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** This occurs towards the halfway point of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. Once Claire and Steve escape from Rockfort Island with the cargo plane, Alfred Ashford catches up in short order and drops a Tyrant in the cargo hold. Your only choice is to kill the monster because there is quite literally nowhere else to go.

** This occurs towards the halfway point of ''VideoGame/Resident Evil Code Veronica''. Once Claire and Steve escape from Rockfort Island with the cargo plane, Alfred Ashford catches up in short order and drops a Tyrant in the cargo hold. Your only choice is to kill the monster because there is quite literally nowhere else to go.

** Fighting the Verdugo in ''[[ResidentEvil4 Resident Evil 4]]'', set deep underground after you have just fallen down a pit and the elevator is out of power. Then, when you turn on the power to bring up the elevator, the door locks shut, trapping you in a ''much smaller'' room with ''even tighter'' corridors, and now the monster is ''really'' trying to get you.

* In AndreNorton's ''[[Literature/{{Warlock}} Forerunner Foray]]'', Ziantha as D'Eyree is trapped in their city as her powers fail, which may lead to her being fed to the Lurla.

** A sub-type is the sunken/capsized ship on which the heroes are trapped in air pockets and must make their way out. ''ThePoseidonAdventure'' is the archetypal example.

* ''The space ship/station'': Often seen in sci-fi horror, like the ''[[{{Franchise/Alien}} Alien]]'' films or the ''SystemShock'' games.

* ''{{Fleep}}'' spends all but a few comicstrips confined to the interior of a concrete-enclosed phone booth.

* The Creator/MichaelCrichton novel (and movie technically based on the novel) ''{{Sphere}}'' featured the underwater base version.

* The game ''{{Earthdawn}}'' [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] a large number of dungeon-like structures in the game world with its backstory of humanity driven into underground shelters by a rising tide of eldritch horrors swarming the world, a tide which has subsided enough to allow some of the survivors to venture forth -- and explore/loot the shelters of those who didn't make it.

* {{Sanctuary}} uses this often, usually the monster-of-the-week is the thing that's trapped them, but they occasionally use the weather. Also seems to like cutting them off from their gadgets, which leaves them to outsmart whatever it is (before it kills them).
* {{Lost}} counts as the deserted island variant for most of the series (especially the early seasons), and contains many, many more specific examples. The abundance of Dharma Initiative bunkers (commonly called "hatches") provide plenty of opportunities for characters to end up alone together. The most prominent examples of this take place in the Swan hatch throughout season two, particularly the episode ''Lockdown'', in which the blast doors trap Locke and Ben in there. And even when people weren't physically trapped, they were often bound by the duty of regularly pushing the button.

* In the original ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' and [[Film/DawnOfTheDead2004 the remake]], the cast is trapped in a mall. Not the worst, or smallest place to get trapped, eh?

* ''After The Hole'' by Guy Burt. The characters intend to spend a few days locked up together in a basement at their school after term, as an experiment. Inevitably the person who's supposed to let them out doesn't come back... Also made into a film, ''TheHole''.

* The ''{{iCarly}}'' episode ''iSam's Mom'' features scenes of Sam and her mom (and later, Carly) in a small room in the psychologist's office while being forced to communicate and make up. In this episode we learn that Carly is highly claustrophobic.

* In the original ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'' and [[Film/DawnOfTheDead2004 the remake]], the cast is trapped in a mall. Not the worst, or smallest place to get trapped, eh?
** Not to mention the farm house in ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''
** Or the nuclear bunker in ''Film/DayOfTheDead''.

* There is no known exit to the [[TowerOfGod Tower]], but it's inside is self-preserving and vast. Urek Mazino still wants to get out.

* The MichaelCrichton novel (and movie technically based on the novel) ''{{Sphere}}'' featured the underwater base version.

See also ClosedCircle.

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* The movie ''{{Cube}}''.

* ''{{Buried}}'' is so enclosed it never leaves the coffin the main character has been buried alive in.

* The ''{{Chzo Mythos}}'' makes use of this trope in all of its four component games. In the first, you're stuck in a mansion. In the second, you're stuck on a spaceship, in the third you are trapped in a HellHotel, and finally the fourth which takes place in a underground complex.

* The MichaelCrichton novel (and movie technically based on the novel) ''Sphere'' featured the underwater base version.

* The only reason that the crime in Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Murder on the Orient Express'' was not a complete success is that the train was blocked by immense snowdrifts, making movement impossible for several days and allowing Hercule Poirot to investigate and solve the crime.

* In an episode of ''RobocopTheSeries'', the title character is thrown into a trash compactor by a group of thugs. He escapes through sheer force of will, although it takes a third of the episode to accomplish it.

* ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959''