Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Starring: Ryan Reynolds

Whether this is a horror or a thriller is debatable, but if you ask us, waking up buried alive in a coffin is pretty damn pant-wetting. Yet that’s exactly the fate that befalls poor, attractive put-upon Ryan Reynolds in this Rodrigo Cortés film, as he wakes up somewhere in Iraq in a wooden box with only a lighter and a half-powered mobile phone for company.

The thing about this film, based on a witty Chris Sparling script, is that it’s often very funny, as a whole world of uncaring bureaucracies frustrate Reynolds’ Paul and his attempts to get help before he runs out of air. But it’s a black humour of the most pitch hue, and Cortés ratchets up the tension again and again as Paul’s situation grows more desperate. If you can stand it, it’s very nearly essential viewing – not least because it will provide you with no end of jokes about Ryan Reynolds’ trouser snake.