

One girl’s a tertiary genius still reeling from the trauma of a plane crash. They’re a culturally diverse lot, traversing different ages and economic classes, and the film gets props for giving each of them a rounded backstory.

Sony’s Escape Room sees six strangers compete in a mysterious escape room with the promise of a lumpy cash prize. Sony’s Escape Room (left) & Escape’s Escape Room (right) The characters Which Escape Room is the better Escape Room, in my blunt opinion? I graded each based on five different criteria. Nevertheless, I’m an internet film critic, and I’ve got things to say about them. Or what an internet film critic like me has to say about them.

It may seem bleedingly obvious to you which film’s gonna be the better of the two, but you never want to judge a film by its poster. The straight-to-VOD offering comes from Escape Productions, which I’ll call-erm- Escape’s Escape Room, I guess. The cinematic release comes from Sony Pictures, which I’ll call Sony’s Escape Room. Statistically, some of them had to go “Yep, sounds good.” Now we’re in an awkward position where there are two escape room films called ‘Escape Room’ available to watch and-surprisingly-neither one’s a Blumhouse Production.
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“It’s like an actual escape room, except it’s REAL and the characters could DIE.” I’m guessing a heap of Hollywood producers had to hear this horror movie pitch within the last few years.
