20 years in the past, SyFy (which was nonetheless often known as the SciFi Channel) premiered a hidden digital camera prank present known as Scare Ways. The premise behind the collection was inserting actual individuals into terrifying, usually paranormal or weird conditions, after which watching them react. I beloved the present once I was youthful. And I’m so completely satisfied that this Halloween season, Scare Ways is again with a seemingly greater finances and below the steerage of horror grasp Jordan Peele.
This new season of Scare Ways makes some adjustments 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 motion pictures and fascinated by human worry.” I’m unsure Flip, along with his big TV head and off-brand Crypt Keeper vibes, actually works, nevertheless it additionally doesn’t matter. Scare Ways has seen a number of host adjustments and varied visible rebrandings during the last twenty years and it by no means diminished the true pleasure of the present: Watching random individuals get thrown into terrifying and spooky conditions and seeing what occurs. And fortunately, this new model of Scare Ways doesn’t mess with that facet of the formulation in any respect.
The primary episode of Scare Ways, which is out there now (together with the second episode) on YouTube, is an ideal return for the brand new collection 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 girl and her husband. However slowly, it turns into clear that these persons are in all probability a part of some devil-worshipping cult and her child ain’t human. The opposite prank within the first episode of Scare Ways incorporates a man who has been invited to a elaborate dinner that includes unique meals. Ultimately, the meal takes a flip and he’s served what he thinks is human flesh. The stress of whether or not he’ll, just like the actors tricking him, eat it or not is great.
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 loosen up and chortle off what simply occurred. It’s at all times fulfilling to look at individuals 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 at all times makes me giggle.
Scare Ways is an ideal present to look at throughout Halloween (the outdated 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 assorted reactions to the horrible occasions round them.
Scare Ways 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 essentially the most terrified by a sure prank. It’s like Candid Digicam, however with extra satan infants and blood. And I’m so completely satisfied it’s again simply in time for Halloween.
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