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Wednesday, September 25, 2024
The Shining hotel to host Blumhouse overnight experience
attractionsmagazine.com: “The Shining” hotel — The Stanley Hotel in Colorado — will be taken over by Peacock for a one-weekend-only Blumhouse horror experience.
Interactive theater experiences are a growing industry as technology improves and people want deeper and closer connections to the creations they love. This was a particularly interesting event because it was in the shining house but didn't necessarily have anything to do with the shining. It took the concept of horror as a whole and used it to put new work on display. This event was also clearly created for a larger audience appeal with ranging levels of horror and the addition of games and social activities. But by far the thing I took the most out of this article was the modernization of classic horror focused interactive theater. Everyone knows haunted houses and corn mazes are some of the most widespread interactive theater events but recently and shown in this article these events have been modernized to today's society. Now modern horror events include an overnight stay and drinks as shown in the event at the shinings hotel.
If I didn't currently live in Pittsburgh and had somewhere to be the weekend of this was happening, I would love to be there. As a horror fan I would think having an immersive hotel experience in an already famous spooky hotel would be fun. I also appreciate that they let guests pick the level of scare for their stay and rank the rooms on a relevant scale of 1-4 daggers. I hope after the event there are images and tours of what each of these rooms look like and what the experience sleeping in a room there is like. I was also originally a bit shocked by the price, but then thinking about the immersive nature and doing some more digging and seeing everything available for the weekend it became a bit more reasonable. I was a bit surprised there is no 'The Shining' theming for any of the rooms despite the location, but also knowing that there are regular tours for fans of the movie it makes more sense. This does make me think about what this could mean for other movie sets that were pre-existing places or ones that were built and abandoned.
I was really excited when I saw the name of this article because I finally got around to reading The Shining this past summer (I had never read it or seen the movie before) but then the event ended up being totally not related to The Shining. It’s still cool; I imagine a lot of people who are fans of horror and/or fans of the movies that the event is themed towards would also be fans of The Shining, and the crossover means that this hotel is a great location for this type of event even if it’s not explicitly related to The Shining. It’s a cool idea; people seem to want to get closer and closer to their favorite media, and being literally put in a scary hotel and then literally pulled out of your bed to go have a scary experience is very much placing you in the world of your favorite characters/piece of media.
In Colorado, coming to a house near you (The Shining House), Peacock and Blumhouse are set to host an ‘Overnightmare’ experience which will include 32 different hotel rooms that will feature one of four Blumhouse films: “Happy Death Day,” “Freaky,” “The Purge,” or “Insidious.”. I am personally a fan of horror, so interactive horror events like this seem really cool and engaging. For one weekend, the price of this stay is going to come out to be over 1,000, but I think that if horror os what you are looking for, then go for it. While at the hotel, the guests can engage in scary activities based of off the room themes they picked, and they can also watch screenings of a new horror series, called Teacup. This all seems super cool, and is a wonderful way to to make interactive halloween events and bring the movies and media to the guests.
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Interactive theater experiences are a growing industry as technology improves and people want deeper and closer connections to the creations they love. This was a particularly interesting event because it was in the shining house but didn't necessarily have anything to do with the shining. It took the concept of horror as a whole and used it to put new work on display. This event was also clearly created for a larger audience appeal with ranging levels of horror and the addition of games and social activities. But by far the thing I took the most out of this article was the modernization of classic horror focused interactive theater. Everyone knows haunted houses and corn mazes are some of the most widespread interactive theater events but recently and shown in this article these events have been modernized to today's society. Now modern horror events include an overnight stay and drinks as shown in the event at the shinings hotel.
If I didn't currently live in Pittsburgh and had somewhere to be the weekend of this was happening, I would love to be there. As a horror fan I would think having an immersive hotel experience in an already famous spooky hotel would be fun. I also appreciate that they let guests pick the level of scare for their stay and rank the rooms on a relevant scale of 1-4 daggers. I hope after the event there are images and tours of what each of these rooms look like and what the experience sleeping in a room there is like. I was also originally a bit shocked by the price, but then thinking about the immersive nature and doing some more digging and seeing everything available for the weekend it became a bit more reasonable. I was a bit surprised there is no 'The Shining' theming for any of the rooms despite the location, but also knowing that there are regular tours for fans of the movie it makes more sense. This does make me think about what this could mean for other movie sets that were pre-existing places or ones that were built and abandoned.
I was really excited when I saw the name of this article because I finally got around to reading The Shining this past summer (I had never read it or seen the movie before) but then the event ended up being totally not related to The Shining. It’s still cool; I imagine a lot of people who are fans of horror and/or fans of the movies that the event is themed towards would also be fans of The Shining, and the crossover means that this hotel is a great location for this type of event even if it’s not explicitly related to The Shining. It’s a cool idea; people seem to want to get closer and closer to their favorite media, and being literally put in a scary hotel and then literally pulled out of your bed to go have a scary experience is very much placing you in the world of your favorite characters/piece of media.
In Colorado, coming to a house near you (The Shining House), Peacock and Blumhouse are set to host an ‘Overnightmare’ experience which will include 32 different hotel rooms that will feature one of four Blumhouse films: “Happy Death Day,” “Freaky,” “The Purge,” or “Insidious.”. I am personally a fan of horror, so interactive horror events like this seem really cool and engaging. For one weekend, the price of this stay is going to come out to be over 1,000, but I think that if horror os what you are looking for, then go for it. While at the hotel, the guests can engage in scary activities based of off the room themes they picked, and they can also watch screenings of a new horror series, called Teacup. This all seems super cool, and is a wonderful way to to make interactive halloween events and bring the movies and media to the guests.
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