What if there were no walls defining scenes? A huge warehouse, pitch black. Lights in each scene ONLY on the props/actors. First scene lights up, maybe a scare, then lights go out and another scene a few feet away lights up. Path is illuminated. Noises from the dark behind. With planning, scenes could be far apart, paths could double back. Gray areas are not traveled by patrons, so actors can use them. ...
This is just an idea that popped into my head. In a haunt, what if one of the walls was composed of brushes angled away from the guests, like a fish trap? The wall is actually part of a 3 sided room on a track. You push the wall forward and walls some along with it. When extended, the guest has been swallowed up by the wall, and is now in an alternate corridor. ...
I am always thinking of how things are interconnected, how fundamental principles apply. In haunting, I have heard several haunt owners declare that the "patrons are the enemy". It is a battle to dominate the patron to a desired end - scaring the fluids out of them. In developing and teaching 截拳道 - Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee espoused 5 ways ...
de·noue·ment /ˌdāno͞oˈmäN/ noun 1. the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. 2. the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear. synonyms: finale, final scene, final act, last act, epilogue, coda, end, ending, finish, close ...
2020 looms large on the horizon and many of the first motion pictures ever made are now either over or approaching a century old. With a century of movies to choose from, and so many of those being modern horror, why should modern haunters watch horror (or other movies) from the silent era? ...