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A social media star and his friends must fight for their lives when they enter an escape room in Moscow.
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No Escape / Follow Me Plot Summary and Synopsis
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.
Andrei appears and threatens to kill Erin. Cole tries to shoot him but misses, and Andrei shoots Erin in the head. Two guards drag Cole to another locked room. He finds a small duct and crawls through it into a large dark room. Cole sees Alexei standing before him and tackles him to the ground, beating him to death out of anger for killing his friends.
No Escape / Follow Me Ending
It is revealed the entire experience was an elaborate prank organized by his friends to celebrate his tenth anniversary, with every aspect of the escape room being carefully planned to shock Cole. The lights turn on to reveal Erin and his friends still alive, looking in shock as Cole sits next to Alexei’s corpse.
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