In a world where everyone is finding ways to break the monotony, OTT platforms with their endless options of movies and TV series have come to their rescue. Netflix Party, Amazon party, and other such platforms allow friends and distant family members to come and watch movies together. But the real hard work is choosing a good and entertaining movie that can keep everyone hooked to their screens.
Are you tired of movies that revolve around the same-old vanilla storylines? Want movies that leave you talking about it afterward?
Then it is time to stir things up and bring the thrill of escape rooms to your screens. Get ready to experience the same rush of adrenaline as you glue your eyes to these movies.
Here are the top 10 movies that are a must-watch for escape room fans. Work your way down to find out which one is our favourite:
10. The Killing Room (2009)
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Four strangers decide to part in a clinical psychological study. However, hell breaks loose as the researcher shoots a person in the head.
The ordinary-seeming psychological study suddenly turns brutal, and the people must escape!
Brace yourselves because this movie will keep you on the edge of your seats!
9. The Belko Experiment (2016)
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Director: Greg McLean
80 employees become a part of a dreadful quest of survival when their usual day at the office takes a full 180-degree turn. These eighty employees are trapped in their building, and two workers are to be sacrificed.
Friends will turn against each other, and enemies might join hands! Who will come out alive out of this twisted social experiment?
Watch this on your next movie night and place your bets on who would have survived The Belko Experiment!
8. Devil (2010)
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Director: John Erik Dowdle
Imagine being stuck in a confined elevator instead of an escape room!
Five strangers are stuck in an elevator. But the calm suddenly turns into chaos as unnatural occurrences begin to transpire. Will they be able to escape?
Find out as you watch this movie that will send a chill down your spine!
7. Infinity Chamber (2016)
Genre: Sci-fi/Thriller
Director: Travis Milloy
An inmate is forced to relive the same day again and again in a futuristic automated prison cell. A war has erupted outside, and this is his only chance to escape! Will he be able to outsmart a high-tech computer?
Try out this sci-fi that will blow everyone’s minds!
6. Escape Room (2019)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Adam Robitel
An escape room with ten thousand dollars as prize money does sound like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Six people participate in an escape room in an effort to win the enormous prize money. But horrifying circumstances begin to unravel at every step.
Watch this movie with your friends to know if you would’ve survived such a thrilling escape room!
5. Fermat’s Room (2007)
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Director: Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña
The mysterious Fermat called four brilliant mathematicians to a remote warehouse and gave them pseudonyms while they solved highly complex number puzzles. While they decode the enigma, the walls start to close in on them.
Can these geniuses escape before they suffocate and are crushed to death?
4. Panic Room (2002)
Genre: Thriller/Crime
Director: David Fincher
A mother and a daughter lock themselves inside a safe room when three men break into their house. But what the men want lies inside the safe room, and so, panic ensues!
Become a part of a mad home invasion!
3. Exam (2009)
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Director: Stuart Hazeldine
Eight candidates sit inside an exam room to crack a test that would ensure their place in a reputed company. They have eight minutes to answer just one question. But, the rules are that the candidates must not talk to the armed guard at the door, must not spoil their paper, and may not leave the room. If they do, they will be disqualified.
The usual exam pressure escalates as suddenly, it becomes a gamble between life and death.
Watch Exam to find out how you would’ve survived this examination!
2. The Game (1997)
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Director: David Fincher
Nicholas Van Orton has been gifted a game voucher for his birthday. But things take a turn for the worse when he loses the difference between reality and the game. Can this wealthy investment banker snap back to reality in time?
Beware! Don’t let yourself fall into the same trap!
1. Cube (1997)
Genre: Horror/Sci-fi
Director: Vincenzo Natali
A classic escape game! Six strangers find themselves trapped inside a cube with no recollection of what led them there. They are all assigned a special skill but only when they work together can they escape. Can they decode the enigma? Can they find their way out of deadly traps and mazes?
Huddle with your friends and family on the couch and get ready for a nail-biting time!
The movies listed above will make you relive the same thrill that one experiences in an escape room. They are going to make you even bigger fans of escape rooms than you are right now! You can even call your friends who have never played an escape room to make them escape enthusiasts as well.
Call up your friends because this movie night is going to be the best one you’ve hosted for your fellow escape fans till now!
Charlotte Lin is a content creator at escaperoom.com. She’s a passionate young woman, mother to an amazing nine-year-old, and an avid reader. Over the years, writing has helped her explore and understand the world as well as her own self. She loves to travel, meet new people, and spend quality time with her daughter. You can find her on LinkedIn.
