Released in 2019, escape room was a surprise horror hit. With a release date of the first week of January, it looked like a movie the studio was throwing away to stray into the early part of the year, surely only to be overshadowed by the remnants of the holidays. However, the film was well-loved by horror fans for the over-the-top embrace of its central gimmick. It grossed $57 million domestically and $155.7 million worldwide on a relatively tiny budget of $9 million and then spawned a sequel in 2021. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions which opened in theaters on July 16, 2021.
The central premise of both escape room The films follow a group of individuals who are lured into what appears to be a normal escape room, but are instead convoluted death traps that they must solve in order to survive. This aroused a lot of sympathy among the Seen film franchise, a popular horror series where people are placed in elaborate death traps for them to solve, but with more emphasis on gore and shocking audiences. Both films also have a certain level of righteous frustration with capitalism, with Seen having some criticisms of the American healthcare system while escape room makes clear comments about how the 1% are not only above the law, but use the other 99% of misery for their own amusement. Whereas escape room on the surface may appear to be a toned down version of Seen, escape room stands out as its unique fun franchise.
PG-13 rating works for escape rooms
When it comes to horror, movies with a PG-13 rating are often considered inferior because they aren’t able to fully embrace the gore that comes with an R rating, which the Seen films used wisely. Still, the problem is that the R rating can become a trap and filmmakers tend to rely on gore and violence to make up for any issues with the script and characterizations, the best example being how the R rating n didn’t do Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem better than PG-13 Alien vs Predator and resulted in a much worse movie.
escape room being PG-13 works to one’s advantage in several ways. Most importantly, it opens up a wider audience and is an ideal horror movie outing for young viewers who can’t get into an R-rated movie but are still looking for some scares. This in turn works for the box office, as young moviegoers are one of the most important audience members and are especially important in terms of horror movie box office. escape room is more accessible to members of the public than the Seen franchise, as there are a fair amount of viewers who might not want to try stomach Seen but can easily enjoy the thrills of escape room.
Difference Between Traps
While on the surface, escape room could be a PG-13 Seen, it helps define the film’s iconic death traps. These are the star attractions of both franchises, as audiences want to see what new creative ideas the filmmakers will come up with. The Seen The franchise is driven by the villain Jigsaw’s motivation to test people on their will to live, pushing the participants (and by extension the viewer) to see how far they will go to survive subjecting themselves to extreme horror and pain.
In escape room, traps are puzzles created by the Minos Corporation as a means of entertainment for the wealthy (and a commentary on the movie watcher) and are meant to be the modern successor to gladiatorial games. Traps are meant to be puzzles that must be solved to survive, with unique themed locations offering clues to the clue. Everything in the escape room the film series, like the actual escape rooms, has a theme involving the games’ inherent theatrics as opposed to Saw more grounded single focused lens. Seen is intended to shock the public, where escape room is intended to challenge the public. In this way, one can clearly define that Seen is a horror franchise, while escape room is a thriller series.
Escape Room has great characters
escape room The premise is built around a group of characters thrown into a situation and having to work together to solve the puzzles if they want to survive. That means movies have to take a long time to develop the character’s personalities and stories. This level of investment in the characters builds tension as the audience becomes invested in making sure everyone lives, and when someone falls victim to a trap or heroically sacrifices themselves, the brunt of that is felt. by the public.
A young franchise with room to grow
The biggest difference between Seen and escape room is the number of entries. Seen has had nine entries released since 2004 with a tenth scheduled for 2023. Seven of the Seen movies were released year after year, so the franchise has become an annual Halloween tradition. escape room has had two films so far, with the COVID-19 pandemic not only delaying the release of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions but impacting that film’s box office due to public concerns about returning to theaters when it is released in July 2021. However, the film ended in a cliffhanger, leaving the door open for more to come. entries and could become a long series of films with a rotating cast of characters trying to escape complexly themed death traps.
The fact that the first escape room performed well in January, while the second film made decent numbers during the summer movie season during the COVID-19 pandemic, proves that the film series has more freedom in terms of release date than the Seen movies, as both entries released outside of the Halloween season (2017 Jigsaw and 2021 Spiral: from Saw’s book) underperformed at the box office. This means escape room could open at any time of the year and the public will go there. It may not be a grotesque horror show like Seen or a philosophical masterpiece like cubeanother film on the same theme (which predates Seen), but escape room remains a fun thriller that stands on its own two feet.
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