Do you love scary movies?

Are scary movies your favorite thing about Halloween? Or do you just want to see the new Hill Library Visualization Studio in action? Drop in for a completely immersive horror movie experience in the Visualization Studio on the third floor of the Hill Library, on Friday, Oct. 29 from 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. “Scary! In Videorama” is presented via videorama, a system that plays several video and audio clips simultaneously on a loop to create a tantalizing and spooky experience for the audience.

“We use lots of clips from horror movies, and the clips all focus on periods of tension that usually culminate in some horrifying release—but in this case, there's no release, just the tension,” says Trevor Thornton, Applications Developer at the Libraries and creator of the videorama. Think Christian Marclay meets Wes Craven.

The Visualization Studio is the perfect environment for this presentation, filling your senses with a 360° experience of hair-raising scenes. The state-of-the-art technology immerses you in each one. And after you visit the videorama, grab a free t-shirt voucher and head to Stafford Commons to pick up your swag and attend the viewing of “Hocus Pocus” at 9:00 p.m.

The videorama montage is edited together with added sound and music to make an experience that’s not dependent upon following a story or having creatures jump out from behind closet doors. “The audio from the scenes is heard all at once,” Thornton says. “The breathing and dripping sounds and creepy music all combine to create the horror movie experience, which are made even scarier in their multiplicity.”

“Not only is the viewer completely surrounded by these scenes of terror, but one also has the delightfully scary sense of being trapped in this perfectly round room with no windows and (apparently) no doors,” says Thornton, devilishly.