Escape the Night

Escape the Night is an American fantasy-mystery reality competition series created by Joey Graceffa that premiered on YouTube Premium (formerly known as YouTube Red) on June 22, 2016. The series follows Graceffa and a rotating cast of internet personalities who are invited to a dinner party and subsequently trapped in elaborate dark fantasy scenarios inspired by horror and murder mystery aesthetics. Each episode blends scripted narrative with unscripted challenge-based gameplay, requiring the cast to solve puzzles, complete tasks, and “survive” the storyline.

Graceffa serves as creator and producer, with Adam Lawson as director and writer. The series is produced by Brian Graden Media and premiered its first season on June 22, 2016. Escape the Night ran for four seasons, concluding on September 4, 2019, and became the longest-running original series on YouTube Premium until 2020. It received six Streamy Awards nominations, winning two.

Following the series' cancellation, Graceffa launched a crowdfunding campaign on November 2, 2023, through Indiegogo to finance a potential feature-length continuation of the franchise. In November 2025, the free streaming service Tubi acquired the rights to the series and announced a revival project intended to serve as a "grand finale" for the franchise. Under the title Escape the Night: The Lost Tapes, Tubi added all four seasons to its platform and commissioned a three-episode mini-series, which premiered on November 27, 2025.