I didn't realize going in that this was a TV movie as I ran across it on Netflix but I knew that it would be trouble as soon as I saw the first commercial break. I have a number of issues with this movie the first being who names their daughter Karen? Let alone a redhead a daughter named Karen! The second Bing what was the point of this movie? Was it supernatural? was it horror? I felt like the director was overreaching and spreading the story too thin without a clear understanding of what movie they wanted to make...
I also had a real tough time trying to buy Karen as being a teenage daughter. She came across more like a 20 something-year-old young woman. And I guess there was supposed to be some kind of sexual tension between her and the Andrew character? The actor playing Karen's dad was clearly not old enough to have a daughter that age, or at least as old as the actress playing Karen appeared to be.
Btw, I crack up every time someone tells "Karen!" I expect someone to say "get your manager!"
I seem to recall hearing about this movie around the same time as the major motion picture Escape Room, starring Tyler Labine and Deborah Woll, both Tyler and this movie fell very Canadian... as there's no American movie that would have its actors screaming "Karen!" Every 6 seconds...
In the end, this was a horror movie without horror, a ghost flick without ghosts, it was just disappointing and lame. There wasn't even an actual ending, it's as if they just gave up and decided to throw in some really lame twist ending. This movie is, at best, Something to have on for background noise if you enjoy the sound of people screaming "Karen!"
Review of No Escape Room
