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The House of Shock(New Orleans)
The House of Shock is quite possibly the most amazingly detailed haunt I have ever entered. This is not a nickel and dime operation. You can tell that many, many dollars and work hours have been invested to create this impressive world of horror. You must begin with a stroll through an unbelievably realistic replica of one of New Orleans “city of the dead” style above ground cemeteries. Then you will enter the building through a creepy chapel, into a morgue and the fun has really begun! Standout scenes you can expect include an amazing reproduction of Bourbon Street, a swamp, catacombs, and brand new for this year, a sewer. And all of these are just building up to a climactic room that I am not going to give away. But I have to say that this cavernous hellhole of a scene has to be the single most thrilling, most no-holds barred, flat out evil creation that I have found in any commercial haunted attraction. I was awe struck and that is not just hyperbole. It was intense and I freakin’ loved every inch of it.
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Haunted Hoochie at Dead Acres(Pataskala, Ohio)
When we attended the Haunted Hoochie at Dead Acres an actor threw me over his shoulder and carried me off into a different room where he spun me around several times and then pushed me back in with my group. We were also cornered by men with chainsaws and one of us got hit in the head. A sign at the entrance of the haunt warns, “ATTENTION: Entering Dead Acres entails known and unanticipated risks that could result in physical or emotional injury. Risks may include among other things, slipping falling, collision with fixed objects or other participants…This may be the best haunted house you’ve ever experienced.
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Cutting Edge(Fort Worth)
Cutting Edge Spookhouse in Dallas/Fort Worth Texas, is the single largest walk-through haunted house experience in the United States taking a full hour minimum to walk through. Cutting Edge is rigged with one of the best, most elaborate sound systems in the entire haunted house industry, with scores of hidden speakers plus a half-million dollar investment in animatronics and pyrotechnic displays.
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Pennhurst Asylum(Spring City, PA)
Pennhurst Asylum, located in Spring City, Pennsylvania, is housed in the original 1908 Administrative building of the old State Mental Institution. Boasting four major attractions, Pennhurst Asylum was rated as the scariest Haunted Attraction in America by USA Today and Hauntworld magazine. The Asylum is a hospital themed walk through haunted attraction with high-tech animatronics, seasoned actors, and digital sound that’ guaranteed to scare. Wind through the labyrinth of old cells, dank damp halls and see the human experimentation that went wrong in The Dungeon of Lost Souls. Details and special effects add to the incredible illusions that will leave you repulsed and in awe. The Tunnel Terror, located underneath the grounds of the facility originally named Pennhurst Home for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic, is a 900 foot-long gauntlet filled with catacombs, swamps and monsters. The fourth attraction, Ghost Hunt, is a self-guided tour of the Mayflower Dormitory, reportedly the most active building for paranormal investigations. Featured on Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters, only the most courageous enter, only the living are allowed leaving. Don’t let the name fool you; we give you a flashlight and you’re on your own.
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The Freakling Bros: Victim Experience(Las Vegas)
They sell only 5 tickets per night to the Victim Experience and you must be 18 or over. The event is designed for a niche audience that wants to succumb to a horrifying and traumatic test of will power. You must sign a waiver before entering, there’s a safe word and only 30 percent of participants make it to the end. What happens inside varies from survivor accounts. After getting knocked over and dragged down pitch black corridors, victims have reported full-contact physical and emotional torture, water boarding, suffocation and simulated criminal sexual content. Here’s a quote from their website: ‘This experience is not “fun.” …When you’re trapped with us, somewhere in darkness, screaming for your life, wishing you were never born… remember this: YOU ASKED FOR IT.’
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Hex House(Tulsa)
So many haunts have vague themes – aliens in one room, zombies in another, and then some vampires. That’s fine, but that’s not the direction I wanted to go. I wanted a more cohesive approach and I wanted to do something with local ties. If someone is willing to pay us to scare them, then we don’t want them to ever disengage from the environment we’ve created. We don’t want them to think ‘this is so unbelievably fake, because two seconds ago I was in a vampire crypt and now I’m in a spaceship.’ Once the customer disengages, you’ve lost them, and it’s very hard to actually foster any fear in them after that. We’re not naïve, and I realize that all haunted attractions are just entertainment, but I wanted to strive for something as close to an alternate reality as we could possibly get. Real immersion and real fear are impossible to achieve when the scenes are too implausible and the transitions are too abrupt. My goal has always been to provide surroundings that you can buy into and feel a strange familiarity with. Our rooms have door frames. Our halls lead to actual rooms. The kitchen has a laundry room aside it. The bathroom is followed by a bedroom, etc. We strive to create an environment that could feasibly exist. Instead of going pure fantasy, like a sci-fi alien set, we try to take reality and push it to the darkest level possible… to its most evil version. We aren’t placing you in fantasy; we’re surrounding you with the most sinister version of reality possible.
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Haunted Overload(Lee, NH)
Eric Lowther’s love of the haunted attraction industry started at just 12 years old in a friend’s basement and today he has developed his home haunting passion into a nationally recognized event. Haunted Overload is the winner of ABC’s “Great Halloween Fright Night” award for the greatest homegrown haunted attraction in the country. In keeping with its theme, Lowther and his staff hand-carve over 300 jack-o-lanterns twice a season, rather than using artificial ones. Each season brings in new patrons and Lowther has vowed that as long as they keep coming, he won’t let them down.
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House of Torment(Austin)
We believe that all fear is derived from the fear of the unknown. Common phobias are triggers for some people, but at the end of the day, the unknown is what gets us. That said, we believe in doing as many things as we can from scratch to keep them original, never letting our guests assume that something is what it seems—for example, plants that are monsters, massive static building pieces that suddenly move, etc.—and keeping things coming from as many directions as possible. Music and sound are very important, as is touch. Lighting can make or break a scene or scare, and smells always get to people. What it really comes down to is that the more elements you can add to an attraction or scene, the more senses you can engage, the better it will be. It’s good to have a scary monster jump out of a hidden wall at people, but it’s better when an 8-foot snake is driven forward by a puppeteer and bites the person in front of you. People faint, empty their bowels out both ends, can’t make it all the way through and end up on our Wall of Shame, have panic attacks, leave their girlfriends or boyfriends behind, get so scared they call the police from inside the haunted house, etc. But the craziest thing I’ve personally seen, which wasn’t a laughing matter, was a soldier hearing a loud popping of metal and suddenly having a flashback to some combat he was in. We stopped the show, got him out of the house and he was OK.
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Bennett's Curse(Baltimore)
What makes Bennett's Curse stand amongst the top Halloween attractions in America is it's dedication to creating a totally immersive environment for it's guests. No other haunted attraction in America can match Bennett's Curse strong reputation for creative theming, and painstaking execution. While other attractions are content to follow current trends, Bennett's Curse is a trendsetter that raises the bar and sets the pace for offering premium terror for a new and demanding generation of thrill seekers! If you have visited Bennett's Curse in the past, be prepared to throw away all preconceived notions of what you can expect to experience. If this year will be your first time visiting or you've looked elsewhere for the highest quality Halloween entertainment and haven't experienced the fright of your life, then this is the year to visit! For 2014, Bennett's Curse will deliver 3 shows the likes of which you will not experience anywhere else.
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Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern(Chattanooga)
The Nightmares Return in September. No Ordinary Haunted House. Located in a cave crawling with terrifying monsters, the Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern is a unique attraction that adds a new level of fear to the traditional haunted house. Located in Chattanooga, TN, the Haunted Cavern has been named one of the top 10 haunted houses in the nation by Rand McNally. If you’re brave enough, hop in the elevator and descend 26 stories underground… where no one can hear you scream. You have never been in the dark... until you've been 260 feet underground and they cut the lights!
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Erebus(Pontiac, MI)
Erebus is the result of Dr. Colber who worked for the government to build a time machine. After leaving the government, he worked on the time machine on his own. Successful at sending people back into time, with only one glitch, the time period looked at the people as a virus and wiped them out. Determined to over come this glitch he sent in group after group of his own personnel. Unsuccessful, he ended up broke and lacking the proper personnel to run his machine. Dr. Colber came up with a brilliant idea to disguise his time machine as a haunted house and have the general public help fund his project and use the people going through as human guinea pigs. Michigan is the self-styled haunted attraction capital of the world with more then 70 haunts in a 50 mile radius. Because of that fact we can't buy the standard props from the trade show because 25 other haunts will have it in this market. We pride ourselves as one of the most unique haunts in the country by designing and building almost all of our own props in house. You will see things here that were born from the imaginations of a couple of guys that have been thinking about scaring people for over 34 years! If you can conceive it, believe it, you can achieve it! That is a motto of success, we just applied it to scaring people!
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Spookywoods(High Point, NC)
What makes it so insane: Just to even get to the main part of Spookywoods, you go through actual cold, pitch black woods inhabited by actors ready to pop out at you. Once you arrive at the main site, you have to take a haunted tram to each attraction, so there’s no room to collect your thoughts in between scares.
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The Darkness(St. Louis)
The Darkness is considered by many the single best haunted house in the entire haunt industry because of its amazing set design, detail, and over the top animations. One of the things we can say without a doubt is Darkness has the best 3D haunted house in America called Terror Visions. The Darkness has three attractions in one location for one price including the two floors of Darkness, Terror Visions in 3D and the Monster Museum. Each year The Darkness is renovated to open in March during the annual Transworld Haunted House Tradeshow. The Darkness is critiqued by the entire haunt industry so each year it’s renovated prior to March with spectacular special fx and one of kind sets. The one thing which makes Darkness different is over the top massive effects which scare large groups at one time such as the falling barrel wall, moving swamp house, and many more. The Darkness is totally renovated each year with new animations, computer animations, set and more… put The Darkness on your must see haunts this Halloween.
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Wisconsin Fear Grounds(Waukesha)
Wisconsin's Scariest Haunted Attraction's as selected by Haunted Attraction Magazine, America's Best Haunts.com, Haunted House Ratings.com. The Largest Haunted House in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Fear Grounds is the only haunted house in Wisconsin to win every Halloween Industry award. The 3 separate Haunted Houses that make up the Wisconsin Fear Grounds bring your Nightmares to life every night. Morgan Manor - First enter Morgan Manor the corner stone of our trilogy of TERROR. Expect the unexpected as Morgana and her 8 sisters feed on your fear in this den of Horror. CarnEvil - Morgana and her wicked sisters have once again bewitched another new crop of minions to do their “EVIL” bidding in CarnEvil of Torment – A Freak Show of Terror. For those unsuspecting souls, Be Warned, things are about to get “Freaky” as a new evil greets you in the latest nightmare. Think you can avoid getting caught up in this freak show of terror? Give it a try and see. This three-ring circus of evil will have your head spinning by the time you reach the end…assuming you find the exit. Unstable – What pain was once limited to the indoors has now spread. The evil has consumed the rest of the grounds, as Morgana and her minions have found refuge in the stables of this once elegant estate to unleash even more horror, “Unstable”. The outdoors are no longer refuge from the terror of her home as you try to escape, Unstable is waiting to greet you. NEW in 2015 - Morgana's Escape....You have accidentally stumbled into a place you shouldn't have, locked in a death trap with little hope of survival as you and as many as 9 friends try to decipher the codes, clues and puzzles to locate the 3 hidden keys that will open the locks to your salvation. As the clock counts down to your demise you and your friends have just 1 hour to escape from the wrath that is Morgana and her minion... the Graack, who happens to be the worlds most cunning serial killer. tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...Time to DIE!!!!!
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Haunted Scarehouse(Wharton, NJ)
Regarded by Halloween enthusiasts as Jerseys most original and innovative haunted attraction, Haunted Scarehouse features two floors of heart-stopping entertainment and the ALL NEW Escape Rooms. Inspired by the imaginative genius of pioneer Walt Disney and his theme parks, the Scarehouse creative team strives to match Disney’s awe-inspiring levels of craftsmanship, detail, and live performance. The award-winning show is full of excitement from the second you step foot into the building as you navigate through two gigantic haunted houses, interacting with special effects and fearfully realistic scenes—everything a professional haunted house should be, and much, much more! Come and experience for yourself why Haunted Scarehouse was rated scariest haunt in New Jersey by Haunt Hunters in 2014, and others.
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The Dent Schoolhouse(Cinncinati)
The Dent Schoolhouse is a haunted attraction that takes place inside an actual historical schoolhouse with a haunting history. Shut down in the 1950's after a murdering Janitor worked and resided in the basement all the while children were missing. Today, movie quality sets and Hollywood animations, combined with this real legend, makes The Dent Schoolhouse a haunted house attraction NOT to miss! New for 2015, the entire 1st floor of the attraction went through a complete renovation. Guests now get to witness the age of the building. Lockers are rusted shut, dry wall is falling apart, and the classrooms are in shambles. Deadly dissections have taken place in the science classroom and the English class has become a make-shift morgue while the bodies in the basement continue to number. Other new additions to the schoolhouse are the renovated automotive classroom with a rabid junkyard dog and two cars from hell, plus a new ending that has the guests mazing through the school's bus parking lot!
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The Beast & Edge of Hell(Kansas City)
The Beast is one of if not the longest running haunted houses in America and is one of the only haunted houses in America that is FIVE STORIES TALL! In Kansas City, they feature not one but two of the best haunted houses including The Beast and Edge of Hell. Both of these haunted attractions are amazing featuring incredible set design, and one of the only haunts featuring live and very real creatures like a 25 foot long Python, Gators and much more. Both attractions feature a 5 story slide from the top floor all the way back down to the ground floor. Both The Beast and Edge of Hell can be ranked as high as the best haunted houses in the country. The combination of the two makes Kansas City a must stop when looking for the scariest haunted houses in America.
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Shocktoberfest: The Naked and Scared Challenge(Sinking Spring, PA)
The Naked and Scared Challenge allows participants to go through the Unknown Haunted House Nude or Prude (either totally nude or with underwear). It takes place at the end of the night after all customers have gone through the attraction. Participants must be 18 years of age or older and must sign a waiver. Participants undress in a semi-private preshow building, experience the Unknown Haunted House, and then exist into a semi-private fenced courtyard where they will get dressed. Participants are never in view of minors or non-participating customers. Naked and Scared Challenge is not offered on Sundays. Disclaimer: Shocktoberfest has created this experience so their customers can explore a new level of fear. This is about fear and pushing oneself out of their comfort zone. This is not about sex. No sexual misconduct, inappropriate or disrespectful behavior will be tolerated.
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Hysteria at Connors Farm(Salem, MA)
Located in the Halloween capital of the world, Hysteria is the newest rising star among America’s haunted attractions. In 1692, Danvers was known as Salem Village, the center of the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Although the town fathers changed the name to escape controversy, the events that transpired on these grounds are forever etched into the historical records. Many believe that to this day, a curse still hovers over a remote area of Danvers known as Connors Farm. This sets the stage for Hysteria. With over 50 acres of entertainment, Hysteria has something for everyone. The venue consists of 5 main haunted attractions with varying levels of intensity. Guests can enjoy the family friendly Maze of Darkness, a walking tour through Hysteria’s historic “Burial Grounds” or immerse themselves in the extreme terror and over the top gore in The Fields attraction. Visitors can shoot zombies at Hysteria’s signature Zombie Hunt at Connors Compound or squeal and squirm at the sights and sounds of Madame Abattage’s Cirque du Dement travelling circus and sideshow.
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Chamber of Horrors(Atlanta)
Atlanta’s adults-only extreme haunted house, Chambers of Horror is the most disturbing and shocking horror attraction in the Southeast! Tour the TORTUREco facilities behind the Masquerade music complex in downtown Atlanta to see the disaffected wreak havoc on the flesh of the innocent. See the psychotic creations and mutations of the evil genius Dr Dieter von Splechter, who has entered into a government contract to build super soldiers for a special ops program. But has the government made a deal with the devil himself? Find out this October! Visit the Splatter Bar & Lounge and enjoy a drink and entertainment while you wait to have the fright of your life! It’s the best place to spend…
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p.s. Hey. ** N, Howdy, N. Oh, I didn't see the new 'Mad Max' or 'Skins'. He and his gif were just configured helpfully for whatever sequence he was in. It's always best when I know the background stuff on the gifs so I can work with it, but I miss stuff. Cool, your life and stuff sound really exciting, pal. Mothering is a noble art, isn't it? Seems like it must be. 'Whole hog' is an awesome approach when writing about porn, obviously, ha ha. I don't know what 'The Leftovers' is. As usual, anything TV is a big blank for me. I'm doing great, tons going on, thank you for asking. Have a big, great Tuesday! Love, me. ** H, Hi. Like I said to whoever asked yesterday, the p.s. isn't tedious for me. Of course if disappearing is more fruitful, that's def. the way to go. Door's eternally open. Really glad that you're amidst such interesting work! Very, very best of luck with it and with everything until next time! ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Oh, nothing but my honor, of course. I did see 'A Single Man', which I actually thought was dreadful, so I guess I did see the notorious Mr. Hoult, although memory fails on his details. ** Tosh Berman, Great morning to you, Tosh! ** Boy with a girl earring, Hi! Nice name! Oh, I remember talking with you, yes, of course. Nice to see you, or at least 'see' you, again. You're here! Sorry about all this rain. Oh, gosh, there are a lot of places here very worth going. Depends on your specifics re: your interests. Hm. Well, let's meet for a coffee, and I can think and collate my ideas then and beforehand, if you like. I'm around until Saturday, and then I go away for a week. If you want, write to me at dcooperweb@gmail.com, and we can sort out a meeting. Thanks for coming in here, Justin, and hopefully see you soon. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. The TV show is kind of hard to distill, partly 'cos we're still figuring out the exactness. Briefly, the daughter of a late, world famous ventriloquist has inherited his very famous puppet, and she and the puppet live together, and she hopes to be famous ventriloquist, and there is a ton of intense weirdness regarding her and the puppet. The first episode takes place on Halloween. Not much to go on, sorry, but its kind of weirdly complex inside for something that's doesn't seem that complex when I do a thumbnail sketch of the set-up/ narrative. I was literally shocked by the horribleness of the writing in Morrissey's novel, based on the squibs I saw. Oh, man, I read that thing you wrote about the blog this morning, and ... well, talk about lacking words for something: I'm incredibly touched and blown away and so honored by what you wrote. You have no idea, really. The word 'thanks' seems like a microdot compared to what I wish to fill it with. Thank you, Thomas, and, yeah, ... thank you. Everyone, as part of Chris Goode's soon-to-premiere theater work 'Weaklings' based on or inspired by this blog, Thomas 'Moronic' Moore has written an incredibly beautiful and generous piece about his experiences here on the blog over the years that has been posted on Chris Goode's 'Weaklings' website. One, it's superbly written, being that it's from the ultra-talent of Mr. Moore, and, two, it speaks of some of history of this blog in the very kindest and most humbling (to me) way, if you're interested. Anyway, you can read it here. Really, T., reading something like what you've written ... it just kind of singlehandedly makes all the years I've been making this place feel so worth it. Giant love, me. ** Bill Reed, Hi, Bill! It was such a true pleasure to have this blog honored by your book and its lustrous and wonderful gifts. Thank you so much again for allowing me to co-introduce it. ** Jamie McMorrow, Hi, Jamie. Oh, wow, did you get far enough with the gif story to make it visible? As you can imagine, I'm extremely interested to see what other writers do with that form and material. My talent and interests are only what they are, and I would so love to see what happens with gifs as language when that idea colludes with differently configured talents. But, yeah, they're probably immensely more work to make than they seem to others' naked eyes. What kind of music were/are you tinkering with? Dude, excellent idea: rescue that interesting plot from the mulch in which Morrissey seems to have stranded it. Things are good here. Good there too? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Coolness if your cool mom were to see Chris's cool thing. ** Steevee, I just got the new Deafheaven yesterday, and yeah, I agree, On first listen at least, it's really something. I need to go ahead and get the Young Thug thing. ** Marcus mamourian, Hi, Marcus. Yeah, my memory doesn't seem to want to outpour a list of Brown grads this morning, but there are a near-ton of amazing artists of different stripes who came out of there. For, sure, understood, about the valuable interfacing with the art students. Most of my friends when I was first getting serious about writing were visual artists of some sort, and being able to talk about making stuff with people who weren't tied down to written language pretty much influenced the way I wrote then and forever. And the deal is the same for me now too. Yeah, Goldsmith's ideas about ownership, etc. are very sharp and attractive. Obviously resonant to me personally right now because of my concentration on writing gif fiction. I'm pretty romantic too, though. I still have this theoretically dying belief in total originality and genius. Or I guess that holding those prospectives and goals out before me has always very inspiring and invigorating, regardless of their logic, etc., if that makes any sense. I love Lynch too, obviously. Especially the later/latest stuff. What are your favorite Herzogs? Do you prefer his fiction or non-fiction or both? 'Stroszek' is one of all-time very favorite films. Interesting you like Malle. I was watching some of his films not so long ago, liking them, and wondering why his work is so out of favor or non-referenced these days, and not coming up with an answer. It's always tricky when you actually knew an artist, and then they die, and then their work is out of their control. I know I'll read the 'Kathy's letters' book at some point. I just feel a little queasy. Same deal with all of the post-death David Foster Wallace stuff. Having known him, what has happened around him and his work is really surreal, and not in a fun way. Oh, wow, thank you, that's exciting, that you wrote something on 'Try'. I'll go read that as soon as I'm away from here. Really, thank you very, very much for doing that. Cool. Have an awesome Tuesday! Everyone, Marcus mamourian wrote an essay partly on my work some time back, and it's called 'Derrida, Cooper, Bernhard & masturbation', and, if you're interested to read it, it's here. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. No, it was fucking raining, and I mean pouring rain, here all day yesterday, and it still fucking is, and I like rain, I really do, and hard rain especially, I really do, but I eschewed the 10 minute sloppy walk that would have been required of me to purchase a sufficiently high quality eclair, and I chose dry feet. But today, while similarly very wet thus far, is, also, additionally young. ** Right. Halloween's back in the saddle today. Those are what look to me to be the most exciting Halloween haunted houses in the US of A (minus So. Cal.) this year, and, if you live within reach of one or more of them, I think you might be very foolish not to go to that nearby haunted house or -houses and then come back here and tell me all about it/them. See you tomorrow.
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The House of Shock(New Orleans)
The House of Shock is quite possibly the most amazingly detailed haunt I have ever entered. This is not a nickel and dime operation. You can tell that many, many dollars and work hours have been invested to create this impressive world of horror. You must begin with a stroll through an unbelievably realistic replica of one of New Orleans “city of the dead” style above ground cemeteries. Then you will enter the building through a creepy chapel, into a morgue and the fun has really begun! Standout scenes you can expect include an amazing reproduction of Bourbon Street, a swamp, catacombs, and brand new for this year, a sewer. And all of these are just building up to a climactic room that I am not going to give away. But I have to say that this cavernous hellhole of a scene has to be the single most thrilling, most no-holds barred, flat out evil creation that I have found in any commercial haunted attraction. I was awe struck and that is not just hyperbole. It was intense and I freakin’ loved every inch of it.
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Haunted Hoochie at Dead Acres(Pataskala, Ohio)
When we attended the Haunted Hoochie at Dead Acres an actor threw me over his shoulder and carried me off into a different room where he spun me around several times and then pushed me back in with my group. We were also cornered by men with chainsaws and one of us got hit in the head. A sign at the entrance of the haunt warns, “ATTENTION: Entering Dead Acres entails known and unanticipated risks that could result in physical or emotional injury. Risks may include among other things, slipping falling, collision with fixed objects or other participants…This may be the best haunted house you’ve ever experienced.
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Cutting Edge(Fort Worth)
Cutting Edge Spookhouse in Dallas/Fort Worth Texas, is the single largest walk-through haunted house experience in the United States taking a full hour minimum to walk through. Cutting Edge is rigged with one of the best, most elaborate sound systems in the entire haunted house industry, with scores of hidden speakers plus a half-million dollar investment in animatronics and pyrotechnic displays.
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Pennhurst Asylum(Spring City, PA)
Pennhurst Asylum, located in Spring City, Pennsylvania, is housed in the original 1908 Administrative building of the old State Mental Institution. Boasting four major attractions, Pennhurst Asylum was rated as the scariest Haunted Attraction in America by USA Today and Hauntworld magazine. The Asylum is a hospital themed walk through haunted attraction with high-tech animatronics, seasoned actors, and digital sound that’ guaranteed to scare. Wind through the labyrinth of old cells, dank damp halls and see the human experimentation that went wrong in The Dungeon of Lost Souls. Details and special effects add to the incredible illusions that will leave you repulsed and in awe. The Tunnel Terror, located underneath the grounds of the facility originally named Pennhurst Home for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic, is a 900 foot-long gauntlet filled with catacombs, swamps and monsters. The fourth attraction, Ghost Hunt, is a self-guided tour of the Mayflower Dormitory, reportedly the most active building for paranormal investigations. Featured on Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters, only the most courageous enter, only the living are allowed leaving. Don’t let the name fool you; we give you a flashlight and you’re on your own.
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The Freakling Bros: Victim Experience(Las Vegas)
They sell only 5 tickets per night to the Victim Experience and you must be 18 or over. The event is designed for a niche audience that wants to succumb to a horrifying and traumatic test of will power. You must sign a waiver before entering, there’s a safe word and only 30 percent of participants make it to the end. What happens inside varies from survivor accounts. After getting knocked over and dragged down pitch black corridors, victims have reported full-contact physical and emotional torture, water boarding, suffocation and simulated criminal sexual content. Here’s a quote from their website: ‘This experience is not “fun.” …When you’re trapped with us, somewhere in darkness, screaming for your life, wishing you were never born… remember this: YOU ASKED FOR IT.’
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Hex House(Tulsa)
So many haunts have vague themes – aliens in one room, zombies in another, and then some vampires. That’s fine, but that’s not the direction I wanted to go. I wanted a more cohesive approach and I wanted to do something with local ties. If someone is willing to pay us to scare them, then we don’t want them to ever disengage from the environment we’ve created. We don’t want them to think ‘this is so unbelievably fake, because two seconds ago I was in a vampire crypt and now I’m in a spaceship.’ Once the customer disengages, you’ve lost them, and it’s very hard to actually foster any fear in them after that. We’re not naïve, and I realize that all haunted attractions are just entertainment, but I wanted to strive for something as close to an alternate reality as we could possibly get. Real immersion and real fear are impossible to achieve when the scenes are too implausible and the transitions are too abrupt. My goal has always been to provide surroundings that you can buy into and feel a strange familiarity with. Our rooms have door frames. Our halls lead to actual rooms. The kitchen has a laundry room aside it. The bathroom is followed by a bedroom, etc. We strive to create an environment that could feasibly exist. Instead of going pure fantasy, like a sci-fi alien set, we try to take reality and push it to the darkest level possible… to its most evil version. We aren’t placing you in fantasy; we’re surrounding you with the most sinister version of reality possible.
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Haunted Overload(Lee, NH)
Eric Lowther’s love of the haunted attraction industry started at just 12 years old in a friend’s basement and today he has developed his home haunting passion into a nationally recognized event. Haunted Overload is the winner of ABC’s “Great Halloween Fright Night” award for the greatest homegrown haunted attraction in the country. In keeping with its theme, Lowther and his staff hand-carve over 300 jack-o-lanterns twice a season, rather than using artificial ones. Each season brings in new patrons and Lowther has vowed that as long as they keep coming, he won’t let them down.
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House of Torment(Austin)
We believe that all fear is derived from the fear of the unknown. Common phobias are triggers for some people, but at the end of the day, the unknown is what gets us. That said, we believe in doing as many things as we can from scratch to keep them original, never letting our guests assume that something is what it seems—for example, plants that are monsters, massive static building pieces that suddenly move, etc.—and keeping things coming from as many directions as possible. Music and sound are very important, as is touch. Lighting can make or break a scene or scare, and smells always get to people. What it really comes down to is that the more elements you can add to an attraction or scene, the more senses you can engage, the better it will be. It’s good to have a scary monster jump out of a hidden wall at people, but it’s better when an 8-foot snake is driven forward by a puppeteer and bites the person in front of you. People faint, empty their bowels out both ends, can’t make it all the way through and end up on our Wall of Shame, have panic attacks, leave their girlfriends or boyfriends behind, get so scared they call the police from inside the haunted house, etc. But the craziest thing I’ve personally seen, which wasn’t a laughing matter, was a soldier hearing a loud popping of metal and suddenly having a flashback to some combat he was in. We stopped the show, got him out of the house and he was OK.
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Bennett's Curse(Baltimore)
What makes Bennett's Curse stand amongst the top Halloween attractions in America is it's dedication to creating a totally immersive environment for it's guests. No other haunted attraction in America can match Bennett's Curse strong reputation for creative theming, and painstaking execution. While other attractions are content to follow current trends, Bennett's Curse is a trendsetter that raises the bar and sets the pace for offering premium terror for a new and demanding generation of thrill seekers! If you have visited Bennett's Curse in the past, be prepared to throw away all preconceived notions of what you can expect to experience. If this year will be your first time visiting or you've looked elsewhere for the highest quality Halloween entertainment and haven't experienced the fright of your life, then this is the year to visit! For 2014, Bennett's Curse will deliver 3 shows the likes of which you will not experience anywhere else.
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Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern(Chattanooga)
The Nightmares Return in September. No Ordinary Haunted House. Located in a cave crawling with terrifying monsters, the Ruby Falls Haunted Cavern is a unique attraction that adds a new level of fear to the traditional haunted house. Located in Chattanooga, TN, the Haunted Cavern has been named one of the top 10 haunted houses in the nation by Rand McNally. If you’re brave enough, hop in the elevator and descend 26 stories underground… where no one can hear you scream. You have never been in the dark... until you've been 260 feet underground and they cut the lights!
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Erebus(Pontiac, MI)
Erebus is the result of Dr. Colber who worked for the government to build a time machine. After leaving the government, he worked on the time machine on his own. Successful at sending people back into time, with only one glitch, the time period looked at the people as a virus and wiped them out. Determined to over come this glitch he sent in group after group of his own personnel. Unsuccessful, he ended up broke and lacking the proper personnel to run his machine. Dr. Colber came up with a brilliant idea to disguise his time machine as a haunted house and have the general public help fund his project and use the people going through as human guinea pigs. Michigan is the self-styled haunted attraction capital of the world with more then 70 haunts in a 50 mile radius. Because of that fact we can't buy the standard props from the trade show because 25 other haunts will have it in this market. We pride ourselves as one of the most unique haunts in the country by designing and building almost all of our own props in house. You will see things here that were born from the imaginations of a couple of guys that have been thinking about scaring people for over 34 years! If you can conceive it, believe it, you can achieve it! That is a motto of success, we just applied it to scaring people!
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Spookywoods(High Point, NC)
What makes it so insane: Just to even get to the main part of Spookywoods, you go through actual cold, pitch black woods inhabited by actors ready to pop out at you. Once you arrive at the main site, you have to take a haunted tram to each attraction, so there’s no room to collect your thoughts in between scares.
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The Darkness(St. Louis)
The Darkness is considered by many the single best haunted house in the entire haunt industry because of its amazing set design, detail, and over the top animations. One of the things we can say without a doubt is Darkness has the best 3D haunted house in America called Terror Visions. The Darkness has three attractions in one location for one price including the two floors of Darkness, Terror Visions in 3D and the Monster Museum. Each year The Darkness is renovated to open in March during the annual Transworld Haunted House Tradeshow. The Darkness is critiqued by the entire haunt industry so each year it’s renovated prior to March with spectacular special fx and one of kind sets. The one thing which makes Darkness different is over the top massive effects which scare large groups at one time such as the falling barrel wall, moving swamp house, and many more. The Darkness is totally renovated each year with new animations, computer animations, set and more… put The Darkness on your must see haunts this Halloween.
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Wisconsin Fear Grounds(Waukesha)
Wisconsin's Scariest Haunted Attraction's as selected by Haunted Attraction Magazine, America's Best Haunts.com, Haunted House Ratings.com. The Largest Haunted House in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Fear Grounds is the only haunted house in Wisconsin to win every Halloween Industry award. The 3 separate Haunted Houses that make up the Wisconsin Fear Grounds bring your Nightmares to life every night. Morgan Manor - First enter Morgan Manor the corner stone of our trilogy of TERROR. Expect the unexpected as Morgana and her 8 sisters feed on your fear in this den of Horror. CarnEvil - Morgana and her wicked sisters have once again bewitched another new crop of minions to do their “EVIL” bidding in CarnEvil of Torment – A Freak Show of Terror. For those unsuspecting souls, Be Warned, things are about to get “Freaky” as a new evil greets you in the latest nightmare. Think you can avoid getting caught up in this freak show of terror? Give it a try and see. This three-ring circus of evil will have your head spinning by the time you reach the end…assuming you find the exit. Unstable – What pain was once limited to the indoors has now spread. The evil has consumed the rest of the grounds, as Morgana and her minions have found refuge in the stables of this once elegant estate to unleash even more horror, “Unstable”. The outdoors are no longer refuge from the terror of her home as you try to escape, Unstable is waiting to greet you. NEW in 2015 - Morgana's Escape....You have accidentally stumbled into a place you shouldn't have, locked in a death trap with little hope of survival as you and as many as 9 friends try to decipher the codes, clues and puzzles to locate the 3 hidden keys that will open the locks to your salvation. As the clock counts down to your demise you and your friends have just 1 hour to escape from the wrath that is Morgana and her minion... the Graack, who happens to be the worlds most cunning serial killer. tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...Time to DIE!!!!!
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Haunted Scarehouse(Wharton, NJ)
Regarded by Halloween enthusiasts as Jerseys most original and innovative haunted attraction, Haunted Scarehouse features two floors of heart-stopping entertainment and the ALL NEW Escape Rooms. Inspired by the imaginative genius of pioneer Walt Disney and his theme parks, the Scarehouse creative team strives to match Disney’s awe-inspiring levels of craftsmanship, detail, and live performance. The award-winning show is full of excitement from the second you step foot into the building as you navigate through two gigantic haunted houses, interacting with special effects and fearfully realistic scenes—everything a professional haunted house should be, and much, much more! Come and experience for yourself why Haunted Scarehouse was rated scariest haunt in New Jersey by Haunt Hunters in 2014, and others.
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The Dent Schoolhouse(Cinncinati)
The Dent Schoolhouse is a haunted attraction that takes place inside an actual historical schoolhouse with a haunting history. Shut down in the 1950's after a murdering Janitor worked and resided in the basement all the while children were missing. Today, movie quality sets and Hollywood animations, combined with this real legend, makes The Dent Schoolhouse a haunted house attraction NOT to miss! New for 2015, the entire 1st floor of the attraction went through a complete renovation. Guests now get to witness the age of the building. Lockers are rusted shut, dry wall is falling apart, and the classrooms are in shambles. Deadly dissections have taken place in the science classroom and the English class has become a make-shift morgue while the bodies in the basement continue to number. Other new additions to the schoolhouse are the renovated automotive classroom with a rabid junkyard dog and two cars from hell, plus a new ending that has the guests mazing through the school's bus parking lot!
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The Beast & Edge of Hell(Kansas City)
The Beast is one of if not the longest running haunted houses in America and is one of the only haunted houses in America that is FIVE STORIES TALL! In Kansas City, they feature not one but two of the best haunted houses including The Beast and Edge of Hell. Both of these haunted attractions are amazing featuring incredible set design, and one of the only haunts featuring live and very real creatures like a 25 foot long Python, Gators and much more. Both attractions feature a 5 story slide from the top floor all the way back down to the ground floor. Both The Beast and Edge of Hell can be ranked as high as the best haunted houses in the country. The combination of the two makes Kansas City a must stop when looking for the scariest haunted houses in America.
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Shocktoberfest: The Naked and Scared Challenge(Sinking Spring, PA)
The Naked and Scared Challenge allows participants to go through the Unknown Haunted House Nude or Prude (either totally nude or with underwear). It takes place at the end of the night after all customers have gone through the attraction. Participants must be 18 years of age or older and must sign a waiver. Participants undress in a semi-private preshow building, experience the Unknown Haunted House, and then exist into a semi-private fenced courtyard where they will get dressed. Participants are never in view of minors or non-participating customers. Naked and Scared Challenge is not offered on Sundays. Disclaimer: Shocktoberfest has created this experience so their customers can explore a new level of fear. This is about fear and pushing oneself out of their comfort zone. This is not about sex. No sexual misconduct, inappropriate or disrespectful behavior will be tolerated.
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Hysteria at Connors Farm(Salem, MA)
Located in the Halloween capital of the world, Hysteria is the newest rising star among America’s haunted attractions. In 1692, Danvers was known as Salem Village, the center of the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Although the town fathers changed the name to escape controversy, the events that transpired on these grounds are forever etched into the historical records. Many believe that to this day, a curse still hovers over a remote area of Danvers known as Connors Farm. This sets the stage for Hysteria. With over 50 acres of entertainment, Hysteria has something for everyone. The venue consists of 5 main haunted attractions with varying levels of intensity. Guests can enjoy the family friendly Maze of Darkness, a walking tour through Hysteria’s historic “Burial Grounds” or immerse themselves in the extreme terror and over the top gore in The Fields attraction. Visitors can shoot zombies at Hysteria’s signature Zombie Hunt at Connors Compound or squeal and squirm at the sights and sounds of Madame Abattage’s Cirque du Dement travelling circus and sideshow.
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Chamber of Horrors(Atlanta)
Atlanta’s adults-only extreme haunted house, Chambers of Horror is the most disturbing and shocking horror attraction in the Southeast! Tour the TORTUREco facilities behind the Masquerade music complex in downtown Atlanta to see the disaffected wreak havoc on the flesh of the innocent. See the psychotic creations and mutations of the evil genius Dr Dieter von Splechter, who has entered into a government contract to build super soldiers for a special ops program. But has the government made a deal with the devil himself? Find out this October! Visit the Splatter Bar & Lounge and enjoy a drink and entertainment while you wait to have the fright of your life! It’s the best place to spend…
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p.s. Hey. ** N, Howdy, N. Oh, I didn't see the new 'Mad Max' or 'Skins'. He and his gif were just configured helpfully for whatever sequence he was in. It's always best when I know the background stuff on the gifs so I can work with it, but I miss stuff. Cool, your life and stuff sound really exciting, pal. Mothering is a noble art, isn't it? Seems like it must be. 'Whole hog' is an awesome approach when writing about porn, obviously, ha ha. I don't know what 'The Leftovers' is. As usual, anything TV is a big blank for me. I'm doing great, tons going on, thank you for asking. Have a big, great Tuesday! Love, me. ** H, Hi. Like I said to whoever asked yesterday, the p.s. isn't tedious for me. Of course if disappearing is more fruitful, that's def. the way to go. Door's eternally open. Really glad that you're amidst such interesting work! Very, very best of luck with it and with everything until next time! ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Oh, nothing but my honor, of course. I did see 'A Single Man', which I actually thought was dreadful, so I guess I did see the notorious Mr. Hoult, although memory fails on his details. ** Tosh Berman, Great morning to you, Tosh! ** Boy with a girl earring, Hi! Nice name! Oh, I remember talking with you, yes, of course. Nice to see you, or at least 'see' you, again. You're here! Sorry about all this rain. Oh, gosh, there are a lot of places here very worth going. Depends on your specifics re: your interests. Hm. Well, let's meet for a coffee, and I can think and collate my ideas then and beforehand, if you like. I'm around until Saturday, and then I go away for a week. If you want, write to me at dcooperweb@gmail.com, and we can sort out a meeting. Thanks for coming in here, Justin, and hopefully see you soon. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. The TV show is kind of hard to distill, partly 'cos we're still figuring out the exactness. Briefly, the daughter of a late, world famous ventriloquist has inherited his very famous puppet, and she and the puppet live together, and she hopes to be famous ventriloquist, and there is a ton of intense weirdness regarding her and the puppet. The first episode takes place on Halloween. Not much to go on, sorry, but its kind of weirdly complex inside for something that's doesn't seem that complex when I do a thumbnail sketch of the set-up/ narrative. I was literally shocked by the horribleness of the writing in Morrissey's novel, based on the squibs I saw. Oh, man, I read that thing you wrote about the blog this morning, and ... well, talk about lacking words for something: I'm incredibly touched and blown away and so honored by what you wrote. You have no idea, really. The word 'thanks' seems like a microdot compared to what I wish to fill it with. Thank you, Thomas, and, yeah, ... thank you. Everyone, as part of Chris Goode's soon-to-premiere theater work 'Weaklings' based on or inspired by this blog, Thomas 'Moronic' Moore has written an incredibly beautiful and generous piece about his experiences here on the blog over the years that has been posted on Chris Goode's 'Weaklings' website. One, it's superbly written, being that it's from the ultra-talent of Mr. Moore, and, two, it speaks of some of history of this blog in the very kindest and most humbling (to me) way, if you're interested. Anyway, you can read it here. Really, T., reading something like what you've written ... it just kind of singlehandedly makes all the years I've been making this place feel so worth it. Giant love, me. ** Bill Reed, Hi, Bill! It was such a true pleasure to have this blog honored by your book and its lustrous and wonderful gifts. Thank you so much again for allowing me to co-introduce it. ** Jamie McMorrow, Hi, Jamie. Oh, wow, did you get far enough with the gif story to make it visible? As you can imagine, I'm extremely interested to see what other writers do with that form and material. My talent and interests are only what they are, and I would so love to see what happens with gifs as language when that idea colludes with differently configured talents. But, yeah, they're probably immensely more work to make than they seem to others' naked eyes. What kind of music were/are you tinkering with? Dude, excellent idea: rescue that interesting plot from the mulch in which Morrissey seems to have stranded it. Things are good here. Good there too? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Coolness if your cool mom were to see Chris's cool thing. ** Steevee, I just got the new Deafheaven yesterday, and yeah, I agree, On first listen at least, it's really something. I need to go ahead and get the Young Thug thing. ** Marcus mamourian, Hi, Marcus. Yeah, my memory doesn't seem to want to outpour a list of Brown grads this morning, but there are a near-ton of amazing artists of different stripes who came out of there. For, sure, understood, about the valuable interfacing with the art students. Most of my friends when I was first getting serious about writing were visual artists of some sort, and being able to talk about making stuff with people who weren't tied down to written language pretty much influenced the way I wrote then and forever. And the deal is the same for me now too. Yeah, Goldsmith's ideas about ownership, etc. are very sharp and attractive. Obviously resonant to me personally right now because of my concentration on writing gif fiction. I'm pretty romantic too, though. I still have this theoretically dying belief in total originality and genius. Or I guess that holding those prospectives and goals out before me has always very inspiring and invigorating, regardless of their logic, etc., if that makes any sense. I love Lynch too, obviously. Especially the later/latest stuff. What are your favorite Herzogs? Do you prefer his fiction or non-fiction or both? 'Stroszek' is one of all-time very favorite films. Interesting you like Malle. I was watching some of his films not so long ago, liking them, and wondering why his work is so out of favor or non-referenced these days, and not coming up with an answer. It's always tricky when you actually knew an artist, and then they die, and then their work is out of their control. I know I'll read the 'Kathy's letters' book at some point. I just feel a little queasy. Same deal with all of the post-death David Foster Wallace stuff. Having known him, what has happened around him and his work is really surreal, and not in a fun way. Oh, wow, thank you, that's exciting, that you wrote something on 'Try'. I'll go read that as soon as I'm away from here. Really, thank you very, very much for doing that. Cool. Have an awesome Tuesday! Everyone, Marcus mamourian wrote an essay partly on my work some time back, and it's called 'Derrida, Cooper, Bernhard & masturbation', and, if you're interested to read it, it's here. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. No, it was fucking raining, and I mean pouring rain, here all day yesterday, and it still fucking is, and I like rain, I really do, and hard rain especially, I really do, but I eschewed the 10 minute sloppy walk that would have been required of me to purchase a sufficiently high quality eclair, and I chose dry feet. But today, while similarly very wet thus far, is, also, additionally young. ** Right. Halloween's back in the saddle today. Those are what look to me to be the most exciting Halloween haunted houses in the US of A (minus So. Cal.) this year, and, if you live within reach of one or more of them, I think you might be very foolish not to go to that nearby haunted house or -houses and then come back here and tell me all about it/them. See you tomorrow.