YouTube Stars Are Unrecognizable In ‘Oscar’s Hotel’ Trailer

If you’re the type of person who regularly watches videos from the YouTube community, the odds are good that some of your favorite creators are among the cast of Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures. PJ Liguori’s upcoming web series features appearances from more than a dozen YouTube stars, but if you watch its new trailer, you probably won’t recognize any of them at first glance. That’s because the characters in Oscar’s Hotel are a bevy of colorful extraterrestrials, and the actors who portray them are decked out in amusing costumes.

The whimsical designs of the titular fantastical creatures come from The Jim Henson Company, which teamed up with production studio New Form Digital to lend its creations to Oscar’s Hotel. The result is a diverse array of extravagant get-ups. Mamrie Hart

is a purple octopus, Jake Roper has a horse’s head, and esteemed thespians Alfred Molina and Patrick Stewart are a pair of fishy debt collectors.

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Oscar’s Hotel is one of two web series born from New Form Digital’s first wave of pilot presentations created by members of the YouTube community. It will arrive on Vimeo on September 15th, with New Form’s other upcoming series, Sawyer Hartman’s Parallax Theory, arriving a week after that. Ahead of its release, all six episodes of Oscar’s Hotel are available for pre-order; purchasing all of them at once will run you $9.99.

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