London Dungeon - Seance 2015
London Dungeon has claimed itself to be the Home of Halloween and every year they create a new seasonal show to celebrate the occasion. The temporary shows are usually quite light in their execution so we were quite shocked to see how dark Seance turned out to be.
The whole show replaces two of the normal rooms on the tour - Mrs Lovett's Pie Shop and Sweeny Todd's Barbershop. Both of these rooms were recently used as part of the extended Jack the Ripper show, Where's Jack,so just needed some slight re-theming. The first room effectively sets up the story and the second is the Seance experience itself including a new spirit cupboard in the corner.
It may come as no surprise that Seance uses the 4d style chairs from Sweeny Todd that involve multi directional sound, neck ticklers and rib pokers. But in the pitch darkness, the audio was so much more subtle than the regular Sweeny show. The ghostly voices and the child like whispers seemed to fade in and out gently and created an ethereal presence around us. At one point there was a jump scare for one poor person, but this was only directed on them and wasn't repeated round the room, and as such felt a bit unnecessary.
In an attraction full of historical fact, Seance felt slightly out of place as it was based on something more paranormal. But as a scare/jump show we loved it as it certainly left many of the team on edge. The pitch dark, the subject matter and the subtle yet effective sounds really add up to make a genuinely scary show. Probably the scariest for London Dungeon..
The whole show replaces two of the normal rooms on the tour - Mrs Lovett's Pie Shop and Sweeny Todd's Barbershop. Both of these rooms were recently used as part of the extended Jack the Ripper show, Where's Jack,so just needed some slight re-theming. The first room effectively sets up the story and the second is the Seance experience itself including a new spirit cupboard in the corner.
It may come as no surprise that Seance uses the 4d style chairs from Sweeny Todd that involve multi directional sound, neck ticklers and rib pokers. But in the pitch darkness, the audio was so much more subtle than the regular Sweeny show. The ghostly voices and the child like whispers seemed to fade in and out gently and created an ethereal presence around us. At one point there was a jump scare for one poor person, but this was only directed on them and wasn't repeated round the room, and as such felt a bit unnecessary.
In an attraction full of historical fact, Seance felt slightly out of place as it was based on something more paranormal. But as a scare/jump show we loved it as it certainly left many of the team on edge. The pitch dark, the subject matter and the subtle yet effective sounds really add up to make a genuinely scary show. Probably the scariest for London Dungeon..
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