10/4/2007
brings with it a larger area maybe with restrictions on the fun and the
fright. This years haunt will leave the private sector and enter
pro.
We will be doing a haunt at
Westside Regional Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. It is for charity
and any moneys we get from those who enter will go to charity. However it will be indoors
again ,which brings the ability to control the surroundings like LIGHT, SOUNDS,
TEMPERATURE. So we will keep updating this note as this event gets
under way..
10/12/2007 We got the final
word of how the haunt will be laid out. We will have two rooms,
room 103 on the ground floor as a greeting room or waiting room then you
will need to ride a small elevator "Spooky Elevator" by that night up
three floors to room 305 where there is only one way in and one way out
with spooks between the two. This is sure to be an event by the time we
get ready to SCARE!.. However there will be a less scary version
according to the size of our guest maybe.. Hope to have some real
pictures soon..
10/22/2007 OK, We have
finally gotten under way. There is at least a plan in place that will
include a few scare points and a walk through worth doing. We will
be using the reverse path method of haunt. If you do not know what
that means it is simple you channel your "victims" for a lack of a
better word into the end of a hallway then guide them back into the
hallway to a new exit which was not there before and is the only way
out. This is the same method used in my 2002 haunt being there was only
one entrance and it had to be the exit also. There will be a five
person max at any one time with a waiting room playing TERROR TRAILS as
you wait. Do to the time frame we have to work in there will be no
animatronics this year, but there instead will be live actors somewhere
through-out the haunt. P.S. we will still have a guided tour for
the kids to visit the haunt as well with no frights just props to look
at.
10/30/2007 NOW this
year is what I call a great success, We had 7 volunteers in the haunt at
all times and there names will be listed at the bottom of this document.
The plan worked as we wanted to do it we had a waiting area with dark
lights and a screen playing horror movie trailers. The victims had a
guide that took them through the haunt so there would be a set time to
get people through. THE FIRST stop was the hallway to the cemetery
scene where you will see a boy that spun his head around and laughed at
you, Freddy Krueger and a few less fortunate souls stuck in the ground
all done with latex. THE SECOND stop took place after another hall
walk to the sanitarium where a few patients got loose and threw things
at you and jumped around with worms, bugs, and rats. THE THIRD
stop was for dinner where we had a good bunch of fingers on hand for
supper and a bit of blood red wine. NOW THE FIRST EXIT you will
come to was oops not an exit but there was an animatronic that wanted to
eat your brain, then the next exit was a pump scene where we had
the undead chase, jump, and scare you. THE FIFTH scene was our mad
dentist which had a dentist chair filled with an unwilling patient
animatronic which was moving its legs as it bled on the sheet covering
it. With a drill and a pair of pliers that was glowing from black
light the dentist was a good haunt. Now THE SIXTH scene was the
life size casket with a real live member of the cast jumping up with
candy at our guests and a stand up casket which had a moaning mummy in
it alone with smoke and the scare chamber on the other side of the hall
with a person that would keep the crowd moving. THE SEVENTH scene
was a page from the Jurassic age with a dragon and a a few dinos under a
green strobe light. THE EXIT scene was a room with no light
except for four strobe lights set to different speeds to cause confusion
of the senses. we had a screaming guy that moved animatronic, a
hanging ghost, a talking head floating, and a few live actors all in a
room with body bags hanging from the ceiling causing a path for exit.
THAT WAS IT IN A WALK THROUGH.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF
THE VOLUNTEERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME WITH THIS PROJECT AND THERE NAMES ARE
NOW LISTED BELOW IN NO SPECIAL ORDER.
Geri Warford (GUIDE)
Leona Hertzerdorf
Erika Maggi
Mike March(DENTIST)
Penny Lawrence
Liz Gassew
Lisa Viera (CRAZY LADY) Debbie White
DebbieNewbert
Kay Crosby (Miss Dracula) Andrea
Restrepo
Kathleen Ryzoc
Jodi Foertmeyer
Marcia Noble
Sandy Kirschner
Marge Albrecht
Wendy Levenson
Richard Levenson
Cara Roberts
Kristy Haffer
Stephanie Weber
And a very special thanks to Chris Agro for the hours of time he spent
helping with the building of this haunt and also the time spent in the
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