With ‘Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat,’ Eli Roth gets an assist from Meta Quest 2-powered VR
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Something new is here from Eli Roth. No, it’s not Hostel: Part III or another sequel to Cabin Fever, or any other regular old flat screen film. Eli Roth’s Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat is a creature we’ve never encountered before: Part Grimms’ fairy tale, part haunted-house adventure, all wrapped up in a thirty-minute virtual reality experience. Roth took his unique flair for the macabre and applied it to virtual reality. Trick-VR-Treat is a collaborative effort from CryptTV, Cream Productions, and Light Sail VR. It premiered on Meta Horizon Worlds and Meta Quest TV on October 21.
Strap on a Meta Quest 2 and become the protagonist in your own Eli Roth directed haunt. The experience will be in Meta Horizon Worlds and Meta Quest TV. If you don't have a VR headset just laying around, you can still get your scare on by tuning into the experience on Crypt TV’s Facebook and Instagram.
You'll find yourself in a neighborhood trick-or-treating scene that is deceptively familiar but insidiously frightening. The experience starts off innocent enough with fellow trick or treaters dressed as Kim Kardashian, Pete Davidson, and other pop culture icons, but just like in a Roth feature film, things quickly spiral out of control into a bloody haunted house Halloween fever dream. Not to spoil anything, but there are haunted dolls around every corner, Vanessa Hudgens in a surprise dual role, rooms drowning in Halloween candy and creepy apparitions. It can be hard to know where to direct your attention. And that, says Roth, was his intention. We talked to Roth about haunted houses both real and fake.
