Title: Escape Room
Original Title: Escape Room
Year: 2019
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 96 Minutes (1 hour 36 min)
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Genre: Action Horror Thriller
- Studios: Original Film Columbia Pictures
- Distributor: Sony Pictures
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: February 01 2019
- United States: January 04 2019
Plot
Six strangers receive six black boxes containing tickets to an escape room that, if beaten, offers a large sum of money as a prize. From Zoey, a shy physics student, to Ben, a stock boy at a grocery store frustrated by the lack of advancement opportunities in his career, the tickets seem like a golden opportunity for change. Though unaware of the exact conditions that the immersive experience entails, the ten thousand dollar prize fund is enough to tempt them into participation, though the six quickly realise they have made a mistake that it potentially fatal. Locked in a series of rooms that appear to contain coding and puzzles, they soon realise that to fail is to unleash life-threatening effects.
The members of the group become increasingly concerned about how authentic the escape room continues to be, especially when they notice that the cameras occupying each room offer no assistance when they ask for it.
With their life expectancy decreasing by the minute, members of the team must use their wits and work together to discover the secrets of the mysterious architect of the game who is keeping them hostage within this terrifying simulated reality.
Directed by Adam Robitel and starring Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Deborah Ann Woll and Nik Dodani, 'Escape Room' is an action-adventure thriller about what it takes to escape impossible conditions.
Cast
Director:
Zoey Davis
Ben
Amanda
Mike Nolan
Jason Walker
Danny Khan
Allison
Videos
'Escape Room' Official Trailer
October 20 2018
Photos
Trivia
A different tittle
The film directed by Adam Robitel was going to be called 'The Maze', despite in 2018 the crew change their mind and called it 'Escape Room'.
A director used to horror films
Adam Robitel has background directing horror films as 'Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension' (2015) and 'Insidious: Chapter 4' (2017).
Escape rooms as terror stage
As of popularization of Escape Rooms all around the world, terror's films have been inspirated by them. In 2017 there are two film that use escape rooms as stage but previusly they have exploted this idea with sagas as 'Saw' or 'Cube'.
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