If sitting in your lounge room watching The Exorcist just doesn't cut it anymore, maybe being let loose in Fairbairn Pines with 60 zombies is just the thing to get your heart racing.
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Operation Shit Your Pants - an "immersive, cinema-quality, interactive horror experience" is coming to Canberra in October. Participants will be forced to navigate their way through a series of "horror stations" in the pine plantation at Pialligo, attempting to avoid the walking dead at all times.
So far 1200 Canberrans have signed up for the experience, which was created by Batemans Bay-based event designer Dan Palmer to take Canberrans back to "raw emotions". Palmer is also the visionary behind the Operation Blackhawk events, military-style obstacle courses that Canberrans flock to every year.
"In today's society the media, the news and computer games have desensitised us all," Palmer said.
"If you go back 20 or 30 years you never really saw the pictures on TV or on the news that you see nowadays - especially with terrorism and CCTV footage. Everybody's got a camera.
"So what we wanted to do was create an event that made people's hearts skip a beat - create that anxiety, create that sense of fear and a sense of the unknown."
Fairbairn Pines will be transformed into a horror set for Operation Shit Your Pants, and Palmer is also looking for Canberrans who want to play zombies as part of the experience. You need a loud growl, a slow, limping walk and a willingness to be on set at 6am for full special effects make-up.
"Despite some rumours, this is a walk-at-your-own-pace event with the option to do the course dressed as a member of the walking dead or straight human form," Palmer said.
"But having said that, it's not for the faint-hearted."
- Operation Shit Your Pants, Saturday 7 October 2017, Paintball Sports ACT, Fairbairn Pines, Pialligo. You must register as a VIP to secure a ticket via the Operation Blackhawk website.
