tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67536921523368791102012-02-10T21:55:36.404-05:00The mind of Haunted House Creator and horror aficionado Timothy HaskellTimothy Haskellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15022656083587629539noreply@blogger.comBlogger1921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753692152336879110.post-37672924084107856112012-02-06T12:30:00.003-05:002012-02-06T14:38:19.023-05:00

I am the middle of reading about scores of killers for the 2012 Nightmare haunted house theme of serial killers. I have chosen this theme for several reasons: i think people are as fascinated by the subject as I am, and people want something brutal, terrifying, realistic, and in-your-face after the highly conceptualized, theatrical and stylistic house we did last year, Fairy Tales, that many

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The Experiment that we did during Fairy Tales was a fun little lark that did scare the bejeesus out of a select few people from the audience every night, but I know that more people wanted to be the guinea pig, and weren't given the opportunity. We are remounting the event as "Nightmare (Before Christmas) The Experiment" because we know this has the potential to be both wildly entertaining and

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Tickets are now on sale for Nightmare (Before Christmas): The Experiment. Very limited seating. get your tickets here

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For many, our second attraction, The Experiment, to this year's haunted house was their favorite part. One complaint is that only a few people were able to get experimented on and everyone else had to act as a voyeur. Well, we have fixed that. We are remounting it as Nightmare (Before Christmas): The Experiment. Everyone who wants to be experimented on should get messed with at least a little

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I ain't gonna lie. Nightmare Fairy Tales was a tough year. We went out on a limb a little with Fairy Tales, but truly thought it was the best way to reenact fairy tales in a scary, haunted house kind of way. I also wanted to create a haunted house that people would think was fun, entertaining, and quite frankly, beautiful. Critics agreed, and loved what we were up to, but many traditionalist

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For those of you who want the terrorizing back, the blood, the gore, the trauma... well next year we are doing this for you. Nightmare is Killer will be about Serial Killers. Despite numerous pleas to do so in the past (perhaps the most requested theme), I'm finally going to do it. Serial Killers. So, like every year, I am opening it up to you to tell me your favorite ones (ick, you have a

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So Nightmare is a completely fluid art installation. We are not graced with any preview period before people start chiming in everywhere about how they feel about it. We do previews with small groups of people before we open, but nothing prepares us for what people think about it until we get a real crowd. You see, I used to think New Yorkers were too critical for me to just do the same house

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Some of you love it. Some of you hate it. Some of you think it is not scary at all, while others are terrified. Some of you think it is cheap and everything is flat because we couldn't afford realistic props and set pieces and that we bought our masks from Ricky's while others see the artistry and understand we made a style choice and that many great artists painted the whole thing from top to

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We just opened Fairy Tales on Friday. We have had better than expected crowds, and the thing is happening. We usually use this first weekend to work out the kinks and figure out the ideal flow of the event, but because we have been unusually inundated with crowds this first weekend, we haven't really had that opportunity. The result has been some serious line flow problems that has caused

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My video on VideoGenieNow it's your turn!

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Click here to go to our scream contest. you could win $500 and all you have to do is scream. Come on, its fun. Get in trouble at work. Do It!

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just some sneak peak, behind the scenes of loading-in at CSV in the LES for Nightmare: Fairy Tales. Don't wanna give too much away.

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I knew choosing fairy tales this year was a potentially dangerous subject for a haunted house. I knew people who have come to our haunted house year in and year out would get it, and know whatever it was we were doing with the theme it would be in an attempt to scare them. But surprisingly enough, Nightmare attendance has consisted over the last 8 years of 60% returning customers, and 40% new.

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I will eventually announce all 13 fairy tales in Nightmare Fairy Tales, but i will do that closer to the date we open. I will say this. I have chosen 8 out of the dozens suggested to me from the blog post i posted last year looking for suggestions. Only 8. But i picked the most popular ones for sure. And i picked 5 others that i thought should have been suggested. I wanted to span the gamut

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One of our brilliant actresses and long-time Nightmare employee as well as leader, Juliet Fitzgerald, is also a fantastic visual artist. I asked her to paint the haunting illustrated backdrop where our intrepid children find themselves in our logo artwork this year. She went above and beyond and made the choice as to which artwork to pick extremely difficult. I think the one we decided

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So i love our key art this year, but it is a departure from our normal art. Mostly in the sense that it is not so pointedly "terrifying". Some wonder since we are doing a potentially ambiguous theme this year - Fairy Tales (read: is this a children's event?) that i should really hammer home the point that this is very much an adult event by making the artwork more graphic, gruesome and creepier

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Just downloaded a blog app on my iPhone so I can blog more often. This blog is testing it. We are done with our first week of construction in the Bronx. We are pretty behind, but luckily we have until October 7th. It's gonna be hot by then. For those of you who went to nightmare ghost stories you might remember the scariest thing about it. We call it stretchy girl. Basically a girl stretched

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I love it. Great work by our graphic designer Nick Stone. Can you tell what characters the two kids are...? They are obviously a modern update. what do you think?

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It's that time of year again where i will start to blog in a more serious way. Loads going on with my life with both my theatre projects and haunted houses. that's right, haunted houseS! i have two this year. Firstly, my show Sex You (I'm Gonna) is killing it in Edinburgh. Nathan Phillips is seducing all kinds of Scottish lasses and they are loving it. It was slow going at first, but it

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This is a video i made that makes my own personal appeal to donate to my show Sex You (i'm Gonna). Check it out. laugh your ass off. cry your eyes out. donate one million dollars.Director Tim Haskell on SEX YOU (I'm Gonna) from Nathan Phillips on Vimeo.

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My last post was about a show i am working on called "Sex You (I'm Gonna)" by Nathan Phillips. I am directing it. It is a solo show where one man cleverly seduces women in the audience in an attempt to have sex with them on stage. of course his unorthodox methods are turn-offs at best, and doesn't stand much of a chance (well, we at least hope so. in our workshops in NYC we have had a few

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So i spent last weekend perusing the new products for haunted houses in St. Louis at the biggest of the haunted house conventions, Transworld. The problem is "New" is not exactly what any of it ever is. It's usually the same old stuff every year. Typically there are 3 or 4 new vendors on the scene who have come up with something innovative and everyone goes crazy for it. At this point in

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more often i think. Especially now because the haunt convention is starting the 11th in St. Louis and i will probably buy some cool stuff. I have also selected the 13 fairy tales that will be represented in Nightmare: Fairy Tales. But i can't tell you now because that is a big reveal for a later date. We are also going to be holding a contest for you, our patrons, to draw this coming year's

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So, finally, here it is: the theme for next year's Nightmare. I usually do this a bit earlier, but because of the extension I decided to wait until now. Also, miraculously (and oddly because it is a pretty out there idea) someone sorta trumped me on our FB fan page by suggesting something similar to this. I thought at first he was given insider information, but as it turns out it was a legit

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I say this every year and i mean it every year. Similar to when we start in late September, going after Halloween is the best time to go, in fact, better than in September because the actors have been doing it for a month and really know what works and what doesn't. We love the crowds the two weeks before Halloween, and the benefit of going then is that, well, it's Halloween and it's fun and

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MTV nominated us as one of the best haunted houses in the country, but the voting ends tomorrow! They just told us this and gave us like a day to get the word out. So act fast!!! vote for us as scariest haunted house in the country! Please! Thanks!

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When picking the Superstitions for the house this year i certainly wanted to choose some of the most iconic there were, but i was also hoping to do some more ancient, international and/or esoteric ones. So i thought this meant that modern, American-centric Superstitions like "walking underneath ladders", although necessary to do, was going to fill out my quota of familiar Superstitions. But the

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Our sound designer David Roy is such a stud

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So two weeks are almost in the can, and this is what I have learned from this year's Nightmare: Superstitions:- People really, really like it! We are always tinkering with it and will continue to do so right through the end; discovering new things and new ways to scare everyday.- Audiences finally are following the story line. they feel it is consistent and clear. this theme works, and our

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another awesome behind the scenes video!

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Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary. Not really a Superstition so much as a folklore or urban legend. But last year when i asked the question "what are you superstitious about?" the number one answer I received was Bloody Mary. So who am i to judge? She now has a prominent role in the house. Oh, yes, you'll have to say it...In case you are completely clueless about this most famous of all

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Yes, the house is averaging 37-42 minutes. You heard me correctly, that's a long time. I will hear no complaints about the length of the experience this year. If you do complain then you are an idiot and you don't know how this works. Haunted houses typically don't take very long to walk through. It's all thrills at usually a 20 minute clip at most. But New Yorkers being the toughest

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I love this behind the scenes video. On top of the awesome Costuming video Rebeca Ramirez and John Lagosarimo did, this one is on the scenic charges of Nightmare. They turn our bare walls into whole environments and give the entire project its character and terror. check it out.

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I am writing this post at 2:40 am on thursday morning. Tonight is our Time Out preview. 500 tastemakers have been invited for this sneak peek. It is supposed to be a preview, like any other show, but this crowd will be rather unforgiving if they aren't into it. Although we largely use this night to work out some kinks, as well as discover things that are scary that we didn't predict, and vice

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As a theatre person myself I am very familiar with the superstition of saying the name Macbeth inside of a theatre. Almost all theatre artists I know adhere to this religiously. In fact, almost psychotically. If you do it as a joke, just to eff around with an actor or director or even the lighting board op, they will completely flip out. It's like talking about a bomb at an airport. No matter

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The last two days we had our auditions for the actors in Nightmare: Superstitions. I mostly let my co-director John Harlacher handle the duties, and he handled them like a champ. over 200 people came to audition and he knows how to find what he is looking for. But sometimes I miss those days where i sat there and made assholes out of people, so i will audition a few of the folks myself. And

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For those of you who care, I am so sorry i have not been updating my blog about all the cool stuff that is going on with Nightmare: Superstitions. I could not be more excited about this thing opening, and for all of you to partake in this extremely original haunted house. This year we really went for breaking the mold. How is that you ask? well, I am happy you did, here's how....Experiential,

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Here is an interview I did with MSNBC about the psychology of fear in the "Body Odd' column with Bill Briggs. I don't know if i am an "expert" so much, but i guess there are few people who have put these theories to actual practice in a live setting, so I guess I am more an expert than some. Check out the article. There are smart people included in the article as well.

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Happy Friday the 13thWe are gearing up for Nightmare: Superstitions beginning September 24th. Check out this video to find out what 13 superstitions will appear in the house this year!

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Why doesn't True Blood get as much critical love as Mad Men? - By Jason Zinoman - Slate Magazine Jason Zinoman has been writing a pretty savvy column on Slate about True Blood every week. He deals with the socio-political issues of the show, as well as being an ardent supporter of its mission. And he will articulately mix it up with you in a debate. This week's column is about the media's

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This is our new Scare-A-Friend video for Nightmare: Superstitions. we always do a themed one representing each year. Last year we did a pretend video of a goth kid filing his teeth down as if it were real, but we filmed it for Nightmare: Vampires. This year being Superstitions we did a highly effective scare based around good luck chain letters. I think you will enjoy. send to others and

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We are doing some really cool things with our Nightmare Twitter feed this year. I think it will add to the over all fun. It will actually be a part of the experience. Keep reading:You have to follow Nightmare Haunted House tweets, not just mine. If u follow my Tweets now, please continue to do so for I will be updating two or three times a day as soon as we begin to load in on August 23rd the

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Every year I go through a very deep process of figuring out what went right and what went wrong with previous years haunted houses. I am constantly trying to conceive of ways to make Nightmare the perfect haunted house. Part of that is to figure out ways to scare people in the way they want to be scared while, for me at least, not being derivative in anyway. Meaning I don't want to just create

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If you ask someone what's so bad about Friday the 13th, the answer may be "because its, like, you know, Friday the 13th" or maybe "Because its bad luck". Sure. thanks. But why is it bad luck? "well because 13 is bad luck." why is 13 bad luck? "'Cause". Bingo. This is a pretty enigmatic bad luck day. Believe it or not Jason Vorhees is not the reason this superstition exists. Nor is it because

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Although not everyone knew it was a fake review that i wrote for NMOES last week (despite the fact that it was clearly noted at the end of the review), i wanted to chime in after i really saw this movie. However, i don't feel like writing anything extensive because the fake review was one for the ages.So basically, the movie was not nearly as bad as ALL of the reviews said. In fact, it isn't

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I'm Continuing my reviews of horror movies that no one else has reviewed yet because of my elite access to these films. There hasn't been a major horror movie release since my last review of The Crazies, so here's the latest:Nightmare On Elm Street*It is with great pleasure that I am able to give the most highly anticipated horror movie in recent memory, the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street, an

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Hey, the title says it all!

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So, i didn't really get to the "daily update of cool things" as promised. Oh well. But I can recap some of the cooler things I saw at the Transworld Haunt Show in St. Louis now.Firstly, although it is a generally interesting convention, one-of-a-kind for outsiders, this year was somewhat of a disappointment for me. I saw very few new things this year. Usually I can count on Oak Island to have

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Perhaps the most feared/ honored Superstition of all is that of Broken Mirrors. Rather, to make sure you don’t. Break them. But aside from the fact that it is a pain in the ass to clean up chards of glass, why is it bad luck per se? This one goes way back. Our ancestors believed that the image in a mirror is our soul. So if you break the mirror your soul is let out. That’s no bueno. And by

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Continuing my reviews of movies that no one else has reviewed yet because of my elite access to these films. I'm reviewing films well before anyone else chimes in!The Crazies*37 years ago George Romero decided that he didn't want to be pigeonholed anymore as the guy who made zombie movies so he went out on a limb and made a movie about mindless, relentless, plodding monsters instead. The movie

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I was hoping to get a review in for The Wolfman at least a week before it opened, but I hadn't been given the special access to these kind of films so far in advance that I have now, yet. So I will see it, but probably not review.So I will begin my series of reviews of horror films well before anyone else chimes in about them with Shutter Island*:I don't know if there has been a horror movie

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That I am going to post reviews on this blog of scary movies that I have never seen, nor has anyone seen because they have not been released yet. Oh, they'll be detailed alright. You'll never know that i didn't see it. until, of course, you actually see the movie and realize nothing I said was accurate. except, perhaps, whether you liked it or not. I will do my best to not review remakes

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I am going to be exploring the myths behind many of our most commonly accepted Superstitions as a prelude to this year's haunted house, Nightmare: Superstitions. The lore behind the number 7 is perhaps the most vast, so it is a good place for me to start. I will, however, in the next few weeks look into black cats, ladders, umbrellas, etc. as well as a few more esoteric ones from here and

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What's going on in Haiti is beyond tragic. The body count keeps changing in the worst ways. This is what people should be talking about and caring about right now.

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So i finally saw Daybreakers late last night. I was hoping to have seen it this past weekend as promised, but I didn't get a chance. I hope all of you that were anxiously awaiting my response didn't go crazy with impatience and kill yourself. That is my hope.But, now I do have thoughts on it. I don't know if this movie was so profound that it made me think the following, or if it was merely

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For some crazy reason I was not invited to the premiere of Daybreakers, the new vampire flick starring Ethan Hawke and Willem Defoe. But I am going to see it today and post a review over the weekend. I care because it is a real vampire film. Not just real in that it is not a tweener vampire film or tv show or what have you, but also in that word has it that it is pretty good. The NY Times

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My friend Ariella Goldstein is developing this macabre animated series called "Donny No Skins" with a good friend of hers. I think this definitely has a place on television; it is very funny and original. check out these shorts:

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I think wishing people "Happy New Year" is as empty of a sentiment as there can be. Considering people say it until like March, it truly is just a substitute for "how are you" for those who have gotten bored with saying that and need a three month reprieve from the same empty pat salutations. I mean, if you truly think about it, what really happens when the clock strikes midnight on January 1st

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Dexter is the best show on television, obviously. If you don't agree you can blow it out your ear. And I have never really written a review of it (largely because the show pre-dates Haunternet and there was no sense starting to review the show starting with Season 2, and I'm lazy). But i was compelled to say a few words about Season 4.Season 3 was somewhat of a disappointment. It was still

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My company Art Meets Commerce is the ad agency and interactive marketer, as well as one of the producers of this brilliant show FELA on Broadway. Last night they were on the Colbert Report. If you have no interest in seeing Broadway theatre make an exception with this one. I am an avant-garde theatre guy, and I love this show.

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For those of you who know anything about me past Haunted Houses and scary stuff know that my main thing is that I am actually a theatre director. my raison d'etre is actually stage combat, or what I call "fightsicals". To that point, I am actually helping produce an entire festival dedicated to the art of stage violence called Fight Fest at a theatre in Brooklyn called The Brick. In addition

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We were going to project this shadow fight between the shadow of Nosferatu and the shadow of one of the vampire maniacs who were attacking the museum. So me and John Harlacher (my co-director) recorded this ill-fated video that was to be projected. I deemed it awful and never used it. but i thought you might think it was funny:When that one didn't come out the way I wanted it to we did this

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Nightmare PatronsIt it with great sadness that Nightmare Vampires has concluded. This house was very special to me for i tried something different this year, which is always a risk. I believe that risk largely paid off, though there is plenty that I learned. I cannot thank you enough for your support in helping make this one of the most successful Nightmares ever. I also thank you for all of

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Richard Chase, the Vampire killer of Sacramento. At an early age he would kill animals, eat their entrails and drink their blood. That turned into the winter of 1977 in Sacramento, California, over the course of several weeks when he randomly shot and killed six separate unsuspecting victims simply because the door was left open. His victims ranged from the elderly to an infant, all of whom had

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Amazing. We had the biggest weekend ever at Nightmare. In all 6 years we have never had more people come on Halloween. By a large margin. Very exciting. Thanks to everyone who came, hopefully you had a good time. It was pretty berserk, crowded, rushed, testy, and a bunch of other things, but that's what makes Halloween Halloween. I tell people to go on other nights, but I guess there is

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I wanted to announce this a little earlier, but it has been absolutely crazy over there at Nightmare: Vampires. The responses have been incredible lately, I couldn't be more pleased. But as always I announce the next year's theme during the current year to take advantage of the interest from the current year's patrons.I think I may be more stoked about next year's theme than ever before. It

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Yenaldlooshi: a skinwalker in Navajo mythology. They wear coyote skins and travel at night. They appear naked, wearing only masks and jewelry, and tend to live in caves. They also practice cannibalism and necrophilia. Yenaldlooshi are also said to be able to create a pollen from ground human infant bones that when sprinkled on sleeping Navajo families, causes sickness, social problems, and death

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When people get nervous they making pithy jokes. Unoriginal, pat, pithy jokes. Since I myself have performed in the house a bunch this year, I hear the same ones i have heard over and over again for the past 6 years. In a nutshell, one of our guys jump out at you. They scream or yell or howl or hiss, or what have you at you. And then you, the patron says "Your breath stinks", "eat a tic-tac"

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Enter the Scream Contest. If not, watch this hilarious video:

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One of the Biggest complaints for Nightmare: Vampires (and reading up about others), is how long the house is. It's not just Nightmare, people bitch about it about all haunted houses. "It takes 10 minutes!!!", "scary, but then its over in like 7 minutes!!", "nothing is worth 3 minutes and 4 rooms!!!". Ok, ok, ok, for all of you that say these things in public forums - BLOW IT OUT YOUR EAR!

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VLAD III, THE PRINCE OF WALLACHIA: More commonly known as Vlad The Impaler, Vlad Tepes, or simply Dracula. He is considered a savior in Wallachia (modern day Romania) but is mostly known as the person Bram Stoker named his character Dracula after. His Romanian surname "Draculea" means "Son of the Dragon" and is derived from his father's title, Vlad the Dragon. The word Dracul" means "The Devil"

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AOL rated Nightmare: Vampires the Number One Haunted House in New York!

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This me in the blue haze room in Nightmare: Vampires on October 10th. This is going down as one of the audience's favorite rooms. Clearly I was scaring the shit out of people, as well as my cohort in the mist.

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Detractors are the most vocal. People who love things never motivate themselves to go on the internet and write that. People who hate things...are So this video represents the true feelings of the vast majority of the people who go to Nightmare. And that's the truth ruth:

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Another entry in our Meet the Vampires series. These are all vampires you will get to know upon visiting Nightmare: Vampires:Peter Kürten, the monster of Duffeldorf, was a necrophiliac, rapist, and cold-blooded killer. He would stab and kill animals as he was raping them, and staged an “accidental” death of two boys when he was 9. Starting in 1913 he went on to rape and

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As much as the energy and the spirit of Halloween is infectious on a crazy Saturday night (and not to diminish that effect, it does add a lot to the experience), if you are looking for a longer, more concentrated and focused haunted house experience, Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the way to go. There are crowds, but no where near the throngs as there are on a Saturday night at 8 pm. I like for

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We all have our detractors, but we tried something different this year with the haunted house - creating a story that you have to follow, much more theatrical than years past - and the critics have certainly responded. We have gotten lots of press including an amazing NY Daily News story, but I am only including here the critical reviews, not just stories. I am not just including the positive

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So we have been at this for two weeks now and it has been going swimmingly. We've had a few bad apples, of course, but the response has been overwhelmingly positive. I would say it has been the most positively received house in our 6 years. But I have noticed some things from our audiences that have gone through so far that might help you better prepare for attending this event:1. Don't come

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I want to make something clear to everyone who is going to the haunted house this year. I had a nice conversation last night with four folks who have come to Nightmare every year. They enjoyed the house, and got scared, but their advice was "we need more boo scares." This of course makes me cringe. If i could build a house without a single "boo-scare" i would be thrilled. This is because

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Betcha Never heard of this one! You'll meet her at Nightmare Vampires:Penanggalan of Malaysia consists only of a head and some entrails. A Penanggalan is almost always a woman, whose head magically tears from its body, dragging her spine and internal organs along with it. It literally means "head with dancing intestines." Generally they feed on the blood of children, particularly infants, and the

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I cannot say enough about our art department this year (Brooklyn Art Department). They always do an incredible job, but they are really blowing me away like they never have before. They have taken it to a whole new level. I think it is because they were challenged with the most prop heavy house we have ever done. Part of the success this year will hinge on them. They have risen to this

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To be honest, vampires scared the turds out of me when i was younger, but they have become so assimilated into pop-culture that whatever danger they presented before has become commonplace and pacified. I have heard this concern from others, as well: "I Love Nightmare, but I am not afraid of Vampires, could this possibly be scary?" And I know where you are coming from. Although, I would be

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Continuing my series featuring vampires that are going to be featured in the house (last week I told you about the Dearg Dul, the Celtic Vamp), today I'm gonna learn ya about the Lobisomen from Brazil (and other parts of the Americas):The Lobisomen was reported to be small, stumpy and hunch-backed, with bloodless lips, yellow skin, black teeth, bushy beard and the looks of a monkey, the bite of

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Think Nightmare: Vampires is going to be 20 rooms about Edward Cullen and Anne Rice? Think again. Although we do address them, we focus more on other vampires that aren't from movies or books. But ones that people consider(ed) real. As well as creating our own vampire legend. I would like to introduce you to one of our vampires in separate blog posts. The first is the Celtic vampire,

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decided no one is really reading these and the task of coming up with something stupid that someone did in the fictional world of True Blood and be creative about it was getting a bit harrowing. Especially because I am smack-dab in the middle of loading in my haunted house Nightmare, and there couldn't be a more time consuming time for me. So, if anyone is saddened by this omission please let

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At last the final, and perhaps most crucial element in my three part deconstruction of how I am going to improve Nightmare Haunted House over past years, as well as what i perceive as the general pitfalls of haunted houses the world over: CREATING WHOLLY UNIQUE AND REALISTIC WAYS TO SCARE PEOPLE THAT GO WELL BEYOND BOOGIEMEN HIDING BEHIND WALLS AND THEN JUMPING OUT AT YOU.I mean, isn't this what

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This year all the good things about Nightmare are staying, and all of the bad things are leaving and being replaced by good things! Our marketing campaign that we are rolling out is reflecting these changes. This year is about being disturbing, weird, unsettling, psychological, thoughtful and truly haunting. This isn't just about hiding behind doors and jumping out at you, but really getting

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As a season winding down is wont to do, things are really starting to heat up around here. I almost don't want it to because that means no more True Blood for awhile and i need my fix. But at least we get Dexter in a couple of weeks, and I love that show just as much. And then there is Vampire Diaries on network TV. Yeah, no.So now onto who was the biggest sucker for week 10. This one is

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A few postings ago I discussed that there were three areas i always strive to improve every year in the haunted house. The last posting i discussed how i was going to improve the LENGTH of time it took to walk through (making it longer that is) and now...MAKING THE DESIGN LOOK AS AMAZING AS THE MONEY WE SPEND ON IT: The Amazing duo of Justin and Aaron Haskell over at BAD (Brooklyn Art Department

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I gotta be honest, although the last two episodes of True Blood have quite possibly been two of the best shows in its two season existence, I am now loading in my haunted house Nightmare so i don't really have time to write full analysis of who the biggest suckers were in those episodes. So no teaser suckers, just the suckers:Episode 8: Reverend Newlin. Cuckolded and unsupported by his

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One thing I am doing that is completely different this year is that i am utilizing the creative genius of several independent emerging visual artists to design several of the rooms in the house. One artists I am very excited about working with is the notable horror photographer Joshua Hoffine out of Kansas City. I have actually commissioned him to create and photograph the room already for me to

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Every year i take all the notes that were given to me throughout the run and I try and improve the house. There are several areas that i feel we can always improve upon. I listen to the patrons as well as myself and i constantly try and raise the bar not just against my own expectations, but also against other haunted houses throughout the world. Some of these are general haunted house

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We are announcing this for the first time today. Nightmare is moving after 5 years at its most recent home in the lower east side. It has been an amazing run. I love the neighborhood and i wish we could have stayed, but our venue there was no longer an option for many reasons, so we had to move. And we are very lucky for it. Our new venue is located at 623 Broadway. The entrance is on Mercer

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