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Cannibal is an 18+ horror escape room made by Escape This. Your group wakes up in a copycat killer’s meat locker on the night of his dinner party and has 60 minutes to get out before you’re served. It runs at Escape This Northbridge in Perth and Escape This Sydney CBD, rated 8 out of 10 for difficulty, and a third kitchen opens at Escape This Brisbane CBD in the first half of 2027.
No, Cannibal has a villain of its own: the Northbridge Butcher, a copycat with a butcher’s skill. The films are an obvious influence, though. Escape This names Hannibal and Silence of the Lambs fans among the players Cannibal suits, and the room’s billing jokes about fava beans and a nice chianti.
Gory enough to be adults-only. Cannibal carries strong adult themes (butchery, body parts, a blood-slicked floor) and is strictly 18+. It’s built to unsettle rather than to gross you out for an hour, but anyone squeamish should read the Escape This content advice before booking.
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Not according to Escape This, which promotes Cannibal as Perth’s only cannibal immersive experience and makes the same claim for its Sydney CBD version. If a killer’s kitchen is the night you’re after, Cannibal is the room to book.
It’s how you beat him. Cannibal asks you to decipher the Butcher’s twisted diary as well as break out of his meat locker, so getting inside the killer’s head is part of getting out alive.
It’s a big first bite. Cannibal is rated 8 out of 10, and Escape This recommends having a few escape rooms behind you before trying it. First-timers in Perth are pointed to Bank Heist or The Wizard’s Chamber at Escape This Perth CBD; in Sydney, to Pirates or The Wizard’s Chamber.
One hour in the meat locker. Cannibal also needs 15 minutes beforehand for check-in and the briefing, and about 15 afterwards, so set aside roughly 90 minutes. Groups who escape early get out a little sooner.
At Northbridge, Cannibal is $49 per player Monday to Thursday and $59 Friday to Sunday. At Sydney CBD it’s $55 Monday to Thursday and $65 Friday to Sunday. Everyone at the table is an adult, so there’s one price per head, and public and school holidays are excluded.
Pick Northbridge or Sydney CBD on this site’s booking page and choose a time. Cannibal bookings confirm on the spot. Prefer a phone call? Ring Escape This Northbridge on (08) 6118 0286 or Escape This Sydney CBD on (02) 9173 8535.
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It depends on the venue. Cannibal at Northbridge takes 2 to 6 players and Sydney CBD takes 2 to 8. On Saturdays both need at least four, although a pair or trio can phone on the day or walk in for a spare slot.
No. Cannibal is strictly 18+ at both venues, with no exceptions for anyone younger, even alongside a parent. Staff can ask for ID, and under-18s can’t come in as spectators either.
At times. Cannibal uses controlled lighting, including periods of total darkness and flashing light. If anyone in your group is sensitive to flashing light, Escape This suggests choosing one of its other rooms.
Cannibal plays at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003, and at Escape This Sydney CBD, 630 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000. The Butcher is also setting a table at Escape This Brisbane CBD, due in the first half of 2027, address still to be revealed.
The story, the one-hour limit and the 8 out of 10 rating are shared. Cannibal differs in the details: Northbridge seats up to six and costs $49–$59, Sydney CBD seats up to eight and costs $55–$65, and only Sydney offers Simplified Chinese narration.
27% of the 10,779 groups locked inside Cannibal have made it out. By venue: Northbridge 20% of 8,182, Sydney CBD 49% of 2,597.
Reviewers say yes. Cannibal averages 4.98 out of 5 across Northbridge and Sydney CBD, with 504 five-star reviews. Guests single out their game masters by name, a theme that holds up for the whole hour, and puzzles that are tough without feeling impossible.
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It’s a comic, fictional journal that Escape This writes in the voice of the Northbridge Butcher, Cannibal’s villain: his menus, seating plans, recipes and sulks about being called a copycat. It is safe for work to read, even though Cannibal itself is strictly 18+, and each entry sits beside the real room facts.
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