Escape the Night (TV series) · Flickorian

Escape the Night

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TV series
2016–2025
5 seasons
YouTube Premium
Mystery
Reality

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7.7 TMDB worldwide · 28 ratings

Welcome to "Escape the Night." In this surreality competition series, hosted by Joey Graceffa, 10 guests are invited from the modern world to attend a dinner at his newly acquired mansion estate, which has been locked in the 1920's; when America was roaring... roaring with madness. This is a dinner party to die for. No one is safe.

About the show

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 original series on YouTube Premium. It received six Streamy Awards nominations, winning two.

YouTube Premium declined to renew the series in 2020, and Graceffa retained ownership of the property. Following a 2023 crowdfunding campaign, the free streaming service Tubi added the four seasons to its platform and commissioned Escape the Night: The Lost Tapes, a three-episode miniseries announced as a "grand finale" for the franchise, which premiered on November 27, 2025.

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