Event Report: HAUS OF CREEP
Sean Decker
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Just Fix It Productions’ Los Angeles-based haunt CREEP has consistently raised the bar for SoCal immersive haunt experiences in not only scope but in new and daring narratives, and as we found out this past Sunday night for their 2019 incarnation HAUS OF CREEP, they’ve done so once again.
Now in its fifth year, CREEP has returned to its space at Row DTLA (777 S. Alameda Street, Los Angeles) for its 2019 iteration HAUS OF CREEP, which takes place within a 5,000 square foot space. Running on select dates through November 3th, each seventy-five-minute performance ushers guests into a “grammable” exploratory and multi-sensory art installation. Intended as a send-up of social media-driven culture, its Avant-guard narrative presents an art gallery which features both static and living art installations, and the possibly deranged artists who have created them. Unrestricted, guests are encouraged to freely explore the nightmarish playground and to interact with the unbalanced creators which inhabit it, as well as with members of an organization known only as The Company, an entity which touts itself as a supporter of the arts, but may very well be anything but.
Featuring a cast of over twenty highly committed actors, as well as top-notch, diverse and detailed production design, HAUS OF CREEP succeeds in attaining its goals of not only deftly blurring the lines of reality but also in luring visitors from a state of passive observation into willing participation. It’s a living art piece, at once both ominous and macabre and titillating and exhilarating, and with over sixteen interwoven tableaus of living art, which include shadow plays, a peep show, a deranged puppet act, a sultry bar, a psychopathic barber with a penchant for sex and scissors and a demented photographer who’s more than likely responsible for the murders which she photographs), HAUS’ heady concoction of sex, death and selfies is more than enough to arouse excitement in its guests. And with photo booths scattered throughout, you’ll undeniably become part of the show yourself.
To say much more would spoil the experience, but as in most immersive theater, the more you put in, the more you’ll get out.
Tickets are only $69. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. with shows beginning every 90 minutes, and given CREEP’s current digs of ROW DTLA, you can not only count on safe parking, but a safe downtown environment as well (in addition to the adjacent and delicious Rappahannock Oyster Bar, if you’re interested in some food and a cocktail following your journey into the Haus. We did, and were happy we did so).
For more information, visit www.CREEPLA.com for more information. @JFIProductions #CreepLA #Creepitreal
Writer’s note: our thanks to Jasmine De Jesus for organizing our visit.
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