ESCALATION was one of the most successful horror shorts in the Festival Circuit between 2022/24, collecting more than 90 awards in categories such as best short film, best horror, best directing, best cinematography, SFX, etc and close to an additional 100 nominations at some of the world's top film festivals, according to MovieMaker magazine, including a double victory at the Academy Award Qualifying Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival for Best Horror Short and Best Practical FX.

Top genre movie news outlets such as Dread Central, Geek Tyrant and Rue Morgue celebrated Escalation as one of the most brutal, innovative and fun horror cinema experiences of recent times while movie magazines like Deadline and MovieMaker praised the film for the no holds barred approach to delivering top-notch production value, from the polished writing, to set design, cinematography and editing.