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Movies with people trapped in a room together. A list of movies (and some TV shows/games) where one or more people are stuck somewhere under mysterious circumstances. Usually they're strangers trapped in a room who need to figure out why they're there and/or discover a way out.
- An Introduction to Escape Room Movies
- The Best Escape Room Movies
- More Movies For Fans of Escape Rooms
- Further Reading
Escape room movies, as a category, blend elements of survival games and isolation horrorfilms. At its most basic, an escape room movie is about a group of people locked inside a room or building who must solve puzzles or riddles in order to go free. Most escape room movies heighten the tension by adding time limits, traps, and a death penalty for f...
Cube
Cube (1997) is a fantastic independent sci-fi film that works as something of an early precursor to the more established escape room movies in later decades. In Cube, five strangers wake up in a cubical room with no memory of how they got there. As they move through the doors in the room, they quickly discover that they are trapped within a kind of maze where each room is nearly identical. The only differences between the rooms are their colors, and the fact that some of the rooms contain a d...
Cube 2: Hypercube
Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) attempts to go bigger and more over-the-top with the premise established in the first film in the series. A new group of strangers find themselves trapped in a series of cubical rooms with little hope of escape. This time the rooms are brighter and more sleek in design, and the traps are heavy on special effects to create reality-bending scenarios. The result is a sequel that isn’t as entertaining as the 1997 Cube, but is still fun in a cheesy way. There is also less...
Saw
The Saw franchise became associated with escape room movies once the distinction became more well known, but only a few of the Saw movies fit well into the escape room subgenre. The first film, Saw (2004), is one of the few in the series that actually does have the right criteria, if only just barely. Two men, played by Cary Elwes and cowriter Leigh Whannell, find themselves locked in a room. They are each chained to a pipe, and there is a body face down in a pool of blood between them. Over...
Most of the films below don’t qualify as true escape room movies, but they have enough similarities to make them worth seeking out for fans of the escape room subgenre. 1. Panic Room (2002)– Jodie Foster and Kristin Stewart hide in a panic room as burglars (including Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto) try to get them out. This is kind of the opposite ...
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Currently you are able to watch "Locked in a Room" streaming on Tubi TV for free with ads or buy it as download on Apple TV. It is also possible to rent "Locked in a Room" on Apple TV online.
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Locked In is a 2023 psychological thriller film directed by Nour Wazzi and written by Rowan Joffé. It stars Famke Janssen , Rose Williams and Finn Cole . It was released on streaming service Netflix on 1 November 2023.
Jan 22, 2016 · Play trailer 1:30. 6 5. 30 Videos. 99+ Photos. Drama Thriller. A little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside. Director. Lenny Abrahamson. Writer. Emma Donoghue. Stars. Brie Larson. Jacob Tremblay. Sean Bridgers. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +2. Add to Watchlist.
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- Lenny Abrahamson
- 2016-01-22
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Rent Locked in a Room on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Three teenagers are trapped in separate rooms, tormented by an eerie voice and monitored by a masked man who records their...
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