Tonight was the first Halloween meeting...ideals needed?

Spookwriter

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Let's see....fellow department members cut a random maze
last weekend. No real pattern, just whatever felt good.

Tonight was our first official meeting on laying a plan for the
Haunted Maze. Some of what we had last year will remain,
some props will need a little repair and update.

But as always we're looking for the coolest ideas in the scare
field. We mean for you to get your moneys worth in fright.

So...give us your best ideals. Keep it doable. What is out there
that is going to scare you beyond belief?

We've got the narrowing tunnel, the tilting floor, the graveyard(s).
The witch with her big pot, holds two small children, the devil's throne
with dual flamethrowers. Complete butcher shop, guillotine. Headless
woman, chainsaw man. Shotgun with blanks. Big noisy airhorn.

Insane inmate who breaks loose from his cell. Leperchan who chases
you. Sparky, in his cage. (battery charger against metal fence) Electric
chair. Wooden humpback bridge. Long spider world (net overhead) spider
webs that will get your face as you walk through (threads hanging)

Multiple fog machines, strobe lights, blacklights...and assorted monsters
of all sizes. All the common people.

Hearse under construction. A few full size monsters, stationary, still in my
shop.

But....But we've all seen this stuff before. I need new ideals. I need some
real SCARE this year. I mean pants'peeing scary.

Not that we didn't have our moments last year. We had a few. A shotgun fired
just behind you as a woman screams tends to get your attention. Or when the
chainsaw chases you into a deadend tunnel...makes some scary noise. Truck
airhorns get their attention as well.

That all being said, we aren't exactly beginners. We WILL do all we can to get
your attention. A good number of people gave up midway through and simply
ran through the corn to get away. Of course we chased them...

The funniest one was a teenage-boy group. They THOUGHT they were brave.
Now they know better.

For adults, teenagers...we will rock your faith. But we also take it easier on the
younger children...a little bit.

But tell us what scares YOU.

Spook....who LOVES halloween.
 
Something, someone dripping blood. (Preferably not real.)

I bet Spook likes Halloween.
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nothing scares me more then being touched or grabbed when completely un expected. I know it sounds lame but if most of it is non grabbing and your attention is held by something really scary getting grabbed is the straw that breaks the camels back
 
You jest...what haunting doesn't have blood and other
assorted parts?

We'll go through about two cases of the good stuff.

An assortment of nice, bloody body parts litter the path.

Snakes...someone mentioned rattlesnakes...I can see a nice
entry sign. Now I need some rattles...
 
Just having someone creep up quietly behind me, maybe an 'innocent' tap on the shoulder.

I went to a haunted house once. Someone tapped me on the shoulder in the parking lot as I was waiting in line. I turned around to see Freddy Crueger (sp?). My friends finally found me across the street hiding behind a car. I don't know how I got there, but I was carrying their two year old son at the time.
When 'Freddy' came up to apologise, I left again. Thankfully, without the baby that time. I didn't make it into the haunted house. I went to a bar for the night.


*shudder*

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My daughter is working on a haunted hayride and her scene has something to do with a scarecrow. Not sure exactly what but I know she's planting corn and a fog machine is being used.
 
what about a completely dark - pitch black area they walk into - then you have sounds coming from different directions - little scratches or just the hint of them being surrounded by who knows what - then after a minute or so, a flash of light shows them the way out.
 
No...we aren't supposed to actually grab you.

(Unless of course, we know you. Then the rules change.)

But spiders? Oh, a MUST.

The spider tunnel...a cargo net hanging just low enough to
casue you to duck and weave. About 30 foot long, lit with strobes
and full of hanging spiders.

Their web is later...when you think you're safe. About five foot in legenth,
(two steps) with hundreds of black threads hanging down to about head
high. Just to drag your face.

I forgot to mention the covered air tubes...you step, and it releases a blast
of air blowing straight up.

But yeah...we do spiders. Even a great big web on the side with a human-baby
wrapped like a fly...
 

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