Andrew(Dennis Andres), who is alone, and couple Melanie(Kathryn Davis) and Tyler(Hamza Haq). This is important later.Īfter arriving at the house, they are escorted into a room by Josie, and they meet the three other people who signed up for the fun. While in there, she hears a strange noise, and the lights flicker. They decide to go, and Karen goes to the restroom before leaving. While waiting for their car to be fixed, they eat at a diner and find an Escape Room ad in town. They aren’t on the best of terms, but Dad is determined to make their weekend fun regardless of the sullen teenager sitting next to him. Michael(Mark Ghanimé) and Karen(Jeni Ross) are a father and daughter whose car broke down. The best plot beats come from imaginative writing, though, that leans heavier into the mystery than the violence.
More supernatural mind-bender than bloodfest, this film still employs plenty of gross gags to keep you on edge. No Escape Room is one of the better ones because the paid attraction is just the catalyst for the spookiness that happens later.
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There are the slick and stylish gory ones like Escape Room, the 80s throwbacks like Hell Fest, and the sudsy Ruin Me from Shudder that is full of potential but lacking in overall execution. Here’s everything you need to know.Ģ018’s No Escape Room is just one of many escape room horror movies in the last couple of years. The tagline may as well be “When Bad Things Happen to White People,” and No Escape unthinkingly devolves into predictable situations that disrespect everyone involved in more ways than one.No Escape Room is an ambiguous chiller that leaves you with more questions than answers. The film discards realism when its inconvenient or confrontational, but relishes it when it can create a harsher, more revolting picture. It taps into its audience’s most despicable fears and wants the reality of the situation but is too feckless to even name its setting. No Escape is horrific, but for all the wrong reasons. It’s also worth noting that this devastation is only from the perspective of the Dwyers, thus further dehumanizing any non-White person in the story.
We just see the sadistic rebels and the hapless white family who didn’t want any part of this catastrophe.
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The movie makes a half-hearted apology about how this is truly all the fault of Western corporations who have exploited this kind of underdeveloped country, but we don’t see that corporation. Granted, giving his antagonist horde agency and discernment makes them more terrifying, but it feels like the only reason they’re not aliens or zombies is because they need to fire guns or attempt to rape women. I don’t want to go so far to say that No Escape thinks that the only good Asian is a dead Asian, but the Dwyers manage to survive at one point by literally hiding behind a dead Asian man’s body and then are able to sneak around using the clothes they pulled off dead Asians. Pretty much everyone else who isn’t a machete-wielding maniac is cannon fodder, and they’re useful only for how they can protect the Dwyers. The only “good” citizen of this unnamed country is Hammond’s extremely Americanized pal, “Kenny Rogers” ( Sahajak Boonthanakit). Rather than just offend Cambodia or Laos (we learn later in the movie Vietnam is on the other side of the river, so it has to be one of these two countries), it offends both as well as the entire race and region, who are never depicted as anything other than a gang of bloodthirsty murderers and rapists. The fact that the script goes out of its way to avoid naming a particular country only makes the movie more offensive because it homogenizes the region.
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