“Every single thing you see is a ‘clue,'” her therapist ( Lucy Newman-Williams) complains. Zoey is in therapy when the sequel begins, looking for a cure for her mania.
Puzzle-whiz Zoey (Taylor Russell) and nerdy Ben ( Logan Miller) solved the murderous puzzle cooked up by an oligarchical entity called Minos, an enterprise that entraps people in deadly, ornate and obscenely expensive “rooms” where the hapless victims die, on camera, for rich subscribers.
We had two survivors from 2019’s “Escape Room,” not to be confused with several other variations of that title. Who could live through that? This is, of course, the whole point. “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” serves up death by electrocution, (literal) acid rain, mechanically-engineered quicksand, laser slicing and drowning in just 89 minutes. Knowing what they are and how they work is the lingua franca of this tiny corner of horror.
#ESCAPE ROOM MOVIES SERIES#
You’ve got to hand it to the screenwriters who brainstorm the ever-more-elaborate ways to off people in these clockwork killing pictures - the “Saw” series and their evil stepchild, the “Escape Room” movies.Īre escape rooms still a thing? I see abandoned versions of such enterprises in empty malls I pass through.
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