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ESCAPE ROOM (2019) 8:45 p.m. on Starz. The phenomenon of escape room games, where players pay to be locked in a room of puzzles, is mixed with the classic horror movie setup of strangers put in sinister circumstances in this thriller. The setup involves a group of players assembled for an escape-room challenge. The fact that the consequence for failure is death is a surprising revelation for the characters; given that this is a horror movie called “Escape Room,” that information is likely to be less surprising for potential viewers. “There are intimations of ‘Tales From the Crypt,’ ‘Final Destination,’ ‘The Game,’ and other older, better films here,” Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his review for The New York Times. “This movie never catches a fire like any of those did, and even its twist coda feels dreary and pro forma. But the movie is keeping me even further away from real-life escape rooms than I already had been.”