Monsters Wanted

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[Fly buzzing]

[Splat]

- Halloween shtuff.

Right there,

in the middle of the dirt--

we're paving

a bunch of this--

it's going to be

the biocontainment tent,

which is gonna lead you

into the facade city

that leads down

to where our bus is.

That's gonna lead you

out into the woods.

The feel is to be

Louisiana bayou,

walking down the docks.

Here's the dock.

Poor carpenter.

I think they have

about given him a hemorrhage

'cause this is

the most out-of-square thing

he's ever built.

We've wanted to own

our own haunt for years.

We've been going

to haunted houses

since we were both

knee-high to a grasshopper.

You know, she was scaring kids

in the neighborhood at six

and building her own haunt

in her garage,

and we've done--been

a home haunter here for a while,

and we've--I've been

to hundreds of haunted houses

all over the country.

We love Halloween.

It's the only holiday

we celebrate.

- I was kind of born spooky.

The first horror movie I saw--

I was three--was Poltergeist.

You know,

my parents were like,

"oh, you look like

the little girl,"

and, you know, then later on

in the night, of course,

I was pawing at the TV,

"take me, take me."

- This town just didn't

have anything

that struck us as wow,

fantastic, kick butt,

and so we were like, look,

let's turn louisville in.

Let's raise the bar

on Halloween in louisville.

Let's step it up,

let's make something f***ing

fantastic out of it,

and let--let's make

a theme park.

So you come around

this side of the tent,

come walking in.

Here's the ticket window.

In front

of the ticket window,

you are in the center

of the theme park.

This is your entrance area.

So you'll have

concession booths.

You'll go off that way

for zombie city.

You go off this way

for darkness falls.

Hopefully stay a few hours,

so everyone feels

they get their money's worth.

'Cause if you're not getting

your money's worth,

it's not worth it,

it's not doing it right.

- Every time I talk about it,

I get excited.

[Clears throat]

When I let my mind run

and think about

all the possible complications

and how tight we are

on budgeting and time

and everything, then I

start to get stressed out.

- So yeah, it's

a little scary at this point.

It's exciting scary.

It's not, like,

freak-out scary to me,

but it's definitely

a little...

Nerve-racking.

- [Sighs]

Are we ready for this?

Okay, we can do this.

[Laughs]

[Listen to the anchorman

by ok zombie]

- They're coming

to get you, Barbara

thanks, Johnny,

for that update

our guy in the field's

reporting

it's too late

there's

mass pandemonium here

and everything's

very strange

it seems there are

zombies out there

eating brains

LA LA LA:

listen to the anchorman

he's got some news

he'll have you

running scared

and stayin' tuned

LA LA LA:

listen to the anchorman

he's got some news

he only wants to say

you're kind of screwed

we don't have any good news

for you

it's nothing

but gloom and doom

this just in,

there's relief coming

but not too soon

LA LA LA:

listen to the anchorman

he's got some news

he'll have you

running scared

and stayin' tuned

LA LA LA:

listen to the anchorman

he's got some news

he only wants to say

you're...

[Paintballs shooting]

- Uh, we're at paintball asylum,

at asylum xtreme sports,

uh, the louisville store

and the paintball field.

We knew,

for paintball to exist

or for a retail store

to exist,

it had to be more

than just paintball,

and that's when we grew

the asylum xtreme sports line.

And then, I always had,

in the back of my mind,

I had a notion

to do a haunt.

- It was actually Kenny

and his team

who decided to start

darkness falls,

and they were running it

as a fantastic attraction.

Darkness falls is now going to

be in its fourth year running.

Um, it was

kind of my crazy--

no, it was your crazy idea,

wasn't it?

No?

No, all right.

I'll go ahead

and take credit for it.

It was kind of my crazy idea

to go ahead

and expand everything

into a haunted theme park.

[Dramatic music]

Darkness falls is scary,

and it's fantastic.

And I absolutely

did not want that to change.

Zombie city

is actually gonna be

quite a bit more theatrical,

um, and unique

in a lot of aspects.

Uh, it's almost gonna be

a little more

like a fully immersive play

that you walk through.

- We came up with trying

to do this carnival

and do the carnival games,

where you can win

the pink floofy bear

or the Teddy bear

that was cut in half

and is bleeding and dripping

and, you know,

try and make it a little eerie

and halloweeny but fun.

- You guys are getting

a lot bigger this year,

as far as just number

of attractions and stuff.

- It's scary, really, for me.

- Is it?

- I mean--

yeah, I'll be honest.

I wish we maybe

was only expanding

on one haunt this year.

I think to double--

to add two haunts to it,

um, I mean, I don't want

to be negative about it

in no way,

by no means at all.

It's just,

it does concern me

on how much bigger

we're getting so fast.

- Welcome to darkness falls.

Okay, this is

where the crazy clown...

- And this was always

where we had the--

- who looks like Kenny

with a really long chin

and some white makeup.

- That dude

don't look like me.

In the past, we had

only one slide, which--

- and now we're gonna

split them off into--

- now it's double.

Yeah, it was doubled.

So now, it's like--

- boyfriend, this way.

Girlfriend, this way.

[Laughter]

- Come on, dude!

- We're doing

industrial sewer pipes.

And, like, you've been

going into a sewer,

industrial wasteland.

- So they're inside?

- She's got

a dad-good point.

If we do

a drop window there...

- Here.

- And we do, you know,

a trapdoor wall there,

one actor can be hitting

a couple different scenes,

running back in front of here.

- Oh, yeah.

- We can save an actor.

- Because that way,

if they don't--

if they get logged

up here,

whoever's here

just drops it and runs.

- Yeah.

- Dude, that's genius.

Let's do that.

- So much more effective.

I'd worked

at two major haunted houses

on the east coast,

and I was burned out.

I got a call

from Shawn Wallace.

"Hey, I know this guy,"

you know,

"and he's doing this."

And I said, "I don't--

I don't really want to deal

with the haunts

in this area."

I've met with some of them,

and I don't want

to work with them.

And, uh,

"oh, no, he's new."

- The evil dead cabin

is basically gonna have

a door right here,

leading you in

off the path.

Room two

is where we're hoping

to build the drop floor,

where the floor

will drop 3/4 of an inch

out from underneath you.

[Laughter]

- It's gonna be so much fun.

It looks like it.

- Okay, okay, all right.

- I work with dusty

at the day care, and I told her

I wanted to get involved

in different projects

because I was really bored.

I think she found rich

on craigslist

or something like that.

I'm not even sure.

Dusty thought...

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