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- This horror film/thriller has its virtues, but it badly strains viewers' suspension of disbelief and can't avoid feeling like Saw with duller teeth. The most fun parts of Escape Room are the occasional solvable puzzle and the detail and imagination in the sets. Production designer Edward Thomas (Doctor Who) is the MVP.
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While not good, personally, Escape Room was a lot better than what Jigsaw (2017) showed us. I liked that the characters, for the most part, worked together to survive rather than just be total pieces of shit to one another that occurs in most of the Saw sequels.
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- 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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- A Fresh Coat of Paint. Audiences had the Saw plot devices worked out by the second film, and yet they kept going for five more entries without shaking anything up at all.
- Think It Through. It’s the oldest horror trope in the book and something about which many fans constantly complain, but the protagonists in many of these movies often showcase the intelligence of the average kitchen sink.
- Thriller. While Saw tends to unseat itself by focusing entirely on brutal spectacle, this movie sidesteps that issue and tells a more thrilling, interesting tale.
- Set Pieces Instead of Splatter. Rather than focus on violence and bloodsport, Escape Room emphasizes its elaborate traps, and there’s a sense of morbid wonder in it.
Jan 4, 2019 · “Escape Room,” a new PG-13-rated horror film, is a sometimes diverting, but overly familiar series of set pieces in search of a good melodrama. There’s not much of a plot: six disposable protagonists try to solve a series of inter-connected puzzles, and death is the penalty for failure.
- Patrick Thornton
- Saw II. Premise: Eight strangers are trapped in a house by John Kramer, the Jigsaw slayer. One of the targets is the son of police detective Eric Matthews, who tracks down Kramer.
- Cube. Premise: Five strangers are trapped inside the “Cube,” a seemingly infinite number of rooms connected through hatches. While some rooms are safe, others are “trapped” and can terminate those trying to escape.
- Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. Premise: After surviving their first escape room, Zoey and Ben are forced into another with four other survivors from previous games.
- The Cabin in the Woods. Premise: Five college students go on a camping trip to a cabin in the woods where they are manipulated by engineers in a lab who are attempting to carry out an ancient ritual.
Escape Room: Directed by Adam Robitel. With Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine. Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.
Jan 4, 2019 · The movie Escape Room understands that it’s working with a predictable formula, but it provides enough tension to be worthwhile. The film was released Jan. 4.
