Escape Room is coming to blend Saw, The Cube and one of those team building experiences on your local high street for a new horror thriller. Six strangers find themselves locked in a game room, and have to work out how to get out before they get burned, crushed or drowned to death.
Except judging by the film’s first trailer, they don’t find themselves anywhere – they deliberately answer a mysterious invite sent to their homes in a creepy box, offering them the chance to win $1 million if they can beat the toughest puzzles in the world. Why have they been chosen? Exactly. Clearly, there’s some kind of evil Jigsaw-esque mastermind behind it all, and the six idiots who turn up deserve to get squashed for not having a better spam filter.
Escape Room is directed by Adam Robitel (Insidious: The Last Key) and stars Logan Miller, Taylor Russell, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis and Nik Dodani. Dutch actor Yorick van Wageningen (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, 47 Ronin) is also listed on the cast, but he’s not shown in the trailer. Since he’s not one of the six captives of the room, (and he’s the only one over the age of 35), there’s a good chance that he’s the mysterious baddie here, but we’ll have to wait until 1stof February next year to find out for sure.
Interestingly, this isn’t the first film called Escape Room to tell the same story. Last year saw two movies with the same name released – Escape Room starring Evan Williams and Escape Room starring Skeet Ulrich. Will this new Escape Room escape the curse of the film’s called Escape Room?
Check out the disturbing first poster below too.
