The Walk of Terror has been around for almost 20 years, it's a professionally produced, immersive theatre experience unfolding over a 30-minute walk in the fields and forests of Caravan Farm Theatre.
This year the Walk of Terror: System Failure, is a site-specific binaural sound journey that blends together sound, image and narrative making an extremely spooky experience.
Guests are given a personal MP3 player with headphones, as they journey into the dark and listen along to an exciting story voiced by six professional voice actors.
“They can expect an immersive VR-like experience, the walk includes 4D binaural sound that you experience through headphones on an MP3 player.
It features a site-specific set design in the fields and forests that's professionally lit, you know set, costumes of all the theatrical elements and the stilt walking, fire spinning performances of Kinshira,” said Estelle Shook, the artistic and managing director for Walk of Terror.
The walk incorporates the natural environment and mixed with the audio you’ll hear animal sounds, strange rustlings, footsteps following not far behind that will leave you guessing if what you're hearing is real.
“We explored what would happen to an ordinary person in an ordinary community if things went spectacularly sideways, a la zombie apocalypse, but with a little more science and a little more backstory behind it. That what-if, if things really start to fall apart in the emergency rooms, and the call centres, and on the streets what does that look like? It all unfolds from the epi-centre that is Caravan Farm Theatre,” said Shook.
The script was written on the fly, as the team walked through the forest to map out the proper path and timing, which when adding the element of the audio track to merge what you see to what you hear is an absolute blur of fantasy and reality.
“We pride ourselves on physiological complexity in our work and scare tactics, so we are always working on that level. More Hitchcock than Friday the 13th, but there are some jumpscares for sure because people want that, I mean some people don’t but most people do,” she laughed.
Running five nights a week right up until Oct. 30, with weekends almost sold out. You can learn more and get tickets for the Walk of Terror here.
