2017 · horror · thriller
Escape Room
Directed by Will Wernick1h 30m2017
Six friends test their intelligence when an escape room they participate in takes a dark and twisted turn.
Our read: Escape Room (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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“You want a cheap, nasty escape-room death match before the glossy franchise.”
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