io9 is invited to Nosferatu Experience immersing ourselves in the world of the upcoming Focus Features picture directed by Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse). The eerie vampiric walk-through is a limited engagement put together by Thirteenth Floor Entertainment’s Director of Immersive Jon Braver, who leads the team behind the interactive play series. Cheats in collaboration.

The evening event was held December 16-18 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. The Masonic Lodge was changed to the manor of one Count Orlok (in Eggers’ movie, he was played by Bill Skarsgård), who invites you on a sad tour of his estate for some business. Its transformation into the world of Nosferatu complemented by an eerie soundscape from the film’s composer, Robin Carolan.

A tour, you say? That seems perfectly safe—what’s really the harm in checking out a collection of used screen props and costumes, as well as occult items and more serious dark magic relics?

However, it is more than just an exhibition; the space is brought to life by actors who lean into the film’s gothic tone in charming ways. For one thing they were very concerned with the contract drawn up by Orlok’s knight-mate—insisting that I should sign it, even in a language which my eyes could not understand. And yes, I signed it, what can I say? I am a deeply curious person about vampires and I like that Nosferatu the coffin is really bad. That’s why I never listen to any warnings that don’t come from plague rats and very pious beautiful women.

This movie tie-in encounter is definitely a “lite” version of the Cheats team’s annual interactive haunt plays that do not allow video recording. So if you’re curious about one of their productions, it’s definitely a passable taste of the brooding West Coast theater juggernaut. on Nosferatu We experienced capturing the creepy tone of the film on camera as the strange inhabitants guided us through various corridors to see elements of the film’s plot without much context including gentle rituals. that black magic and the sense of fear that comes with certain artifacts such as. Orlok’s coffin and books of dark magic.

Two women hover in unceasing terror at the shadow of the witch cast on the walls as if she is coming and it angers the victims of the plague. By that time the ink was dry on my contract so it was too late, I had to face my fate as I got closer to meeting the Count. Exactly what happened I can’t remember but I definitely had two point marks on my neck and a strange aversion to light. So Focus Features, when my Nosferatu reached the bed of the coffin?

Nosferatu opens in theaters on December 25.

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