ESCAPE THE FIELD
(PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER/HORROR)
Stripped of their possessions, six strangers wake up in a remote, endless cornfield with six items -- a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, they soon realize they're in a mysterious cat-and-mouse game with an unseen evil, and survival depends upon solving a diabolical and deadly puzzle.
Release date: May 6, 2022 (USA)Director: Emerson Moore
Written by: Emerson Moore, Sean Wathen, Joshua Dobkin
Distributed by : Lionsgate
Starring: Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy, Luke Cage), Jordan Claire Robbins (The Umbrella Academy), and Shane West (A Walk To Remember, ER)
WHY SHOULD WE CHAMPION THIS MOVIE: Of course you all probably saw the LionsGate hands on this and thought why would Joe even look at a movie like this? I am very much about championing the little guy Indie and I almost did in fact back away from this when it was presented to me but then I read about the story of this film. 15 years in the making, made on a low Indie budget, and it had to happen right in the middle of pandemic or it would have never happened. For that everyone involved gets credit from me and that is why you all are reading this review. The idea that Lionsgate put it out there in a wider scope for you, I am not going to ever fault a big studio for doing what we beg them to do here at Go Indie Now. I applaud them wholeheartedly.
Look in complete utter honesty this film is as good as it is frustrating, and in some ways the frustrating is even good because that's its intention. There is something for me that I can't quite put my finger on as to why I didn't completely buy in but that being said there is a lot of good and even some great here that makes it worth a watch at least.
It wont be for everybody but there is a good crowd of you that it will appeal to and that's if you are a fan of movies like the Cube Franchise, the 2015 Indie The Circle, and I would argue this is a way better pseudo version of the first Saw, giving us a cool puzzle to put together without the excessive and nonsensical side storyline that if you explained it to me a hundred times you would get the response, "Huh, why?". This movie doesn't do that, you get a lot of what you came to invest in it for and I think if you are looking for a mind fuck this movie is well worth 88 minutes of your time for that.
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Great review and I'm a fan of Theo's so that gets my interest right away. I'll certainly be taking a closer look at this. And a big hurrah for the little guys catching the eye of the big guys.
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