The Chamber of Secrets is one of the favorite genres of suspense films.
It can make a very good drama at a limited cost.
In history, many classic IPs have also been born.
For example, the famous "Chainsaw Horror" series.
For example, the earlier "Panic Party" series.
In the past few years, a good reputation should be the "Escape room" released two years ago.
It is inspired by the popular escape room in reality.
Designed one life and death game after another.
Sure enough, it recently came out with a sequel, and it is still high-energy and still cool.
Let's talk about it today -
Escape from the Chamber of Secrets 2
Escape Room 2
The Escape From Vault series is created by the gold-medal producers of the Fast and Furious series.
Two years ago, the first film grossed $940 million worldwide at a low cost of $9 million.
It also topped the box office of China's imported thrillers.
It was a big dark horse that was uncompromising.
While continuing the previous style, this sequel also injects new strength.
New lead actor Isabella Fuhrman was also added.
She was the shivering little girl in "Orphan's Grudge".
Now that she's grown up and prettier, I don't know if it's going to be scarier.
The plot of the film is not complicated.
It's the Chamber of Secrets, the Escape.
The entire film is almost always from one chamber of secrets to another.
Each chamber must find a way out of escape within a limited time, otherwise it will only usher in death.
By the time of the sequel, all six contestants have had the experience of participating in an escape room and winning.
They are gathered again to fight against the new levels.
In short, it's a championship game.
Or rather, like a slug.
Fight and screen one level at a time to see who can become the king of deception.
Since they are all previous winners, the players this time also have their own tricks.
Among them, the most characteristic are these ones.
The first, physics overlord.
She is the wise person in the team.
The entire mystery of the Chamber of Secrets is almost always driven by her.
Just by virtue of the special symbols in the Chamber of Secrets, you can find the location of the people behind the scenes.
And unlike other players who passively participate in the competition, she came on her own initiative.
Because in the first competition, she watched the partners she participated in with her die one after another.
Even after the end, I still feel uneasy:
"The people who received the invitations are dead, but the people who sent them are still alive."
So she has been investigating the identity of the organizers behind the scenes.
Second place, koi man.
He was a priest, and every time he won, it was all by luck.
For example, in the secret room of a laser bank.
Everyone should find safe tiles according to the clues, so as to pass.
Once you walk to the wrong tile it triggers the laser.
One player was injured as a result.
But the koi man is different.
He took three random steps and was stunned that there was no trigger mechanism.
And even if it was triggered, he just accidentally bumped his head and was not injured by the laser at all.
This is simply the chosen one.
Third, painless woman.
When she was born, a fragment of her gene was lost, so there was no pain.
Even if you put your hand on the hot stove, you will not feel pain.
So, she is much calmer than the average person.
For example, after someone was electrocuted, the other players were dumbfounded.
Only she rushed over with a piece of insulated rubber skin.
No pain, no fear.
The contestants, each with their own characteristics, bring enough novelty to this sequel.
As the main body of the series, the Chamber of Secrets, it also played a new trick.
This time, each chamber of secrets is also brilliantly designed, even more brutal and abusive.
Some of the chambers are seamlessly connected to reality, unexpectedly.
For example, the train chamber at the beginning.
This is the first meeting of the six contestants.
Last second, everyone was still at the bustling station.
But when the train started, it suddenly became unusually quiet.
There were only 6 of them in the carriage.
At first, they didn't realize it was an escape room.
After that, it didn't feel right.
The train kept making a loud friction sound.
When they entered the control room, they found that it was empty.
The conductor played a set of "big people" .
Immediately after, the carriage was also decoupled from the other carriages.
Quickly pressed the emergency brake, it turned out to be bad.
It all happened almost at the same time, and they had no time to think about it.
I can only watch as the carriage in which I am located walks down a completely unfamiliar road.
They were expecting rescuers.
It wasn't until I saw the escape room sign printed on the carriage that I found that I was already in the game.
The most terrifying thing is that the Chamber of Secrets has been further upgraded, and it has played a big game as soon as it comes up.
The entire carriage was electrified.
However, the player must follow the game's prompts to pull the charged metal lever to find the clue and open the exit.
Each lever makes the electric shock inside the train stronger.
It's all a gamble of life:
"Play or die."
In some secret rooms, the visual light is frightening.
For example, the secret room setting of the city acid rain.
Every 45 seconds, a rain of acid rains would fall in the chamber, corroding everything.
All the players were burned by acid rain.
And two players died directly in the acid rain without any protection.
There is also the secret room's play with human nature, which is outrageous.
For example, in a chamber of secrets, physicist Zoe found two exits.
One is the regular chamber exit, and the other is the exit above the scene.
Before that, Zoe had never found a chamber with two exits.
So, she thinks that the exit above the scene is a bug in the design of the chamber.
As long as you enter this exit, you can completely escape the chamber and get rid of the endless game of life and death.
At this time, except for Zoe, there were only two players left.
One contestant was persuaded to escape from this exit with her.
Another player chose the opposite channel.
After going out, Zoe saw the familiar cityscape, and there were human voices, footsteps, sirens...
It worked?
It's too late to rejoice.
Zoe saw the contestant who had escaped from the other exit appear in front of him.
This means that she is still in the game.
And what you just saw is just a projection.
Such a secret room is simply a trick.
It gives people hope and despair.
Outside the Chamber of Secrets, there are complaints about real problems.
In a series of secret rooms, there is always a question that haunts our minds.
Why would ordinary people enter the "killing game" of escape rooms for no reason?
It starts with Minos, a company that designs escape rooms.
Minos gathers carefully selected players together to participate in the game and monitors the escape of the contestants throughout the process.
And all this is just to give the rich an optimistic look.
It also sets a bet for the rich about which player will make it to the end.
This game of life and death is actually a pastime for the rich.
In some escape rooms, not even one person can get out.
These escape rooms will also use a variety of strange settings to satisfy the imagination of the rich.
For example, bring together survivors of a disaster to see if they are really lucky.
This has the smell of "Death is coming".
And put pastors together to see if God can really help them through it.
Minos was able to be so unscrupulous because it had a huge web of power behind it, completely out of the control of the law.
And they'll do the aftermath perfectly.
In escape rooms, all the dead players are disguised as various accidents and then smoothed out.
Even if a player reports it, Minos is not afraid at all.
For example, when Zoe successfully escaped from the Chamber of Secrets for the first time, she reported Minos to the police.
When she brought the police to the scene of the incident, she found that the escape room site that was still there yesterday had become an abandoned building today.
All traces are gone.
Zoe was also thought by the police to be mentally abnormal, and finally had to die without a head and a tail.
It must be mentioned that this "Escape Room 2" actually launched two different versions in theaters and streaming media.
Both versions of the Chamber of Secrets and characters are basically the same, and the overall trend is similar.
But the beginning and ending are slightly different, and there are different branches.
For example, those who have watched the first part should know that there is an Easter egg at the end - the aircraft chamber.
This Chamber of Secrets was specifically designed for Zoe.
Because she once experienced an air crash and lost her mother.
This leads to a huge psychological shadow over her flying.
In the streaming version, Zoe ran straight away without taking a plane because she didn't overcome her inner fears.
In the theatrical version, Zoe let down her guard and got on the plane.
It turned out that something was wrong, and then the radio rang, and it turned out that Minos had bought the flight.
However, the specific escape of the aircraft chamber is not said in both versions.
In addition, there are some very different plots.
This may be that in order to attract the audience, the streaming media deliberately made a different version from the theater, so that everyone is more interested in the second brush.
Of course, this effect is still very effective, attracting people to discuss it lively on the Internet.
Overall, although the "Escape Room" series cannot become a god work like "Panic Party" and "Chainsaw Horror".
But it's still a cool movie that's exciting enough.
It's tightly paced, and the chambers of secrets are overwhelming.
The details are also very full, and one clue after another is worth savoring.
At present, the streaming version is already available for viewing.
But until the domestic introduction of the cinema version, there may be some time.
I don't know when the time comes, will the aquarists who have seen it still brush it twice?
Anyway, Uncle Fish can't wait!