If you’ve seen one escape room movie you’ve seen them all. Right? Right, Well here at Mother of Movies, I am less than a closet addict of these types of films. I was happy with the title change from No Escape to Follow Me. Someone somewhere must have realized just how many horror movies there are with the same moniker. Led by a social media influencer, the narrative has the same setup as all the others. Follow Me comes as Cole introduces his story as a vlogger and begins a spate of fan-suggested trips to escape rooms in an attempt to be ‘scared.’
Of course, always wanting to grow and impress his burgeoning social media audience, when one of his friends organizes a trip to Moscow to visit an elite, invitation-only escape room he doesn’t hesitate. Joined by his girlfriend and three others, they head off to meet some rich guy with connections.
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Follow Me Is Another Escape Room Movie
I’m not going to deny the generic nature of the first three-quarters of the Follow Me horror movie. Everything is familiar right down to the suspicious driver who slips Cole and his girlfriend some money. The rolled-up cash contains a weird red scrap of paper. It doesn’t make sense until the final quarter. The escape room puzzles commence in an underground jail with sectioned partitions of different types. For an elite form of the game, it wasn’t particularly fancy or inventive.
In a quick change, things descend rather suddenly into Hostel territory. I was pleased to see one of my favorite bad guys take charge of the carnage with a character called Andrei. Played by Pasha D. Lychnikoff, this guy has been in everything. I love seeing his face appear but most people will know him as Yvon from Shameless. The rest of the cast was an enjoyable mix of solid performances. In addition, none of the cast annoyed me, so bonus points for that.
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Will Wernick has directed an Escape Room movie before, appropriately titled “No Escape Room.” Mother of Movies did a double review of two films with the same name released in the same year. Wernick has come leaps and bounds since his sophomore feature. There is much more meat to the story here in Follow Me. This film is such a mystery box of mash-ups I can’t help but be impressed.
Follow Me aka No Escape movie is rated
3.5 is not a game-changer but solid viewing out of 5
Looking for more horror movies that thrive on influencer status? Mind Body Spirit | Followers | Deadstream and The Deep House have lots of fans watching.
Follow Me was released in Australian theaters in mid-July 2020. It offers a unique blend of suspense and mystery that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats. The film tells the story of a group of individuals who embark on a dangerous journey filled with deadly puzzles and hidden dangers. With its digital and on-demand release on September 18th, 2020, Follow Me was been met with mixed reviews from both moviegoers and critics.
Some have compared escape room movies and Follow Me to the popular “Saw franchise”, highlighting the film’s exploration of the deadly consequences of puzzles. However, note that Follow Me takes a different approach. The body count is not primarily attributed to the games themselves.
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Not only does this film about escape rooms have attributes similar to others of its kind, but Follow Me gets an ending in the same vein as The Game (1977.) If you’ve never seen The Game with Michael Douglass, drop everything and watch it immediately.
