Clean up this business....

[bodybagging]

Stu, while I appreciate you leaving my name out of your posts, you may as well call a duck a duck. In regards to some of your concerns.
YES I have Blood Sluts Gore and More, Makes sense seeing how my FX companys tag line is BLOOD GUTS GORE and MORE.
NO I do not find it inappropriate, what I find Inappropriate are the thousands of haunted Houses claiming to be the biggest and bestest
Yes I have scantily dressed females in my Haunted House,
NO I do not have young girls in Near rape scenes
Yes My General audience is 18 and above
No My actors do not MISBEHAVE when a Child is in a group, EVER
Yes I have a Dancers pole,
No I do not have a young girl in her bra and panties on said pole,
YES I do have a Young Boy on said Pole, whose Parents thanked me for accepting him for who he is, and allowing him to express himself.
No I do not have STRIPPERS
Yes My haunted house is a Haunted Attraction, as I have been Haunting my entire life and My Haunt is set up to knock you on your butt, not once but all the way thru.
NO Im not single handedly destroying this Industry,
Yes I am Cutting edge and some of the things I do this year will be duplicated next year at other haunts as have been done in years prior.
NO I do not have Nudity in my Haunt.
YES its true that 99.9% of our customers leave our Attraction saying that it is the best attraction they have ever been to. EVER!
NO I have not gotten one complaint that we are inappropriate.
YES I do Extreme in your face FX makeup and Costuming and set design,
NO I do not jump out and go BOO.
YES you pointed something out on my website that I was unaware of and will be corrected by days end.
NO I am not doing it because you disliked it, Im doing it because I was unaware it was there and am correcting it...( on that note Thanks for pointing it out.)

Seriously I could go on for days on my Yes and No Rant, But there is no reason to continue it. My Haunted House is designed to be scary and entertaining to my customers.
Stu, I dont want to get into a pissing contest with you over why you feel my Haunt is so bad for the industry, I can tell you that I have Haunters from all over the country come here all year, and during season and love my attraction, to the point that they are willing to camp out in tents to guest act during our frigid October nights.
One more thing, Im concerned that you think you know so much about my attraction yet I do not recall ever comping you as a haunt owner a ticket or meeting you while you were here. Have you visited my attraction? or are you getting this information second, third, fourth hand? (on that note please remember that DarkSyde Acres always is willing to Comp a haunt owner and guests if they let us know they are here, and not go all special~ops on us)

With that said I hope you have a great season and invite you to visit anytime.

Rob Johnson ~ BodyBag Entertainment ~ Darksyde Acres Haunted House

[Tater]

Rob

I do love you, your haunt and Atalie a great deal infact in my book you always get a gold star...this guy is just here to start shit it seems like. Hell his next post just might be, Do Funny characters belong in your Haunted House. It seems like the same thing going on here.

[Mad Wax Sculptor]

I agree with everyone here. Whats amazing is everyone is pretty much on the same page and don't realize it. I am big on freedom of expression and creativity as long as its controlled . I think you can be as hard core as you like as long as there is a way to either warn or filter out customers who shouldn't see it. There is a market for hardcore that I see growing each season. I do understand you don't want to ruin the trip for a family who wasn't expecting to see a simulated sex act. I build my haunt at about a pg 13 rating with the ability to turn it up or down depending on the situation. I have had hardcore groups walk up and say the want it hard core. ill Tell the actors were about to amp up and we go from there. Only If I'm asked will I ever intentionally touch or cuss a customer. We will space that group and move them thru so they are far enough away from other groups to see it. My biggest concerns are unwilling guests seeing or hearing objective material. As long as they request it or are warned in advance its all bets off. I do feel haunts may be offering too much, too fast and desensitizing them to the point we have nothing more left to give. Compare haunts to porn one minute topless is cool the full nude then videos and so on and so on. Its progressive and always must go a step further to satisfy the urge. Haunts are the same way until we have something more to offer we need to slowly trickle this out so we don't paint our selves in the corner to where extreme and hard core are barely cutting it for our fans. An example is chainsaws even 5 yrs ago the chainsaw was king it took down 95% of the haunt fans . Its still good but its getting hard to get the same effect as before as they are getting used to it and expect it as a staple. Im sure if haunters put their heads together we can take this to the next leevl and beyond.

[Howie Slobber Erlich]

Hey Mad Wax Sculptor,

Chainsaws can still be effective. Just come up with a way to leave the blade on like we are doing this year! LOL! I'm not kidding

Howie

[SomeThingInTheIce]

My chainsaw has a blade on it, check it out.

Hey Mad Wax Sculptor,

Chainsaws can still be effective. Just come up with a way to leave the blade on like we are doing this year! LOL! I'm not kidding

Howie

[Howie Slobber Erlich]

Cool. Ours has the actual blade spinning. We even show them it's real by cutting into some lumber!

Howie

[Octoberalles]

geez howie....thats soooo inappropriate. I'm writing you a ticket. lol

[Jim Warfield]

Let Me Guess?

The "Lumber" is actually styro foam and the blade has a heater in it? Sounds defects provide the awe and wonder. (Acting too!)
I love to entertain the patrons by scaring them , then making them laugh or vice/versa. Sometimes I have to really backpedal when someone becomes too scared and scared deeply by them realising this is a haunted, haunted house and the stories I am telling them are 100% non-fictional.
I just found out a few minutes ago that a haunted acting award has been created in my name!
I am very honored and humbled.
How about that?

[Howie Slobber Erlich]

Nope! Real lumber, real chainsaw, real blade real fun!

Howie

[Mad Wax Sculptor]

Thats awesome!!! youll have to tell everyone how you guys did it after your done using the gag. I use the hell out of the saws in TX you have to. I have done a flaming chainsaw a few times. Its just for exhibition out side but its running and the bars on fire, When you rev it the flames shoot out off the muffler and bar