Granny – the Escape Game

As with all ScreamWorks' productions, the experience begins the moment you arrive.

For Granny, you will be met by an official from Blackstone Land Acquisition who will be able to answer any questions you may have.

Once you are inside Granny's house, everything you need to know will be communicated naturally, in-world, as events unfold. This allows tension, curiosity, and atmosphere to build without interruption, and lets you discover the experience for yourselves.

Granny isn’t an escape room — it’s a multi-room, live, overlapping mission designed like a haunted house you can actually play. The experience spreads you across multiple interconnected spaces, with different objectives happening in parallel.

That means everyone stays involved from start to finish. 

We build worlds designed to pull you into a story. There is no button to press, no camera to wave at, no disembodied voice telling you what to do next.

All information is delivered in-world. Guidance may come through a phone call, an interaction with a performer, something printed or a system embedded in the house itself. Some of it is useful. Some of it is partial. Some of it only makes sense later. 

This is intentional.

Our experiences don't happen to you. We create highly realistic situations and place you inside them.

We give our customers a 15 minute check-in window, which starts 10 minutes before the start time of your mission and ends five minutes afterwards. For example, if you have booked a 13:30 time slot, we would expect you to arrive at 13:20, which will give you ample time to scan your tickets and receive your briefing. 

All of our systems — including safety checks, consent recording, data protection, and in-world personalisation — assume that once this window ends, the experience is already underway and no additional people will enter.

Allowing someone in after that point would place them outside those systems, which we’re legally and operationally unable to do.

For this reason, even if you let us know you’re running late, we can’t admit anyone once the check-in window has closed.

We strongly recommend arriving early and reading the pre-show information we send you. Doing so ensures a smooth check-in and allows the experience to run exactly as intended.

ScreamWorks events are designed to be enjoyable even for non-horror fans. That having been said, Granny creates fear, paranoia and anxiety in its participants and has been given a fear factor of 4/5, so if you really don’t enjoy feeling afraid, then we recommend that you book 'The Briefcase', our non-horror experience. 

ScreamWorks’ productions are unique, so don’t expect Granny to be like a traditional escape room or anything you have done before. You need to enter with an open mind leave all expectations at the door. 

Granny is a non-linear open-world adventure so Granny is not designed to be solved on a room-by-room basis. There are tasks and challenges that must be completed, but these are not like traditional escape room puzzles. 

You certainly don’t need a maths degree.
You won't need to crack the Doomsday Cipher.
And you definitely won’t see more than one padlock.

Granny is about surviving chaos together and discovering Granny's story.

The challenges inside are interactive, physical, social and fast-paced. Some require teamwork. Some require communication. Some require lateral thinking under pressure while a very angry Granny is hunting you through her house.

Challenging? Yes.
Boring? Never.

You will not be intentionally touched by Granny (or anyone) and you must not touch Granny.

The age restriction is 13+, but under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Yes. Granny might be ancient, but she ain’t dead yet.

Granny lives behind an abandoned bookshop. There are plenty of empty shelves, and some customers have reported a secure cupboard with a key — useful for stashing your belongings before you head in.

Granny's house is large, dimly lit, and full of places where things disappear.

You're welcome to bring your phone inside — but if you lose it during the experience, we have five minutes to find it before the next group begins. After that, you'll need to arrange a separate visit to retrieve it.

If you do bring it in, keep it on loud and enable voice activation — it makes the difference between a quick find and a very awkward conversation.

Valuables enter the house at your own risk.

There is one toilet available during the experience — but it’s Granny’s bathroom, and you’ll need to find it first. Once the game begins, you can use it at any time. We strongly recommend using the bathroom before you arrive. Many guests stop at Mother Kelly’s nearby for a pre-show drink.

The minimum cost to reserve a timeslot is 4 tickets. If you’re planning to visit Granny with a group larger than 4 and want others to pay separately, just purchase 4 tickets in one transaction to secure your slot. You’ll receive a confirmation email with all the instructions — including a booking link and password — so your friends can add themselves to your timeslot later.

The experience takes place on a single level and does not involve crawling. However, due to the layout of Granny's home, it is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.

Some areas have uneven surfaces and low or intermittent lighting, so there is a degree of physicality involved that may make the event unsuitable for those with limited mobility or balance concerns.

If you have accessibility needs, we require you to get in touch with us before booking, so we can discuss your specific requirements and advise accordingly.

If you’re registered as needing a carer (e.g. via DLA or equivalent), we’re happy to provide a free carer ticket. Just email us at  info@screamworks.co.uk

The experience may involve moments of physical intensity, startle effects, and an unpredictable environment — all of which make it unsafe during pregnancy.

Wear comfortable clothes and shoes with a good grip – trainers are perfect. Please avoid high heel shoes or any shoes which have a smooth leather bottom, like formal wear.

Granny lives behind Thorne's Bookshop at 261 Paradise Row, E2 9LE. It is a two-minute walk from Bethnal Green underground station (Central Line) and a twelve-minute walk from Bethnal Green overground station. Click here to see a map.

Avoid using Google Maps or City Mapper as these third-party apps can be unreliable. Allow enough time to find the venue, as due to the highly technical nature of our experiences we are unable to admit late-comers. 

We do not have a customer parking facility. However, there are plenty of parking bays on adjacent streets.

A public timeslot is a shared experience.
You book the tickets you need, and other small groups can also book into the same session until it’s full.

A private timeslot is an exclusive game just for your group.
As soon as you’ve booked the required minimum for a private slot, we block that time off so no other groups can join. Granny's house is all yours.

After attending Granny, you can log in using the email address you used at check-in and access your footage via the Attendee Dashboard. Please note: this system is currently in beta and is provided as a gesture of goodwill — we cannot guarantee availability, functionality, or technical support. Access is only granted if all members of your group check in and no one later opts-out of media sharing.

Yes. Whether your booking is public or private, you can add extra tickets later:

1. Go to “My Orders” on our website

2. Find your booking

3. Click “Buy More Tickets” and complete checkout as normal

Any extra tickets will be added to the same game and linked to your existing order.