Tag Line: "Some things are best left buried..."

Synopsis: Ellie and Alfie break into an old, deserted Nuclear Bunker to find the body of Alfie’s younger brother who disappeared many years ago. As they explore the labyrinthine rooms and corridors with only macabre talking mannequins for company, they soon realise they are flies caught in a spider’s web.
A 360 film with live stream scenes shot in stereoscopic 3D!
Please watch in a VR headset if you can!

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We wanted to create a spooky film that places the audience - by way of virtual reality - physically inside a haunted house; experiencing viscerally being trapped in there with the protagonists, trapped inside the story. Wearing a VR headset, the viewer has the freedom to look in every direction, including over their shoulder - an action often imagined or desired but not always possible in traditional media. Instead of the main action, the audience can admire the ceiling or scope out the room for an escape route if they wish.
The VR Film ‘Dinner Party’ has been highly influential. This 360 film film about alien abduction with its underlying conventional narrative and strong subtext about the civil rights movement demonstrates that you can tell a story with VR that doesn’t need to be just jump scares and loud music cues.
Gothic, eery atmospheric spaces such as castles and cathedrals are perfect settings for horror films and we had a eureka moment on visiting the decommissioned nuclear bunker, Kelvedon Hatch in Essex, a few years ago. This bunker was created for a real life purpose - protecting the government should there be a nuclear incident - which makes for an authentic and atmospheric set, without needing much dressing.
Linking the themes of architectural construction and human sacrifice is influenced by Peter Ackroyd's ‘Hawksmoor’ novel, which is narrated in the form of a diary written by a deranged masonic architect. This book draws on the Roman ritual of ‘immurement’, where vestal virgins were sealed up alive in the foundations of buildings as an offering to the Gods to stop the building collapsing during construction.