Ultimate Fright for an Ultimate Production

Ultimate Fright for an Ultimate Production

Halloween is inevitably fast approaching and according to the National Retail Federation, Americans are forecast to spend $8 billion on Halloween this year. It will be shelled out for things like pumpkins, candy, costumes, fake cobwebs and zombie masks and, of course, the most highlighted event, haunted houses. With their Hollywood-style effects, haunted attractions have gotten highly sophisticated and artistically thrilling over the years.

“Killers: A Nightmare Haunted House”, a half a million dollar production, opened last month on New York City’s Lower East Side, promises everything you had ever asked for. Created by Tim Haskell and produced by Steve Kopelman, “Killers” takes a theatrical approach to the standard haunted house theme and plays on our fascination with serial killers. Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Zodiac killer, and even Dexter from the Showtime series make an appearance in the show.

It is a horrifying, immersive haunted house experience about our obsession and fascination with serial killers both real and fictional. It had already started last September 28 and it will run until November 3.

“I've been producing haunted houses for about 30 years now. Years and years I've been on the road with the Stones and The Who, and I helped with merchandising for rock bands. I drove by a haunted house, and I thought "this is interesting."”, Kopelman shared.

When asked if he had plans on journeying Hollywood.

“I've always wanted to get in to Hollywood movies and stuff, but never had the funds to do something like that. So I said, "Hmm, maybe producing a haunted house would be the next best thing." I've been doing it as my primary source of income for the past 30 years.””

Right now, the production has gotten a lot of positive feedbacks and more and more tickets are sold in no time.

Posted by Kade Quinn on Monday October 22 2012, 2:20 AM EST. Ref: CNN. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Entertainment, Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0