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With weekend after weekend after weekend of rain hitting L.A. This winter, you may have burned through your backlog of movies and TV shows to catch up on — but fear not. From a buzzy new take on the end of the world and an absurd comedy about the music industry to the early work of an indie horror master and a meta take on the family sitcom, we have plenty of titles in this week’s Screen Gab to check out. Blackout is a 1-day event where monsters and mayhem lurk in total darkness.
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I'm happy to answer most questions, although I'd really prefer if people kept detailed spoilers off. It's much better to attend if you don't know exactly what's going to happen. Avoid the spoilers if you plan to attend. Actors will string you up against concrete walls, force you to your knees, pour water over your head, shove disabling objects beneath your arms, and much, much more. Taylor Louderman and husband Brooks Toth have announced via social media that they are expecting their second child.
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I've seen hundreds of them from all over the world, so many that it's rare that a film will scare me anymore. A video game or virtual reality experience almost always does a better job at getting me in the right mindset, so I knew that Blackout, which is the closest to living in a horror movie that I'll (hopefully) ever get, would be a lot to take. Being a lifelong horror fan is great until you realize that it also means you know that many more ways that you can be tortured and murdered. I was incredibly excited when the opportunity came to check out the Overlook Film Festival for /Film, but I really didn't really want to do their exclusive Blackout experience. The immersive horror experience has been running for years in New York City (where I live), but I had managed to avoid it, believing that I didn't know if I could trust myself in situations like this. You infamously walk through Blackout all by your lonesome, but only after signing a waiver that essentially absolves the performers of your untimely death.
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One of the very first immersive, theatrical haunted houses, the production quickly sold out its entire run, gaining a cult following, and revolutionizing the haunted house industry. Soon after the initial NYC engagement, BLACKOUTbegan terrifying sold out audiences in cities across the country, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, and Oregon. BLACKOUT'screators have also collaborated with companies like Blumhouse, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Crypt TV, Goldenvoice, the DJ Skrillex, and the band Queens of the Stone Age. For a medium like virtual reality, which the duo are exploring with Toronto-based production studio Secret Location, holding onto that core might seem a little more straightforward simply because it can replicate the experience of a show.
Here you will enter a shooting range guarded by death, where you will enter coffins and pick up a jelly ball gun. It is your mission on your shift to seek out and destroy all things that go bump in the night. Who amongst your friends will become the victor? Everyone’s favorite clown has returned to 13th floor, and in big fashion. Come visit no name in his Curtain chaos attraction.
"You have this ability to really immerse people within an environment," Randall says, "and the one thing that we’ve always learned with Blackout and all the other theater stuff we did is it’s all about the environment that you’re in." The popularity of Blackout has led other attractions to pick up the gauntlet of the "extreme haunted house," to the point where shows that test one’s sanity and endurance have become a subgenre in their own right. There are plenty of examples to pick from across the US, peaking with the infamous McKamey Manor in San Diego — an 8-hour endurance test with no safe word that has been accused of intentionally putting people’s safety at risk. Kristjan Thoris a critically acclaimed director of film, theater, and immersive experiences. Watching this, helpless, with that song playing – it was a lot to take. This is surely the moment that breaks most people and it was incredibly rough to lay there and watch while reminding yourself you can't do anything.
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But then I'd imagine some other new horror and worry once more. I had to supply an emergency contact number and I gave them my wife's information...and then I promptly warned about what was coming just in case she became involved in some way. Would they call her and say something insane? She thought I was nuts and her anxiety about the whole thing didn't help my own.
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Their breathing got heavier, and heavier, and then they threw the sheets off me and shoved a pillow over my head. I briefly wondered if they'd hear me yell "Safety!" through it before they took it off, and pulled me out the bed. I creeped inside, half-expecting someone or something to burst out at me, and followed the instructions as written. I took off my shoes and socks and left them at the foot of the bed, placed the key on the nightstand, and turned off one light.
I turned to the bathtub she had emerged from to see piles upon piles of red pill containers. I started rummaging through the containers but each one was empty, and there seemed to be dozens. She was laying on her back coughing and screaming and sputtering as I grabbed container after container, coming up with an empty one every time, throwing them aside and trying for what felt like hours to find one. I started throwing a few empty ones in the sink as I came across them just to get them away from me. They climbed into bed with me and started snuggling. I'm not a small guy but one of them was big, and breathing heavily into my ear.
"It was fun when we started because we were doing something new," Thor says of the way the scene has evolved, but now that other productions have played catch-up their focus has turned toward expanding Blackout’s reach through new mediums. "It’s time for us to keep pushing, and think, ‘What’s the next thing that nobody’s doing now with immersive horror?’ This cross-platform methodology is our way into that." It’s Blackout’s fourth year in New York, a journey that has put out four completely different experiences in just as many different locations around the city. Its creators are bound by a housing market that’s, quite frankly, pretty skeptical about welcoming an event this disturbing into its arms.
"Good luck," I told him, and he looked at me nervously, nodded, and set off into the darkness. At this point, I had to remind myself once again that it was only a performance. I tested the straps – they were tight, but I could probably get them loose.
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