You’ve heard about the horror-themed reality show The CW is cooking up for us this summer: Tentatively titled 13, it will put 13 contestants in a horror-film inspired setting and weed them out one-by-one with terrifying challenges. (Spider-Man/Evil Dead director Sam Raimi is among the exec producers, so it should be more legit than it sounds.) According to Variety, producers are still debating what kind of classic setting to use: "An evil small town? A lakeside retreat with a creepy secret? An abandoned cabin in the forest?"
What would you suggest? I’d go with a Kiss the Girls-style rustic underground cell block concept myself.
It puts the comments in the comment basket, below.
Comments (1-30) of 69 Add your comment
Anything where you can’t see outside/sunlight would be my undoing. Even if I was in a cabin tied up, if I could ’sense’ the outdoors I’d be okay. So, something underground gets my vote. Also – this sounds SO freaky, no way would I watch, but horror movies seem to be popular nowadays…
I completely agree. I don’t think a lakeside cabin or creepy house would quite do it for me. Maybe if it was VERY remote. I’m thinking more along the lines of Saw-style settings. The creepy bathroom from the first movie, or the weird maze like rooms from the other ones.
No question – cabins in an abandoned summer camp. All the joys of Friday the 13th and Evil Dead rolled into one. The creepy woods, the un-secured buildings, the need to go outside of your cabin to use the (unlock-able_ bathroom, the poor lighting of just sodium lamps and flashlights….
Set it in that real-life sanatorium — I forget where it was — where all those people died during the influenza pandemic of 1917. Yeah. That’ll do.
Anywhere with a badly covered well. Ugh… Creeps me out anytime !
A creepy old house that doesn’t seem to have an exit. You keep opening doors and going through hallways but there is never a way out.
Haunted Abandoned Insane Asylum! Cause although you don’t have to be crazy to want to be on reality TV, it sure does help!
A 10,000 sqft 67th-floor Manhattan condo apartment furnished with the latest in contemporary art installations and 2,000-sq-ft. kitchen with state of the art appliances that are never used except for cocktails. That’s a place that reeks of ultimate evil.
i agree with the idea of a small evil town, with limited supplies. Just get the contestants to that town and leave them there to survive.
i say Silence of the Lambs. they are dropped in a hole with only a creepy transvestite to lower a bucket of supplies — mostly lotion but since it’s tv they can have a little food.
Ha! “It puts the comments in the comment section, below.” Classic, Mandi.
Oops – I of course meant “basket”, not “section”
the town from deliverance.
I like that house with no exits!! And maybe a cave, sewer, etc — dark, rats, bugs, mutants …..
Colorado, abandoned hotel, winter.
Thanks to the Shining, I will never be staying at a lodge!
A nursing home at night. That’s always creepy.
My vote is for an isolated island set-up like in Mindhunters. You would have full access to lodge, cabins and the entire island with no way off!
Abandoned hospital/insane asylum. Especially one that still has some of the creepy old medical equipment that look more like instruments of torture.
The middle of nowhere. Broad daylight. When I ride down a bike path past the neighborhoods, trailer parks and farms I always freak myself out with the sense of being vulnerable to some kind of attack. I think this stems from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the scariest movie ever made. All the horrible events of the picture begin during the day, off the beaten track.
stick them in a room (Clockwork Orange style) forced to watch Keanu Reeves acting and listen to American Idol rejects singing (or Britney Spears for that matter). Truly frightening.
Something isolated in the middle of nowhere – even in broad daylight, travelling the interstate, when I go past farms that weirdly have no one around for miles, the isolation is totally creepy. Or the irony of a sealed off area, soundproofed with one-way windows – you can see out but no one can see you or hear you – or your screams – yikes!
A movie marathon of the “movie” parodies except for the “Scary Movie” series
How about a real, legitmately creepy location: the Winchester House. Without a guide I’d have gotten seriously lost. And the backstory? Weird!
I think a great setting would be an old mansion on a hill a la “The Haunting” starring Julie Harris. The walls breathe, the statues in the garden watch you, the caretakers won’t stay in the house after dark… the house wants you. Perfect!
I think a great setting would be an old mansion on a hill a la “The Haunting” starring Julie Harris. The walls breathe, the statues in the garden watch you, the caretakers won’t stay in the house after dark… the house wants you. Perfect!
One place I would find especially scary/creepy would be an abandoned hospital, asylum or prison. Those places usually have some kind of “residual” feelings about them.
The small creepy town thing has been done before. Anyone remember ‘Murder in Small Town X’ on Fox…somewhere around 2000.
The small creepy town thing has been done before. Anyone remember ‘Murder in Small Town X’ on Fox…somewhere around 2000.
i also vote for a creepy abandoned hospital/asylum — scary! But there’s something classic horror-ish about a lakeside summer camp — perhaps with only a few counselors left cleaning up the site, wrapping up the camping season.
I vote for the Danvers-like abandoned insane asylm/crazy house. Those places ( like Dixmont State hospital in Emsorth. Pa), are scary from the get go.