Watch out for the Wolf-Man on the top rope and get ready to get chokeslammed by Frankenstien’s Monster, for it’s going to be the spookiest showdown of the year. “Escape The Undertaker '' is a new interactive movie, with the audience in full control on what will happen next, revolving around a certain supernatural individual and a small tag team, unprepared for what’s ahead of them.
The movie begins with introductions, saying that “The Undertaker'', a supernatural, hard-hitting wrestler, who dominated through 1990 to 2020 in the “WWE Wrestling Ring,” has in his possession an ancient magical urn, infused with a dark magic, that could contain powers beyond all human belief. He then decided to invite the tag team “The New Day,” featuring Kofi Kingston, Xaiver Woods and Big E, to his mansion. The reason why the trio accepted the invitation, was that they believed they could combine the dark powers of the urn with their power of positivity to be unstoppable in the wrestling ring.
So the Undertaker, being the Undertaker, accepted the challenge for his urn with a smile across his face. “The New Day '' gang originally thought that it was going to be a cake-walk, as they believed they could simply head to the Undertaker’s mansion, find his urn, see what it can do, and leave with a thank you and a new powerset. However, as soon as the gang stepped foot into the mansion, they quickly realized that the Undertaker wasn’t going to let his dark grip on the urn go without a fight. For you see, The Undertaker was expecting their arrival, and rigged his entire mansion with terrifying traps,heart-stopping challenges, and blood-curdling stunts that’ll have all of “The New Day’s” members delving through their deepest darkest fears.
As mentioned earlier,”Escape The Undertaker” is an interactive film on Netflix, meaning the viewer can choose what “The New Day” gang does, with a stream of alternate endings that are all depicted of the viewer’s choices throughout the film.
Mark William Calaway, better known under his ring name as “The Undertaker,” is a professional wrestler who has fought in many bouts in WWE for 30 years in total. He soon hung his black trench-coat and grave-digging fedora up and retired in 2021 to settle down with his wife, Sara Calaway. The Undertaker’s in-ring storyline ran deeper than his finishing move “The Tombstone Piledriver,” as it was revealed by The Undertaker’s manager who betrayed him later on in a separate bout, that he had a half brother, who was WWE’s “The Big Red Monster” Kane, an individual who was burned in The Undertaker’s family funeral business that the Undertaker caused himself in his youth and survived to enact vengeance upon him.
“The New Day” gang ,as mentioned before, composed of Kofi Kingston, a Jamaican wrestler with a modified Enzuigiri finishing move given the nickname of “Trouble in Paradise,”Xavier Woods, a American Wrestler who worked in the TNA Wrestling Circuit as Consequence Creed, and Big E, a American Wrestler and former Powerlifter.
A few days after the film was released, it received quite a lot of hate amongst its audience. Some of the reasons why some watchers disliked the film was because, in their general opinion, it lacked production value, had no real horror aspects,such as jump-scares or mounting suspense, and it did not leave much of an impression.
The music of the film was made to reminisce Undertaker’s entrance into the ring, and an all american horror house,hoping to scare or raise fear and suspicion.
This film can be seen on Netflix, and is a grand wrestling themed spook-fest for the whole family.