![]() When the Dark Castle remake of "House on Haunted Hill" was released four decades later, the cash pot (offered this time by Geoffrey Rush, though his character is named Price and he's clearly using the horror icon as a guiding star in his performance) swelled to a cool million. ![]() In the original, Vincent Price's peculiar fat cat Loren offered $10,000 to the victor, a tidy sum in 1959. The gameplay element is a financial incentive: the winner will emerge from the fortified building significantly richer. Besides, "Desperate criminal picks the wrong house to rob" is its own subgenre, counting "The Collector" alongside "The People Under the Stairs," " Don't Breathe," and many more. It's also why booby-trap extravaganza "The Collector" isn't present here its protagonist may be having a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day trying to avoid a psychopath, but Arkin O'Brien doesn't have to solve puzzles so much as he must tiptoe and serpentine past a house of horrors he voluntarily entered. ![]() Paul Sheldon of " Misery" has to pull some clever moves to try to escape the isolated homestead of his number one fan Annie, but she doesn't force him to wade through a pit of needles to find the key to his freedom, he's just locked in the house. ![]() But first, the criteria: an escape room horror movie doesn't have to feature an actual escape room in the workplace-teambuilding exercise sense, but it does need to have some sort of gameplay element or a grand design in which the designated "players" must try to survive a test - this separates this roundup list from the similar but divergent "captivity" film. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |