20. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
John Cusack plays a hitman attending his high school reunion, where a kickboxing assassin attacks him in the corridor. The film is dark comedy, but the fight is deadly serious. Fun fact: Cusack’s trainer/opponent is the legendary Benny “The Jet” Urquidez, who memorably took on Jackie Chan at the climax of Wheels on Meals (1984).
19. The Thing (1982)
John Carpenter fully exploits the tension-building properties of the Outpost 31 corridors in his sci-fi-horror classic. Nowhere more so than when the infected sled-dog prowls along one of the passageways before entering a room. The only clue to the occupant’s identity is a shadow on the wall, sparking a never-ending debate about which character is about to get Thingified.
18. Brazil (1985)
Jonathan Pryce takes the lift up to “Information Retrieval” and finds himself in an endless grey passageway with concrete pillars. Forced perspective helped turn a disused flour mill into “the longest corridor in the world” in Terry Gilliam’s dystopic satire. Also of note, next floor up: a white-tiled corridor with blood on the floor.
17. Phantasm (1979)
For weeks after my first encounter with Don Coscarelli’s bonkers eldritch nightmare, I worried about the possibility of finding myself in the marble corridor of a mausoleum where a flying metal sphere would clamp itself to my skull and drill into my brain. It could happen!
16. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Director Alain Resnais conjures a uniquely spooky ambience in the baroque corridors of a luxury hotel in a story that might or might not involve adultery and murder. A ghostly arthouse meditation on time and memory or, in the words of Albert Steptoe, “a load of old boots”? Hey, why not both.
15. The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)
The emblematic image of this murder mystery, shot in Germany, is of a figure in a long red cloak and white mask running down a disconcertingly modern corridor, dagger held aloft. A family curse, a guilt-ridden Barbara Bouchet and Bruno Nicolai’s super score add up to a minor giallo classic.
14. The Raid: Redemption (2011)
Gareth Evans’s kick-em-up introduced the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat to the action genre. Iko Uwais plays one of a team of cops battling their way up a tower block to take down a crime lord. And, of course, there is a brutal corridor fight along the way. With machetes.
13. Inception (2010)
The most mind-boggling effect in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action thriller is a corridor fight with a difference. Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes on two goons in a rotating hotel hallway, part of a multi-layered dream world. Like the revolving corridor in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the zero gravity conditions were achieved with practical effects.
12. Resident Evil (2002)
Lethal grids first popped up in the aptly named Cube (1997), but Paul WS Anderson’s first film in the zombie shoot-em-up franchise features an entire corridor full of deadly laser beams, which slice and dice four luckless commandos trying to outwit the AI locking down a genetic research facility. Yet another reason to shun AI.
11. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
Ethan and Benji cook up a preposterous trompe l’oeil to fool a security guard in a Kremlin corridor, one of the most ingenious scenes in the Tom Cruise running-very-fast franchise. But how can they be sure another guard won’t come along and mess up their calibrations? Who knows, perhaps all corridors are optical illusions anyway.
10. The Shining (1980)
Hotel passageways are portals to other worlds, most of them horrible. Thanks to the Steadicam shots of Danny and his tricycle, we become intimately acquainted with the hexagonally carpeted corridors of the Overlook hotel, giving us the heebie-jeebies even before the scary twins appear.
9. Paprika (2006)
A detective is haunted by a recurring nightmare about the corpse in an unsolved murder case lying in an undulating corridor. Pre-Inception, Satoshi Kon’s sublime anime (not for kids!) merged dreams and reality in a multi-layered story triggered by the theft of a futuristic device enabling therapists to enter their patients’ dreams.
8. Shock Corridor (1963)
“This long corridor is the magic highway to the Pulitzer prize,” says the ambitious reporter who gets himself committed to an asylum in order to solve a murder. The attitude to mental health may seem dated in Samuel Fuller’s punchy melodrama (“Nymphos!”), but the corridor as microcosm of American psychosis remains as agonisingly pertinent as ever.
7. Galaxy Quest (1999)
On their way to abort their spaceship’s self-destruct sequence, Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver have to consult the fans back on Earth to talk them safely through a utility corridor full of gratuitous choppy, crushy things, dutifully copied from their TV show by unwitting aliens. “It makes no logical sense, why is it here?” Weaver’s character complains in a lovely Star Trek spoof that can make you laugh and cry, sometimes both at once.
6. The Exorcist III (1990)
A sustained view of a hospital corridor is one of the nerve-shredding highlights of this spine-chilling sequel. The comings and goings of security guards lull us into thinking a jittery night nurse is safe from The Gemini Killer, but those other characters are gradually called away, setting the scene for one of the most terrifying jump scares in horror cinema.
5. Point Blank (1967)
Double-crossed and left for dead by his partner and wife, the ultimate tough-guy protagonist (Lee Marvin) sets out to recover his share of the loot. The implacable quest is signalled by Marvin striding down a corridor at Los Angeles airport, footsteps reverberating through the film.
4. Barton Fink (1991)
Rivalling The Shining’s Overlook as the creepiest hotel in films, the Hotel Earle outdoes it in grandstanding hallway horror as John Goodman thunders down the corridor with a shotgun, roaring, “I’ll show you the life of the mind!” while the hideous art deco wallpaper bursts into flames around him.
3. Oldboy (2003)
Staging a fight in a narrow corridor pre-empts that age-old query: “Why don’t they all attack at once?” Armed with nothing but a hammer and adrenaline, Choi Min-sik fends off all comers in Park Chan-wook’s revenge thriller, even after getting knifed in the back. It’s a gruelling yet weirdly balletic three-minute side-scrolling shot: the ultimate corridor as corrida, if you will.
2. Goodfellas (1990)
On their first date, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) seduces Karen (Lorraine Bracco) by skipping the Copacabana club queue and leading her through the back door, down endless corridors and through the kitchen to emerge in prime position in front of the stage. Props to Steadicam operator Larry McConkey, and to Liotta, who inserted all sorts of character business along the way, ensuring “The Copa Shot” was not just a continuous take of the back of his and Bracco’s heads.
1. La Belle et la Bête (1946)
Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast (2017) made more than $1bn at the box office, but Jean Cocteau’s cash-strapped fairytale, cobbled together from postwar scraps of film stock and fabric, still casts a bewitching spell. There are two unforgettable corridors here: the Beast’s castle antechamber lit by disembodied arms holding candelabras, and Belle (Josette Day) gliding along a passageway flanked by billowing net curtains. Day was pulled along on roller-skates – anticipating Spike Lee’s signature floating dolly shot, which he first used in his 1990 film Mo’ Better Blues, by more than four decades. Pure film magic.
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