History AndIMustScream / LiveActionFilms

* 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/MarvelCinematicUniverse:''
** In ''Film/IronMan2'', Rhodey is trapped inside the War Machine armor with no control over it, no way out and he is forced to try and kill his best friend. The look he gives Tony when Natasha finally reboots the armor remotely says it all.
** ''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.]]
*** This scene is actually pay-off to a [[{{Foreshadowing}} severe warning Karl gives Strange about using the Eye earlier in the film.]] He mentions that using it irresponsibly can lead to the user reliving the same moment over and over without end or being removed from existence outright. We'll take the latter, thanks.
*** [[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/AntManAndTheWasp'':
*** Janet van Dyne 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' 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 means he's chalked up as another of Thanos' victims, meaning no-one will look for him.]]
*** [[spoiler: ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' reveals that, luckily, the wait was only five hours for Scott...but five years have passed in the real world and he was only freed because of a ''rat'' stepping on the right sequence of buttons. It's still pretty chilling that it was only through sheer random chance that he wasn't stuck for any longer.]]
** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'':
*** [[spoiler: In 616-Wanda's mind, 838-Wanda appears stuck under rubble of her childhood home (i.e. perpetually trapped in one of the most traumatic memories of her life) as [[GrandTheftMe 616-Wanda dreamwalks in her body]], trapped and unable to do anything.]]
*** [[spoiler:Wanda removes the mouth of Earth-838's Black Bolt in a manner similar to the interrogation scene from ''Film/TheMatrix''. Once he makes this horrifying realization, he lets out what would be a blood-curdling scream... if his explosive voice hadn't immediately caused his skull to pop.]]

* ''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.

* 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.

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* ''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.

* 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.]]

* 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.