It's comical, as the guys and gals are suddenly shown running to rescue their partners in the forest, where they have, seemingly through divine malice, been tied to chairs. This is one reality show that actually pretends there are no camera people lurking and no props managers handing out blindfolds and flashlights.
The challenges are fake and nonsensical, too, with players screaming and running through the woods as if they're really frightened and really alone. The haunted cabin, the "coffins," even the trees, all look as if they were lifted from the set of a very low-budget movie.
The atmosphere is as authentic as a Disney World ride. Thirteen pretty people are thrown together in a cabin in the Louisiana bayou, where they are guided through fright-themed challenges by phone calls and announcements from a Darth Vader-like voice who goes by the name of "The Mastermind." In each episode, a loser will "die" at an "execution ceremony" until the final survivor wins $66,666. The series, which premieres tonight at 8 on Channel 56, very unsuccessfully tries to evoke horror movies, from "The Blair Witch Project" to "Saw," in a reality TV setting.
At one point in the CW's "13 - Fear Is Real," a bubbly contestant named Laura exclaims, "I'm so scared, I'm, like, shaking." Watching "13 - Fear Is Real," I was, like, shaking, too, from giggling at the awesome flimsiness of this new horror reality show - when I wasn't bored out of my skull, that is.
0 kommentar(er)
