The Study

I thought this was an immersive theater show that would involve walking from room to room. It is a seated show in a theater in which the audience interacts by voting on what the characters should do next. I thought it would be a psychological thriller, but it was a classic serial killer slasher story. ... full review

With the immersive conceit that the audience is taking part in a study about the nature of fear, this show sets itself apart. What results is a sort of choose your own adventure where the majority opinion of the audience rules, and the characters in the Rob Zombie Devil's Rejects like horror story, live or die as a result of those choices.... full review

The build-up had pretty much NOTHING to do with the actual show. After signing a waiver and filling out a survey, we were expecting some sort of immersive theater. What we got was a very traditional staged play with "interactivity" in the form of voting with glow sticks every 10 minutes. Why the waiver when all we were doing was sitting in a theater seat? Why a survey when none of the results were used in the scripted show? Then the show itself was boring, trite, insipid, and unoriginal. Teenagers lost in the woods with cannibal hillbillies. Really? This is the best you can do to instill "fear" into an audience in 2018? And what did the college classroom lecture wrap-around bring to the table? This production made no sense.... full review

This show was billed as inmersive, but was really a mildly interactive choose your own adventure. That would have been fine, but it was the most offensive, poorly written, clunky mess of a story imaginable. There was no humor, no understanding of the tropes they were supposed to be satirizing, and nothing remotely scary. Two members of our party left due to the horriibly homophobic language.... full review

Immersive? Really? I signed a waiver. Why? In what way was any kind of harm going to possibly come to me by just sitting in a theatre seat. I would LUV to bring creators of what people THINK is immersive to events like Blackout, Alone: An Existential Haunting, or the grand-daddy of them all, Heretic Horror. Now THATS immersive. But it doesn't have to all be horror. The Fringe event "What Went Wrong" was definitely immersive. I was the only audience member with cast moving about all around me. Even the show "Ghosts" allowed the audience of about 20 people to move about the set and the actors interacted with the audience.... full review