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Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 10:37:10 AM   
Lynnxz


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Status: offline 		Yayyy! The construction for our 2008 Haunted House is about to start! I get to work my butt off until October, then its a whole month of dressing up however I want, and scaring the bajeezus out of drunken frat boys.

That being said- what do you find scary? No zombies please, the makeup artist we had last year only did zombies, and it was overkill I think.

I liked the idea of a House in Atlanta- they had a roach room, where below the iron grid floor, it looked like thosands of roaches were crawling everywhere, and plastic roaches were blown down onto your head- eep!

I want to do a scene from Hellraiser- with that spinning column in the center, but people have a habit of breaking moving objects, so we'll see about that one.  ^_^


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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 11:06:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ringu. If you manage to dress up like Sadako and act like her... the frat boys should sober up pretty quickly. Brrrrr...

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 11:42:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		OMG that bug thing......cockroaches. I would have been tearing the place down, running over people to get the hell out of there!

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 12:04:07 PM   
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OMG that bug thing......cockroaches. I would have been tearing the place down, running over people to get the hell out of there!


Agreed!

Not much in the way of ghosties and ghoulies scares me, but I am terrified of the dark.  And ultra-gory superviolent torture methods like in Saw (especially the fucking needle pit, AAAAAGH) give me an icky chill up my spine. 

I've always wanted to design/work on a haunted house, you lucky woman!


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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 12:17:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Duuuude, yes. Ringu. Or better yet, the American version. Picture it: a large, hollowed out cabinet TV with the inside made to look like the well scene from The Ring. You sitting inside the TV, crawling out all jerky-like toward people. That would be sweet.

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 5:11:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		oh, and here I thought this was about Real haunted houses. I know of some real ones. There is one about a mile from where I used to work. Place is BAD infested with Spooks, Ghosts, Haunts call it what you will.

They have been trying to sell the place for 30 years or more with no luck or rather they sell it and then it goes right back on the market. Story that the house has an elevator  and that the owner hung himself in the shaft, then some years later another guy killed himself in the pool. They say its got some truly bad mojo!

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 5:32:09 PM   
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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 5:34:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've done these, off and on since I was in High School. First with my local Jaycees chapter, and topping out with a huge for-profit house that took up one half of a closed down K-Mart. Building impressive sets is nice, but the scare pretty much comes from the same place: misdirect their attention, then blindside them with something unexpected.

My favorite gags: 
1) Photo copy a $20 bill, and leave it crumpled in a hallway. When the suckers... er... customers come down the hall, someone always leans down, thinking they've found some cash that someone dropped. Except that it's right next to a small hiden panel that snaps open, and a claw comes darting out to grab at them.

2) The group is "aomeba-ing" down a darkened hallway. There, "floating" in a small alcove with a half wall blocking it off, is a rubber skull. The skull is painted with GITD paint. People will stop, look, and wonder what the heck that is... is it a hologram? Just a cheap prop? Why is it slightly bobbing like that? Answer: it's a handheld puppet, and it suddenly comes to life and whooshes past the peoples faces, accompanies by a blood curdling laugh... (the puppeteer is dressed in black, and is accustomed to the darkness, so they can see the group quite plainly. They recharge the skull between groups using a small black light.)

3) If you have a maze: In one of the dead end cul-de-sacs, they find a small red button, with a sign that reads, "Do Not Press This Button." Yes, the button is rigged to a 400w+ strobe light, and a horn taken from an 18 wheeler. (Note: rig the button so it can only go off once every ten minutes each time the button is pressed... otherwise, they just stand there, pressing it like an idiot, just to be annoying.)

Lynnxz, do you subscribe to "Haunted Attraction" magazine?

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 8:54:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		ringu and the ring scared the crap out of me.  just so happens i'm going to be home alone tonight...guess i'll be leaving the hall light on when i go to bed. 

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 9:02:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you can remove the chain from a chain saw... someone with a hocley mask can emerge from hiding, run up to the crowd with a whirring chainsaw and touch it to someone's arm.

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 9:04:21 PM   
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ringu and the ring scared the crap out of me.  just so happens i'm going to be home alone tonight...guess i'll be leaving the hall light on when i go to bed. 


Do not ever watch A Tale of Two Sisters then!  You though Sadako/Samarra was bad... let me put it to you this way, after seeing that movie I still take flying leaps into bed and am terrified to look at the floor when it's dark...


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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 9:21:40 PM   
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If you can remove the chain from a chain saw... someone with a hocley mask can emerge from hiding, run up to the crowd with a whirring chainsaw and touch it to someone's arm.


That's a good way to get knocked out. I went to a haunted  house with some friends once and there was a guy like that. A friend in my group wasn't scared and asked if it was either fake or without a chain. The guy responded telling him to touch it. When my friend refused, the guy came at him. It was not a 'nice' moment. The guy backed off before anything serious happened, but he got close to being hurt.

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 9:31:31 PM   
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ringu and the ring scared the crap out of me.  just so happens i'm going to be home alone tonight...guess i'll be leaving the hall light on when i go to bed. 


I think I am one of the few people who didn't like the Ring. I didn't find it scary at all. Now 28 Days Later, the Exorcist, and the Shining? Those are horribly frightening.

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 9:43:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		a girlfriend of mine once took an old rescussie-Annie (you know, those dummies they practice CPR on), sliced her open and made fake innards for her out of spaghetti.  the idea was you had to stick your hand in there and feel around.  ewwwww!

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 9:48:56 PM   
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If you can remove the chain from a chain saw... someone with a hocley mask can emerge from hiding, run up to the crowd with a whirring chainsaw and touch it to someone's arm.


Now that is really scary. When I was in middle school I was chased out of a haunted house by a hockey mask wearing man with a chainless chain saw, and I jumped so high my shoes fell off. Outside of the building they were like you can go in and get your shoes if you want to and I was like uhhh no thanks. I walked home shoe-less.

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/20/2008 10:54:19 PM   
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If you can remove the chain from a chain saw... someone with a hocley mask can emerge from hiding, run up to the crowd with a whirring chainsaw and touch it to someone's arm.



Now that is really scary. When I was in middle school I was chased out of a haunted house by a hockey mask wearing man with a chainless chain saw, and I jumped so high my shoes fell off. Outside of the building they were like you can go in and get your shoes if you want to and I was like uhhh no thanks. I walked home shoe-less.




Hahaha O god, we recovered 59 shoes, countless earrings, and 4 bags of pot last year. *eyeroll*

We already have chainsaws everywhere- but only like to use two at the most- otherwise people get accustomed to it. Another problem- the people in the line can hear all the racket it makes, and know what to expect.

Ringu sounds fun...hehehe.  As far as the floating skull thing, we already have a setup where we can fly people from the ceiling, but the skull sounds like it might be easier on the flyer, haha.


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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/21/2008 1:05:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Lynnxz,
 
That sounds like so much fun!  How about some distorted mirrors and fog machines, background noises of water running and rats squeaking.

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/21/2008 5:30:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		The problem with "chainsaw guys" is that's its a cheap gag, and waaaay overdone. It's almost like going to a play party and watching someone try to impress the crowd with a pair of handcuffs. Besides, in an indoor haunt, the fumes from a 2 cycle engine can get nasty for everyone involved.

One guy I knew, who is also in this nutty business, used to just play a sound effect of a chainsaw over the sound system... people would be going through his house, just dreading that around the next corner, they'd be confronted with some guy in a "leatherface" mask and a stained bucher's apron weilding the chainsaw... but... nothing. WTF? LOL

I think, if I were building a new house, I'd be looking at some of the movies like the remakes of "House on Haunted Hill," "13 Ghosts" and "Ghost Ship" Those movies really had some wonderful, stealable ideas...

As always, keep the scares close, unexpected and following them. But as others have noted, always stay at arms length, or you WILL get clocked by someone!

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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/21/2008 6:42:32 AM   
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As always, keep the scares close, unexpected and following them. But as others have noted, always stay at arms length, or you WILL get clocked by someone!


Hehe, Been there done that with the being clocked thing. I actually had one asshole knock me over when I scared him, before I could get up he panicked over an empty window and sat on me. Unfortunately for him, that was when I was a sort of bogus-hellraiser, and had braided a headful of nails into my hair. Eep!


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RE: Haunted Houses - 8/21/2008 9:22:05 AM   
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