Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
2021 · Directed by Adam Robitel
Original language: English
- horror
- thriller
- mystery
The story
Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive... and discovering they've all played the games before.
What it’s like
Bright, flat studio lighting and clean, glossy digital photography give the rooms a sterile, showroom sheen, with saturated reds and blues sliding into murky shadow as the puzzles grow darker. Camera work is restless but controlled: quick cuts, close inserts on clocks, keys and mechanisms, and wide shots that make each set piece feel like a boxed diorama. The score leans on synth pulses and ticking rhythms that swell whenever a timer starts, so the soundtrack keeps the pressure on even in quieter stretches. Tone is tense, brisk and slightly cold, a sequel-style escalation of dread and procedural puzzle-solving rather than atmosphere for its own sake. The pacing is relentless, with short scenes ending on cliffhangers, and the arcs follow strangers forced into trust and suspicion as they realise their shared past. Violence is present and sometimes graphic, including deaths that are sudden and bloody in the room's traps, with gore more visible than in the original, yet it stays brief and lands as shock rather than lingering cruelty. Fits viewers who want a tense, puzzle-driven horror thriller with a twisty mystery and a high body count.
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