Panic Room
45% overall doesn't tell the real story for Panic Room. This is a film that gets stronger as tournaments advance — a better matchup in a final than its win rate suggests. Fincher doing pure craft in a single location, with no larger ambitions than relentless tension. It's the kind of film voters respect more than they champion. 1.7s per vote suggests strong instincts. Most voters arrive at this matchup already knowing which way they lean.
Synopsis
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
From 43% to 64% across the bracket. Panic Room is one of those rare films that improves against harder opposition — the final-round version is a different competitor than the one that started.
Against The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the margin is razor-thin: 50%. The most contested matchup in Panic Room's record. On the other end of the spectrum: Zodiac at 80% is a comfortable win, while Gone Girl at 33% is the matchup Panic Room can't crack.
Best of David Fincher: Panic Room clears The Game in the opening round and dispatches Zodiac at 80% in the final. A convincing start-to-finish run.
Panic Room sits at #7 of David Fincher's 9 films. The filmography spans from Se7en (56%) down to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (38%).
Dead last in Best of David Fincher.
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