Back in '84, while doing the Dungeon of Terror, I was put in charge of the kitchen massacre...(not my idea for a room...but there it is.)
We had built a counter with a sink, had an actual working referige where we kept some awfully nasty looking stuff made from real liver.
On the counter we had a maniquin, looking as if we were butchering it, so we had a lot of disconnected parts strewn about! This is where I started doing what I called a psycotic bum.
I dressed rather grungy and walked as if one leg did not wanna support my weight. In reallity, it was nothing special. But I would take this bloody maniquin arm and pretend I was chewing on it, when in fact, I was chewing on a piece of apple and a blood capsule.
As the patrons walken in, I would look up at them and the apple with blood would come slobbering out.
This is where I gained the attitude that the goal of a actor in a Haunted Attraction is to scare, or sicken, or make the patrons laugh. The good ones can do all three at the same time!
A boon I ask thee,
Mighty shade...
Within this circle,
I have made...
Make me a vampire,
strong and bold,
a terror alike, for young and old!
Grant me a figure tall and spare,
With stealth of the deer,
and claws of the bear!
The speed of the elk,
The wit of the fox,
The ears of the wolf,
The strength of the ox!
The venom of the snake
The teeth of the shark,
The eyes of the cat,
Which see in the dark!
It all started in the mid-eighties as a way for those of us that were too busy with the Haunted Attractions to attend Halloween parties, to have a halloween party!
The first one was held in late Sept. or Early Oct. but everyone dressed as some kinda Vampire...we ended up drinking beer and watch Vampire flicks all night.
That is it...and it progressed slowly until '91(?) when one very brave and somewhat of an exhibitionist female friend of mine, decided to show up..naked! That made for an interesting night, since it was a rare thing in those days.
When word of this got out, people were asking when my next one was...and somehow...we always had one exhibitionist there.
By this time, alot of the Goth Kids that helped run the haunt were coming of age (adult) and we started doing the revel at a friends house, where we turned the basement into an early version of a Goth Club...(Denver had very few of these at the time) with Bauhaus and Type O Negative and other Vampiric type music playing...we did the upstairs up like a video room where we had Vampire movies playing, we also had a live Masquerade game going.
The year that Interview with the Vampire came out, I noticed that women got kinda hot about the scene where Antonio Banderez and Brad Pitt came damn close to kissing....so we added a game called,"The Seductive Embrace"! The contestants would pair off and try to create the sexiest ...for lack of a better term.....vampire attack! Those turned out to be fun for both contestants and shameless voyuers. We also started the divirginations, where the newcomer had to dress in white until Midnight where we had a faux ritual, upon the victim was turned and could dress however they want for the rest of the night.
THEY ARE DUSK TIL DAWN by the way!
The divirginations are what were soon to become the fetish part. One friend of mine was a professional Dom and she victimized this one virgin, then had a line of people wanting to be next...
These days we tie someone loosely on a make shift cross and they pick what happens...more often than not, THIS...is where the NC-17 rating comes in.
We have also had one where a hot tub was rented and rarely anyone was clothed.
BUT! I must acknowledge that it is the people who show up that make these revels great....!
It is their yearning for a night that Inhibitions are tossed to the way side that makes these work!
I pay no one to get naked or anything of that nature.
I shall stop there as there are those who read these pages that plan on attending and I want to leave more to discover
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