The Biggest Element Missing From The Escape Room Movie And Its Sequel
An escape room seems like a natural fit for a horror movie because for some people, the idea is awful, claustrophic-making, and not much fun. But even those who think that this will be fun, exciting activity with friends or family members can still see how this would work as a setting in a scary film.
Escape Room was released in 2019 and the sequel Escape Room: Tournament of Champions came out in 2021, telling a story about characters who are asked to compete in some escape rooms so they can win some money. But the promising idea of watching people try to get out of these rooms alive falls apart pretty fast, and audiences might be disappointed with both the original film and its sequel.
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There is one major element missing from both Escape Room movies: the scares. In the first film, six people are told that if they can make it through these games, they can be given $10,000. The movies just don't do much to terrifying audiences. The main issue seems to be the way that the sets look. There is a cabin in the wintertime, a billiards bar, and a hospital room in the first film, but the sets look kind of fake and don't inspire much fear or terror.
When horror fans think about horror movies that could be franchises, 2011's The Cabin in the Woods comes up, and when comparing the sets in Escape Room, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, and The Cabin in the Woods, the latter film has much scarier and more impressive settings. As those main characters realize that the cabin in a simulation, it's incredible to watch, and the building with a different monster on each level is also visually stunning. The sets in Escape Room aren't much to look at.
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