Escape Room

"Find the clues or die."

2019 1h 39m EN

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6.5

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★6.5TMDB · 5,197

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Synopsis

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Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

“Find the clues or die.”

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Cast

Taylor Russell
Zoey Davis
Logan Miller
Ben Miller
Jay Ellis
Jason Walker
Deborah Ann Woll
Amanda Harper
Nik Dodani
Danny Khan
Tyler Labine
Mike Nolan
Yorick van Wageningen
Games Master WooTan Yu
Cornelius Geaney Jr.
College Professor

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Adam Robitel
Writers: Bragi F. Schut, Maria Melnik, Bragi F. Schut
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Grossed $156M — a 17.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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Released 7 years ago.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Escape Room Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Adam Robitel, shot by Marc Spicer. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Carey. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Steve Mirkovich shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Taylor Russell and Logan Miller and Jay Ellis carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Find the clues or die.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Adam Robitel directs. Marc Spicer behind the camera. John Carey scores. Steve Mirkovich cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Grossed $156M — a 17.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
2Released 7 years ago.
3Part of the "Escape Room Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Adam Robitel, shot by Marc Spicer. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by John Carey. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Steve Mirkovich shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Taylor Russell and Logan Miller and Jay Ellis carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Find the clues or die.".
9IMDB entry: tt5886046 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 18 themes, including "chicago, illinois", "key", "riddle", "code".
11Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Marc Spicer
Original score: John Carey
Editing: Steve Mirkovich
Production design: Edward Thomas
Makeup / hair: Simone Stubbs
VFX supervisor: Jeremy Hattingh
Sound: Tateum Kohut
Stunt coordinator: Grant Hulley
Runtime: 99 min · 1h 39m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $9,000,000
Box office: $155,712,077
Return: 1730% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Escape Room (2019)

Part of

Escape Room Collection

Escape Room is a 2019 American psychological horror film following a group of people who are sent to navigate a series of deadly escape rooms. A sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, was released on July 16, 2021.

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Gimly2019-06-27
★ 5/10
I think this is about the third escape room based horror movie I've seen, and I'm preeeeeeetty sure it's the best one? Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
beyondthecineramadome2022-06-20
★ 6/10
Full review: <a>https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/out-of-the-box-escape-roomnbspreview<a> Escape Room is a horror-movie take on the puzzle-solving fun of escape rooms currently sweeping the United States. Granted, the popular real-life escape rooms do not have an added element of death, but Escape Room the movie does not shy away from quite a few grisly murders.
CinemaSerf2025-01-11
★ 6/10
This is really about some amazingly inventive visuals as we follow some well-deserving egotists and miscreants who find themselves caught up in lethal, industrial scale, version of the "Adventure Game". They've been lured by the prospect of winning quite a measly $10k, so we ought not to be surprised by the quality of entrant for this adventure as they must pit their collective wits against a designer from hell. The whole point of the game, though, is that they do have a chance, if they can think quickly enough on their feet and/or play pool upside down. It might well work fine as a video game, but as a feature on screen it's really a lame collection of acting talent delivering increasingly hysterical dialogue in an environment for which I was heartily cheering from the moment I met "Ben" (Logan Miller), "Zoey" (Taylor Russell) and the rest of a gang of people for whom over-confidence is the order of the day. It does look good and it's decently paced with an agreeable degree of jeopardy, but from my perspective any survivor was going to be one too many, so any result other than that was merely going to disappoint and/or scream sequel at us.