Escape Room movies as a subgenre of survival horror/thriller have made their mark in the last two decades, ever since the Saw franchise garnered a cult following, and have their roots in platform survival games popularized in the late 1980s. In general, the plot of such movies revolves around a group of people getting trapped in maze-like settings, willingly or not, and their efforts to get out of increasingly difficult entrapments with their lives on the line most of the time.
In some of the memorable entries of the genre, psychological complexities become synonymous with entrapments and brutalities, and escape is equated with a release from the comfort zone that hinders human potential. No Escape Room, the 2018 movie of the eponymous subgenre, starts off well, managing to build up the intrigue using a particular theme, but never quite takes off, and by the end, you’ll think the makers...
In some of the memorable entries of the genre, psychological complexities become synonymous with entrapments and brutalities, and escape is equated with a release from the comfort zone that hinders human potential. No Escape Room, the 2018 movie of the eponymous subgenre, starts off well, managing to build up the intrigue using a particular theme, but never quite takes off, and by the end, you’ll think the makers...
- 8/14/2023
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
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