History AndIMustScream / LiveActionFilms

** Vader's existence in a cybernetic iron lung is not pleasant. The novelization of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' and ''The Rise of Darth Vader,'' by Matthew Stover and James Luceno respectively, make this clear. Supplementary materials imply that Palpatine gave him shoddy cybernetics to punish him for his failure and to keep him in line.
** 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. The look on his face as the mask is lowered onto him is one of pure despair.

* In ''Film/{{Anatomy}}'', 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".

* ''Film/AnacondasTrailOfBlood'': 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]].]]
* 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".

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Understatement}} That looks rather painful.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:That looks rather painful.]]

* 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.

* The title 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.]]

*** [[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.]]

*** [[spoiler: In 616-Wanda's mind, 838-Wanda appears to 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: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: ''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/DoctorStrange2016''

*** [[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/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/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]].]]
* In ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', [[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.]]

* 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.

** 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.

** [[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 means he's chalked up as another of Thanos's victims, meaning no-one will look for him.]]
*** [[spoiler: ''[[Film/AvengersEndgame Endgame]]'' 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.]]

** 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.]]

** The "Theatre Guignol" framing sequence ends with [[soiler:Peg Poett transforming Enola into a puppet, which he then puts into a trunk. As he closes the lid, her eyelid snaps open showing her still human eye]].

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Understatement}} That looks rather painful]].]]

* 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.]]

* ''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.

-->'''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.

* 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 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.]]

* 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.

** The Franchise/StarWarsLegends 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/Legends 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]].

* 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.
* 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.
* The film adaptation of ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun''. See the entry under AndIMustScream/{{Literature}}.

* The victims of the killer in the ''Film/RestStop'' duology become unhinged ghosts, trapped haunting the lonely stretch of highway the killer prowls.

* 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 ''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.

* ''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.
* ''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.]]
** 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/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.]]

* 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.
* ''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'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 means he's chalked up as another of Thanos's victims, meaning no-one will look for him.]]
*** [[spoiler: ''[[Film/AvengersEndgame Endgame]]'' 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.]]
* 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/TalesOfTerror'': In "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'', Valdemar's soul is trapped at the very instant of his death. This leaves his soul trapped within his dead body (which is slowly putrefying), wracked in constant, and only able to communicate through the auspices of the man who trapped him in the first place.
* In ''Film/Hellboy2019'', after Nimue's first defeat in the 5th century, her body was chopped up into half a dozen pieces, sealed in iron chests and hidden throughout the world. Unfortunately for her, her head remained conscious the whole time it was locked in this dark and quiet box for well over 1,500 years. She's remarkably sane when pieced together after this ordeal. Sure, she wants to wipe out mankind, but that's no different from her plans before she was put away.
* ''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.
* ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'': Mewtwo after [[spoiler: Howard [[GrandTheftMe hijacks his body]]]]. Also anyone who gets [[spoiler: merged with their Pokemon]]. For ''both'' the human and the Pokemon.
* 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. Of course, this being a slasher series, Jason is freed from the rock to continue his killing spree in the next movie.
* ''Film/TheOldGuard'': As revealed in flashbacks, Andy's original partner Quynh, upon being accused of witchcraft in the Middle Ages, was locked inside an iron maiden and dumped in the Atlantic Ocean. Due to how immortality works in this film, that means that she's spent centuries drowning, coming back to life, and drowning again; the other immortals, who can see her in their {{Shared Dream}}s of each other, can feel how the pain and desperation has driven her insane. [[spoiler: Then [[SequelHook the last scene]] shows that she's somehow escaped.]]
* 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.
* In ''Film/DemonKnight'', the reason the "shoot-for-the-eyes" tactic works is that it ''frees'' the tortured souls within the demons.