claustrophobic

This claustrophobic thriller is mostly set in one family’s apartment, but its backdrop couldn’t be bigger.

Mr Mitchell said descriptions of the tavern, which occupied the ground floor of a tall tenement, gave an impression of the claustrophobic confines of the Old Town.

It seemed all set to boil into a claustrophobically close finale, just as the pair's meeting in Paris did a year ago.

They enter this curious and claustrophobic home only when Mr. Reed promises his wife is baking a pie in the other room, but he draws them into his labyrinth using false promises and rhetorical exercises.

One user on X, @harmancheeta, said they were "stuck on a plane, claustrophobic, pleading to get off," and asked: "How long is this situation going to take?"