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Straphangers were stuck in a nightmare commute Monday that ended in a scene straight out of a horror movie.

@MTA spent two hours stuck on the f train. An hour this morning and an hour tonight. So hot we could write on the windows. Awful pic.twitter.com/SecfeggkRT

— Samantha Mushnick (@SamanthaMush) June 5, 2017

The passengers became stuck on a jam-packed F train near the Broadway-Lafayette station in Manhattan at around 6 p.m.

After nearly an hour without lights or air conditioning, the train was finally pushed by another locomotive into the station — but the passengers weren’t out of the woods. The doors failed to open and passengers desperately tried to pry them open.

“People on the platform took pictures of us dripping sweat,” rider, Michael Sciaraffo, wrote on Facebook. “People started to yell things like please get me off and I feel sick.”

After about 10 more minutes, the doors finally opened.

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