In short: Answers about Frankenstein Resurrection, Escape This’s gothic horror escape room: the doctor’s bargain, difficulty, prices at Northbridge and Sydney CBD, group sizes, the 13+ rule, health warnings, Melbourne’s 2027 opening and records.
Frankenstein Resurrection is a 60-minute gothic horror escape room by Escape This. Victor Frankenstein holds your group captive in his laboratory during an electrical storm and promises freedom if you help bring his creature to life before the last lightning strike. It plays at Escape This Northbridge in Perth and Escape This Sydney CBD, with Melbourne CBD to follow in March 2027.
Your freedom for your labour. In Frankenstein Resurrection, Victor Frankenstein will release you only if you serve as his unwilling assistants: tracking down the organs, following his journals and feeding the storm’s power into his creation. If the body stays cold, you become his next experiment.
The storm powers the whole experiment. Frankenstein Resurrection’s laboratory needs lightning to wake the creature, so your group must finish before the tempest’s final strike rolls past. That gives you 60 minutes, while a grandfather clock ticks away in the corner of the room.
Unsettling rather than terrifying. Frankenstein Resurrection is gothic horror, with darkness, flashing light, specimen jars and a stitched-up body, but no live actors leaping out. One reviewer who normally avoids horror called it just the right amount of fun and spooky.
Not at all. Frankenstein Resurrection takes the doctor, his creature and the Victorian gothic atmosphere from the 1818 novel, but every clue you need is inside the laboratory. Readers will spot the references; everyone else only needs sharp eyes and patience with the doctor’s handwriting.
No. Frankenstein Resurrection has no live actors. The doctor, the storm and the creature come to life through the set, sculpted props, sound, lighting and machinery, while a gamesmaster follows your progress on camera from outside the room.
It’s rated 7 out of 10. In Frankenstein Resurrection most clues aren’t hard to find; the challenge is working out what the doctor’s journals, specimens and contraptions want from you. Escape This recommends it for groups who have played an escape room before, though determined beginners do get through.
Yes, as long as you enjoy a stretch. Escape This says first-timers find Frankenstein Resurrection quite challenging, yet many still choose it, and the gamesmaster sends extra clues whenever a group needs them.
Tactile and mechanical. In Frankenstein Resurrection you scavenge for organs, decipher ink-stained journals and anatomy charts, and work the switches, coils and contraptions that carry power to the creature. Some puzzles create an electromagnetic field, and plenty depend on careful reading.
A hint arrives. A gamesmaster follows every Frankenstein Resurrection session on camera and sends clues through the laboratory’s audio system whenever you ask. Taking hints doesn’t disqualify you: escaping groups average a handful each.
Allow about 90 minutes. Turn up 15 minutes before your Frankenstein Resurrection start time for the briefing, spend up to 60 minutes in the laboratory, then leave roughly 15 minutes afterwards to recover. Groups that wake the creature early head home sooner.
At Northbridge, Escape This lists Frankenstein Resurrection at $49 per player Monday to Thursday and $59 Friday to Sunday, and its booking system shows fares from $39. At Sydney CBD it’s $55 per adult and $45 per child under 16 Monday to Thursday, then $65 and $55 Friday to Sunday. Public and school holidays are excluded. Melbourne prices aren’t out yet.
Book online for instant confirmation: pick Northbridge or Sydney CBD on the Frankenstein Resurrection booking page and choose a time. Prefer the phone? Ring Escape This Northbridge on (08) 6118 0286 or Escape This Sydney CBD on (02) 9173 8535.
Only by phone or walk-in. Online Saturday bookings for Frankenstein Resurrection need four players at both venues, but a group of three can call on the day or turn up and take an open Saturday slot. On any other day, three is enough.
Divide and run two rooms at once. Frankenstein Resurrection holds six at Northbridge and eight at Sydney CBD, and those caps are firm. Book a second room with the same start time, or for work functions and groups large enough to fill a venue, plan it through Team Escape, the Escape This team-building hub.
Yes. Escape This gift vouchers can be spent on Frankenstein Resurrection at Northbridge or Sydney CBD, which makes a neat gift for anyone 13 or older who likes gothic fiction, horror films or a creaking Victorian contraption.
Never. Every Frankenstein Resurrection booking is private, so the only assistants in the doctor’s laboratory are the ones you brought with you.
Easily. Almost every room at Escape This Northbridge is horror, including The Haunting, Dracula, Cannibal and Asylum, so a second dark hour is never far from Frankenstein Resurrection. Book them back to back, or at the same start time if the group is splitting up.
Yes. Frankenstein Resurrection suits birthdays for anyone 13 and up, hen’s and buck’s nights, Halloween outings and older school groups studying the novel. Every session is private, and a larger party can run it alongside another room at the same start time.
Three to six at Escape This Northbridge and three to eight at Escape This Sydney CBD. Saturday sessions of Frankenstein Resurrection need at least four, and neither venue stretches its maximum.
Thirteen, and it’s strict. Every Frankenstein Resurrection player must be 13 or over, and staff may ask for ID from anyone who looks younger. At Northbridge, children under 13 can’t come in to watch either.
Yes, from age 13. Frankenstein Resurrection mixes classic literature, anatomy and crackling electrics, which suits teenage groups and families with older kids, and Sydney CBD charges the child fare for anyone under 16.
No. The minimum for Frankenstein Resurrection is three players at both Northbridge and Sydney CBD. Bring a third friend along, or choose another Escape This room that takes pairs.
Quite a lot. Frankenstein Resurrection relies heavily on reading the doctor’s notes, and the story and hints are spoken in English only, so Escape This recommends that most of the group reads English fluently.
No. Some puzzles in Frankenstein Resurrection generate an electromagnetic field, so players with pacemakers can’t take part at any venue. Every other Escape This room is safe for them, and the team will help you choose one.
In Sydney, yes; in Northbridge, no. Frankenstein Resurrection at Escape This Sydney CBD takes one wheelchair per session, with a few puzzles harder to reach from a seat. The Northbridge laboratory isn’t wheelchair accessible, so ask that team to suggest another room.
Yes: theatrical smoke rolls through Frankenstein Resurrection’s laboratory in both cities, so assistants with asthma or breathing trouble should think carefully before booking.
Yes, along with total darkness. The storm in Frankenstein Resurrection brings flashing light and blacked-out moments, and Escape This’s Northbridge listing advises against it for people with epilepsy or light sensitivity. Raise any concerns with the venue before booking.
In Sydney, yes: Frankenstein Resurrection there has no crawling or cramped spaces, and Escape This rates it a good choice for claustrophobic players too. The Northbridge listing warns that crawling or tight spaces may be involved, so phone (08) 6118 0286 before booking there.
Yes, with the group’s support. Frankenstein Resurrection’s narration and clues are delivered as audio, so teammates pass them on, while the organ hunting and machinery are hands-on and visual.
Press the panic button. Frankenstein Resurrection has panic buttons that let a player out straight away, and a gamesmaster watches on CCTV the whole time. Anyone under the influence of alcohol or drugs won’t be allowed to start.
Go ahead. Lab coats, Victorian black, a hunched assistant or a mad professor all fit Frankenstein Resurrection, and reviewers say playing in character makes the night better.
It’s a natural one. Frankenstein Resurrection puts you in a stormy gothic laboratory with a body waiting to be revived, and one Northbridge reviewer found it just the right amount of spooky for the Halloween season. Fancy dress is welcome.
Frankenstein Resurrection plays at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street in Perth, and Escape This Sydney CBD, 630 George Street. A third laboratory opens at Escape This Melbourne CBD, 259 Collins Street, in March 2027, and a fourth is planned for Escape This Brisbane CBD in the first half of 2027.
No. In Perth, Frankenstein Resurrection plays only at Escape This Northbridge on Lake Street, not at Escape This Perth CBD on Hay Street Mall. Older listings named other venues, so check the address on your booking.
Mostly in the practical details. Sydney CBD’s Frankenstein Resurrection takes up to eight players instead of six, has a cheaper fare for under-16s and fits one wheelchair per session, which Northbridge can’t. The doctor, the storm and the 60-minute limit are the same.
In March 2027. Frankenstein Resurrection is coming to Escape This Melbourne CBD at 259 Collins Street. Times and prices will be published when bookings open.
56% of the 1,662 groups who have played Frankenstein Resurrection woke the creature in time. By venue: Escape This Northbridge 46%, Escape This Sydney CBD 78%.
The Frankenstein Resurrection record is 28:00, set by Jake’s group at Escape This Northbridge with 1 hint, leaving 32:00 of storm unused.
Measured by escape rate, where lower means harder, Frankenstein Resurrection is 7th hardest of 9 at Escape This Northbridge and 7th hardest of 9 at Escape This Sydney CBD. Rooms with fewer than 100 recorded games are left out of the comparison.
Groups that escape Frankenstein Resurrection use 4.5 hints on average and need 54:01 of their 60 minutes.
Escape This Sydney CBD, so far. 78% of 522 groups have escaped Frankenstein Resurrection at Escape This Sydney CBD, while 46% of 1,140 groups have escaped Frankenstein Resurrection at Escape This Northbridge.
Escape quickly. The Frankenstein Resurrection leaderboard ranks escaping groups by time, using the game records Escape This keeps for every session, and refreshes automatically. The ten quickest at each venue are listed, alongside this year’s best.
Survivors score it 4.97 out of 5. That is the mean rating players in Northbridge and Sydney CBD give Frankenstein Resurrection, and 170+ of them awarded five stars.
The set and the people running it. Frankenstein Resurrection reviews keep returning to the sculpted creature, the moody, mechanical laboratory and puzzles that feel tough but fair, plus gamesmasters who step in at just the right moment.
Escape This designed and built Frankenstein Resurrection in-house, laboratory, machinery and sculpted creature included. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
A comic, made-up journal kept by Victor Frankenstein, the doctor who holds your group captive in Frankenstein Resurrection, with notes in the margins from the creature he’s trying to wake. Each page pokes fun at a real part of the experiment, from the 13+ rule to the indoor storm, and sits beside the real room facts and a booking link.
The doctor’s creature, in the story. Escape This imagines him, the body under the sheet in Frankenstein Resurrection, waking each time a group succeeds, teaching himself to read from the doctor’s journals and growing more articulate with every page. He calls himself Percy; the doctor refuses to. Both are fictional, borrowed from Mary Shelley’s novel, and the margin notes are written by Escape This for fun.
No. Victor grumbles about his storm, his jars and his assistants in the same broad strokes as the room’s story, and the creature’s margin notes are about feelings, not solutions. No page says where anything is hidden or what to do first, so your group still walks into the laboratory knowing nothing useful.
The openings are. Frankenstein Resurrection opened at Escape This Northbridge on 20 March 2025 and at Escape This Sydney CBD on 1 October 2025, according to Escape This’s booking records, and Melbourne CBD is set for 1 March 2027. The pages for those days carry those dates; every other date was picked for the story.
Roughly monthly. New pages of the Laboratory Notebook appear on their dates through 2027, each about a different side of Frankenstein Resurrection, such as costumes, big groups, access or hints, and the creature’s margin notes become more eloquent as the year goes on.
Book Frankenstein Resurrection at Northbridge or Sydney CBD. Three or more of you, one laboratory, one hour of lightning.