Exciting Escapes Croydon: Murder at the Movies

By | October 30, 2019

by Exciting Escapes Croydon (website)

Grants Entertainment Centre, 12 Middle Street, CR0 1RE

Croydon

60 minutes

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Team Jophie experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 28 Dec 2023 Team size: 5 Time taken: 43 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
original
Lauren Haylock-Shanes rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 24 Oct 2020 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivefamily friendly
Wesley Mead expert rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Played: 13 Sep 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 51m Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivefamily friendly
JoeRaymond experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 8 Oct 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 38:40 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalbroken techvery easy

Good room overall. Fun puzzles to complete and quite original - got us to engage all our senses!

Pretty easy (especially for four of us) to complete with no clues. Worth playing if you're in the area, though.

Team Tonks experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 28 Dec 2022 Team size: 2 Time taken: 48:24 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifuloriginalepic

We hadn't done a room themed around a real cinema before. Some very cool props that made it seem immersive. The puzzles were clever and there was good signposting throughout the room, making it clear how to progress. We will be back to do their remaining rooms. 

Mark Jackson experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingfamily friendly

Nice movie themed room. Played just before it closed down

Emma Macedo experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 30th May 2019 Team size: 2 Time taken: 57:59 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersivestory-drivenquite difficult
MightyMidds experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
Kelly Archer expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 31 Oct 2020 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

Overall a great game, even though we struggled to finish in time.

Set design is always great from EE - love the way they design their spaces.

The final puzzle doesn't seem very covid safe, so we needed prompting to do what we needed to do and in the confusion messed it up a bit. Finished with a couple of minutes to spare.

Richard Sinden experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 16/08/2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 42m43s Outcome: Successful escape!
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Lianne experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 14/2/2019 Team size: 2 Time taken: 50 minutes Outcome: Successful escape!
illogical

Enjoyed aspects of the theme and details, but felt that some of the puzzles were not logical / intuitive. Difficult as a team of 2 to be able to complete some of the puzzles, probably better as a larger group.

Roory experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 30/04/2019 Team size: 5 Time taken: 38.59 Outcome: Successful escape!

Theme came through better than other EE games. Puzzles better too, in general more logical, less frustrating (apart from 'X' logo that doesn't look like what it represents!!). Enjoyable experience.

Reviews by escape room review sites

Christmas travelling provided a handy excuse for a return visit to Exciting Escapes' Basingstoke branch, and the two rooms there that I hadn't previously played. The first was their 1960s game, which follows the company's convention of basing each room in a different decade. The theming extended to the background music, and after playing I had 60s hits going round my head for the rest of the day.

The other linking theme of Exciting Escapes' rooms is spies and espionage. In this one you're searc...

Another good offering from Exciting Escapes. The beautiful set, combined with some tougher, unusual puzzles and some good, logical challenges makes this a game that I'd recommend if you're in the area.

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