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Escape: Puzzle of Fear
by Lizze Gordon
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles, but when the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.
There have been several escape room movies lately, and they all seem to follow the same plot: people get locked in an escape room, or similar setting, for some kind of revenge. This movie follows the same theme. As the movie begins, we go back and forth between two timelines. There’s the present, where they decide to do the escape room/the escape room itself, and there’s the past, where two young sisters went trick or treating and only one came home, the second being blamed for the other’s killing, no one believing her about a “monster” who killed her sister.
As the two couples try and get through the escape room, we see flashbacks to not only the murder of the young girl, but also into the past actions of one of the characters, and it’s not pretty. Throughout the night we learn more and more about what happened to the sister who was blamed for the murder and how this connects to the escape room.
This seems to be very low budget in both production and acting (at some points the acting is even laughable), but it is enjoyable if you like B movie pictures and worth the watch if you do.
HMS received an advanced screener of this film in exchange for review. Escape: Puzzle of Fear is available on demand and DVD August 18th from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Lisa Forlow, HMS
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