ghosts, including his young niece who haunts her childhood friend for not saving her when he sexually abused her.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/TheExtraordinaryAdventuresOfAdeleBlancSec'': Adèle undresses for a bath in front of a mummy, which, unknown to her, is being revived and can see, but not move or speak. After the mummy regains speech and movement, he thanks her for the show.
* In ''Film/{{Found}}'', this is [[spoiler:Marty's ultimate fate. He's left bound and gagged on his bed surrounded by the dismembered corpses of his parents and doesn't know when someone will eventually investigate.]]
* A new monster of the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' universe is introduced in ''[[Film/SilentHillRevelation3D Silent Hill: Revelation 3D]]''. It is a multi-handed mannequin that assimilates people by transforming them into mannequins and putting them on its body. As we watch it assimilate a women, we see the mannequin's head scream.
* ''Film/{{Stitches 2001}}'': Mrs. Albright stores her victims' souls in paper dolls, which she keeps in a scrapbook. Opening the pages makes their screams audible.
* Victims of the mirror in ''Film/{{Mirrors}}'' have their souls imprisoned inside of it, a world where everything is mute and backwards. [[spoiler:This becomes our protagonist from the first film's fate.]]
* ''Film/WeAreStillHere'': The souls of sacrifices to [[EldritchAbomination the Darkness]] are said to be "burning till the stars go dark."
* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''
** [[spoiler:Through the Eye of Agamatto, Strange sets a time loop on the moment where he arrives to bargain with Dormammu. [[GroundhogDayLoop It repeats over and over, no matter how many times Strange is killed]] - he even says "you are my prisoner". Strange, by the end, is willing to endure an eternity of torture in Dormammu's hands for the sake of the Earth. Eventually, Dormammu gets tired of being trapped and agrees to withdraw from Earth.]]
** [[spoiler:One of the conditions of Strange's bargain is that Dormammu leaves Earth for good, and takes Kaecilius and his Zealots with him to the dark dimension. Strange tells them they're getting eternal life as they wanted, and [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor they're not gonna like it]].]]
* ''Film/GetOut2017'' involves black people [[spoiler: having a white person's brain implanted in their head, with only a tiny bit of the black person's consciousness still in the body. This means the victims can see and hear anything that is happening but are unable to do anything about it unless they see the flash of a camera, which causes their original consciousness to activate.]]
* ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'': One subset of the immortal Eternals are the Apathetics, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever who are so bored by immortality]] that they literally cannot do ''anything'' anymore.
* In ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', the Enchantress's curse works this way. The servants are still transformed into [[AnimateInanimateObject household items that can walk and talk]], but there's a new codicil to the spell: if the Beast can't learn to love and be loved in turn, they'll be transformed into ''completely'' inanimate objects ''forever''. Lumiere notes that as each day passes, they lose more and more of their humanity--they can feel it happening, but are unable to do anything to stop it. [[spoiler: And the ending ''shows this happening to the servants''--we watch their bodies lock up in a state of utter panic and despair as their faces fade away. Maestro Cadenza has to watch his wife Garderobe freeze first; their beloved dog Frou-Frou, who's been turned into a small table, desperately tries to wake them up before he too keels over; Mrs. Potts, who can feel the transformation happening, screams for her son, while Chip himself cries for her, only to change before they can reunite; and Cogsworth actually chokes out how the final transformation feels: "Lumiere, I...I can't...speak..." Thank GOD the Enchantress decided to undo the curse despite the Beast technically dying.]]
* The fate of Seth Richards in ''Film/{{Looper}}.'' After he ends up letting his future self escape, Abe is not pleased. He knows he can't just kill Seth (he needs to survive long enough to be sent back in time and complete the loop), so Seth is instead condemned to spend 30 years without his limbs, tongue, ears, or nose. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see any of it directly.]] Instead, as a result of TemporalMutability, we watch [[BodyHorror Future Seth's body parts disappear one by one]] as he tries to get to his past self [[HalfTheManHeUsedTobe until he's left a barely intelligible torso and head]], then put out of his mercy by [[BoomHeadshot a bullet to the cranium.]]
* The title character in ''Film/{{Patrick}}'' is left in a vegetative state after [[SelfMadeOrphan murdering his mother]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse and her lover]]. His only means of communication is via a typewriter, which he is able to control using his powers, or through occasional facial tics.
* Janet van Dyne from ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' shrunk between molecules to disarm a bomb headed for Washington, DC. However, in doing so she got stuck in the [[AcidTripDimension Quantum Realm]], alone, for ''thirty years'', with her husband and daughter convinced she was dead.
** [[spoiler: In TheStinger, Scott is sent into the Quantum Realm in order to get healing particles for Ghost. However, before Hank, Hope and Janet can pull him back out, they're ''turned to dust'' by [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Thanos's finger snap]], leaving Scott alone and [[HistoryRepeats stuck in the Quantum Realm]] as he screams for help over the radio. But unlike with Janet, the only people who even ''know'' where he is and how to bring him back are gone, and Scott not coming home would likely mean he'd be chalked up as another of Thanos's victims, meaning no-one would look for him.]]
* In the first ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' movie, the pharaoh Akhmenrah was locked in a vault from 1952 to the mid-2000s, when the films take place. The tablet that makes the museum come alive at night is ''his'' tablet, and the previous night guards and the other exhibits assumed he'd be evil if they let him out. So they left him to come alive and scream every night in the vault for five decades. When he's finally let out, he turns out to be a NiceGuy who did ''not'' GoMadFromTheIsolation.
* ''Film/TheEmptyMirror'': Implied to be Hitler's fate. After spending the whole film trying to justify his legacy and the atrocities committed in his name, a white-haired Hitler is eventually left alone with his thoughts, then the walls burst open and submerge him in a river of blood and human bones. By the end he realizes he's trapped, all alone, and can't escape his past as darkness moves in over him.
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* At the end of the ''Film/FantasticFour'' movie, the villain Victor van Doom is fully transformed into living metal. His body is heated up and then rapidly cooled, resulting in a crystallisation process that leaves him unable to move, and everyone to believe he is dead. Unfortunately for him, he is still fully conscious.
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* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'': [[spoiler: This is Lindsay's ultimate fate, with Heiter and the other two members of the "centipede" dead, [[FateWorseThanDeath leaving her stuck between two dead bodies]] with nobody to help her.]]
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* In the first ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' movie, the pharaoh Akhmenrah was locked in a vault from 1952 to the mid-2000s, when the films take place. The tablet that makes the museum come alive at night is ''his'' tablet, and the previous night guards and the other exhibits assumed he'd be evil if they let him out. So they left him to come alive and scream every night in the vault for five decades. When he's finally let out, he turns out to be a NiceGuy who did ''not'' GoMadFromTheIsolation.
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* In ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', the Enchantress's curse works this way. The servants are still transformed into [[AnimateInanimateObject household items that can walk and talk]], but there's a new codicil to the spell: if the Beast can't learn to love and be loved in turn, they'll be transformed into ''completely'' inanimate objects ''forever'' (and that doesn't mean they'll die and get to move onto an afterlife--they'll simply [[CessationOfExistence stop existing entirely]]). Lumiere notes that as each day passes, they lose more and more of their humanity--they can feel it happening, but are unable to do anything to stop it. [[spoiler: And the ending ''shows this happening to the servants''--we watch their bodies lock up in a state of utter panic and despair as their faces fade away. Maestro Cadenza has to watch his wife Garderobe freeze first; their beloved dog Frou-Frou, who's been turned into a small table, desperately tries to wake them up before he too keels over; Mrs. Potts, who can feel the transformation happening, screams for her son, while Chip himself cries for her, only to change before they can reunite; and Cogsworth actually chokes out how the final transformation feels: "Lumiere, I...I can't...speak..." Thank GOD the Enchantress decided to undo the curse despite the Beast technically dying.]]
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* Phil Conners in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' becomes trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where he is forced to relive the same day over and over again, and be the only person aware of what is happening. [[ResurrectiveImmortality He tries to kill himself multiple times, but always wakes upon the next day in perfect condition.]] At the end of the film he manages to escape the loop, but only have spending possibly thousands of years in it.
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** After [[spoiler:the droid L3-37]] is killed in SoloAStarWarsStory, [[spoiler:her brain is uploaded into the computer of the Millennium Falcon. She is able to assist with navigation, but is forever bound to the ship. This is particularly ironic given her outspoken stance on "droid rights."]]
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** The spin-off films, ''White Ghost / Black Ghost'', it is implied that another curse was responsible for the creation of another. In ''Black Ghost'', a FetusTerrible who absorbed by her twin sister possesses her body during an exorcism and murders her aunt's family. The house their die in is the same in ''White Ghost'', where a man is possessed is implied to be possessed by the same ghost and murders his family before hanging himself. Several of his relatives return as ghosts, including his young niece who haunts her childhood friend for not saving her when he sexually abused her.
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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': The Black Sleep of the Kali Ma, a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy cursed trance]] that a person falls under when forced to drink the Blood of Kali. One victim describes the experience as a nightmare from which you can't wake up, and openly prefers death to being forced under it.
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* Janet van Dyne from ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' shrunk between molecules to disarm a bomb headed for Washington, DC. However, in doing so she got stuck in the [[AcidTripDimension Quantum Realm]], alone, for ''thirty years'', with her husband and daughter convinced she was dead.
** [[spoiler: In TheStinger, Scott is sent into the Quantum Realm in order to get healing particles for Ghost. However, before Hank, Hope and Janet can pull him back out, they're ''turned to dust'' by [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Thanos's finger snap]], leaving Scott alone and [[HistoryRepeats stuck in the Quantum Realm]] as he screams for help over the radio. But unlike with Janet, the only people who even ''know'' where he is and how to bring him back are gone, and Scott not coming home would likely mean he'd be chalked up as another of Thanos's victims, meaning no-one would look for him.]]
** [[spoiler: In TheStinger, Scott is sent into the Quantum Realm in order to get healing particles for Ghost. However, before Hank, Hope and Janet can pull him back out, they're ''turned to dust'' by [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Thanos's finger snap]], leaving Scott alone and [[HistoryRepeats stuck in the Quantum Realm]] as he screams for help over the radio. But unlike with Janet, the only people who even ''know'' where he is and how to bring him back are gone, and Scott not coming home would likely mean he'd be chalked up as another of Thanos's victims, meaning no-one would look for him.]]
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** After [[spoiler:the droid L3-37]] is killed in Solo:AStarWarsStory, [[spoiler:her brain is uploaded into the computer of the Millennium Falcon. She is able to assist with navigation, but is forever bound to the ship. This is particularly ironic given her outspoken stance on "droid rights."]]
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** The ExpandedUniverse story "A Barve Like That", describing Boba Fett's escape from the Sarlacc is a freaking ''study'' in this trope...there's something in the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarlacc Sarlacc's]] digestive fluids that keeps people alive and conscious, though immobile and in pain, since the thing rarely feeds. Not only that, it's telepathic, can force people to relive their, its, and each other's memories, and apparently becomes sentient through its victims - even after death, they become part of its psyche. When Fett does eventually escape, the Sarlacc appears to express some satisfaction that Fett will "release it from the long cycle". He does not, implying that its own existence is an example of this trope.
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** The ExpandedUniverse story "A Barve Like That", describing Boba Fett's escape from the Sarlacc is a freaking ''study'' in this trope... there's something in the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarlacc Sarlacc's]] digestive fluids that keeps people alive and conscious, though immobile and in pain, since the thing rarely feeds. Not only that, it's telepathic, can force people to relive their, its, and each other's memories, and apparently becomes sentient through its victims - even after death, they become part of its psyche. When Fett does eventually escape, the Sarlacc appears to express some satisfaction that Fett will "release it from the long cycle". He does not, implying that its own existence is an example of this trope.
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* In the film, ''Film/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Jack Frost's whole existence is exactly this. [[spoiler: After dying to save his younger sister from falling in an icy pond,]] he is revived by The Man in the Moon and forced to wander for ''300 years'' in silence. No one can see him, no one can hear him, no one even knows he ''exists''. He has had minimal contact with other spirits of his kind, but it was never really confirmed he had someone to call a friend. Even worse, Jack has no memories of his past and was forced into isolation ''without even knowing why'', no matter how much he ''pleaded'' to The Man in the Moon.
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* In the film, ''Film/RiseOfTheGuardians'', ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Jack Frost's whole existence is exactly this. [[spoiler: After dying to save his younger sister from falling in an icy pond,]] he is revived by The Man in the Moon and forced to wander for ''300 years'' in silence. No one can see him, no one can hear him, no one even knows he ''exists''. He has had minimal contact with other spirits of his kind, but it was never really confirmed he had someone to call a friend. Even worse, Jack has no memories of his past and was forced into isolation ''without even knowing why'', no matter how much he ''pleaded'' to The Man in the Moon.
