Things you WILL see
black people doing in horror movies, thing # 26
If anyone says: "Let's see what this does,"
"What does this do," or "Let's try this," we're already
questioning the situation and thinking up escape plans or excuses to leave.
Dudes! Me and my kid sis kicked it this weekend, we went to
two haunted houses, a convention, got lost in the middle of now where twice, meet
all kinds of awesome people, spent way too much money and are gonna eat dinner
at mom's house tonight cause now we're both broke!
I don't have a DVD pick of the week this week so instead I am going to
be reviewing the haunted house we went to.
1st up: Friday Night: Georgetown Haunted Morgue
The 1st thing we noticed right off the bat was
how long the line was...
Usually for me that goes in the con side but with some
of the actors walking up and down the line scaring people and a guy with a chain
saw chasing people thru the food court the organizers turned it into a pro.
When
we heard screaming from behind us we turned around and came face to face with this
monster!
I stopped her and asked if she would pose w/me. She did, and
apparently that was the million dollar question because after my sister took
this picture she upgraded us to VIP and moved us up to the front of the line.
The special effects and ambiance were really good. There was
a real feeling of claustrophobia, the sets were believable and the actors were
great. Even thou it seemed longer it was only about 15 minutes, which was time
enough because there was so much stuff going on it causes a state of sensory
overload. The highlight of that haunt was when we thought we were trapped
because we could open the doors and then we realized that we had to squeeze
thru these giant balloon air table things stacked high with body parts anhalf
way thru Pinhead shows up to block our path. When the clown w/the
chain saw popped out my sister went all 'save yourself' on my ass and left me
as she bolted from the manic clown.
House #2 Saturday Night: Nightmare at Beaver Lake
Ok so this one is a haunted trail in the middle of the woods.
This is the only picture I got because we were at Geek Girl Con http://www.geekgirlcon.com/ earlier in the
day and my phone died. The location itself and the weather became huge characters
in this haunt. It was foggy making it
darker than it was already was, distorting the things you actually saw along
with thing things you thought you saw and muting the natural sounds you would expect
to hear while walking thru a forest. And
then it started to rain.
A highlight of this haunt was the fact that a huge part of
the cast of characters are children. We knew we were going to stumble into a
Deliverance scene because we heard the banjo but the spine chiller for that set
was when a child who is far too young to have seen that movie sneaks up behinds
you and starts quoting from it...and nails it! One of the things that unintentionally
heightened the tension for my sister was when some of the monsters and even a
zombie called me by name. The horror community here in Seattle runs in small
circles so a lot of us know each other, but she was completely caught off guard
(and I was too) and she didn't like it. Another awesome feature was the fork in
the trail that gave you the option of scary or scarier of course we went down
the scarier trail and paid dearly for it =D
The part that fucked us up were the
horses, we didn't hear them coming and by the time we saw them we were nearly
right under them and it wasn't until I backed away that I saw the headless
riders!
The Georgetown Haunted Morgue is a traditional haunted house
and if you've been to enough of them you can predict what's just around the
corner. But with that being said, it was scarier than I thought it was going to
be and with the way the organizers worked the crowd I am going to have to rate
it 4.5 stars. Out of the two this is the one my sister liked the most.
The Nightmare at Beaver Lake was my favorite and here's why.
The wooded trail, fog, and rain made everything scarier because it let's your
imagination do most of the work. Another thing that turned into an unintentional
bonus was my sister hurt her ankle so we couldn't run so we moved out of the
way of those who could and the result was that we spent most of our time on
that trail alone. Just me and my little sister...In the woods at night...Holding hands breathlessly awaiting the arrival of zombies, vampires,
headless horsemen and...
I'm giving this one 5 Stars. Have a good one guys 
Crystal and Cynthia,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the glowing review of the Nightmare at Beaver Lake! Coming from someone that writes horror, it means a lot. And yes, we are all a tight knit community, but the reason some other actors knew your names is because the are psycho, I er, Imean, psychic, yea, that's it. Psychic and can read your mind....
So gald you ladies had a good time! ~j~
LMMFAO! Psychic uh? Okay, we'll run w/that ;p We were talking about those kids yesterday and the 'Deliverance' kid was really good and was our favorite there were two others that really stood out and made a lasting impression was the vampires daughter/victim who was seizing on the couch and the little girl sitting on the stove and the city worker telling us to be careful and putting cones down was just damn right cruel!
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