Audiences associate the word “horror” with scary movies or terrifying novels. But over the past half-decade, live theater and haunted house exhibits have merged, bringing new life to the genre with interactive, real-world experiences that let audiences step through the screen and into their own personal tales of terror. In The Future of Fear, we’re talking to the creators of some of the most striking, immersive horror experiences to see how they’re taking the genre in directions it has never gone before. Read on... if you dare.
Mar 22, 2017
How director Darren Lynn Bousman created The Tension Experience
How to build your own personal Westworld
Nov 22, 2016
Cults, chaos, and community: how The Tension Experience rewrote the rules of storytelling
The future of immersive entertainment is here, and it is bloody
Oct 29, 2016
How Los Angeles became the heart of immersive horror
Over the past month I’ve been indoctrinated into a cult, had my wife kidnapped by vampires, and been choked to the ground by a mad king while searching for a mystical land called Conscientia. And I did it all within a four-mile radius in Los Angeles.
Oct 22, 2016
I was eaten alive by an escape room cannibal
Puzzles and a locked door have become the gateway drug of immersive horror
Oct 15, 2016
The scariest movie this Halloween is a play called Delusion
Jon Braver's vampire tale is a wonderful, waking nightmare.
Oct 7, 2016
How the creators of Blackout are bringing the extreme haunted house into your living room
I’m pretty sure Josh Randall and Kristjan Thor are coming to get me.
Sep 30, 2016
Inside the psychological maze of LA's most insidious theater event
Director Darren Lynn Bousman gets under my skin with The Tension Experience.
