Labyrinth

Labyrinth follows in the tradition of Saw and the much shorter-lived Escape Room franchises in which various sorts have to find their way out of a hideous situation without dying.

Here director Ryuhei Kitamura, and writers Brandon Burrows and Chad Law, have gone down a more supernatural route with Simon (Tommy Flanagan) dressed in regulation claret smoking jacket and sporting a grey goatee issues a summons for six people who have done bad things and not been punished.

They are duly drugged and wake up in a room where Simon addresses them and informs them of the trials ahead and that its unlikely all will survive.

So the viewer is subjected to various acts to violence with axes, guns, knives and whatever becomes handy from a trolley of tools that the hooded and masked minions roll in. All nasty none that inventive.

At first there is some solidarity between them but as it revealed that these people have done reprehensible things and not been punished, they begin to become more selfish and their nefarious survival instincts kick in.

For all the blood and guts and admittedly good special effects, Labyrinth is a tedious box ticking exercise. The situations and characters that are all too familiar and cliched. The acting and dialogue are at times stilted and laughable.

There is a supernatural element to this which could have distinguished it from the others. That is cast at the start of the film and pretty much confirmed at the end however what occurs in-between is so tedious that it’s unlikely anyone will care.

Labyrinth had its UK Premiere at Tubi FrightFest London 2026.