Tom Spindler's Masks
Tom Spindler returns with his 4th attraction.
We’ve reviewed all of Tom’s previous scare attractions and if you’ve read the reviews or visited yourselves you’ll know that Tom likes to shock as well as scare. His latest attraction, MASKS, lived up to the reputation!
The maze was located in an industrial nightclub built inside a disused metal factory in Islington, North London. The choice of site was perfect. With a large daunting looking façade located down a small side street, we could hear the screams and sounds echoing off the nearby buildings as we queued.
We soon got to experience what was hidden behind the large doors, and it didn’t disappoint.
A very professionally edited pre-show set us up for what was about to come, although I do have to admit I didn’t catch much of it, I spent most of my time looking over my shoulder for anything lurking in the darkness.
Inside and up the first flight of stairs we soon realised that this was again not your “ordinary” scare attraction. What Tom does, and what his actors did so well, was create a great sense of unease, using the layout of the nightclub (and the dancing cages and furniture) to great effect. Even in the wide open corridors we still felt very exposed.
Like previous attractions we were again split up, although not quite as powerfully as Asylum Hill, but still being picked off one by one from a small group wasn’t something that we liked… but we had no choice.
Room after room we were subjected to actors that just appeared from nowhere and multiple attacks from all sides. These folks really knew how to work the spaces and the props provided.
Halfway through we were directed towards the “upstairs room” where we were greeted by several characters. Now, I don’t want to go into detail with this room, but it was strictly adult content only! Whilst we enjoyed the experience I personally found this a bit disturbing and didn’t really enjoy being force fed food off a spoon that had been around so many other people! The contents of this room seemed different for every visitor and as we talked to other survivors afterwards we realised what multitude of sick scenes played out in this room!
But possibly the best room was saved until last. Take one large open area, add in metre upon metre of fencing, crazy strobes and green lighting and an assortment of very active actors and you have a room that had us running for the exit. Compared to the slow creepy weirdness of the previous room, this strobe area was chaotic and extremely intense.
All said and done, the whole attraction was as an intense 20 minute experience as you are likely to experience anywhere. Everyone we spoke to seemed to get a different experience from us, so the improvisational skills of the actors are to be commended. “MASKS off” to Tom for pulling together yet another different attraction. Unlucky for him, the third person in our group had never been through a real scare attraction before, and he left the building trembling. Wow! – What an initiation!
We’ve reviewed all of Tom’s previous scare attractions and if you’ve read the reviews or visited yourselves you’ll know that Tom likes to shock as well as scare. His latest attraction, MASKS, lived up to the reputation!
The maze was located in an industrial nightclub built inside a disused metal factory in Islington, North London. The choice of site was perfect. With a large daunting looking façade located down a small side street, we could hear the screams and sounds echoing off the nearby buildings as we queued.
We soon got to experience what was hidden behind the large doors, and it didn’t disappoint.
A very professionally edited pre-show set us up for what was about to come, although I do have to admit I didn’t catch much of it, I spent most of my time looking over my shoulder for anything lurking in the darkness.
Inside and up the first flight of stairs we soon realised that this was again not your “ordinary” scare attraction. What Tom does, and what his actors did so well, was create a great sense of unease, using the layout of the nightclub (and the dancing cages and furniture) to great effect. Even in the wide open corridors we still felt very exposed.
Like previous attractions we were again split up, although not quite as powerfully as Asylum Hill, but still being picked off one by one from a small group wasn’t something that we liked… but we had no choice.
Room after room we were subjected to actors that just appeared from nowhere and multiple attacks from all sides. These folks really knew how to work the spaces and the props provided.
Halfway through we were directed towards the “upstairs room” where we were greeted by several characters. Now, I don’t want to go into detail with this room, but it was strictly adult content only! Whilst we enjoyed the experience I personally found this a bit disturbing and didn’t really enjoy being force fed food off a spoon that had been around so many other people! The contents of this room seemed different for every visitor and as we talked to other survivors afterwards we realised what multitude of sick scenes played out in this room!
But possibly the best room was saved until last. Take one large open area, add in metre upon metre of fencing, crazy strobes and green lighting and an assortment of very active actors and you have a room that had us running for the exit. Compared to the slow creepy weirdness of the previous room, this strobe area was chaotic and extremely intense.
All said and done, the whole attraction was as an intense 20 minute experience as you are likely to experience anywhere. Everyone we spoke to seemed to get a different experience from us, so the improvisational skills of the actors are to be commended. “MASKS off” to Tom for pulling together yet another different attraction. Unlucky for him, the third person in our group had never been through a real scare attraction before, and he left the building trembling. Wow! – What an initiation!
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