On TV, comedies are where escape rooms get showcased, highlighting the fun, team-building elements most. So let’s take a look at some of the places where escape rooms have popped up in recent memory. Rather than inspiring escape rooms, screens these days are actually inspired by them, demonstrating just how popular they’ve become. As it turned out though, they would probably become the greatest PR for the entire industry. In a way, it’s amazing that it took decades before escape rooms would appear. But we rediscovered the feeling that they gave us when we finished our first rooms. Escape Room 2 sees Zoey and Ben both still recovering from the events of Escape Room trek out to New York in an attempt to find (and expose) the ruthless Minos Corporation. No matter how campy they were at times, no matter how ridiculous the situations, no matter how impossible the odds, each followed that tried and true formula - characters caught up in a crazy situation, completion of exercises that always seemed to lead to another one, and all it driven by an inevitable deadline that grew closer and closer until the very … last … moment. But the real forerunner is the wave of adventure movies that dominated the 80s and 90s - The Goonies (we love you too, Sloth), Indiana Jones, The Mummy Trilogy (remember Brendan Fraser?), Back to the Future, Jurassic Park (Hold onto your butts). Horror movies are famous for this, presenting a threat that grows in intensity as the characters learn more and more about it until they are finally able to free themselves from it. Panic Room (2002) Jodie Foster and Kristin Stewart hide in a panic room as burglars (including Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto) try to get them out. They were the current that ran beneath so many classic genres. Most of the films below don’t qualify as true escape room movies, but they have enough similarities to make them worth seeking out for fans of the escape room subgenre. Scavenger hunts have always been popular - the drive to search and find clues, moving from one objective to the next in a race against the clock. Long before the first escape rooms opened, the path toward their popularity was written in the cards … or in the theatres so to speak. And naturally, that transitions into all sorts of nods within pop culture. Escape Room (2019) In this mysterious horror, six strangers find themselves locked in a labyrinth of deadly rooms and have to use all their wits to save their lives. Since then, escape rooms have become so popular that they have started to make their way into the minds of everyday people more and more. In the meantime, check out the 2021 movie release dates to plan your next movie experience. As video games grew in popularity, designers wanted to create a similar experience in real life. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions will hit theaters July 16th. You may be surprised to know that these types of games were initially inspired and created by video games. Escape rooms may be relatively new, but their elements of these things have been in place for some time now.
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