When the global escape room industry meets Hollywood, the results can only be spectacular. The boundaries between fantasy and reality blur in adventurous and mysterious paths, bringing suspense, anxiety and adrenaline to the forefront.
Some of the best and all-time classic films of the world cinema have already inspired script and direction, escape rooms all over the world, conveying with skill and sophisticated technological means - this happens in most of them at least - the atmosphere of the film.
Heroes and characters who made history on the big screen and whose fame was identified with the big names of the actors who played them, are once again "starring" in themed escape rooms in every corner of the world: Harrison Ford, on the one hand, as Indiana Jones who gets involved in risky adventures and on the other hand as a ruthless "fugitive" (The Fugitive), Johnny Depp as the infamous bank robber John Dillinger in the film Public Enemies, Tim Robbins as the genius fugitive Andy Dufresne in "Rita Hathworth's Last Great Escape"), Clint Eastwood as the criminal Frank Morris in "Escape from Alcatraz", Steve McQueen as Captain Virgil Hilts in The Great Escape and even Jack Nicholson ως ο σχιζοφρενής αλκοολικός συγγραφέας Jack Torrance με τα δολοφονικά ένστικτα στο κλασικό «The Shining» του Stephen King.
Fans of retro situations will surely remember the war film Das Boot (1981) by Wolfgang Petersen, which takes us to the period of World War II and to one of the submarines of the German fleet. during his mission in the Atlantic Ocean. For many escape room fans, this film later served as the starting point for the birth of many script ideas - mainly of a war nature - that were ideally suited to setting up escape rooms, especially since underwater adventures have always attracted their own dynamic audience, mainly male.
Another important milestone film in the escape room industry could be considered Clue (also known as On the Trail of Mystery). The script of this cult American mystery comedy is clearly inspired by the well-known board game Cluedo. The film has now become as beloved as few escape room creators, especially in America.
But even the most modern film successes are becoming objects of study (and often even copying) by large escape room chains. Typical examples are the films: Panic Room, Harry Potter, Phone Booth, The experiment, Titanic, Cabin in the Woods House on Haunted Hill, Silent Hill, The Game, Saw, etc.
Of course, Alfred Hitchcock, also known as the "Lord of Suspense", could not be left out of the game, with many themed escape rooms, mainly in America, honoring his contribution to the history of psychological thrillers and adventure thrillers. At the top of the escape room themes today are the films "Rear Window" and "Psycho".
As for sci-fi adventures, these are consistently the top choices of escape room players: From the all-time classic films Alphaville (1965) by Jean-Luc Godard, 2001:A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick, THX 1138 (1971) by George Lucas, Star Wars (1977) also by George Lucas, Aliens (1979) by Ridley Scott, E.T. (1982) by Steven Spielberg and The Abyss (1989) by James Cameron, to the more modern ones, The Cube (1997) by Vincenzo Natali, The Matrix (1990) by Lana Wachowski, Planet of the Apes (2001) by Tim Burton and Children of Men (2006) and Gravity (2013) by Alfonso Cuarón.
Escapepolis, with a particular weakness for classic sci-fi films on the big screen, is re-introducing to its restless and cinephile audience two masterpieces of science fiction films that left an era in our country as well. These are the epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (known to all of us as a Space Odyssey) which is transferred with high-tech digital media, in the Cosmos 05 room Death in Space, but also the timeless "The Abyss", which inspired the Escapepolis themed room, Avissos
And because sometimes it is true what they say that art imitates life, Annabelle Stephenson's latest film, entitled "Escape Room" (2017), comes to prove this theory, and even more so, in a dramatic way. It is a thriller that takes us to one of Manhattan's escape rooms, from which three couples are invited to escape. However, the game quickly reveals its deadly side and the winners will be none other than those who manage to survive.