Gore?

[Spookyfinder]

hmmmm..... I think that Al Gore will give me more nightmares than bloody gore ever will...LOL!!! New haunt room this season, the Al Gore room of Death. -Nightgore

[Jim Warfield]

All that blood from just popping that one pimple on your forehead?
"Run! It's an eruption!" Here comes the lava!"
Which brings a question to my mindo most of us think we might be giving away too much of the show in the parking lot?
Does anyone consciously not show too much outside, saving it for inside?
I have had actors in evil-clown costumes walk around the side of the house just as some one would ask me if there were clowns in my house, because if there are, they are not coming in!
I think the outside of the place should be interesting and even entertaining but not something that will discourage ticket sales or giveaway the possible creatures to be found inside.

[MMManiac]

Point well taken boogeyman. More blood and gore= better room.
(at times) :twisted:

[Spookyfinder]

I'm all for using blood and gore, but unfortunately, because of the area we're in, we have to be careful in our design and decor. We're right in the bible belt where people can easily cause us considerable heartache from the pressure they put on officials if they think we, in any way, represent satanism or devil worship. But, like I said, I'm all for making the haunt as scary as possible by using all means possible. I figure the patrons are paying to be scared and I intend to give them what they're paying for! :twisted:

Kel

[MMManiac]

thats would kind of suck having to be caeful as to what u do. In my area anything goes! :twisted:

[Spookyfinder]

It does present its challenges MM. We even put out a press release indicating that our haunt was "ghost" themed and in now way satanic. We did this in response to a number of calls we received from some of the radical fundamentalists in the area. I figure the more challenging the situation is, the greater opportunity I have to rise to the occasion...hope, hope, hope! :wink: Adressing the issue dod result on some additional free press.

I do wish we had the freedom to exercise a bit more creative liberty though. I think the fact that we made a sizable contribution to a local charity, even though we are a "for-profit" haunt, softened things a bit for us and next year we have another charity that we have already promised 10% of the net profits to.

The good new is that, in spite of the toned down gore, we still had a number of people wet themselves, take emergency exits, refuse to proceed and go back out the front door and we had people freeze up and require an escort to get them out. :twisted: You gotta love that :!:

Kel

[scareyou2]

Kel,

That would really piss me off ( :evil: ) if some church related group/organization tried to stop my haunt because of their views on Satanical themes. I'd tell them to **** off if they don't like it. Don't tell me what themes to put in my haunt and I won't tell you what message to preach in your church.

It's really sad in this day and age that people of religious faith are still trying to control others through governmental influence. I'm a firm believer in separation of church and state. Unfortunately, I, too, live in the bible belt. We still have silly a** Sunday Blue Laws here in most of South Carolina. Fortunately, people here are starting to open their eyes to how dumb and regressive they are.

We tend to push the envelope to some degree, but we have yet to have any gripes about our content. Then again, my response to the Satanic gripers would be, "If you don't like it, don't come!"

[Spookyfinder]

I hear ya Scareyou, Unfortunately, the religious fanatics here have a great deal of pull with the local officials and they can make our lives real difficult if they want to. We're trying to impress upon them that we are "live and let live" people. Of course there are a number of more balanced mainstream "Christian" groups here, like the Christian Cowboy's that just loved the haunt. I try to make it clear to the community that we aren't anti-Christian, anti-Muslim, anti-Hindu, or anti-anything, except for anti-hate. :wink:

Kel

[MMManiac]

and to think someone wanted me to do a jesus "crusifiction" room this year... Talk about getting bad press... no thanks! :twisted:

[scareyou2]

Hell, getting bad press will sometimes get you more business. I guess it just depends on what it is. When we plan rooms for our haunt, we don't ask ourselves, "WWJD? Will doing this room get us in trouble with the religious right?" We are strictly looking at it how it fits into our haunt and the scare and entertainment value.

No matter what you do or don't do, there will always be some people who associate haunted attractions as being evil, or work of the devil. That is, unless it's a church group or religious organization sponsoring one of those "What's It Like When You Go To Hell" tours.

Would we do a Jesus crucifiction? No, it just wouldn't fit with what we do. Would showing someone being crucified as part of a torture room scene be off limits? Nope, not for us. Are characters that could be construed as being demonic off limits? Again, the answer is no!

I feel for those of you who are constrained to only have content in your show that others deem as morally acceptable. It's not right, but I understand that most of us here don't have unlimited capital and resources to fight City Hall. You do what you have to do to make it.

[Markieb]

Gore is good, I love it. It just has to be balanced and not over the edge.

Says for instance you have a man decapitated in army clothes. Bad decision. You have children in the gore scene..bad decision...

You have to be logical and dont let gore over run you house.

However you do need enough gore to scare some. I think it is a balancing act.

[steve]

judging by your avatar would this be your room?

gore is your friend, for dip your hand in that freshly opened corpse and splatter it all over dem walls

[Hell American Freak]

I don't have a room, I run the house so I am a roamer but I still like to act because when it comes to scaring people I am like a crack addict, I have to get my fix or I go crazy, who said I'm crazy, you said I'm crazy, no the stop sign said your crazy, the stop sign said I'm crazy, well the cheesecake tuna burger clocktower man told me to eat the spare tire to make the evil clown monkeys go away, clown monkeys where, no...no...I don't want to, leave me alone, I don't want to hurt them, they were nice, they said hi to me, hurt them, hold their eyelids open with tooth pics and pour salt into their eyeballs, why, cause I said so

[Spookyfinder]

Remember, gore isn't just blood. It can also be puking/vomiting, pooping (lol), torture, punishments/abuse, murders... keep the "gore" range open. -Nightgore

[Hell American Freak]

Steve, have a orderly walk around your parking lot trying to sell urine samples to your guests. :twisted: