Escape From Marwin aka Escape Room (2018, dir. This is not a good puzzle, or a good movie.Īt one point a guy yells, “Fuck these puzzles!” I hear ya, my man. He just now no longer has this metal thing on his groin and he dies like 15 minutes later so it didn’t even matter. So the guy assumes the numbers correspond to letters, and the code must be a four letter sex word so he instantly guesses “HEAD” and it’s right and he takes the device off, and then that doesn’t lead to anything or trigger a new puzzle. One puzzle we see a guy who has a padlocked chastity belt strapped around his bathing suit area and the lock has a 4 digit number code. I was going to say you can remember this one as “the one that starts with a birthday party” but there’s a Russian one that also does that so this is “the American one that starts with a birthday party.” This one is also called Escape Room and came out in 2017 but this one is streaming for free on Tubi, so I watched it. It’s on YouTube and Jack Black has a ponytail in it. As far as the “celebrities playing games” genre goes, this is the only watchable example I’ve ever seen. I did watch it though, and Jack Black is fun in it. I had never heard of it because it came out on network TV in May of 2020, and I was in no mood at the time. This is a TV special, hosted by Jack Black and has four celebrity guest contestants: Lisa Kudrow, Ben Stiller, Courtney Cox and Adam Scott. It is on Tubi if you want to see it though. The person does want to escape the room, but I can’t include this one as part of the genre. I didn’t see it, but if you see this title remember: it’s not about escape rooms, it’s about Nazis. This one is not about escape rooms, but rather about Nazis. But also, I’m only watching the ones I can see for free, which I think is an appropriate amount of laziness for this lazy sub-genre.īut first, to understand the escape room movie we should get this out of the way: Here’s a few titles that are NOT escape room movies that I found that have escape room-y titles: Escape From Room 18 (2017, dir. It turns out, you can’t just copyright the idea of “escape rooms” or even the name so like any good rush-to-market film genre there’s tons of movies and copycats about escape rooms without all the pesky unique titles.īecause this leads to a pile of movies with near identical titles but no relation, I’m going to do my best to untangle and organize them so you have a handy reference guide. I watched Escape Room maybe a year ago, and then had a conversation with someone about it only to realize we were talking about two different movies. If you’ve aimlessly scrolled a streaming app in the last few years you’ve probably seen a thumbnail for something called Escape Room.
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