io9 Survived the Nosferatu Experience

io9 was invited to the Nosferatu Experience to immerse ourselves successful the satellite of the upcoming Focus Features representation directed by Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse). The hauntingly vampiric walk-though was a constricted engagement enactment connected by Thirteenth Floor Entertainment’s Director of Immersive Jon Braver, who spearheaded the squad down interactive play bid Delusion connected the collaboration.

Photo: Sabina Graves, io9/Gizmodo

The evening lawsuit was held December 16-18 astatine the Hollywood Forever Cemetery successful Los Angeles. The Masonic Lodge was transformed into the manor of 1 Count Orlok (in Eggers’ movie, he’s played by Bill Skarsgård), who invites you connected moody circuit of his property for immoderate concern dealings. Its translation into the satellite of Nosferatu was furthered by an eerie soundscape from the film’s composer, Robin Carolan.

A tour, you say? That seemed wholly safe—what could truly beryllium the harm of checking retired a postulation of screen-used props and costumes, arsenic good arsenic occult objects and precise intensely acheronian magic relics?

However, it was much than conscionable an exhibit; the abstraction was brought to beingness by actors who leaned into the gothic code of the movie successful engagingly haunted ways. For 1 happening they were precise acrophobic astir the declaration drawn up by Orlok’s cavalier associate—insisting that I motion it, contempt it being successful a connection that was not decipherable to my eye. And yes, I signed it, what tin I say? I’m a profoundly funny idiosyncratic erstwhile it comes to vampires and I privation that Nosferatu coffin existent bad. So I decidedly wasn’t going to perceive to immoderate warnings not to from plague rat-infested loons and profoundly pious beauteous ladies.

This movie tie-in brushwood was decidedly a “lite” mentation of the Delusion team’s yearly interactive haunt plays that bash not let video recording. So if you’ve ever been funny astir 1 of their productions, this was decidedly a gateway sensation of the West Coast’s juggernaut’s immersive theatre slate. At the Nosferatu Experience we were capable to seizure the creepy unease of the film’s code connected camera arsenic the unusual inhabitants led america done assorted corridors to spot elements of the film’s crippled without overmuch discourse including mildly graphic achromatic magic rituals and the consciousness of fearfulness looming implicit definite artifacts similar Orlok’s coffin and books of acheronian magic.

Two women hovered successful unhinged panic astatine the shadiness of the vampire formed implicit the walls arsenic if helium were approaching and it drove the plague victims adjacent madder. By past the ink was adust connected my declaration truthful it was excessively late, I had to attack my destiny arsenic I got person to gathering the Count. What precisely transpired I tin lone vaguely retrieve but I definite bash person 2 pointy marks connected my cervix and a unusual aversion to the light. So Focus Features, erstwhile does my Nosferatu coffin furniture arrive?

Photo: Sabina Graves, io9/Gizmodo

Nosferatu opens successful theaters connected December 25.

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