History AndIMustScream / LiveActionFilms

** 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.

* 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.[[note]]WordOfGod says that Phil probably lived the same day for about ten years[[/note]]

* 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.

* 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.... ''457,542 years'' later.

* 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/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.]]

* 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.

* ''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.

* 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".

* 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

* 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.
* 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.[[note]]WordOfGod says that Phil probably lived the same day for about ten years[[/note]]



* [[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/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.

* The fate of any ghost captured by the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}.

* 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.]]

* ''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.

* ''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''?
* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''
** ''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 2010 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.]]

* 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".

* 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.

* 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.

* ''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.]]

* 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.

* 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.

* ''Film/CasperMeetsWendy'': Although the effect is mostly killed by the movie's cheese factor, the film features evil warlock Desmond Spellman who summons a vortex called the Mystic Abyss, which 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.

* ''Film/{{Dreamkeeper}}'' shows this in the ShowWithinAShow. Along with WhoWantsToLiveForever, the protagonist is granted clairvoyance. And can see the 20th century.

* 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.

* 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.

* ''Film/{{Anaconda}} 4'': The main villain, right after giving himself immortality, gets eaten by an immortal snake and never gets out.

* 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/RevengeOfTheSith'', Anakin's vocal cords are [[spoiler:burned]], and thus he now rely on a voice synthesizer in the mask that reads his brain waves to best determine a word to express that thought. In the iconic scene where he learned of [[spoiler: the death of Padmé, it is implied that what he did was simply scream in agony, but the translator can only interpret such thoughts to be a long and equally agonizing "NO"]], making him a literal incarnation of this trope.

* This happens to Jason Voorhees at the end of ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'', as he gets his neck snapped after he is chained to a rock that sinks to the bottom of Crystal Lake. The final scene of the film shows him moving his eye as he floats down there helplessly.

* ''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.

** In Film/{{RevengeoftheSith}}, Anakin's vocal cord is [[spoiler:burned]], and thus he now rely on a voice synthesizer in the mask that reads his brain waves to best determine a word to express that thought. In the iconic scene where he learned of [[spoiler: the death of Padmé, it is implied that what he did was simply scream in agony, but the translator can only interpret such thoughts to be a long and equally agonizing "NO"]], making him a literal incarnation of this trope.

* 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.

* ''Film/Savaged}}'': Hoo boy. Zoe is dead, and her soul is trapped inside her decaying corpse with the angry ghost of an Apache war chief.