Escape Room | January 4, 2019 | Sony | Directed by Adam Robitel (Insidious 4)

[TombRaider]

i love how most horrors are low budget and very profitable

[DAJK]

Feel like this'll do something like 6.5 OD, and around 14.5 for the weekend. 35 total. Maybe 40-50 OS

[TombRaider]

Just now, DAJK said:

Feel like this'll do something like 6.5 OD, and around 14.5 for the weekend. 35 total. Maybe 40-50 OS

It should have come out maybe a year ago. Escape rooms were peaking in europe in 2016-2017 not now

[Taylor]

Starts on RT at 57% with 21 reviews in... not bad.

[Eric the Creator]

I personally thought Insidious 4 was the best out of all the sequels, so I was confident the movie wouldn't be total trash. Don't know if I'll go to the theaters for this, but I'll probably give this a rental.

[WrathOfHan]

If this is still playing at the beginning of February after I've seen everything from December, maybe I'll give it a go if I'm bored.

[Ezen Baklattan]

This actually did look kind of fun...dare I say.

[MovieGuyKyle17]

Still hanging on in the 60's. We might have our first ever Fresh January Horror film on the first weekend of the year. That's amazing 

[Krissykins]

7 hours ago, MovieGuyKyle17 said:

Still hanging on in the 60's. We might have our first ever Fresh January Horror film on the first weekend of the year. That's amazing 

59% with 18 reviews on mine.

 

Still much much better than expected for this kind of release. 

[TombRaider]

so you're telling me critics are biased and always hate these kind of movies?

[baumer]

Hoping for a triple better today. Going to escape room in about an hour

[TombRaider]

From BOM:

 

Sony's horror/thriller Escape Room brought in an impressive $2.345 million from Thursday previews last night with showings beginning at 4PM in 2,386 locations. While the studio is still projecting a $10 million performance this weekend this more than doubles the $1 million in previews Slender Manbrought in from previews before a $11.37 million opening and almost five times the preview gross for The Forest, which delivered $515k from previews in January 2016 ahead of a $12.7 million debut. At this point we'd be surprised if Escape Room fell short of that gross by the end of the weekend.

 

 

 

Good. it looks extremely appealing to me

[Krissykins]

2 hours ago, TombRaider said:

so you're telling me critics are biased and always hate these kind of movies?

Lol No. 

 

I meant the first January horrors aren’t known for their quality in general. 

 

White Noise 7%

Texas Chainsaw 18%

One Missed Call 0%

The Forest 10%

Underworld Blood Wars 20%

The Woman in Black 2 23%

The Marked Ones 39%

Season of the Witch 10%

The Devil Inside 6%

Daybreakers 67%

The Unborn 10%

Edited January 4, 2019 by Krissykins

[TombRaider]

27 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Lol No. 

 

I meant the first January horrors aren’t known for their quality in general.  

 

White Noise 7%

Texas Chainsaw 18%

One Missed Call 0%

The Forest 10%

Underworld Blood Wars 20%

The Woman in Black 2 23%

The Marked Ones 39%

Season of the Witch 10%

The Devil Inside 6%

Daybreakers 67%

The Unborn 10%

ER seems to me like more of a thriller than pure horror anyway

[baumer]

I'm so glad I saw this one today. really really well done film. Very intense very well-acted well-paced well directed really well cast....the film was just really well done.

[estebanJ]

Saw Escape Room today. Don't let the meh Tomatometer rating fool you - this is a suspenseful film, it captured my attention immediately with charismatic characters and the drama and intensity of the escape room adventure never let up.

 

Entertaining film ... B+ .... 768/1000

[JB33]

Great to read the positive reactions. It's always easy to assume the yearly first weekend of January horror film is just a cheap dump by the studio. Was tempted to see it yesterday but saw THE FAVOURITE instead. Looks like I'll be going to see this next.

 

I also enjoyed INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY last year. Maybe it should be a yearly thing to have an Adam Robitel movie on the first weekend of January!

[That One Girl]

Had a lot of fun with this.  It's not great, but it's a perfectly fine way to start the year off.

[Krissykins]

On 1/4/2019 at 5:02 PM, Christmas baumer said:

I'm so glad I saw this one today. really really well done film. Very intense very well-acted well-paced well directed really well cast....the film was just really well done.

This makes me even more interested. 

 

Doesn't come out here in the U.K. til 1st February though. 

Edited January 6, 2019 by Krissykins

[TombRaider]

7 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

This makes me even more interested. 

 

Doesn't come out here in the U.K. til 1st February though. 

you're lucky. march 15 here