io9 was invited to the Nosferatu Experience to immerse ourselves in the world of the upcoming Focus Features image directed by Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse). The hauntingly vampiric walk-though was a restricted engagement placed on by Thirteenth Floor Entertainment’s Director of Immersive Jon Braver, who spearheaded the group behind interactive play sequence Delusion on the collaboration.
The night occasion was held December 16-18 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. The Masonic Lodge was remodeled into the manor of 1 Count Orlok (in Eggers’ film, he’s performed by Bill Skarsgård), who invitations you on moody tour of his property for some enterprise dealings. Its transformation into the world of Nosferatu was furthered by an eerie soundscape from the movie’s composer, Robin Carolan.
A tour, you say? That appeared completely secure—what may actually be the hurt of trying out a group of screen-used props and costumes, in addition to occult objects and really intensely darkish magic relics?
However, it was extra than simply an exhibit; the area was delivered to life by actors who leaned into the gothic tone of the movie in engagingly haunted methods. For one factor they have been very involved about the contract drawn up by Orlok’s cavalier affiliate—insisting that I signal it, regardless of it being in a language that was not decipherable to my eye. And sure, I signed it, what can I say? I’m a deeply curious individual in the case of vampires and I need that Nosferatu coffin actual dangerous. So I positively wasn’t going to hearken to any warnings to not from plague rat-infested loons and deeply pious fairly girls.
This film tie-in encounter was positively a “lite” model of the Delusion group’s annual interactive hang-out performs that don’t enable video recording. So should you’ve ever been interested in certainly one of their productions, this was positively a gateway style of the West Coast’s juggernaut’s immersive theater slate. At the Nosferatu Experience we have been capable of seize the creepy unease of the movie’s tone on digicam as the unusual inhabitants led us by way of numerous corridors to see components of the movie’s plot with out a lot context together with mildly graphic black magic rituals and the sense of worry looming over sure artifacts like Orlok’s coffin and books of darkish magic.
Two girls hovered in unhinged terror at the shadow of the vampire forged over the partitions as if he have been approaching and it drove the plague victims even madder. By then the ink was dry on my contract so it was too late, I needed to method my destiny as I acquired nearer to assembly the Count. What precisely transpired I can solely vaguely bear in mind however I positive do have two pointy marks on my neck and an odd aversion to the mild. So Focus Features, when does my Nosferatu coffin mattress arrive?
Nosferatu opens in theaters on December 25.
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