

Lieutenant Amanda Harper (played by Deborah Ann Woll) aka the Badass with a bad past: Is an Iraq war vet who survived an IED blast that killed everyone in her Humvee except her. As they were singing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (this will be important, trust me) they crashed killing everyone on board except Ben. He and four of his friends went out for a joyride during the Christmas break while drunk. Everyone onboard died except for her and it took the authorities a week to find her.īen (played by Logan Miller) aka the Redemption Arc: Years prior to the film he was the first of his friends to get a car. Zoey Davis (played by Taylor Russell) aka Main Character: Years prior to the start of the film she was backpacking with her mother in Vietnam when their plane went down. To make this easier we’re going to list out the 6 characters who have to go through the escape rooms and their background since the puzzles in the room are based on their pasts:

In fact, halfway through I had to stop and double-check this movie was considered horror because it felt more like an action adventure, that doesn’t make the movie bad, just a not a spooky time movie. I didn’t even have to look behind me at all. Absolutely no horror/terror/screaming was experienced. If a four-piece children’s wooden puzzle is like a bad horror movie and a Sudoku puzzle book is a good horror movie, then Escape Room is a Word search book that when opened is actually a book of random facts. Six strangers are offered the chance to solve a series of escape rooms with a grand prize of $10,000 but they quickly discover the game is for keeps as the rooms have fatal traps for those that don’t escape. At 95 minutes long it manages to fit a lot of story in a short amount of time but not much horror. Today we’re looking at 2019’s self-described psychological horror Escape Room.
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I love horror movies and if I’m going to watch them anyway, why not write an entertaining/funny review from the POV of an average movie-goer and not a professional critic.
