God Rest Ye Merry

By Crooked House

Players: 22 +17 crew

Genre: Horror, 48hr

At the start of 2015 we ran a one-off live-action game called God Rest Ye Merry. It was a ghost story set at Christmas 1954 about an extended family returning to their ancestral home for the first time in years.

We hired a sprawling, creaky old mansion on Exmoor and filled it with props, documents and special effects. Then we led our players into our world. They stayed there for 48 hours without a break.

We used psychological trickery, computer game technology, video, audio, smells and stunts to put our players through the wringer, and they came out of it in some cases profoundly emotionally affected.

It was a difficult event to capture, because putting a camera crew in there would have ruined the mood. This website goes behind the scenes to try to break down what we did, how, why, and what our audience thought of it.

Cost: free

Available from: http://crookedhouse.org/grym-home/