lab rat

For a scene in which a lab rat dies and then reanimates, Álvarez enlisted Tippett Studio, the outfit run by legendary effects master Phil Tippett, to make a model rodent move through stop-motion animation.

I grew up with dyslexia, which was a relatively new diagnosis then and I was treated like a lab rat.

We’re like a lab rat that keeps taking the bit of cheese that’s attached to an electrical wire.

In 2018, Hatch Escapes debuted a highly regarded escape room in Lab Rat, a comedic horror show in which the roles of humans and test rodents are flipped.

While it won praise for its mixing of digital and analog media, as well as its emphasis on storytelling, Lab Rat is still what many of us understand an escape room to entail.