Scare Pewdiepie is a new format that is exclusively shown on Youtube Red. Luckily episode 7 is available for free, which is what this review is based on.
The concept of the show is to recreate scenarios from horror games in real life sets, including effects and actors. Youtuber Pewdiepie is then presented with a number of tasks that he has to fulfill.
The concept is simple, but has lots of potential! However, at least the one episode that was available for free does fall flat in some important aspects.
The most important one for me, is that there is no "real" fear or real emotion involved anywhere. Obviously the star knew that something was going to be filmed, and walking through a dark hospital corridor full of extras is not exactly fear factor material.
To me it was like watching someone walking awkwardly through a live play or something similar. It was very weird.
I think this show could have been very enjoyable if Felix would have been put into situations that truly scare him.
I would watch the rest of the episodes, if you-tube red were available in my country. Maybe this particular episode was not representative of the whole show.
But unfortunately I couldn't even spend money on that show if I wanted to. If artificially narrowing their audience like that is a good strategy remains to be seen.
The concept of the show is to recreate scenarios from horror games in real life sets, including effects and actors. Youtuber Pewdiepie is then presented with a number of tasks that he has to fulfill.
The concept is simple, but has lots of potential! However, at least the one episode that was available for free does fall flat in some important aspects.
The most important one for me, is that there is no "real" fear or real emotion involved anywhere. Obviously the star knew that something was going to be filmed, and walking through a dark hospital corridor full of extras is not exactly fear factor material.
To me it was like watching someone walking awkwardly through a live play or something similar. It was very weird.
I think this show could have been very enjoyable if Felix would have been put into situations that truly scare him.
I would watch the rest of the episodes, if you-tube red were available in my country. Maybe this particular episode was not representative of the whole show.
But unfortunately I couldn't even spend money on that show if I wanted to. If artificially narrowing their audience like that is a good strategy remains to be seen.