Escape The Field Review: Familiar Tropes Override Enjoyment In Bland Thriller

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Escape the Field shares a premise not too dissimilar to several other horror films. The film's ensemble is a mix of fresh faces and familiar TV favorites, including Tahirah Sharif, who is coming off the heels of her stellar performance in Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Theo Rossi, who left an impression while starring in Sons of Anarchy. The one key element to making a film about strangers forced to work together is to have capable actors, which Escape The Field luckily has, but they aren’t playing interesting characters. Sadly, Escape the Field fails to mount this thriller on any likable or remotely engaging people. Instead, audiences watch as these individuals run around, making one foolish mistake after another.

The film follows six strangers — Sharif, Rossi, Shane West, Jordan Claire Robbins, Elena Juatco, and Julian Feder — who wake up in a mysterious cornfield and are left with nothing but a singular item that will assist them on their escape. The strangers come together and realize that their items all share the emblem of what they assume is their captors and they must trust each other and hope that they can escape the field and whatever lurks there.

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The film is writer-director Emerson Moore and co-writers Sean Wathen and Joshua Dobkin’s debut feature, which shows in a few key moments. There are some scenes where actors deliver their lines with half the effort that they may have intended to put in, giving off very stilted performances that work against the movie. A seasoned director would have pushed for a few more takes, as the ones that made it in are just negligent. The ensemble also lacks that fervent desperation required to sell