Peyton List Stars in Eli Roth Valentine’s Day VR Horror Short for Meta (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety

Meta is inactive buying VR amusement contented — and Eli Roth, for one, is inactive selling.

“Eli Roth’s Be Mine: A VR Valentine’s Slasher,” a 30-minute virtual world fearfulness acquisition starring Peyton List (“Cobra Kai,” “Bunk’d”), volition motorboat successful Meta Horizon Worlds and Meta Quest TV, disposable successful Meta Quest VR headsets, connected Friday, Feb. 10, starting astatine 7 p.m. PT. For those who are headset-less, the acquisition volition beryllium disposable to ticker connected Crypt TV’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

““Eli Roth’s Be Mine: A VR Valentine’s Slasher” follows Becca (List), a assemblage elder who’s throwing the champion Valentine’s Day enactment ever. The twist: Everyone invited is secretly determination to assistance Becca drawback her Valentine’s Day stalker — an anonymous maniac successful a Cupid disguise who kills immoderate antheral who gets adjacent to her with a bow and arrow. With the assistance of the police, her sorority sisters and the fraternity adjacent door, Becca and the enactment combat backmost to halt the carnage and uncover the mysterious concealed down a bloody Valentine’s Day massacre.

The peculiar is Roth’s 2nd VR collaboration with Meta and Crypt TV pursuing “Eli Roth’s Haunted House: Trick-VR-Treat,” starring Vanessa Hudgens, which premiered connected Meta’s platforms successful October 2022. Meta, looking to spur income of its Quest VR cogwheel and boost engagement with VR formats, has funded different virtual-reality amusement projects including a virtual performance with an avatar of precocious rapper Notorious B.I.G. and a VR acquisition based connected Jordan Peele’s “Nope.”

“It was chill to beryllium a portion of this task with Meta and Eli Roth,” List said successful a statement. “Playing a relation successful an over-the-top VR fearfulness communicative was an experience. It’s going to beryllium a genuinely terrifying mode to walk Valentine’s Day this year.”

Written by Roth and directed by Adam MacDonald, “Be Mine” stars Peyton List, Alanna Ubach (“Euphoria”) and Inanna Sarkis. The 30-minute, 180- and 360-degree immersive VR acquisition is produced by Crypt TV and Roth successful relation with Cream Productions.

Roth commented, “I had the astir unthinkable acquisition making ‘Trick-VR-Treat’ with Meta, and we wanted to propulsion the acquisition adjacent further with ‘Be Mine,’ creating a existent communicative acquisition wherever you’re astatine the halfway of a slasher film.” Mina Lefevre, Meta’s caput of improvement and programming, added, “We are thrilled to erstwhile again spouse with Eli Roth, a existent adept of the fearfulness genre, on with the Crypt TV squad who ne'er fails to impress. ‘Be Mine: A VR Valentine’s Slasher’ is simply a terrifying and immersive acquisition that volition marque you consciousness arsenic if you are genuinely portion of the enactment alongside the precise talented Peyton List.”

Watch the trailer for “Eli Roth’s Be Mine: A VR Valentine’s Slasher”: