Collider dropped a list on Friday ranking what it calls the ten best thrillers of the last two decades, and the picks lean hard into claustrophobia and dread rather than jump scares.

Gareth Evans's The Raid: Redemption features prominently. The 2011 Indonesian film follows a rookie cop, played by Iko Uwais, trapped inside a crime lord's high-rise with his squad, fighting floor by floor with nowhere to run. Collider's writeup leans on that trapped-in-a-building dread, the sense that once the doors shut behind you, there's no exit.

Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island also makes the cut. Leonardo DiCaprio's U.S. Marshal investigates a missing patient at a hospital cut off by a storm, and the film's psychological unraveling gets singled out as the reason it still holds up. Collider frames the isolation itself as the engine of the film's dread, not just the twist everyone already knows by now.

The more unexpected pick is No Other Choice, the South Korean film about a laid-off papermaker who turns predatory to land a rival job. Collider ties it to the genre's long-running interest in class anxiety, the kind that's defined Korean thrillers for years now, and argues the premise lands harder the closer you are to the protagonist's age. It's the newest title on the list by some distance, which tells you where Collider thinks the genre's energy currently sits.

The piece doesn't stop at thrillers. It runs into a separate bit about which action hero you'd want backing you up in a crisis, cycling through Rambo, James Bond, Indiana Jones and John McClane, each pitched as the ideal partner for a different kind of disaster. It's clearly meant as a companion piece rather than a ranking with any real stakes, and reads that way.

None of this is breaking news, and Collider isn't claiming otherwise. It's one outlet's take on two decades of thrillers, the kind of list built to get replied to rather than agreed with. Fargo, Pulp Fiction and The Silence of the Lambs get name-checked as the genre's older reference points, without landing on the actual top ten themselves, which is its own small provocation.

Whether No Other Choice holds up as a canon pick or gets forgotten by next year's version of this same list is the real open question. Genre rankings like this tend to age badly around the edges within twelve months, and this one will get argued over the moment thriller fans on Letterboxd and X get to it properly.