The question then becomes, what is it they are trying to survive and who is behind a competition which is massively more sinister than it first lets on? Naturally, it’s all too good to be true, and when people begin disappearing, leaving blood and scattered boots and jewellery in their wake, the more observant of the party, chief among them Mack, a young woman who knows the power, thanks to a traumatic blood-soaked past, of hiding to save a life and doom those without that skill, begin to realise something entirely evil is afoot. Tomorrow she’ll be alone, hiding, with only her thoughts.
She has to be ready, and physically is the only way she can prepare. So far, so Survivor or something and when their phones become useless thanks to no power and no wi-fi and they find themselves sealed off in a derelict amusement park, they simply its part of the NDA they signed and get on with the business of getting their hands on all that life-changing money. Ostensibly, Hide is about 14 young adults, with varying degrees of trauma seemingly sown deep into their DNA – it’s not a requirement for being selected but it seems to be something they unfortunately share in common – who are transported to the middle of American nowhere to compete for a prize of fifty thousand dollars.Īll these reality show aspirants have to do, their motivations as divergent as their backgrounds and personalities, is be the last one standing after seven days, a feat they pull off by being the best hider in a hide-and-seek competition which sees two competitors eliminated every day. No matter what the threat is or what destructive horror it might bring to bear, it always seems to be people who are the scary ingredients in any terror cocktail, whether it’s battling aliens, facing off zombie hordes or even dealing with a rogue giant shark, and Kiersten White, who admits in her acknowledgements that she is “not at all sorry that I keep writing things she has to read with all the lights on”, runs with that observation to a fiendishly unnerving degree in Hide, which like its setting, is not at all what it first seems to be. It’s a truism long observed that humanity is often the biggest monster at any given table.
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