14 DAY TRIAL // This Halloween, folks over at A&E Network have a special treat in store for loyal fans: a first-and-hopefully-last-of-its-kind show that will have people buried alive just for the fun of it.
Even wackier, the show will air live. That's right, people will actually get to watch volunteers being buried alive from the comfort of their own homes. Because, you know, what better way is there to celebrate Halloween?
Think of it as an experiment, A&E says
This borderline macabre show that A&E plans to air before Halloween, on October 26, is called Fear: Buried Alive. The event is scheduled to last a couple of hours, during which time three volunteers will be buried alive in coffins and subjected to all sorts of psychological tortures.
If you're thinking the participants are supposed to find a way to escape their coffins, think again. The network doesn't want them to pull a Houdini. It just wants to scare the bejesus out of them for everyone to see. Oh, yeah, and help them overcome their deepest fears.
“Three people are buried alive in an effort to conquer their darkest fears. In this two-hour live event, the participants will be sealed in underground coffins. This extreme experiment is not about escape - it is about enduring and defeating true terror,” A&E explains.
The network is so sure it struck gold with this Halloween show it's claiming that, once they are finally freed, the volunteers will be better off. Having faced their fears and conquered them, they will surely emerge from their coffins triumphant, ready to take on the world.
Fear experts are helping the network with the show
A&E promises the volunteers will be closely monitored the entire time they are in their coffins. They will be scared out of their mind, but no harm will come to them, the network promises.
Apparently, horror writer and director Eli Roth, sociologist and fear researcher Margee Kerr, and other specialists at Chapman University in California have agreed to also make an appearance on the show and keep tabs on the volunteers while they are lying more or less comfortably in their coffins.