Houses and Dwellings
A recurring thread here is confinement as a pressure cooker: apartments, castles, and family homes become the arena where isolation curdles into dread, grief, or forced intimacy. Whether it's a haunted nursery, a cult-run apartment building, a widow's booby-trapped house, or a father rebuilding a home to rebuild a relationship, the dwelling itself is never neutral background—it's the mechanism that traps characters together and forces reckonings with fear, loss, or each other. Even the comedies and parodies in the mix use the same trick, cramming mismatched people into a single roof until something breaks loose.
