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A 24/7 Week-Long Livestream from the Real ‘Conjuring’ House Starts This Weekend!
What if you were forced to quarantine… in a haunted house?
James Wan’s The Conjuring was of course based on a real case investigated by the real-life Ed and Lorraine Warren, documenting the nightmare endured by the Perron family at their Rhode Island farmhouse back in 1971. The house is said to be haunted by the spirit of a woman named Bathsheba Sherman, and the new owners claim it is indeed still haunted.
Cory and Jennifer Heinzen are the latest owners of the farmhouse that was built in 1736, and this coming weekend, they’re opening up their doors for a live-streaming event.
The Dark Zone, the website hosting the 24/7 event, describes:
The world is on lockdown and so is the family living in the house that inspired The Conjuring. Watch as the Heinzen Family shows you how they live amongst the spirits while toughing out this worldwide pandemic. You will get an immersive and interactive look inside the real Conjuring house. When paranormal activity happens, you’ll see it LIVE.
From seances to conjurings, there is a full week’s schedule of planned activities, investigations and tests to perform, plus a full roster of paranormal celebrities who will be joining the livestream – virtually visiting with the family. They’ll hear from Andrea Perron – author, lecturer and survivor of the original Conjuring haunting, Dave Schrader of Darkness Radio and “The Holzer Files,” Susan Slaughter from “Paranormal Caught on Camera,” Brian Cano from “Paranormal Caught on Camera,” Colin Browen from “The Paranormal Files,” Patrick Doyle from “Ghost Mine,” Jay Verburg from “Ghost Mine,” Barry Fitzgerald from “Ghost Hunters International,” Joe Chin from “Ghost Hunters International,” Jimmy Church from “Fade 2 Black,” Bridget Marquardt “The Ghost Magnet,” The Outlander – Heidi Hollis from “Angels to Aliens,” Aiden Sinclair from “Illusions of the Passed,” Jay & Marie Yates of “Haunted Case Files,” Rick McCallum of “The Hollywood Ghost Hunters,” Sophia Temperilli “The Ghost Host,” Sam Baltrusis – Author of “Ghost Writers,” and so many more.
The event will be broadcast starting 12 noon (ET) / 9am (PT) on Saturday, May 9th and running 24/7 for an entire week. You can pre-order tickets right now for $14.99.
A portion of the proceeds will be going to these three COVID-19 related charities: World Cental Kitchen, Gary Sinise Foundation and GlobalGiving.
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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