Claustrophobic, paranoia and confrontations with mortality: the mental and material barriers on the enclosed settings of Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel (1962) and M. Night Shyamalan's Old (2021) make them the ultimate lockdown movies. But what else might this surrealist classic and tonally weird mainstream horror have in common? How do their performances of intimate, domestic space map onto our own age of digital surveillance? And what have the rich learned (or not learnt) in their period of insular isolation?