Spookers Page #3

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- CAMERON:
Yeah.

DEBORAH:
Hearing voices has

never actually been a problem.

It's the impact that the voices had on me.

My parents became concerned

with my behaviour as such

because I was very confused about things.

I would disappear,

they wouldn't know where I was

and I couldn't remember what I'd done.

I was sent to a doctor

in Auckland Hospital.

He was a psychiatrist, he told my parents

that he believed

that I should be committed.

And my parents used to

come and see me regularly.

After being here for a while

they were told their visits upset me.

And in that day, when the doctor

said something, then that was it.

So they stopped coming to see me

and I never saw them for 18 years.

SPEAKER:
There's people who run

big businesses and,

to be honest, I think some of them

should have a psychiatric assessment.

They've got no compassion

or anything like that.

And then there's people who are

full of compassion and, you know,

have got a more eccentric view

and they're less tolerated than those

people who bully and badger people and

they're who cause people like that to

have mental health issues, you know.

You know what I mean?

CAMERON:
Dyslexia, it's

a learning disability so,

learning is a bit harder.

But also having ADHD with it as well,

is annoying because I've got to

take medication to make me...

concentrate on my work,

otherwise I'd be looking round and

doing texting or reading

stuff on the internet.

My only problem was that it wasn't

really pointed out or anything

when I was younger.

All the teachers just thought

that I was just a bad kid.

I did get bullied about having

dyslexia and all that a lot.

I get called stupid a lot.

But then working here has helped me to

get past being quiet and shy

now, so it's kind of like

it's reversing all the damage.

INTERVIEWER:
What does a mayor actually do?

ANDY:
So, mayors are responsible

for running local government,

providing roads and drains and

all of those sorts of boring things

and somehow managing to fit

that into a local economy

that can sustain the rate increases,

all those sorts of things.

So you chair a lot of meetings and

basically every night of the week

I'm out at a meeting somewhere.

BETH:
I've never watched a

horror movie, ever, in my life.

So I have to rely on other

people to tell me what happens.

Andy and I sat down

one weekend and thought,

'We need to watch horror movies,

this is the business that we're in.'

And we went to the video shop...

that's when there were still videos...

and we got, I think it was seven for $10,

and we sat down and thought,

'We're going to watch these things.'

And we got about 10

minutes into the first one,

looked at each other and thought,

'No, this is not us.'

And we took them back.

I actually don't like being scared.

INTERVIEWER:
And do you believe in ghosts?

BETH:
Yeah.

At our home there's somebody that

stands at the end of the bed

in one of the rooms.

And here at Spookers I've seen somebody.

JUNEEN:
The scariest thing,

and it is supernatural,

is my mother ended up getting possessed.

And it wasn't something

that lasted 24 hours,

it lasted a long time

and it was really, really scary.

When it first started and I called the

ambulance and one of the paramedics

turned around and said to me,

"There's nothing we can do to help her."

And then he asked me if we

went to church and he goes,

"Call your priest."

She was trying to bite everybody except me.

I didn't get kicked, I didn't get

bitten, didn't get scratched,

but everyone else did.

I was three months

pregnant when that happened.

The next night when I

found her with a lava-lava

tied around her neck real

tight and that was really weird

because I'd gone to the bathroom

and I could hear a funny noise

coming from the room.

So I quickly finished up

and went in there and I said,

"Mum, are you OK?"

And she was just making

this gurgling sound.

Sorry.

We had to hold her down and stuff

to restrain her from

doing any further harm.

Just seeing her deteriorate in

front of your eyes so quickly

and there not being a real

reason behind it was also scary.

I do try to incorporate some of that

stuff that I've seen into what I do.

People might think that,

you know, it's just a story.

It's not a story.

My family had to live through that and

it was terrifying to see somebody

go through that, that you really love,

and the repercussions of what happened

afterwards with her health and stuff,

it was just, it was horrible.

It was really horrible and I

wouldn't wish it on anybody.

MICHELLE:
There are probably 10 or 20

a night that don't actually make it

through the attractions.

We have customers that curl

up into the foetal position.

We have customers that...

just run away screaming,

go and hide in their

cars and don't come back.

We obviously have a lot of

customers that wet their pants.

Some that do more than just wet

their pants, which is unfortunate.

They don't make it through the attractions

because they are scared.

Basically we've done our

jobs really, really well.

BETH:
The most frightened

customer I have seen is

a woman cowering in the

foetal position in Corn Evil

just sobbing her heart out.

She was so scared that we

couldn't actually even move her.

It took quite some time to

get her out of the attraction.

(SCREAMING)

BETH:
How many coats have you got on?

You've got two coats on.

MICHELLE:
Yeah, yeah. So, tonight

we're doing '13

F-Ed-up Fairy Tales'.

Cool, eh?

The actors get to decide which

characters they're going to be,

within reason.

If they are placed inside a

set that is, say, for clowns,

then they are going to be a clown.

But they do have creative

control over that character

and what it really does look like.

DAVID:
I'm hillbilly

along with Claudia tonight.

We're going to do a double act.

CLAUDIA:
Me and David's hillbillies.

We're hillbilly princesses.

We're going to look hot tonight so, yeah...

INTERVIEWER:
Do you wear

dresses in your real life as well

or only when you're at Spookers?

DAVID:
I never wear

dresses in my real life.

Like, I think I'm, like, the only guy

that wears dresses all the time.

I don't really care 'cause

it's fun and, I know,

if you're going to go

hard at it, it's because,

why not wear a dress if you're a guy?

But, yeah, no, I definitely wouldn't

wear dresses in my real life

but as our character here it's because

I think it's awesome wearing dresses.

JAKE:
The biggest stepping stone

for me was finishing high school.

I actually ran away from home,

and I went out and got a job at McDonald's.

And I was, yeah, I'd just

finished high school that year.

A lot of it was more of

moving around so much.

I mean, look, I could sit all night

and talk about where I've lived

and where I've stayed.

But, yeah, that's

definitely been a journey.

(CHAINSAW BUZZING)

(FUNKY MUSIC)

JUNEEN:
If I had had another son,

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