Escape the Night

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Escape the Night is an American horror fantasy competition web series created by Joey Graceffa. It premiered on YouTube Red (later renamed YouTube Premium) on June 22, 2016. In each installment, Graceffa and a cast of internet personalities attend a costumed dinner party and become trapped in a setting displaced from the present day, where they remain in character through a scripted storyline performed with actors, solving puzzles and voting one another into "death challenges" whose losers are written out in staged death scenes. The cast are not told the storyline's events in advance, and Graceffa has likened the format to live-action role-playing. The series awards no prize; the guests who survive each season are regarded as its winners. The project was first announced by YouTube Red in October 2015 as a murder mystery series. Produced by Brian Graden Media, with Adam Lawson as writer and director, it ran for four seasons, concluding on September 4, 2019, and became the longest-running...

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