No Escape Movie Storyline. A social media star travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, he and his friends enter a cold world of mystery, excess and danger. As the line between real life and social media is blurred, the group must fight to escape, and survive.
No Escape (Follow Me in some countries) is a 2020 American horror thriller film directed by Will Wernick, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Holland Roden, Keegan Allen, Pasha D. Lychnkoff, Ronen Rubinstein, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Dominic Pace, Kimberly Quinn, Emilia Ares, Sierra Swartz, Emily Hinkler and Elizabeth Hinkler. It tells the story of a social media celebrity whose surprise birthday adventure gets out of control.
The film was released on July 17, 2020 in Australia and limited Asian countries due to theatrical closings in the other markets. It was released in theaters in the United States and on demand and digital on September 18, 2020.
About the Story
Cole Turner (Keegan Allen) is an image-obsessed internet celebrity with millions of followers on his channel called Escape From Reality. He often does live video and posts photos and videos on his Youtube channel.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of his channel, Cole and his friends Dash (George Janko), Samantha (Siya), and Thomas (Denzel Whitaker), as well as Cole’s girlfriend Erin (Holland Roden), head to Moscow in order to partake in an escape room that Dash organised with the help of Alexei Koslov (Ronen Rubinstein), a wealthy Russian fan of Cole’s.
After landing in Moscow, the group meets Alexei and they spend the night drinking at a dodgy club. However, after getting harassed and threatened by a pair of Russian mobsters, they return to Alexei’s mansion and spend the night.
On the day of the escape room, Alexei takes Cole’s phone and connects it to the surveillance system, so it can be streamed to his fans live, where millions of people watch. Alexei warns the group the escape room is extreme and unpredictable. Cole, Dash, Samantha, Thomas, and Erin are all blindfolded and led to their starting positions in the escape room. Cole is placed into a dark room with a dead Russian soldier and a table of surgical equipment. Cole cuts open the dead body and retrieves a key from the man’s stomach.
Cole enters a room and finds the other four connected to several realistic and deadly traps. He completes a cog puzzle to free Thomas and Dash seconds before they are killed, and the three complete a maze puzzle to free Samantha from an electric chair trap. The four find Erin stuck in a glass box slowly filling with water. Erin nearly drowns as Cole uses one of the cogs to smash open the lock and free her. After they realize the game is genuinely dangerous, they escape the room but are captured by Andrei, one of the mobsters from the club. He knocks Cole unconscious and kidnaps the others.
Cole wakes tied up in a small cell. On a screen, he witnesses Samantha get killed by Andrei. Whilst escaping through an air duct, he also watches Dash get his limbs get sawn off to ‘entertain’ Andrei’s own online fanbase. Cole finds Thomas in a room and they attempt to escape together, but Thomas is pushed down an old elevator shaft by one of the guards. Frantic, Cole tries to escape on his own and finds Erin tied to a chair in another room.
No Escape (2020)
Directed by: Will Wernick
Starring: Holland Roden, Keegan Allen, Pasha D. Lychnkoff, Ronen Rubinstein, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Dominic Pace, Kimberly Quinn, Emilia Ares, Sierra Swartz, Emily Hinkler, Elizabeth Hinkler
Screenplay by: Will Wernick
Production Design by: Adam Henderson
Cinematography by: Jason Goodell
Film Editing by: Cris Mertens
Costume Design by: Jessica Mauricio
Music by: Crystal Grooms Mangano
MPAA Rating: R for bloody violence, grisly images, pervasive language, some graphic nudity and brief drug use.
Distributed by: Vertical Entertainment
Release Date: July 17, 2020 (Australia), September 18, 2020 (United States)
Views: 209
