Spookers

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INTERVIEWER:
What are you doing?

BETH:
I'm bloodying up these two-headed

babies to go into the incubator room.

It's one of the rooms that the

actors really enjoy working in.

It's a long process trying to find

different recipes for

different sorts of blood,

whether you want it to be flat, dried blood

or whether you want it to

keep looking really glossy

even when it's dry,

and one that's going to stay on...

even in the rain, especially

outside in the forest.

It's been a fair bit of

experimentation though,

into trying to find some blood recipes.

INTERVIEWER:
And what's

the winning formula?

BETH:
The winning formula is

Resene Furniture Gel mixed with...

(PHONE RINGS)

BETH:
This is really a secret,

should I be telling you this?

(ANSWERS PHONE)

Hello, Spookers, Beth speaking.

The Haunted House, The

Freaky Forest and Disturbia.

They're all open, it just looks like

we might have a little

bit of light drizzle,

so probably if you do

The Freaky Forest first

and then if it rains you know that

you're not going to miss out.

Yeah, absolutely.

We've had... I think the oldest

person was 98, so 63 is fine.

Yeah, just make sure she doesn't

wear high heels or anything

so that she'll be comfortable.

LOMAKS:
I had pizza for

breakfast, at about 1pm.

(LAUGHS) So, very unbalanced diet.

But I guess it's 'cause of work last night.

DAVID:
I work in a supermarket and

I study bio-med and I work here.

The beauty of working at

Spookers is that you can...

be whoever the hell you want to be.

JAKE:
You can be whatever you want.

DAVID:
Express yourself, like,

look at me, I'm in a wedding dress.

I would never wear this

to count down, obviously.

But, yeah, tonight I'm

a zombie bride and, hey,

can you be a zombie bride at your work?

JAKE:
Yeah... (LAUGHS)

CAM:
Oh, I'm a dessert chef.

So, I make, like, panna cottas, crme

brles, pavlovas and meringues.

I do a nice chocolate pudding

with, like, hokey pokey

and a nice caramel sauce with it.

Beautiful.

INTERVIEWER:
What are you

afraid of in real life?

SPEAKER:
I'm afraid of commitment.

SPEAKER:
Of my mum.

JUNEEN:
I've been with

Spookers for nearly three years.

It's something that I've

wanted to do for years

but never quite had the confidence to...

do an audition and things like that.

'Cause I was always quite shy.

But not so shy anymore.

(GROWLS).

For the last 11 years

I've done insurance claims

and in insurance you really

have to be nice to people and

regardless of whether they

say you're wrong or not,

you still have to sort of be professional.

Whereas over here you're

paid to scare people.

I'm on a bit of a holiday from...

any kind of corporate employment,

mainly because I'm over it.

SAM:
When I originally auditioned here

I thought I would never get through.

I just convinced myself...

I was like, you know,

they're not going to call me back.

And I remember when I got the

call I was at school in assembly

and I saw my phone ringing and I was

like, no, got to get out of here.

And I, like, ran out of the hall,

answered the phone and Julia's like,

"You've got the job." And I just

started crying, I was so happy.

I was obsessed with this

place before I worked here.

I think I had been here, like, 24 times.

INTERVIEWER:
And what's it

like being a flight attendant?

JAKE:
Flight attendant is just like any

job, you have your bad days, good days.

Everything that happened that

was bad in the week, you know,

I just suck it up and then I come

here and I let it all out in character.

SPEAKER:
(INAUDIBLE)

CAMERON:
Coming from

school and then coming here,

it's just like...

You know, just get into character

and scare people, which is fun.

I like it.

I'm not very social outside of work,

I just usually stick to myself.

But here you're always

meeting new people, new faces.

Everyone just gets along.

HUIA:
When I first started working

here I didn't know how to act.

I didn't know characters.

And I was kind of scared of clowns.

But now that I work here,

I've become one.

SPEAKER:
Alright, guys,

customers are told they

are not allowed to smoke,

drink or eat inside the attraction.

Also, no photos or videos.

If they get a bit too scared, they're

told to put their hand up and say,

"Stop." If they do that, back off.

If they ask you to take them out, take

them out the quickest way possible.

Don't touch any of the wobbly bits,

back of the necks, top of the head.

Shoulders and back of the legs is fine,

stay away from the fronts of the body.

Anything else?

SPEAKER:
Yeah!

ALL:
Whoo-hoo!

(WHISTLING AND CLAPPING)

SPEAKERS:
(CHANTING AND CLAPPING)

Whoo-hoo!

SPEAKER:
Occasionally when

people come to Spookers

they'll get scared in the car park or

scared just outside the front doors

and they never even get

in to buy their tickets...

they'll hop in their cars and leave.

When that first happened we had to

have a talk to some of the staff

because we were losing too

many people out of the car park.

So the actors generally work

closer to the ticket office now.

SPEAKER:
It's tough but I'd

have to say probably death.

Yeah, like, everyone else is

afraid of dying, so, yeah...

(DRUMMING, SCREAMS, VARIOUS SOUND EFFECTS)

SPEAKER:
(INAUDIBLE)

(DRUMMING, SCREAMS)

You all little corpses (INAUDIBLE).

JULIA:
When I first found the

site I had no idea what it was.

I had heard of the Kingseat

Psychiatric Hospital

but that didn't even come into my mind.

And I was driving past, saw the sign...

BETH:
And as soon as we

saw this building we said...

JULIA:
Yeah, as soon as we saw this

building, this is just perfect.

We actually had to find somewhere that

was a huge building, had some land,

for the maze and, you know,

a forest, and it was perfect.

BETH:
It had some atmosphere.

JULIA:
Yeah. So, you don't

want to give it up too easily.

INTERVIEWER:
Excuse me.

Do you think this place

gives you weird dreams?

What do you think it's like on your brain,

having these sort of double

lives and scaring people

and then being normal

at your normal job and...

SAM:
I reckon it could be

unhealthy, to be honest.

Like, you could, like,

persuade yourself that you're,

like, a character that isn't real.

I don't know.

Like, I've never thought about that before.

I reckon that is pretty, like, unhealthy

but then actors do it, like, in movies.

MICHELLE:
Honestly, I

have a lot of nightmares.

(PHONE RINGS) I have quite

a problem with nightmares.

And I can't even really remember...

I remember them when I

wake up in the morning,

but then I forget.

But, yeah, I certainly have

more nightmares than dreams.

(ANSWERS PHONE)

Good afternoon, Spookers.

Hi.

(CHAINSAW NOISE)

INTERVIEWER:
Can you remember

your dreams last night or this morning?

- HUIA:
My dreams?

- INTERVIEWER:
Yeah.

HUIA:
Oh, those are fun.

I have lots of those.

(SPOOKY MUSIC)

HUIA:
Life's hard.

It is.

INTERVIEWER:
Why?

HUIA:
I don't know, stress, people.

You've got to like people.

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