Plot
Three couples and a lonely friend visit an isolated escape room in the middle of the desert run by a mysterious Ukrainian performance artist.
Cast
Outside of Annie Hamilton I knew nobody involved, and even then she's a background player and a face you'll remember but not be able to put a name to.
Verdict
Safe Space was the missus's pick, after last weeks horrendous In The Lost Lands (2025) she had a lot to make up for and after reading the premise she thought this was that horror sub-genre we love so much but is hard to put a name to. Well it's not, it's not even horror, it's barely even a movie at all.
The film opens with character development and got our attention, the characters were a cluster of stereotypes, a combination of uninspired, boring and unlikeable and then when things start to happen (And I use that very very loosely) it falls apart. It kept my attention because I was interested to see how they were going to put it all together but by the half way point I realized they weren't going to be able to and this would just be a disjointed arthouse mess with ambiguous meanings.
I cannot stress how bad Safe Space is, when the credits rolled the pair of us looked at one another in disbelief. I joked that she now can't be trusted to pick movies and we spent the next few minutes picking the film apart, trying to make sense of it, but there was no sense to make.
I cannot fathom who Safe Space is aimed at, what genre it falls under, or how anyone would find this even remotely entertaining.
Rants
I would rather watch in The Lost Lands again than endure 5 more minutes of this. I think I'd rather watch Birdemic and it's sequel, directors cut editions! You know what, I'd rather watch every Sharknado back to back without breaks, having only shaved toe nail clippings and sloth pee as my snacks. What were these people thinking?
The Good
Gets your attention initially
The Bad
Your attention is grabbed, for the wrong reasons
Bland characters
Makes no sense
Pretentious nonsense.
