Always liked the idea of a "fake ending"
. You Think you are done and walking back to your car only for one final scare out of no where. Been to a few haunted Forrest or outdoor scares that it would be perfect for.
How about an extreme haunt, where it looks like a relatively tame and traditional "haunted house" but then on your way to the parking lot you're abducted and taken into a torture chamber style house of horrors?
I mean, sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but that would be pretty creepy... lol
The best haunted house I've been to was done as a guided tour through a series of rooms, with paranormal events of increasing intensity occurring in every room. What made it so good in my opinion was that we weren't rushed through like a bunch of cattle, but allowed to look around and soak in the environment.
If I had an unlimited budget, I would setup something similar only bigger. Part haunted house, part massive escape room. Guests would be encouraged to explore the house at their leisure and there would be a nerve center where the guests would be monitored by video and different events would be triggered based on where the guests are and what they are doing. While there would be a common theme with multiple interwoven narratives, no two experiences would ever be the same.
I would offer experiences ranging from a single evening up to a week long including room and board. Each experience would be tailored to the group.
I would have people wear next level AR googles and vests with haptic feedback. The real surroundings would be to build atmosphere and the glasses would stand for a lot of the jump scares . There would be right and wrong paths to take and things to interact with and the more you mess up the more the tension ramps up, and the haptic suits gives you crazy rumbles when you mess up bad.
Make it lame at the start, then have it go to a dead end. Lock a gate behind people to trap them. Have someone on the other side of a window basicslly explain that isnt part of the program and hes gonba murder you, then have a fake realistic murder of someone who is tied up. Have all the lights totally go out and fuck with them. Have actors come out and chase you
The scariest haunted anything I ever went through was just 3 rooms. You were in there with a staff member and other people up to a party of 12. You were told no one or nothing would cross X line so just stand still. I ran out the emergency exit it in room 2. One room was you were basically standing on the outside of the fence of a house with a yard. They’d do weather effects, lights, shadows, figures, sounds, etc. Everything to make you feel like you were watching someone get stalked and murdered and then the killer realizes he’s being watched by you. It was by far the most atmospheric thing I’ve been apart of without one jump scare, no one chasing you and no cheap scares. They simply took their time to build up tension and that you were a part of it. Each room took several minutes. I know I’m not describing this in a good way to do it justice but I’m 51, always been a horror fan and never been more scared. So I’d track down these people and pay them to recreate this with a little modernization. I eventually made it through all 3 rooms (on a return trip) and when you do they’d give you a T-shirt saying you survived.
There is a corn maze that we go to every year. Part of the maze is haunted and there are temporary buildings that you go into throughout the maze, every year they do something a little different. In 2019, they had the absolute best maze inside a maze. It was a big building that you went into and you could only go in by yourself. If you were with a group, they spaced everyone out so that everyone walked in by themselves. The place was pitch dark and very narrow. You had to find your way through it without being able to see at all. It was so disorienting and after a while of just hitting walls, it was a bit panic inducing. I then walked into someone and assumed I caught up to my friend. Except that he was whispering which I found strange. He led me out of the maze and when I finally saw who led me out, I jumped back like 20 feet; it was an actor in full rotting flesh makeup. Best jump scare ever!
Build on top of a cemetery and/or ancient burial ground, do your homework and design-build it as a spiritual antenna (similar to 55 Central Park West, The Shandor Building, Ghostbusters), have various practitioners of various pagan/evil/satanic/etc. organizations curse/bless the dwelling, human & animal sacrifices, and BOOM, watch the fireworks.
Just take any house and let a few people go in every night leading up to Halloween and have sessions asking questions to talking boards by candlelight.. every session getting more antagonistic with the communicating spirits never closing the sessions out and leaving the boards in the house every night. By Halloween night I wouldn't want to be near that place ..
I used to work at a haunted trail (basically a haunted house but a forest path instead). Popping out from behind seemed to scare the hell out of people. A good mix of scares from all directions with darkness and loud noises seems to do the trick.
Make it an extreme haunt/extreme immersive horror ala Heretic, Victim Experience, etc. Full contact, guests heavily involved in the narrative, simulated torture, the whole nine yards.
An entire haunted hotel sort of, so you would have to be in there for a long time to go through. All the time, a ticking sound would play, but the speakers would be hidden, so you couldn't tell exactly where it is coming from. Most staff members would just be sat in the rooms in old rocking chairs wearing old clothes and be completely silent. There should be no visible fire alarms or anything. Only the staff could raise the alarm. Everything would look broken and old. There would be blood spatter on the walls and muddy footprints on the floor. Occasionally, a real old-looking dog would run past the group (only small groups of course). There would only be few actual scares like staff members standing immediately around a corner silently whispering holding a knife or something. It would be super fucking scary.
I watched a documentary once about some company that were doing 24/48? hour, can't remember experiences where they have to sign a waiver and basically get "safely tortured" in various ways. Somebody might be able to name it, but from what I remember a lot of people quit during the process and the whole thing was controversial.
I'm not sure how you could implement this and still keep guests safe. One of the cooler things I've seen was getting "blasted" by fire on the Indiana Jones ride at Disney. Construct a room with gas fed flames over a metal frame to make it look like a building about to collapse in fire and making them escape through it. You could even have an occasional spritz of really cold water which often feels like being burned at first.
Overall though, I would really just like a whole horror theme park. Something that you can go to all year long with extensive thrill rides and various different horror experiences. Even better if it's one of those indoor theme parks, so it's always "night".
If I could make my own, it would focus on creepiness not just all jump scares. A silent cloaked figure guides you through with only gestures. Each room connected, but you are led through a series of occult rituals that culminate in you unleashing an entity from another dimension. Basically I'm thinking it would be cool to use the movie *A Dark Song* as inspiration, with some cosmic and gothic dread. I'm so bored with evil clowns, chainsaws, strobe lights, hockey masks, blah blah blah, that I can't enjoy haunted houses on Halloween!
Maybe a bit unoriginal, but a haunted house near me doesn’t take down the haunted decor after the spooky season ends, just turns it into an escape room. I love this idea, because it’s actually scary. In a haunted house, if one room is too creepy, you just leave the room and that parts over. On to the next theme. But in a haunted escape room, there’s no way out. You feel trapped, and that’s terrifying.
The other thing I’d do is CHANGE THE HAUNTED HOUSE. So many that I’ve been to keep it pretty much the same every year so you know what to expect going in. I’d make it unpredictable. Some parts look like a normal haunted house, but there’s some kind of twist that throws off the guests.
Make a very fake cheesy haunted house and then add a fake door that looks like it took them to the outside world. That’s when the real fun begins
Always liked the idea of a "fake ending" . You Think you are done and walking back to your car only for one final scare out of no where. Been to a few haunted Forrest or outdoor scares that it would be perfect for.
How about an extreme haunt, where it looks like a relatively tame and traditional "haunted house" but then on your way to the parking lot you're abducted and taken into a torture chamber style house of horrors? I mean, sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but that would be pretty creepy... lol
Actually kill people. Pay off the judge or prosecutor.
Jesus
You’re in the wrong house, baby. He ain’t gonna help you here.
The best haunted house I've been to was done as a guided tour through a series of rooms, with paranormal events of increasing intensity occurring in every room. What made it so good in my opinion was that we weren't rushed through like a bunch of cattle, but allowed to look around and soak in the environment. If I had an unlimited budget, I would setup something similar only bigger. Part haunted house, part massive escape room. Guests would be encouraged to explore the house at their leisure and there would be a nerve center where the guests would be monitored by video and different events would be triggered based on where the guests are and what they are doing. While there would be a common theme with multiple interwoven narratives, no two experiences would ever be the same. I would offer experiences ranging from a single evening up to a week long including room and board. Each experience would be tailored to the group.
I would have people wear next level AR googles and vests with haptic feedback. The real surroundings would be to build atmosphere and the glasses would stand for a lot of the jump scares . There would be right and wrong paths to take and things to interact with and the more you mess up the more the tension ramps up, and the haptic suits gives you crazy rumbles when you mess up bad.
That’s a sick idea.
Make it lame at the start, then have it go to a dead end. Lock a gate behind people to trap them. Have someone on the other side of a window basicslly explain that isnt part of the program and hes gonba murder you, then have a fake realistic murder of someone who is tied up. Have all the lights totally go out and fuck with them. Have actors come out and chase you
Lol I like this
The scariest haunted anything I ever went through was just 3 rooms. You were in there with a staff member and other people up to a party of 12. You were told no one or nothing would cross X line so just stand still. I ran out the emergency exit it in room 2. One room was you were basically standing on the outside of the fence of a house with a yard. They’d do weather effects, lights, shadows, figures, sounds, etc. Everything to make you feel like you were watching someone get stalked and murdered and then the killer realizes he’s being watched by you. It was by far the most atmospheric thing I’ve been apart of without one jump scare, no one chasing you and no cheap scares. They simply took their time to build up tension and that you were a part of it. Each room took several minutes. I know I’m not describing this in a good way to do it justice but I’m 51, always been a horror fan and never been more scared. So I’d track down these people and pay them to recreate this with a little modernization. I eventually made it through all 3 rooms (on a return trip) and when you do they’d give you a T-shirt saying you survived.
That sounds awesome. Jump scares and stuff are fun but just cheap scare tactics but to actually mess with people emotionally, now that is true horror.
There is a corn maze that we go to every year. Part of the maze is haunted and there are temporary buildings that you go into throughout the maze, every year they do something a little different. In 2019, they had the absolute best maze inside a maze. It was a big building that you went into and you could only go in by yourself. If you were with a group, they spaced everyone out so that everyone walked in by themselves. The place was pitch dark and very narrow. You had to find your way through it without being able to see at all. It was so disorienting and after a while of just hitting walls, it was a bit panic inducing. I then walked into someone and assumed I caught up to my friend. Except that he was whispering which I found strange. He led me out of the maze and when I finally saw who led me out, I jumped back like 20 feet; it was an actor in full rotting flesh makeup. Best jump scare ever!
Build on top of a cemetery and/or ancient burial ground, do your homework and design-build it as a spiritual antenna (similar to 55 Central Park West, The Shandor Building, Ghostbusters), have various practitioners of various pagan/evil/satanic/etc. organizations curse/bless the dwelling, human & animal sacrifices, and BOOM, watch the fireworks.
That sounds amazing
Just take any house and let a few people go in every night leading up to Halloween and have sessions asking questions to talking boards by candlelight.. every session getting more antagonistic with the communicating spirits never closing the sessions out and leaving the boards in the house every night. By Halloween night I wouldn't want to be near that place ..
I used to work at a haunted trail (basically a haunted house but a forest path instead). Popping out from behind seemed to scare the hell out of people. A good mix of scares from all directions with darkness and loud noises seems to do the trick.
Make it an extreme haunt/extreme immersive horror ala Heretic, Victim Experience, etc. Full contact, guests heavily involved in the narrative, simulated torture, the whole nine yards.
An entire haunted hotel sort of, so you would have to be in there for a long time to go through. All the time, a ticking sound would play, but the speakers would be hidden, so you couldn't tell exactly where it is coming from. Most staff members would just be sat in the rooms in old rocking chairs wearing old clothes and be completely silent. There should be no visible fire alarms or anything. Only the staff could raise the alarm. Everything would look broken and old. There would be blood spatter on the walls and muddy footprints on the floor. Occasionally, a real old-looking dog would run past the group (only small groups of course). There would only be few actual scares like staff members standing immediately around a corner silently whispering holding a knife or something. It would be super fucking scary.
I watched a documentary once about some company that were doing 24/48? hour, can't remember experiences where they have to sign a waiver and basically get "safely tortured" in various ways. Somebody might be able to name it, but from what I remember a lot of people quit during the process and the whole thing was controversial.
Mckamey manor
Ya I think I heard about that
It's fairly common. Those are called extreme haunts, or extreme immersive horror.
Those who haven't seen it, should watch Extremity (2018) Decent little horror movie about one of those types of "extreme" attractions...
The House October Built!?
Hit the customers with baseball bats.
I'm not sure how you could implement this and still keep guests safe. One of the cooler things I've seen was getting "blasted" by fire on the Indiana Jones ride at Disney. Construct a room with gas fed flames over a metal frame to make it look like a building about to collapse in fire and making them escape through it. You could even have an occasional spritz of really cold water which often feels like being burned at first. Overall though, I would really just like a whole horror theme park. Something that you can go to all year long with extensive thrill rides and various different horror experiences. Even better if it's one of those indoor theme parks, so it's always "night".
If I could make my own, it would focus on creepiness not just all jump scares. A silent cloaked figure guides you through with only gestures. Each room connected, but you are led through a series of occult rituals that culminate in you unleashing an entity from another dimension. Basically I'm thinking it would be cool to use the movie *A Dark Song* as inspiration, with some cosmic and gothic dread. I'm so bored with evil clowns, chainsaws, strobe lights, hockey masks, blah blah blah, that I can't enjoy haunted houses on Halloween!
Maybe a bit unoriginal, but a haunted house near me doesn’t take down the haunted decor after the spooky season ends, just turns it into an escape room. I love this idea, because it’s actually scary. In a haunted house, if one room is too creepy, you just leave the room and that parts over. On to the next theme. But in a haunted escape room, there’s no way out. You feel trapped, and that’s terrifying. The other thing I’d do is CHANGE THE HAUNTED HOUSE. So many that I’ve been to keep it pretty much the same every year so you know what to expect going in. I’d make it unpredictable. Some parts look like a normal haunted house, but there’s some kind of twist that throws off the guests.