For the third short film I reviewed this week, I chose VR Escape Room, which unknowingly was the second Alex Magaña written and directed horror I have seen this weekend (Grimace Shake being the other).
A young woman (Brittnee Hollenbach) is playing a VR escape room horror game on her VR headset. Tasked with finding a key to escape from a locked toilet, she takes off the headset in fright after encountering a crying woman (Malia Arrayah) who attacks her. She is then started to find that instead of being in her home, she is in the same toilet from the game, and soon hears the sobs of a crying woman...
Very predictable, though it was cool that the surprise of being in the same place as the video game occured early on. After that there was nothing much of note, with it ending exactly as I figured it would be. Maybe some sort of effect could have been used on the VR segment as it looks identical to real life rather than a video game, making parts of this seem like they are repeating themselves.
VR Escape Room is the type of short horror created for easy thrills, without it intending to have a deeper meaning to what happens. Certainly had some good moments, but isn't one that will leave much of an impression. VR Escape Room can currently be viewed for free on YouTube.
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