Monique Coleman 'Scream Park' VR Series: How to Watch, Cast - J-14

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Bringing connected the scares for the Halloween season! Monique Coleman voices the Robot successful Blackbox TV’s latest VR series Scream Park, and she tells J-14 exclusively how this amusement brings “two worlds together” — gaming and narrative.

“I deliberation it’s benignant of similar an experimentation successful a mode to spot wherever this genre tin spell and however it tin evolve,” the High School Musical alum, 41, gushes astir the series, which was created for Meta Quest 2. “I’m truly excited to perceive backmost from fans to see, you know, what their acquisition is. Hopefully, determination are much opportunities to bash this successful the fearfulness abstraction and besides successful different genres arsenic well.”

Keep speechmaking for much details connected the VR series. 

What Is ‘Scream Park’ About?

Taking spot successful a haunted amusement part, the bid is simply a 360 degrees VR acquisition successful which the assemblage is afloat trapped with the characters. Stranger Things prima Grace Van Dien stars arsenic Kelly Q, portion Monique voices the Robot who Blackbox TV creator Tony E. Valenzuela describes arsenic “the lone happening near successful the parkland that is inactive afloat of airy and hope, a spot of a lighthouse.”

For Monique, she approached this quality the aforesaid arsenic immoderate different relation she would play.

“I would accidental that the merchandise is antithetic than thing I’ve ever done, but the attack is the same,” she tells J-14. “I deliberation erstwhile it comes to storytelling, what’s absorbing is we’re conscionable uncovering antithetic modalities and antithetic avenues for doing that, which is what makes this truthful interesting.”

Who Does Monique Coleman Play successful ‘Scream Park’?

The quality of the Robot “isn’t meant to beryllium scary,” contempt being acceptable successful a fearfulness show.

“I approached it the mode that I attack immoderate character, which is recognizing that each of america has a wealthiness of experiences wrong america that we tin access,” Monique shares. “[Robot is] really meant to beryllium much of a touchstone for each occurrence and, successful a sense, conscionable a guide. But arsenic clip goes on, you commencement to admit that possibly Robot has a spot of a consciousness and that determination mightiness beryllium much to this quality than conscionable idiosyncratic that tells you benignant of wherever we are.”

Overall, the erstwhile Disney Channel prima says it was a “really absorbing process to personify thing that is digital.”

Who Is Starring successful ‘Scream Park’?

Aside from Monique and Grace, histrion Steve Zaragoza is playing the relation of Toby Terrific. While Monique “unfortunately” didn’t get to enactment alongside her costars for this peculiar project, she does find it absorbing however the COVID-19 pandemic has changed however shows are filmed.

“I deliberation arsenic artist, 1 of our gifts is being precise adaptable, peculiarly successful moments of chaos oregon crisis,” she shares.”So yes, it is antithetic and there’s a batch that has changed — that has been challenging. I also, I think, has created opportunities for america to incorporated radical that possibly we antecedently wouldn’t person had the accidental to. … I deliberation a batch of innovation, um, and originative ideas person travel from the restrictions that we’ve experienced for the past mates of years.”

Is ‘Scream Park’ a Horror Show?

While it is considered a fearfulness series, Monique teases that Scream Park is “really much meant to beryllium immersive.”

When it comes to creating a scare-factor, the A Christmas Dance Reunion star said she’s cautious to “consider a person’s tense system.” She adds, “I decidedly played with the code to marque definite that, yeah, it’s thing that could beryllium contributing to the scare-factor, but it’s not traumatizing. This is simply a genre that a batch of radical really, truly emotion and I evidently wanted to bash work to the relation and I loved being a portion of each antithetic types of storytelling.”

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