20 years in the past, SyFy (which was nonetheless often called the SciFi Channel) premiered a hidden digital camera prank present known as Scare Techniques. The premise behind the sequence was putting actual folks into terrifying, typically paranormal or weird conditions, after which watching them react. I liked the present after I was youthful. And I’m so completely happy that this Halloween season, Scare Techniques is again with a seemingly larger funds and beneath the steering of horror grasp Jordan Peele.
This new season of Scare Techniques makes some modifications to the format. This time round, the present is hosted by Flip and never a random superstar, like Shanon Doherty or Tracy Morgan. Flip is described as a “spectral pre-teen obsessive about horror films and fascinated by human worry.” I’m undecided Flip, together with his big TV head and off-brand Crypt Keeper vibes, actually works, however it additionally doesn’t matter. Scare Techniques has seen a number of host modifications and varied visible rebrandings over the past 20 years and it by no means diminished the true pleasure of the present: Watching random folks get thrown into terrifying and spooky conditions and seeing what occurs. And fortunately, this new model of Scare Techniques doesn’t mess with that side of the formulation in any respect.
The primary episode of Scare Techniques, which is accessible now (together with the second episode) on YouTube, is an ideal return for the brand new sequence because it demonstrates that this model of the present can nail the wild paranormal pranks in addition to the extra tense, slower paced ones, too.
Within the first prank, a person finally ends up as a witness to a marriage that includes a really pregnant lady and her husband. However slowly, it turns into clear that these persons are most likely a part of some devil-worshipping cult and her child ain’t human. The opposite prank within the first episode of Scare Techniques contains a man who has been invited to a flowery dinner that includes unique meals. Finally, the meal takes a flip and he’s served what he thinks is human flesh. The strain of whether or not he’ll, just like the actors tricking him, eat it or not is fantastic.
Right here’s the second episode of the present, that includes some WWE superstars and a creepy doll that leads somebody to a lethal clown.
In fact, each prank ends with somebody revealing the reality to the sufferer and letting them chill out and chortle off what simply occurred. It’s all the time satisfying to look at folks change immediately the second their brains notice that they aren’t at risk however are literally simply on a prank present. The combination of anger, aid, and pleasure all the time makes me giggle.
Scare Techniques is an ideal present to look at throughout Halloween (the previous pranks are up on YouTube, too) as a result of it’s like a set of horror anthology movies from a number of genres, however starring actual individuals who have genuine and different reactions to the horrible occasions round them.
Scare Techniques is an ideal present to look at with buddies as a palette cleanser between movies in a horror film marathon. It’ll make you chortle and argue about who in your group can be probably the most terrified by a sure prank. It’s like Candid Digicam, however with extra satan infants and blood. And I’m so completely happy it’s again simply in time for Halloween.
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