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Topic	Do you like haunted house attractions that pop up around halloween time?
ParanoidObsessive 10/15/18 8:20:32 PM #7:	lihlih posted... I've been to 2, and both were boring as fuck. Not scary, or even startling at all. I don't think you CAN make one legitimately scary (as opposed to just startling). Because you know for a fake going in that literally everything is fake and no one inside is going to hurt you (and for the most part can't even touch you for fear of lawsuits), so there's absolutely no weight to it. It's why I think the best haunted houses are the ones that try to engage on a different level. Not necessarily trying to be terrifying as much as sort of combining creepy ambiance with some level of performance art. Or like an interactive play where they're essentially telling you a story as you go through the rooms. Because in that sort of scenario you can at least get SOMETHING out of the place even if you're not realistically going to be scared. The only other way I think they're enjoyable is if you go through a haunted house with a family that have relatively young kids, and you play up the horror to scare the piss out of the kids. Like how I was in a haunted house once with some friends, and we were in a room that was gimmicked up to seem like the walls were closing in, and my friends and I were pantomiming like we were trying to hold the walls back but couldn't do it, which absolutely terrified the younger kids that were in the room with us, because us playing it up like that basically told them "Holy shit, maybe this IS real!" This is something a truly clever haunted house can actually use to its advantage - if you put a plant or two into every in-going group, you can have them act scared and react to things as if they're real... or, say, have one of the actors straight-up jump them and drag them off kicking and screaming, thus putting the rest of the group on edge, because now you've just abused them of the notion that none of the actors are going to be allowed to touch them or harm them in any way. Though admittedly the logistics of that are kind of complex to work out. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:910591113] in Do you lik... [t:77100779]...</cite> <quote><cite>lihlih posted...</cite> <quote>I've been to 2, and both were boring as fuck. Not scary, or even startling at all.</quote> I don't think you CAN make one legitimately scary (as opposed to just startling). Because you know for a fake going in that literally everything is fake and no one inside is going to hurt you (and for the most part can't even touch you for fear of lawsuits), so there's absolutely no weight to it. It's why I think the best haunted houses are the ones that try to engage on a different level. Not necessarily trying to be terrifying as much as sort of combining creepy ambiance with some level of performance art. Or like an interactive play where they're essentially telling you a story as you go through the rooms. Because in that sort of scenario you can at least get SOMETHING out of the place even if you're not realistically going to be scared. The only other way I think they're enjoyable is if you go through a haunted house with a family that have relatively young kids, and you play up the horror to scare the piss out of the kids. Like how I was in a haunted house once with some friends, and we were in a room that was gimmicked up to seem like the walls were closing in, and my friends and I were pantomiming like we were trying to hold the walls back but couldn't do it, which absolutely terrified the younger kids that were in the room with us, because us playing it up like that basically told them "Holy shit, maybe this IS real!" This is something a truly clever haunted house can actually use to its advantage - if you put a plant or two into every in-going group, you can have them act scared and react to things as if they're real... or, say, have one of the actors straight-up jump them and drag them off kicking and screaming, thus putting the rest of the group on edge, because now you've just abused them of the notion that none of the actors are going to be allowed to touch them or harm them in any way. Though admittedly the logistics of that are kind of complex to work out. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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