Eli Roth wanted Vanessa Hudgens to be her 'Coachella-best self' for haunted house VR experience - Entertainment Weekly News

Vanessa Hudgens is the queen of 2 things: Coachella and spooky season. So it's lone due that Eli Roth wanted to merge some sides of her property for his caller Halloween VR experience, Eli Roth's Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat.

"Me and Eli person been friends for I deliberation implicit 10 years now," Hudgens tells EW. "We've been friends for a agelong clip and we had ne'er worked together, and helium had brought up that helium was doing thing with VR and helium wanted maine to beryllium progressive — and erstwhile my feline Eli calls I'm like, I'm determination wherever you request me!"

Eli Roth's Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat uses virtual world to instrumentality viewers wrong the Dollhouse, a decrepit location astatine the extremity of the thoroughfare that should ne'er beryllium entered. Years ago, it was location to a dollmaker who made toys for each the vicinity children, but the glue she utilized was toxic and everyone who played with them died—including her 2 daughters. The haunted location acquisition is from the POV of a teenage trick-or-treater successful the astir breathtaking Halloween vicinity successful municipality arsenic they find themselves invited wrong the Dollhouse by a young quality dressed arsenic a fairy (Hudgens) ... and past viewers are rapidly transported wrong of a surviving nightmare.

Hudgens plays some the alluring fairy and the terrifying dollmaker, which allowed her to experimentation and usage prosthetics for the archetypal clip successful her career. "It was thing marque caller for maine and it was truthful fun," she says. "I emotion creatures. I emotion horror. So to beryllium capable to go 1 myself was specified a dream. For the fairy, Eli wanted maine to beryllium my precise Coachella-best aforesaid truthful I got to person amusive with that and enactment stones on, the makeup, and the wardrobe was besides conscionable truthful unthinkable and authentic, due to the fact that with this caller format, you spot 180 degrees truthful there's nary country for error."

Roth sent her sketches of however helium wanted the dollmaker to look, and Hudgens was impressed with however helium was capable to execute his vision. "I came successful a time earlier I shot, we did a trial connected the makeup, and it each worked," she says. "The adjacent time I showed up and did it each implicit again. It truly lone took similar 2 and a fractional hours for the prosthetics, which I was really amazed by due to the fact that my glam takes astir the aforesaid clip normally."

Hudgens laughs arsenic she remembers however overmuch amusive she had playing pranks connected acceptable portion successful her terrifying costume and prosthetics. "I was having the champion clip — I frightened this 1 kid due to the fact that helium acceptable maine up perfectly," she says. "He walked onto acceptable and helium was looking astir and was like, 'This is truthful scary,' and I enactment my manus connected his enarthrosis and I said [in the dollmaker's voice], 'Is it scary?!' And helium turned astir and screamed successful my face. I instantly felt atrocious but it was conscionable truthful overmuch amusive to beryllium capable to unrecorded successful the assemblage and successful the look of this terrifying aged witch."

Halloween is her favourite clip of twelvemonth but this is the archetypal clip she's getting to bash thing successful the fearfulness genre. "I unrecorded for the scare. It's my favourite — going done mazes during spooky play is the happening that I look guardant to astir each year," Hudgens says. "When Eli was telling maine astir this, it was truthful breathtaking to maine to beryllium capable to person a haunted location acquisition astatine home. And being connected the set, the dollmaker's house, it was really this abandoned, rundown gathering that seemingly had 3 ghosts that occupied it. I loved that."

Working successful virtual world was besides a archetypal for Hudgens. "Eli told maine astir however it's going to beryllium a first-person viewing acquisition and helium wanted maine to beryllium this fairy who lures successful kids portion they're trick-or-treating and past the existent maine which is simply a dollmaker who is aged and decrepit and is turning children into dolls," she says "I was conscionable crippled to bash immoderate — he's specified a genius astatine fearfulness truthful I ever spot Eli. And successful bid to get each scene, you had to sprout it each practically. We would conscionable person the camera successful 1 place, the first-person experience, and dainty the country similar a play, which I perfectly adore. I conscionable truly got to person truthful overmuch amusive with it, truly usage the abstraction successful a mode that you don't usually get to. It's truthful unsocial and it's truly breathtaking being connected the forefront of thing that's innovative."

Hudgens is excited for fearfulness fans to beryllium capable to acquisition a haunted location from the comfortableness of their ain homes. "And I'm truthful excited to person my friends implicit and ticker them person this experience," she adds with a laugh. "Happy Halloween and blessed spooky season!"

Crypt TV's fearfulness VR acquisition is present disposable successful Meta Horizon Worlds and Meta Quest TV, and for fans without a Meta Quest 2 VR headset, the acquisition is disposable to ticker connected Crypt TV's Facebook and Instagram pages. It tin besides beryllium watched with friends via Messenger and Instagram video calls.

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