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Cannibal

The original cannibal room: a butcher’s locker, a dinner party, and you as the main course.

In short: Cannibal is an 18+ gory, serial-killer escape room by Escape This at Northbridge (since May 2020) and Sydney CBD. Its own site is cannibalescape.com.au; Melbourne’s cannibal room is Meat Grinder.

Cannibal is the room that put gore on the Escape This menu, and the Northbridge copy is the oldest horror room still running in the group. It is also tough: 33% of Northbridge teams get out, against 49% in Sydney.

Official site

Cannibal has its own site with the full story, every rule and its leaderboard. Horrorscape keeps this page short on purpose: the live numbers, how it compares, and where to book.

cannibalescape.com.au ↗

Coming to Escape This Brisbane CBD in the first half of 2027.

Escape This Northbridge: 2–6 players · 18+ · from $59 · 60 min
Escape rate 33% over 2,186 games · record 29:50 · the hardest of 8 in Perth
Playing since May 2020
Escape This Sydney CBD: 2–8 players · 18+ · from $65 · 60 min
Escape rate 49% over 2,559 games · record 32:00 · the hardest of 6 in Sydney
Playing since August 2024
Difficulty: 8/10 (Escape This rating)
Rating: 4.98★ from 503 five-star reviews

ER-OS, 25 October 2026. Hardest = lowest escape rate among Perth horror rooms with 100+ games.

Where Cannibal plays

Type	Venue	Players	Age	From	Escape rate	Games	Record
Horror	Northbridge	2–6	18+	$59	33%	2,186	29:50
Horror	Sydney CBD	2–8	18+	$65	49%	2,559	32:00

Book at Northbridge → Book at Sydney CBD →

Reviews

What players said about Cannibal

4.98

★★★★★

503 five-star reviews

★★★★★

The Cannibal escape room was a lot of fun. Elise and the crew were great.

★★★★★

My friend and I played the ‘Cannibal’ room and it was indeed as frightening as described. Not an easy escape room though!
Mischa was our guide. Mischa was really switched on and gave us hints when it was clear we were wasting our time. Thanks Mischa!

★★★★★

We had a great time here, tried the Cannibal room. The room was immersive, the puzzles were fun, and Matt was really nice! :)

Same sub-genre

On the same shelf

Meat Grinder

Questions, answered

Cannibal: questions

Are any of the horror stories set in real places?

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.

Cannibal or Meat Grinder: which cannibal room should you pick?

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.

Is Meat Grinder just Cannibal under another name?

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.

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