If you love spooky holiday activities, you're in luck: There's now a "hotel" inspired by real-life true crime stories - because that's definitely something you'll want to do in your free time, right?
Britain's giant creepy Hollow Hotel is an immersive theater experience based on real-life events, London Underground reports. It was designed to mimic how 19th-century American serial killer HH Holmes murdered his victims by trapping them in his purpose-built "murder castle." Holmes is said to have murdered between 20 and 200 people, luring his victims out by renting out hotel-style rooms in his elaborate home. Travel + Leisure reports that the hotel experience includes mazes and tricky booby traps, so guests will have to find a way to escape their impending doom each time.
While The Hollow Hotel isn't an actual hotel (you definitely don't have to sleep there), it is an interactive theater experience designed to scare you. The Hollow is designed to immerse guests in a replica version of the House of Horrors, filled with labyrinthine corridors and nearly inescapable traps designed by Holmes to lure and murder his victims.
This ultra-creepy interactive theater event is brought to the public by performance group differenceENGINE, whose previous works include the hugely successful Heist . In "Heist ," participants must secretly traverse six floors of security challenges and break into a closed room while communicating only through headphones in order to steal a painting, Travel+Leisure reported. The heists were apparently "so" good that their initial three-week campaign turned into a nine-month campaign. Now, differenceENGINE is upping the ante with the launch of a new immersive hotel experience inspired by serial killers. According to differenceEngine's official website, if you choose to visit, you can expect to "travel through a maze of hidden passages that will either allow you to rest or take you further into the hotel's dark heart" while also uncovering "the hotel's intricate secrets." History, dark secrets and hidden agendas - whoever built the Hollow Hotel has constructed a true death trap, designed just for you. "Well, thank you?"
The goal of the game is to "survive" regardless of the experience at the Hollow Hotel. Metro further reports that you'll have to figure out how to escape each room while also finding out who the murderer is. If you do get "killed," meaning you don't make it out of your room, you can't leave early. "Your journey will change and you will encounter new challenges," Metro said.
What else can you expect at The Hollow Hotel? According to The Nudge London City Guide , you will first enter the hotel and meet guests in the bar. You will then be taken to your room, where a trap will appear. If you manage to leave the room, you must try to escape the place without getting killed in the process. Each room will present a new of creative ways to kill you, and, be aware, viewers can and will be killed at any time." "Boost" also points out that you'll get to know more about this as you get further into the Hollow Hotel horror tour. Clues about who the murderer is, so you have extra motivation to find out the truth.
If you're ready to fly to London and book your tickets for the spooky Hollow Hotel experience, tickets are available on DifferenceENGINE's website and the show starts on April 17th — if you can keep the creepy factor in check and stay alert. Then you just might survive.
