The article discusses the unique vulnerability experienced on airplanes, setting the stage for thrillers centered around this confined space. It highlights Netflix's new film Carry-on, featuring Jason Bateman and Taron Egerton, as a recent addition to the subgenre. The piece distinguishes between thrillers that occur on airplanes versus broader aviation stories, emphasizing popular films like Airport '77, which illustrate the genre's evolution. Viewers are encouraged to explore a list of recommended airplane thrillers, promising thrilling narratives set in an environment where escape is not an option.
Airplanes are spaces where we sort of can't help but be vulnerable. It's cramped, you can't simply "pull over" and get out any time you want.
Carry-on, the Netflix original film starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, is the latest in a long line of thrillers set in, on, and around airplanes.
Movies or shows about plane crashes don't qualify (sorry, Lost, Yellowjackets, Flight, and Sully), and there's a big difference between action on a passenger plane and action in the cockpit of a military jet.
Airport '77... packs yet another cast of major stars... into a luxury airliner, only to bring that airliner crashing down in the Bermuda Triangle.
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