No Escape (2015)
Directed by John Erick Dowdle
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
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The mob is relentless, barging through doors and climbing to the roof of the hotel in which Wilson, Bell, and two daughters are bunkered — they're people-as-velociraptors, the latest update of the inhuman street gang from John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13.
Though the setting is contemporary, “No Escape”—a title that, one must note, proves singularly inappropriate, since there are hair’s-breadth escapes aplenty—is a throwback to the days of “Gunga Din” or “55 Days in Peking.”