The Escape Room Movies Could Have Learned From Final Destination

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When compared to other horror franchises, Final Destination continues to entertain audiences, thanks to its simple and intelligent concept: if characters don't die when they're meant to, Death itself intervenes and will find them. The movies follow various young adult characters as they figure out that they're part of this horrible situation, and each movie focuses on a unique location.

When Escape Room was released in 2019, followed by its 2021 sequel Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions, horror fans weren't given a lot to enjoy. The Escape Room movies aren't scary, and they could definitely benefit from some of the things that the Final Destination franchise is known for: inventive kills and Rube Goldberg-esque scenarios.

Final Destination: 10 Best Death Scenes From The Movies, Ranked

Final Destination is famous for its death sequences, which makes sense since if a group of movies are going to tell stories about people who Death haunts until he finally finishes them off, the deaths have to be shocking and epic. This is something that Escape Room (2019) and Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions (2021) should have done.

In Final Destination 5, Roy (Brent Stait) is killed by a massive hook that goes right through his brain. In Final Destination 3, which is a great horror movie, two characters are killed in an incredibly inventive way that is hard to stop thinking about. Ashlyn (Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe) and Ashley (Chelan Simmons) are already well-written characters as they're pretty, popular girls who are nice to the main character Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and when they head to a tanning salon, it's obvious that this isn't going to end well for them. The girls are literally burned alive when the temperature of the tanning