In short: Answers about Escape This’s 19 horror escape rooms, starting with the horror itself: the villains, the stories that link the rooms, gore, ghosts, jump scares and psychological fear. Then ages, escape rates, prices, access and the venues in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.
There is no scare meter, so it depends on your fear. Escape This has called Buried Alive its most extreme room and billed The Possession as its most terrifying, while Cannibal and Meat Grinder lean on gore and Asylum on psychological pressure. For the toughest puzzles rather than the biggest fright, Horrorscape ranks rooms by escape rate instead.
A cast of eight. The Northbridge Butcher keeps you in his meat locker in Cannibal, and a cook who hunts on the side runs Meat Grinder’s kitchen. The Undertaker nails you into Buried Alive’s coffins, and a cheerful voice on the intercom runs Asylum’s therapy. Cathy, a child ghost, haunts The Haunting and The Possession; Count Dracula waits on his Bride in Dracula and Van Helsing; and Victor Frankenstein wants your help with his creature in Frankenstein Resurrection.
Several are told in pairs. The Haunting is the prequel to The Possession, which sends you back into Cathy’s house a decade later. Asylum begins with survivors of Buried Alive waking up in a padded cell. Dracula and Van Helsing share one gothic story from the Count’s side and the hunter’s, and Meat Grinder is Escape This’s Melbourne take on the cannibal story it first told in Cannibal, with a different villain. Each room still plays on its own.
Usually someone coming back. The Butcher returns from shopping for his dinner party in Cannibal, the cook returns to prepare the next service in Meat Grinder, and the voice on the intercom returns in Asylum. In Dracula you have until the blood moon rises, in Frankenstein Resurrection until the lightning moves on, and in Zombie Apocalypse you are finishing a cure before the test subject behind the glass gets through the door. Every one gives you an hour.
Asylum is the one. Its tagline is “It’s all in your head”: you wake restrained in a padded cell that smells of bleach while a voice on the intercom promises therapy until you’re cured, and much of the fear comes from darkness, sound and what you imagine is in the cell with you. Escape This runs it in Northbridge, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD.
Buried Alive. It begins in total darkness with you and your partner each nailed into a separate coffin by the Undertaker: two boxes, sixty minutes and one game that needs both of you to win. It is exactly two players and 18+, at Escape This Northbridge and Sydney CBD.
Yes, with sound and smell too. Meat Grinder opens on concrete under swinging hooks, with blood and bleach in the air and steel sounding somewhere deeper in the building. Asylum’s cell smells of bleach and talks to you over the intercom, and in The Haunting a nursery rhyme plays and a child laughs somewhere in the house. Add controlled lighting, darkness and theatrical smoke in some rooms.
Two Northbridge rooms borrow real streets. Cannibal’s story starts with remains on a William Street building site and missing tourists, pointing to a copycat killer called the Northbridge Butcher, and The Haunting is set in Atkins House, a decaying heritage home on Lake Street that locals avoid. The house and the killer are fiction; the streets are a short walk from the venue.
Horrorscape sorts the Escape This horror rooms into six shelves: supernatural (ghosts and the undead), haunted house (Cathy’s two visits), gory, serial killer, thriller (coffins, cells and labs) and classic monsters (Dracula, Van Helsing and Frankenstein). Several rooms sit on two shelves at once.
On Horrorscape, haunted house means a single building with a ghost in it: The Haunting and The Possession at Escape This. Supernatural is the wider shelf for anything beyond the living, so it adds the vampire rooms, Dracula and Van Helsing, to the two haunted houses.
Cannibal and Meat Grinder. They are Escape This’s two gory rooms, both strictly 18+: Cannibal in Northbridge and Sydney CBD, Meat Grinder only in Melbourne CBD. Expect butchery props, hooks and a kitchen you won’t want to eat from. Northbridge’s Cannibal is also Perth’s hardest horror room by escape rate.
Yes, two. In Cannibal at Escape This Northbridge and Sydney CBD you wake in the locker of a butcher who throws dinner parties; in Meat Grinder at Escape This Melbourne CBD the killer is the waiter who served you. Both give you an hour before he returns, and both are adults-only.
Buried Alive and Asylum, mostly. Escape This builds Buried Alive around being restrained in a coffin and Asylum around a padded cell and an unseen tormentor. Zombie Apocalypse adds one infected test subject but plays as a race against the clock, and The Dunny is a spooky thriller with no supernatural element at all.
Yes. Escape This runs Dracula at Northbridge, Van Helsing at Melbourne CBD and Frankenstein Resurrection at Northbridge and Sydney CBD, with Frankenstein reaching Melbourne in March 2027. Horrorscape files all three under classic monsters.
No. Escape This built them as separate rooms in separate cities, Dracula in Northbridge and Van Helsing on Collins Street in Melbourne, sharing one gothic story. Either works on its own; playing both simply gives you the Count’s side and then the hunter’s.
Possibly. Escape This warns that its horror rooms may include jump scares along with darkness, sudden light and sound. If someone in your group has a heart condition or a pacemaker, the venue can tell you which room suits; Escape This specifically flags Asylum in Melbourne on that point.
Look for a lower difficulty rating and a higher escape rate. Escape This rates The Haunting, Dracula, Zombie Apocalypse and Frankenstein Resurrection 7 out of 10, below the 8s. By the numbers, the most-escaped ranked horror rooms are The Haunting in Northbridge (51%), Frankenstein Resurrection in Sydney CBD (80%), Possession in Melbourne CBD (91%).
Pick by city first: Escape This runs Cannibal in Northbridge and Sydney CBD and Meat Grinder only in Melbourne CBD, so you can’t play both on one trip. Both are 18+ and rated 8 out of 10. Cannibal has years of numbers behind it (33% escape in Northbridge); Meat Grinder is new, with a different villain and story.
Buried Alive first of all, since Escape This starts you inside a coffin. Asylum and The Haunting also involve crawling and tight spaces, as does the Melbourne version of The Possession. The Possession in Perth and Sydney, Meat Grinder, Dracula and Van Helsing have no confined sections, according to Escape This.
Most of them. In Escape This’s booking system, every horror room takes a pair except The Haunting (from 4), Dracula (from 4) and Frankenstein Resurrection (from 3). Buried Alive is two players exactly. Watch for Saturday four-player minimums on rooms like The Possession and Meat Grinder.
The Haunting at Escape This Northbridge, which takes up to 12 players. Most horror rooms stop at 6 or 8, and Buried Alive at 2. Bigger groups can split across rooms that start together; Team Escapes handles that for work groups.
Horrorscape is Escape This’s guide to its own horror escape rooms: all 19 of them across 3 venues in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, sorted by sub-genre and city, with escape rates, prices and age rules that refresh from Escape This’s booking system. Each room links to its official site where it has one.
Escape This runs 19 horror rooms as of 25 October 2026, counting every room at every venue. They are built on 10 different horror themes, several of which play in more than one city. The count comes straight from the Horror tag in Escape This’s room catalog. Horrorscape also lists The Dunny, but as a spooky thriller, not a horror room.
Because Escape This files The Dunny under Adventure, not Horror. It has a deranged villain, a deadline at sundown and a creepy outback set, so horror fans ask about it, but it plays for laughs as much as screams. Horrorscape keeps it on the thriller shelf and never counts it among the horror rooms.
Every room here is an Escape This production. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia, so the coffins, crypts and meat lockers are designed and built in-house before they are installed at a venue.
Escape This was named Escape Room Operator of the Year in the APAC Insider Australia Business Awards in both 2025 and 2026. The award covers the operator as a whole, horror rooms and adventures alike, rather than any single room in this guide.
4.96 out of 5 on average across the reviews Escape This’s system links to its horror rooms, 2,420 five-star reviews among them, as of 25 October 2026. Those figures include every review, quoted or not; 596 have been approved for quoting on sites like this one.
Cannibal, with 503 five-star reviews across its venues and an average of 4.98, per Escape This’s records on 25 October 2026. Newer rooms such as Meat Grinder and Van Helsing have only a handful so far.
Escape This shows first names only, or no name at all, wherever it quotes players. Most reviews reach its system without a usable name, so many cards simply say “A player”. The text, rating and date are unchanged.
18+: Meat Grinder, Cannibal, Buried Alive and Asylum. 15+: The Possession, The Haunting, Dracula and Zombie Apocalypse. 13+: Van Helsing and Frankenstein Resurrection. These are strict limits in Escape This’s booking system. The Dunny, a spooky thriller, is 13+ at Perth CBD and 9+ at Manly.
Yes: Frankenstein Resurrection at Northbridge and Sydney CBD, and Van Helsing at Melbourne CBD, both 13+ in Escape This’s booking system. Every other horror room starts at 15 or 18. The Dunny is open to 13-year-olds too, though it is a spooky thriller rather than horror.
They can. Escape This reserves the right to ask for ID from anyone who looks under the limit, and its 15+ and 18+ horror rooms don’t admit younger children as spectators either. Bring photo ID if you could pass for younger.
Not entirely. Escape This has described Northbridge as a dedicated horror venue for over-18s, but its booking system sets a limit per room: 18+ for Cannibal, Buried Alive and Asylum, 15+ for The Haunting, Dracula, The Possession and Zombie Apocalypse, and 13+ for Frankenstein Resurrection. Check the room you are booking.
Cannibal at Escape This Northbridge. As of 25 October 2026, 33% of 2,186 teams have escaped it, ahead of The Possession at 35%. Horrorscape only ranks horror rooms with 100 or more recorded games, so brand-new rooms wait their turn.
Cannibal at Escape This Sydney CBD. As of 25 October 2026, 49% of 2,559 teams have escaped it, ahead of Buried Alive at 60%. Horrorscape only ranks horror rooms with 100 or more recorded games, so brand-new rooms wait their turn.
Zombie Apocalypse at Escape This Melbourne CBD. As of 25 October 2026, 65% of 110 teams have escaped it, ahead of Possession at 91%. Horrorscape only ranks horror rooms with 100 or more recorded games, so brand-new rooms wait their turn.
The Haunting at Escape This Northbridge has the best success rate of the ranked Perth horror rooms: 51% of 1,875 teams, as of 25 October 2026. A high escape rate is a hint, not a promise; it also reflects who tends to book the room.
Frankenstein Resurrection at Escape This Sydney CBD has the best success rate of the ranked Sydney horror rooms: 80% of 875 teams, as of 25 October 2026. A high escape rate is a hint, not a promise; it also reflects who tends to book the room.
Possession at Escape This Melbourne CBD has the best success rate of the ranked Melbourne horror rooms: 91% of 202 teams, as of 25 October 2026. A high escape rate is a hint, not a promise; it also reflects who tends to book the room.
Among Escape This’s horror rooms, Cannibal at Northbridge has the lowest escape rate: 33% of 2,186 teams as of 25 October 2026. Next is The Possession at Northbridge (35%). Only rooms with 100+ games are compared.
Across every Escape This horror room, 50% of 25,701 recorded games ended in an escape, as of 25 October 2026. This year the figure is 58% from 11,421 games. Horrorscape works it out as games won divided by games played.
13:37, by a team in Possession at Escape This Melbourne CBD, set on 24 October 2026. Each room’s own record is in the comparison table; leaderboards show first names only.
By the numbers, usually yes. Of the 6 Escape This horror rooms playing in both cities, 6 have a lower escape rate in Northbridge, for example The Possession (35% against 69%) and Cannibal (33% against 49%). The sets are separate builds of the same story.
Northbridge 47% (2,753 games), Sydney CBD 72% (1,730 games), Melbourne CBD 77% (47 games), as of 25 October 2026. Escape This opened Asylum in Melbourne most recently, so its figure will move the most.
It uses escape rate: the share of recorded games in which the team got out within the time limit, from Escape This’s game records. Lowest is hardest. A room needs at least 100 recorded games before it is ranked, and rooms with no games show a dash instead of a percentage.
Asylum at Escape This Northbridge, with 2,753 recorded games as of 25 October 2026. Room by room across all venues, the leader is The Possession with 5,125.
Out of 10, Escape This rates Cannibal, Buried Alive, The Possession, Asylum and Meat Grinder at 8; Van Helsing at 7.5; and The Haunting, Dracula, Zombie Apocalypse and Frankenstein Resurrection at 7. Those are design ratings; the escape rates on Horrorscape show how teams actually fare.
Yes. The comparison table on the compare page can be quoted. Credit Horrorscape and link to horrorscape.com.au/compare/, and note the date, because the figures refresh from live game records.
It does now: 57% from 7 games at Escape This Melbourne CBD. It is still too new to rank until it reaches 100 games.
Frankenstein Resurrection at Northbridge, from $49 per player in Escape This’s booking system as of 25 October 2026. Most other horror rooms start at $49 in Northbridge and $55 in Sydney and Melbourne; Buried Alive starts at $59.
Escape This prices each venue separately. In Northbridge most horror rooms start at $49, while the same titles start at $55 on George Street and Collins Street. Every venue charges more on peak days: Friday to Sunday for The Possession in Perth and Sydney, plus public and school holidays.
Use the live booking grid on any Horrorscape city or room page; it shows real availability and confirms straight away through Escape This’s ticketing partner, Fever. You can also call the venue. Every booking is private to your group.
No. Escape This keeps every booking exclusive to the group that made it, so the only people screaming beside you in the dark are your own. That has been its policy all along.
Yes. Escape This sells gift vouchers through escapethis.com.au, and they work for its horror rooms as well as the adventures. Check the recipient’s age against the room first: several horror rooms are strictly 18+.
Yes. Escape This lets you book several rooms to start together and split your group between them, which is the usual answer for parties bigger than one room allows. Northbridge has the most horror rooms of any venue, so it has the most combinations.
They can leave. Escape This fits its horror rooms with panic buttons for exiting early and watches every game on CCTV, so staff know when someone is struggling. Nobody will be allowed to play while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Per Escape This, The Possession (Sydney CBD), Possession (Melbourne CBD), Meat Grinder (Melbourne CBD), Cannibal (Northbridge), Cannibal (Sydney CBD), Zombie Apocalypse (Sydney CBD) and Frankenstein Resurrection (Sydney CBD) each take one wheelchair per session. A few puzzles may be harder to reach from a seat. The other horror rooms involve steps, crawling or confined spaces; call the venue to check before booking.
Escape This says The Possession in Northbridge and Sydney CBD, Meat Grinder, Dracula, Van Helsing and the Sydney Frankenstein Resurrection have no crawling or tight spaces. Buried Alive, Asylum and The Haunting do, and the Melbourne Possession includes crawling. Ask the venue about any room not listed.
Some do. Escape This lists theatrical smoke in The Possession and Meat Grinder, and warns it may not suit people with asthma or other breathing conditions. If that matters for your group, call the venue before booking any horror room.
Yes. Escape This runs its horror rooms with controlled lighting, which can mean stretches of complete darkness and flashing light. It doesn’t recommend them for people with epilepsy or light sensitivity; the staff can suggest a better-lit room.
Meat Grinder is an 18+ horror escape room by Escape This at its Melbourne CBD venue on Collins Street. You wake in a cannibal’s slaughterhouse, realise the waiter from last night’s dinner chose you, and have 60 minutes to get out before you become tomorrow’s special. Teams are 2 to 8.
Not quite. Escape This markets Meat Grinder as its Melbourne cannibal experience and points to the Cannibal site for more, but its booking system treats Meat Grinder as a separate room with its own story, villain and leaderboard. Cannibal itself plays in Northbridge and Sydney CBD.
No. Meat Grinder is strictly 18+ in Escape This’s booking system, because of its gory horror theme, and staff may ask to see ID. For a younger Melbourne group, Van Helsing takes players from 13.
Yes. Escape This takes one wheelchair per Meat Grinder session, and there is no crawling or squeezing through tight gaps, so it also suits pregnant players and claustrophobic players. A few puzzles are harder to reach from a seat; teammates can pick those up.
Escape This charges $65 per person for off-peak Meat Grinder sessions and $65 at peak. There is a four-player minimum on Saturdays; on other days a pair can book.
39% of 79 recorded games at Escape This Melbourne CBD, as of 25 October 2026. That is short of the 100 games Horrorscape needs before ranking it against other rooms.
Yes, more than most. Escape This says Meat Grinder relies heavily on reading English, so if most of your group would find that hard, it suggests another room or a chat with the Collins Street team first. Clues and narration are audio, in English.
All of them are at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003: 8 horror rooms in one building. Escape This Perth CBD, under Hay Street Mall, has no horror rooms; Horrorscape lists it for two spooky thrillers, The Dunny now and The Institute from December 2026.
Cannibal, Asylum, Zombie Apocalypse and Frankenstein Resurrection. Escape This has scheduled all four for its new Brisbane CBD venue in the first half of 2027, alongside some of its adventure rooms.
Not yet. Escape This has given the first half of 2027 as the opening window for Escape This Brisbane CBD but hasn’t released a date, an address or prices. Horrorscape will list Brisbane times and prices once the rooms are in the booking system.
Frankenstein Resurrection, once Escape This opens in Brisbane. It is the only one of the four Brisbane horror rooms open to 13-year-olds elsewhere; Cannibal, Asylum and Zombie Apocalypse are built for older, braver teams.
In the Brisbane CBD. Escape This has named the venue Escape This Brisbane CBD but hasn’t published a street address. Its page on escapethis.com.au is the place to watch, and Horrorscape will add the address and a map when it’s confirmed.
Same stories, new builds. Each Escape This venue gets its own build of a room, so Brisbane’s Cannibal, Asylum, Zombie Apocalypse and Frankenstein Resurrection will follow the originals’ plots while their records and escape rates start fresh.
Sydney CBD. Until Escape This Brisbane CBD opens in the first half of 2027, the George Street venue in Sydney is the closest place to play Cannibal, Asylum, Zombie Apocalypse or Frankenstein Resurrection, and it also runs The Possession and Buried Alive.
The Institute is a new Escape This room set in a secretive institute on a remote island, where an experiment is under way and your team’s choices steer the ending. It opens at Perth CBD in December 2026, and Horrorscape files it as a spooky thriller, not a horror room.
Not yet. Escape This is running The Institute as waitlist-only until launch, through escapethis.com.au. Everyone on the waitlist hears first when bookings open and goes into a draw to be among the first teams to play The Institute for free.
Escape This lists The Institute at 4 to 8 players, ages 13 and up, 60 minutes and a difficulty of 7.5 out of 10. Prices are $49 for adults and $39 for under-16s Monday to Thursday, and $65 and $55 Friday to Sunday. It is wheelchair accessible, for one wheelchair per session.
8, as of 25 October 2026: Asylum, Buried Alive, Cannibal, Dracula, Frankenstein Resurrection, The Haunting, The Possession and Zombie Apocalypse. That is the largest horror line-up at any Escape This venue.
At Escape This Sydney CBD, 630 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000, a short walk from Town Hall station. It runs 6 horror rooms: Asylum, Buried Alive, Cannibal, Frankenstein Resurrection, The Possession and Zombie Apocalypse.
No. Escape This Manly on The Corso has no rooms tagged horror. The closest thing is The Dunny, which Horrorscape lists as a spooky thriller. For real horror in Sydney, head to Escape This Sydney CBD on George Street.
At Escape This Melbourne CBD, 259 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, a short walk from Flinders Street Station. Its horror rooms are Asylum, Meat Grinder, Possession, Van Helsing and Zombie Apocalypse.
Frankenstein Resurrection (from March 2027) and Buried Alive (from March 2027), according to Escape This’s booking system. Both already play in Northbridge and Sydney CBD, so their Melbourne builds will be new copies of proven rooms.
Van Helsing, which Escape This opened on Collins Street in October 2026. Melbourne’s horror rooms all arrived in 2026, starting with Possession in August 2026.
No. Horrorscape’s old page described Zombie Apocalypse as 30 minutes, but Escape This’s booking system now lists it at 60 minutes in Northbridge, Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD. It is still a small-team room, two to four players.
Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia. It has venues in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, has hosted more than 500,000 players and has earned 17,969 five-star reviews.
Every coffin lid, padded wall and meat hook in this guide was designed and made by the same team before it reached a venue. The company was named Escape Room Operator of the Year in 2025 and again in 2026.
