BLK4M4SS - PATHOLOGY review by Sam Berrett
Where do I even start...? BL4KM4SS' immersive show, Pathology, is an ongoing show, so I won't be giving away any spoilers. This has made it challenging to find my words, as I honestly just want to gush about it and give every detail of what I went through. It was that powerful. However, I respect others' experiences and of course BL4KM4SS' request to keep details to a bare minimum, so here it is, a couple weeks after the show.
I say slots, because this was our first show where we went through alone (I was at 9 PM, she was at 10:30). We haven't had the chance yet to do Blackout, Victim Experience, or any of the other big name shows known for solo experiences that we still hope to attend one day. We've done countless haunted houses, including House of Shadows which is full contact and our favorite haunt in the Northwest. We've also done much more extreme and longer horror simulations like Cracked vs. Heretic (Year 2, night 2) in LA, and Cracked Survival Experience (Year 5) in England. All of these, despite moments of separation, were group experiences, and we knew who the people behind the scenes were before going into the shows.
None of this applied to BL4KM4SS. We had guesses prior to the evening who was doing the show; we were in the right ballpark, but wrong. We actually didn't realize who they were until after Nicci's show when we were talking and suddenly realized together who we had just interacted with. This element of the unknown, and standing, waiting alone to be picked up, was a feeling of anxiety and excitement I had never experienced before. We parked nearby, waited for our times to approach, and walked alone to our pickup point when our respective times approached. As I waited, every person, every car, every van that went by made me think THAT MUST BE THEM. Looking back, it's pretty funny, but at the time it was a new feeling, and it was genuinely scary.
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