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Anybody going to partake in a haunted house visit this Halloween season?

I already have a ticket for Thursday night at the Vortex Haunted House in NYC.
http://www.nychalloweenhauntedhouse.com/
The trick of this haunted house is that there is no safety in numbers. Everyone must walk through alone.

Or will you be attending a costume party? A seance? Or some kind of satanic ritual? Shocked

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@tsarstepan,

No, although we did make a trash can bot at work for Halloween. Scary mask over form head, piston attached, stuffed into trash can with lid, then get it to jump. Adding an arm with a hand with fur and claws to grasp. Plus, of course, a camera.

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Mo's always been too little to do the haunted houses -- they're supposed to be really scary -- but we've talked about doing it this year.

We always do the Davis Graveyard, which is just a few blocks from our house: http://www.davisgraveyard.com/slideshows/2010/

We live on "treat street". Bus loads of kids come to our street on Halloween. It's a blast! The kids from the college dress up in elaborate costumes and carol down the median. We're at the "slow" end of the street and get more than 300 trick or treaters. This year we did a really good job on decorations (people have been stopping by to take pictures of our scarecrow) so we might get a few more than ususal!

We've been piecing together Mo's costume for the last month or so and it's nearly complete.

I LOVE Halloween!

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@boomerang,

Did you set up one of these, Boom?

http://www.halloween-cartoons.com/images/halloween_witch.jpg

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@Setanta,

We go more for creepy than funny.

Well.... except for the talking dog skeleton!

I'll have to take some pictures.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

Did you set up one of these, Boom?

That 's a great one.

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@boomerang,

That graveyard looks incredible. I'm jealous of you and Mo. You lucky dogs! Smile

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I survived the very minimalist horror house tonight... barely. Hard to describe. Not necessarily scary but a brutal assault on the senses other then sight which for the most part is stolen from the haunted house's visitor.

It was a little bit of Guantanamo Bay but transplanted to the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC.

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

It was a little bit of Guantanamo Bay but transplanted to the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC.

This isn't a picture of me but it's one of the devastatingly real experiences at the Vortex Haunted House....

Haunted Houses Profit by Going to Extremes
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/arts/22haunt.html
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I have also bought a ticket for Sunday for the Nightmares: Superstition haunted house.

Quote:

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Read more: http://newyork.timeout.com/section/youre-invited#ixzz138pqHsJY

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The Nightmare: Superstitions Haunted House was a lark of sorts. Good for laughs rather then scares.

And yes, there were some spooky moments as well. I did yelp when I was surprised and slightly scraped on my elbow by a falling trap wall that temporarily isolated me in the room while the rest of the group cowered behind me in the corridor by the room's entrance.

And the end was anticlimactic and unexpected. While time didn't seem to exist in the Vortex Haunted House, the trip through the Nightmare HH passed far too quickly.

It was kind of fun but not very satisfying.

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It's that time of the year again. Anyone going to partake in a little chez terror?

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