Mixed reality experiences are becoming more and more popular, with companies like The Void (Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, Nicodemus: Demon of Evanishment) and Pure Imagination (Alien: Descent) immersing guests more fully than even virtual reality previously could. Hollow Zone Immersive takes cues from those companies and provides an eerie mystery with Wax House: […]
MurderCo Jon Cooke has had a busy year in 2018. While he departed his permanent role at Knott’s Scary Farm, he stayed on in a consulting capacity, creating this year’s breakout hit, The Depths. Meanwhile, the Winds of Plague vocalist headed up the team at Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor, an event that is seeing its […]
Under the cover of darkness, I slip through the large French doors of the ranch house. The same song can still be heard on repeat, emanating from a record player in the den—and it hides my footsteps well. I keep my flashlight off, moving carefully through the darkness, ensuring I make as little noise as […]
The Blackwood Charter mixes immersive entertainment with an escape room to create a weekend-long, puzzle-solving Event. Focusing on the narrative, Blackwood brings guests in as investigators of a decades-old mystery, hoping they can solve the case before the world at large is negatively impacted. The Charter is headed up by the elusive Executor, who only […]
It’s a hot, sticky day down at Midsummer Scream 2018 in Long Beach, and Ray Jones needs our help. We’d met briefly before, when I helped him with some…well…contraband disposal over in Koreatown, but now he’s in a bind. Through a mutual contact, he tells us he’s trying to make a deal with someone known […]
Along with traditional haunts and immersive entertainment (Prologue, Shine On, Captivated, and others), Midsummer Scream provides an outlet for escape room companies to advertise with 10-minute mini-games. Below are short reviews of the two escape rooms at this year’s Midsummer Scream. Thank you to Cristen Brinkerhoff for her contribution to this article. The Asylum – […]
With an expert blend of the escape room format with the stylings of immersive entertainment, The Reality X offers three varied experiences in which participants can win cash prizes: Welcome Home which invites guests to survive a horrific home invasion this September; BBX, a Big Brother-inspired reality show; and Suspicion, a murder-mystery akin to Clue. […]
I Pledge Allegiance begins ominously, in a pitch black hallway. While downtown Los Angeles bustles just outside the heavy door, a dozen or so unsuspecting patrons awkwardly sign waivers and fill the silence with half-hearted chuckles. A stone-faced security guard looks on, unamused at first, then impatient, then outright hostile. The tension is palpable. And […]
Through the pane of safety glass, Juggernaut’s goggles locked onto each and every one of us, his disfigured mouth fixed in a permanent, horrific grin. Coated in a thick German accent, his voice reverberated through the speakers as he worked away, masterfully dissecting our own personal victim. “So, should I use the pliers next, or […]
In the past four years, the escape room industry in Los Angeles has vastly expanded; new rooms and challenges are opening seemingly overnight, with no signs of slowing. As such, it’s becoming more difficult to find new frontiers in the popular genre. Enter Black Market Escape Rooms, a new escape room company that bills itself […]
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