Try not to rest in peace, etc…
Yeah, we weren’t expecting to write that headline today, if we’re being completely honest.
And yet, here we are.
Even if you don’t watch wrestling anymore – rival WWE promotion AEW is pretty interesting right now, maybe check that out – you’ll know who The Undertaker is.
The Dead Man. The Phenom. Big Evil. He’s been around forever, which is appropriate enough given that he’s meant to be the living – or undead – embodiment of the grim reaper.
The Undertaker doesn’t do much actual wrestling these days – decades of wear and tear will catch up on even the most supernatural of grapplers – but he does have at least one frankly bizarre project coming to our screens quite soon.
Escape The Undertaker will do exactly what it says on the digital tin as you, the viewer, control the members of popular faction The New Day – Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston and newly-crowned WWE Champion Big E – as they attempt to survive the night in a haunted house.
There’s plenty of traps and ghoulish occurrences along the way as The Undertaker appears to be literally trying to kill these men, not in a manner unlike Jigsaw in the Saw franchise.
Throw in some Who Wants to be a Millionaire-style graphics and you’ve got the wildest take on the Bandersnatch formula that we’ve seen in some time.
Escape The Undertaker hits Netflix on Tuesday, 5 October.
Check out the trailer below.
Clip via Netflix
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