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-Now, before we start, could you give us that cackle

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that's scared this generation? -Sure.

I'll get you right here, my pretty.

[Cackles]

[Hisses]

-When I was a little boy, starting at 10 years old,

I used to write to Margaret Hamilton,

who played the witch.

Um, never thought she would write back.

She did.

Not once, not twice, not three times.

It just kept on going.

We had a pen-palship until just before she got ill in 1984,

and she had to be put into a nursing home,

and she passed away.

When I was writing to her,

I always said, "Yes, you are my favorite character.

Yes, I enjoyed your work."

You know, anything that a fan could do as a little boy.

But I had absolutely no idea that I would ever,

ever do this character when I grew up.

As a child, there was one day a year where you got to dress up,

and you just used to have fun.

Nowadays, for me, it's part of a career that I look forward to

for 45 days a year.

I was a Spooky House Haunted Theme Park --

I was their resident Wicked Witch for six seasons.

-How about a little fire, scarecrow? [Cackles]

-How far do they go to scare somebody, you know?

-They will go pretty far.

They will go pretty far to breaking their leg,

breaking their back,

doing anything they possibly can to get a scare.

Actors like that, they don't come around very often,

the ones who are that passionate.

It's all about a good scare.

I'm not surprised, to be honest.

I'm not surprised. That's actually scary.

Real dead bodies?

Not far from what I've heard.

Here we are, day one,

and we have to be at Zombie Manor at 5:00.

And it's 4:45, and we're at least an hour away,

so we're pretty much fucked.

-I hope he's in an ice cream truck.

-I know. Do you think we'll fit in an ice cream truck?

[Humming]

-Come closer. Please be him.

-Why are ice cream truck sounds so creepy?

-'Cause they're all pedophiles. -[Chuckles]

-They want to track children. -Yo, what?

-To track children and creep them out.

-You realize we're going to fight Dallas traffic at 5:00?

And he completely redeems himself!

-Dude, that thing is huge. You can't put that anywhere.

-It's ginormous. -Where the fuck is Michael?

The R.V. beats Michael. Are you fucking kidding me?

-Of course it does. -Let's go.

-We're totally gonna fit in with, like, backwoods people.

-You gotta go.

-What's up, man? -Oh, this is nice, man.

-What do you think? -This is awesome, dude.

-Fucking awesome, man.

This place -- -This is flat screen job.

-I can't believe we're gonna be in this for, like, a month.

This is the best thing ever. -Oh, my God.

-Huge! -Hold on. Check. It's huge.

Yeah. Check this out. Hold on.

Let me show you.

Oh, sorry, I got all my shit scattered,

all the equipment, but, yeah, it's going to be tight.

Hold on. We can...

-Oh, oh, oh!

He said, "Hold on!"

-And we've got room. We've got big bed back here.

We've got two double beds.

-This is your master suite, Brandy.

-Sweet! [Indistinct]

-So, Brandy, why are you in this RV with us?

-So I can hang out, drink some boo--

No, I'm just kidding. -Hey, where the fuck are you?

-Does that say "How cute" on the bottom of it?

-Why aren't you here yet?

-"How cute"? Oh, yeah. How cute.

I don't know what happened.

-Alright.

-Hey, um, he -- what did he say?

"I'm on my way." -Yeah.

-Your brother may want to have a few words with you.

-Alright, you guys take over the camera, okay?

-I got it.

-Mike.

Yeah.

What? -Whatever.

-Can't say that.

-We can say whatever we want.

-No.

What, the garage?

About fucking time.

-What's up, kids? -Jesus.

-Sorry. -Well, we're finally ready.

-It's fucking hell.

We have a God damn schedule for the rest of the fucking --

We have two weeks straight all through October, every night.

-I was shaving, sorry.

-Wow, dude.

-Hey, Brian.

-Hey, Mikey. -How are you?

-Good. How are you?

-Is that where we're staying? -Yeah.

-I can see it. -Me, not you.

-Did you just kiss her? -You disappeared there.

-Gave her a kiss hello. She's a good friend.

-On the cheek. Nothing naughty here.

-Nothing naughty. This is PG at the moment.

-Kind of sucked. [Laughter]

-That's good for you. Makes you stronger.

Gotta work harder.

-We've lost time and money now.

-On me? -Mm-hmm.

-Hey, I'll make it up in my editing skills.

-Get out of there. This is -- get comfortable in this area.

-This is the editing bay?

-You know what we talked about on the phone?

You're at 22 days, okay? 22 days.

And this has to be locked, done.

It'll be a waste.

We'll have to wait an entire year.

There's no reason.

-Thanks. -You got it, brother.

-This'll be fun, guys.

"Big Brother," together again under one roof.

Swore I'd never live with him again.

22 days. -The focus is more --

it's not as much about the houses that --

those are going to be fun.

The aesthetics of the --

Put the fucking Jim Beam up.

-I like that that's how the trips are that you guys...

-What were you saying, Robbie?

-I'm already stressed out. -You're dealing with him.

-The focus -- -[Indistinct]

-Because of blood, not for anything else.

-Wow, that's pretty fucking dickhead.

-Look, this is the house. The house is is not the main --

You're not fucking smoking in here.

-It's electric, dude. Relax.

I live in LA. I'm "green."

I drive a Prius. -It's an electric cigarette?

-Yeah. Don't worry about it. It's just, like, vapor, dude.

-That's an electric cigarette?

-This is an electric cigarette.

-I saw smoke.

-It's not smoke, it's vapor.

It's like what's at a club, fog machine.

-Dude, dude. -I'm trying to kick the habit.

Don't you want your brother to be healthy?

-You look healthy right now.

-I look fantastic, actually. That's beautiful.

-Did you get that coffee sugar-free?

-Whatever. Leave my cigarette alone.

Move on, go on.

-So, we've got a tight schedule we want to hit.

Well, but I'm not worried as much about the schedule

as I am the focus, because I want --

I don't want to get caught up in the monsters

and, uh, the special effects.

I want to see it, and that's a fun ride,

but I want to get in as much as we can

with behind the mask of all these people.

It's a strange life these dudes live.

Every October, I mean, they really --

this is their life. and I don't know what they do

for the other 11 months, but this month,

I mean, these guys are strange dudes.

Some people take their kids,

you know, they bring their families,

and we go into the dark

and these people chase us with weapons

and, um, all different kinds of stuff.

And I want to look -- take a deeper look into that

because nobody really has.

-I've grown up, always loving haunted houses,

uh, loving ghosts, the occult.

horror movies, anything creepy.

-You love the occult? You worship the occult?

-[Sarcastically] Yeah, I'm a Satan worshiper.

Yeah. And I'm also --

I have your life in my -- in my hands right now.

Um, another big theme, at least with haunted houses,

why I think I'm so big into them, too,

is that was 7 years old

and my parents really didn't censor all that much.

They let me watch R-rated horror films

and, uh, watching Freddy and Jason,

and I used to go to the haunted houses.

We went to a place called Spook Forest,

and of course, it was in a forest.

There were strobe --

the whole forest was strobe lights.

And I was absolutely terrified.

I was walking through,

and this guy jumped down from this tree,

and he grabbed me.

Because back when you could touch,

when you could just, you know, touch anybody you wanted to,

he grabbed me.

And I screamed and I punched him right in the stomach,

and I don't know what it is from there.

It's just the adrenaline of that.

It just hooked me,

I just -- I was all in it from that point.

Um, and here we are now.

-There it is. -Here we are!

-Zombie Manor.

-You got an ice cream truck. -Look at that man.

-Welcome to the Zombie Manor.

-Hey!

-♪ Zombies in my head ♪

-Should we be in costume right now?

-What do you not understand about zombies?

-I want to know everything about zombies.

-Like how to kill them?

-So, like, well, first of all, aren't there, like,

a bunch of different ways to kill zombies?

-Yeah. -We blow their head off.

-That's the only way you can kill a zombie?

-Yeah. -Decapitate them.

-You gotta shoot them in the head.

-Shoot them in the head. -Okay.

And so, zombies are --

what is, like, the definition of a zombie?

-A reanimated...dead body.

-They're undead. -They're the undead?

-They're undead.

-They have no soul, but they --

-But at one point in time, they were human beings?

-Yes. -Do you think that brains

are high in protein and low and carbs?

-No, but what else is high in protein?

-Shut up!

Alright, so here we are at Zombie Manor.

What is your role here at Zombie Manor?

-Well, uh, Dean always says I'm kind of his righthand man,

so that just means when he has something he doesn't want to do,

he makes me do it.

-When you say, "He does my dirty work

that he doesn't want to do," is that --

what does that mean, exactly?

-We need someone to disappear.

-So, what happens when you get kind of,

like rough and rowdy crowds that come in there?

Do you ever have any trouble with people?

-Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Sure, sure.

-Yeah, pretty much,

you'll always find one in every group.

Uh, sometimes more than one a night.

-Yeah. -Sometimes you might get lucky

and not have anybody that'll be a, you know,

a crap starter, so to speak.

-Right. How do you handle that?

-My, uh, attorney said I'm not allowed to discuss it

while the litigation is pending.

-We've heard of people trying to, like, make it real.

-I've heard rumors

of people doing things like that.

Supposedly hiring actual, you know, murderers

or something to work in their haunts,

things like that.

It's all talk sometimes. You don't know what's what.

-A lot of it's marketing. -Yeah.

-But with as far as that goes,

I mean, we'll get a,

uh, what's called a scent that smells --

-Alright, the zombies are getting restless.

We need you in makeup and wardrobe, stat!

Time to cue it up!

You know how zombies are.

No rest for the weary. -The man has spoken.

-And the dead were people too once,

so they need some wrangling.

We need you.

-Alright. Sounds good.

-Well, thank you very much for your time.

-Give us a little bit of time. You'll get to meet Dirty Ernie.

-I'm sure Dirty Ernie and Cooter are around here somewhere.

-Dirty Ernie and Cooter, I like it.

-Did he say there was real murderers in haunted houses?

-No. -Oh.

Maybe I'm just overanalyzing it, but that was pretty weird.

I don't really believe in this stuff.

I think he's gonna say something.

Came right in, right when he was talking

about all the other shit.

-He was gonna say something just really weird.

-That's what I mean. He came right in

when you guys started going into, like, the body parts,

then he said something about the scent.

Body scents.

-So my question, is it like body scents,

where you, like,

they're made to smell like body parts,

or they can -- they can smell when it's a body part?

Like, what does that mean?

-I don't know. I think we're trying to get --

we're trying to get something else, I think.

-He was telling too much.

I wonder if that's why he came over.

-I'm Dean Jarnig. I'm with Zombie Manor.

What we have here is a little bit of an original

and very unique experience

in what we try to accomplish in our space here.

We have a 6,000-square-foot warehouse,

which basically consists of a zombie experience.

We don't do Freddy. We don't do Michael,

chainsaws, clowns, aliens.

I love all that stuff, but you can see that in a lot --

You can see that in a lot of shows across the country.

So, what we try and do is just sort of sprawl

this little layered zombie story throughout the attraction.

-[Screams]

-[Screams]

-We are very fortunate that we've got a great group.

They are schoolteachers and lawyers

and special effects artists.

They are Special Forces, you know, uh, military people.

They're dental hygienists.

They are web designers.

We've got a wide walk of life here.

They love to get a good scare on.

And it's one of those things.

It's like riding a roller coaster, you know?

I mean, it's got a lot of highs and lows and twists and turns.

But for a actor in a haunted house, it is nothing.

Nothing -- no bigger rush than getting a great scare.

And it could be the biggest, baddest guy in class

that comes through, uh, that you give that to.

-Let's keep that. They talk about two in, two out.

We need to keep it that to make it different.

So, literally you and Brandy go get what you can.

Um, then we'll go to the second run through,

and we'll do coverage with that camera

of all the things that are round.

-Did you catch -- look at that.

That's a creepy sky.

Zombie Manor.

-You should. You should buy a shirt and,

like, cut it and make it like a cube.

-[Laughing] Have you guys seen my titties?

-No, actually. -Exactly. They don't exist.

I'm the girl in the haunted -- the haunted -- the horror film

where they take the bra and they go like...

just to try to put it on.

-The one we were watching? -Yeah.

What was that? "Wrong Turn."

-You'll live to -- you'll live to the end, Brandy.

-Yes, because I don't have the big boobs.

-There you go. You'll live. You'll live.

-There is something good about not having big boobs!

-You're not gonna die.

-I'm taking [Indistinct] -Those clowns --

-Greetings, and welcome to the zombie nation.

Your time is drawing near.

-She got scared with this guy talking.

-...have a secret. -I wasn't expecting it.

That's what scares me.

Aaah! [Laughing] I'm fucking scared.

-Do not enter Zombie Manor if you are...

-What's your name, if you don't mind me asking?

-Uh, my real name is Joe Titus.

-Okay. -My character name is Stefan.

-Stefan.

And, uh, what do you do

when you're not scaring people here at Zombie Manor?

-Uh, I have a real job.

-What's your real job?

-I work for an IP company.

-What got you started doing all this?

-I started haunted houses about 17 years ago.

-17 years ago? -I've worked off and on,

but this is, like, my favorite, so...

-Really? -Eight years.

-Wow! What got you into the costume and scaring people?

-It's fun. -Yeah?

-Once you do it, it gets in your blood.

It's like you gotta come back and keep doing it.

♪

-[Screams]

♪

♪

-[Screams, laughs]

♪

[Screams]

[Screams]

Oh!

♪

Can you help me, please?

♪

Oh, my God!

Shit.

♪

Okay.

You can help me.

♪

I can't. -Keep going.

-[Screams]

♪

-My name is Tina. -Tina.

And, uh, do you -- what --

do you do anything else besides work as a scare actor?

♪

-I'm a nurse, for one.

-So during the day, you're, like, putting bandages

over people's wounds and making them better?

-I'm a nurse. I'm a mother, a wife.

I have horses, but this is my passion.

I love Halloween. -Really?

-And if I can get you to scream, then I feel great.

-[Screams, laughs]

-With me with you, [Indistinct]

I think you should go. You're good to go.

-[Screams]

That's not even a bad one!

♪

[Screams]

Aaah! They keep coming!

[Screams]

♪

[Screams]

♪

-Is that blood?

-[Screams] -[Screams]

-Dirty Ernie. How y'all doing tonight?

-Oh, God. -You better get in here.

Don't let them zombies get ahold of y'all.

Come on now. Hang out all night.

Driving you crazy. -[Screams]

[Screams]

-Don't worry about him. He alright.

How y'all doing tonight?

-Good. So, okay, here's the thing.

-Uh-huh.

-[Laughing] I'm scared.

-Scared?

You ain't out of the woods yet, sister.

-[Screams]

-Beware [Indistinct]

He's my favorite!

[Laughs]

Feeding time, Cletis!

-[Screams]

[Laughs]

Oh.

You guys?

I'm not kidding.

I don't know if I can do all of these.

I mean, if they're worse than this?

-[Cackling] -[Screams]

-Oh, my God.

Oh, he got me!

-Oh, my God.

Oh, God.

Oh, my God.

-Did you survive?

We saw you on the security cameras going in there.

-Oh, my God. That scared me so bad.

-Can you come out and walk through

with every group Friday and Saturday?

-I don't think I can because I think everybody --

-Because you're perfect.

-...laughing at me, being scared the living daylights --

And I swear to God, I was not asking to one-up that.

Oh, my God, it scared me so bad.

-It looked like you had fun.

-I was so afraid there. Like --

-Most of our zombies are make-believe.

-Yeah, but I was still --

most. -Most of them.

-So, there's some real in there?

Is that what you're trying to say?

[Laughing] Oh, fucking dicks!

I hate you all!

-Oh, yeah.

-I'm never going to get through today.

-Well...

Oh, look at that house.

-Dude, that's sick.

-Hey, y'all, look at this house. This is sick.

-Hey, guys, watch the house. -I know.

-It almost looks like ten haunted houses here,

all in one.

How did that come about?

-Well, it's six main attractions

and three supplemental smaller ones.

-So, how did you, uh, get started

in this business of scare?

-Well, um, it wasn't me.

It was my son who passed away in 2002,

and he invested in this 46 acres.

He had a bunch of friends

that they used to work at Six Flags together.

And, uh, some of them went to school together,

and it's just evolved through the years.

And Lance was kind of the spearhead of it,

but he had a lot of help from a lot of buddies,

and they are keeping this going.

-What did he see when he pictured Thrillvania?

-Before he passed, he had hoped --

you know, there's a big hill up there

and he wanted to put a larger house up there than we have.

We have a 9,000-square-foot, two-story house,

but he wanted to put a mammoth one up there

that was a big ride-through.

That was his dream.

-So, would you say that this is kind of more

of a fun haunted house or a scary in,

the more scary version? -Oh, it's both.

-Oh, really? -Oh, yeah.

-You can get the bee-gees scared out of you.

-The bee-gees? -Yeah.

[Laughter]

-I don't know if you use that anywhere other than Texas.

-No, I don't think so, but I like it.

So, um, how many people, on those really busy nights,

do you get in here?

-Oh, 5,000 to 6,000 people a night.

-[Indistinct]

We're going to Thrillvania! Whoo!

-Here at Thrillvania, we like to --

we like to touch base on the fourth sense,

and that's smell.

-So, how do you go about issuing smells?

-Yeah, well, some things you can buy.

You can go online and buy certain smells.

There's stuff you can buy that smells like rotten flesh.

I don't use it because it makes our actors puke.

You know, I like the scary stuff.

I don't like the real scary stuff.

-Is there anything that's even scared you?

-I remember a haunt I went to

probably three or four years ago,

and I think it was, uh, there was a guy on the floor,

and he was munching his teeth at me,

and I looked at him and he had entrails behind him.

So, he was a paraplegic they hired.

He was real fast on his hands.

And I thought that was the most scariest thing I've ever seen.

I couldn't -- I saw blood entrails coming out of him

and he runs up and tries to bite you.

I think that was pretty unique. -Oh, my gosh.

So, how do you find people?

-You know, a lot of people are word-of-mouth,

and a lot of people have worked for us for many years,

and they bring their friends and so on and so on and so on.

And then we also put ads in the green sheet and local newspapers

and we try to recruit that way, too.

-Right. Just because that's got to be really --

Do you do, like, a background check on people?

Just because, you know, come in here and they can put a mask on.

They could be anybody, you know. -That is true.

Currently, we do not do a background check,

but we're looking into doing that in the future.

-What's your 9:00 to 5:00 job?

-Uh, I work in a call center.

-Do you have any tricks or anything like that

as far as scaring people?

-Um, yeah.

I mean, like I said, I learned from horror movies,

and, um, it's 100% the most important thing

you learn from horror movies

how to, you know, stop people renting

"Friday the 13th" for me on VHS

and becoming my gateway drug to horror.

You know, I wouldn't have that.

-What's the best part about your job?

-I'm not me for five hours a day.

And if I can get out of the tangled-up mess

that is my head and into somebody else's head,

I can do whatever.

If I was stuck in traffic on the way here,

all that pent-up aggression is now taken out on somebody.

And, you know, be as vicious and mean

as I can towards anybody to scare them.

-How do you make this whole thing real

so that it's believable for the people coming into the house?

-Um, well, they...

I mean, they're coming out here and, um,

you want to make it so that they're not going to escape.

Right? I mean, that's the thing. They don't --

I mean, we don't want them to escape.

If I were a zombie, and they came out here,

my goal is to eat their brains and survive, right?

And, um, their goal is to not make it out

or try to make it out if they can.

And, um, they're coming out here

and it's going to be their last visit anywhere.

-Come on out, little boy.

[Laughing]

Come out!

[Laughs]

-Let's get him from the path.

-Come on, dude. Come on.

-[Screams]

-How do you go about getting Thrillvania

out there to the public?

-Well, this is a really easy venue to get out there

because we've got more accolades

than probably any other haunted house in the country.

From MSN toFangoria to America's Best Haunts to AOL,

they've all picked this

as one of the scariest haunts in the country.

-You also have a website. What's the website?

-Oh, I own a website called hauntedhouse.com.

It's the number-one haunted house

directory website in the world.

We get about two million unique visitors in October

looking for haunted houses to go to.

-Oh, wow. So, you kind of --

you're the information source of all the haunted houses?

-Exactly. If you want to find a haunted house to go to,

we have about 1,500 different haunted houses

listed on the site,

and we list them by city and state.

People come to us instead of going to Google.

We're a better place for them to find haunted houses to go to.

-So, how did you get started in all of this?

-Years and years and years ago,

I was on the road with The Stones

and The Who, doing merchandise,

and I drove by a haunted house

and there were a thousand kids in line,

and I'm going, hmm, National Retail Federation does a poem,

and they say 21% of the people are 18 and older --

and that's 30 million people a year --

are going to go to haunted houses.

When I first got started in the business,

I had just read P.T. Barnum's book.

And what he had done in New York City,

he had his train with elephants break down.

So, he had to march the elephants down Madison Avenue.

So, my first haunt, we had a 23-foot Frankenstein head,

and we broke it down in the middle of the city,

in Phoenix, in rush hour, caused gridlock.

And we were on every news channel,

front page of the newspaper. Got off to a great start.

There's a lot of different --

There's some extreme haunted houses

that are really, really cool.

There's a haunted house that's --

I don't think it's --

It wouldn't be my kind of haunted house,

but there's one in New York City

where you have to go through alone,

and they actually gag and bind you and stuff

and sit you in a room for like five minutes with a --

I mean, first thing they do is give you a shot of whiskey.

Then they put you in a chair,

and they zip-tie you to the chair,

and they put a gag in your mouth,

and they cover you with --

and they just leave you sitting there for five minutes,

and then you walk through different -- I mean...

-Is that legal? -They get away with it.

I mean, it's -- I mean,

so I mean, that's as far out there as you can get.

I didn't go. I have a friend who went.

He said there's a room that he went in that it was blocked,

and it was just a guy in a bathrobe

with nothing on in his bathroom,

full frontal, the whole bit,

and he had to get the key from the guy to get out of there.

I mean, he just said it was just totally

and absolutely ridiculous.

I mean, it's just -- -Oh, my God.

I couldn't do that.

-Yeah. -You're gonna do it.

That's actually where we're going.

-You're going, yeah. -Before Halloween,

we have to shoot a finale.

-[Laughs]

-So how'd you guys like Thrillvania?

-It was okay, but it was too scary for me.

-It was good. -Yeah

-It was a good little scare.

-Have you been to any other houses this season?

-Terrorplex, awesome.

-Blue Skeleton.

The Bomb. -That -- That was, like,

the scariest thing I've ever seen.

They're waiting... -What was the scariest thing?

-They're waiting in -- The scariest thing

is when the walls open up

and they come out from the walls

and you don't even see them 'cause they look like the wall.

-I plugged my ears the entire time

'cause she kept shoving me in front and I was just, like...

-And then of course, they have--

-Why were you shoving her in front?

-Because I was scared, he had a chainsaw.

-That's what I'm looking for.

This lady-- Unh-unh, she wants the,

"Ooh. Oh, scary. Oh, my God."

Nah, we want the real stuff.

The faces of death stuff.

-It's all blood gushing everywhere.

I was like, "Oh, my gosh."

It's like, "Get me out of this damn place!"

-[Screams]

Welcome to Thrillvania.

[People screaming]

-[Indistinct]

She does every time.

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-[Screams, laughs]

-You like to play?

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-Oh, God.

[Screams]

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[Screams]

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Oh, yeah, this is making me really nauseous.

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-[Screams]

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Stand up!

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-All right. Watch your step. -Oh, shit.

[Screams]

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Oh, this isn't freaky at all.

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-[Yells] -[Screams]

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[Screams, laughs]

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[Chainsaw whirring]

[Screams]

-This place is different.

This place is weird because it's like a --

It's almost like a circus. -Yeah.

It's like a big giant -- or not giant, I guess,

but amusement park.

-I like the feeling that you --

That it was like this city out in the middle of nowhere,

and you're waiting in line for an attraction.

But yet hundreds of people are all over the place

doing their own thing.

You know, it was cool.

And like a thousand people are waiting in line

to do the haunted house, and then you're done.

It's like you do the haunted house,

but then you're still in this, like, creepy city.

And you know, the way that they chased people, like,

all the way out and around.

And it's like the whole time

you're actually in a giant haunted house

with little sections.

-Some of those kids, there's fucked up kids in there.

-What was that one kid saying?

-Their favorite place is, what, Thrillvania. Been there.

Then Cutting Edge, which we'll do tomorrow.

But they're saying that, uh, Blue --

-Blue Skeleton. -Yeah.

I think we -- -I don't think --

You don't have it on the list.

-We're going to roll through someone's fucking back country.

-We're going to the Guinness Book of World Records

longest haunted house ever.

-And that's like going to the Mall of America.

I want to find the places that don't have websites.

That's that's actually probably a good rule

to follow -- if you don't have a website.

-Good luck. How are you gonna find them?

-There's gotta be ways, people blog about it at least.

They don't have to have an official website.

-Okay. Yes? -Sure.

-Go on your blog. [Laughs]

-He wants to always believe.

He's like, we're walking anywhere,

he's like, "Did you hear that? Did you hear that?"

-It's Halloween, that's part of it.

It's the fun of it. Doesn't mean can't exist.

I believe in ghouls and goblins.

At least one month out of the year, I do.

I'm fine. But we got to get some sleep.

We had a long night.

-Fuck you. -All right.

[Laughter]

-Uh, what's up?

It's about... 3:45 in the morning.

Uh, I'm up editing right now.

This is our driver/cameraman, Jeff.

He's out.

We have -- Bobby's laying in this little tiny bed.

There's just Zach's leg.

There's Brandy.

Everyone off sleeping.

-I cannot be editor/ media director/

sound guy/slash navigator

and filming all at the same time.

-What is this? -They got a real sign.

That sign looks permanent.

-So we are here at Cutting Edge,

which is the Guinness Book's world record

for the longest walk-through haunted house.

And all we have to do is just wait for the sun to go down,

and then we're going to go inside to be scared

for a full hour.

[Electronic music playing]

Could you maybe tell us what your exact, I guess,

"title" would be here?

-I'm a co-creator.

-Co-creator? Wow. Okay.

And how long have you been working here for?

-20 years. -Could you tell us what I guess

Cutting Edge is known for?

-Well.

We just kept, you know, building.

We loved building sets and and adding on to our show,

and, uh, it just became this monster, so to speak.

And one day we heard there was a Guinness World Record for it.

And it had been going on for years.

We had no idea, and we thought,

you know, we should have those guys out to measure our points

because it's pretty big and sure enough, it,

uh, it ended up winning the record for us.

-What happens like in the off season,

I guess, for you guys?

-There's really not an off season anymore.

I mean, we take a little time down around the holidays,

you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

But you know, we start back -- a crew of us

start back in January. -Oh, really?

-Oh, yeah. -So what do you --

What are you doing in January?

October's, you know, so many odd months away.

-Yeah, it takes about 10 months

to put this event together.

-We're seeing that there's also like a trend

with people trying to make things smell really real

and feel real and everything like that,

to the point where even we were hearing some talk of,

like people using, like, real bodies

and real blood, and all of that horror stuff.

Do you guys feel that you need to go there

or anything like that, or have you heard of that?

-Oh, I've heard of that.

And it's definitely not our style.

Um, I believe kids and all of us have been so inundated with that

through movies and through media that, you know,

blood and gore and all that isn't really necessary.

I mean, we're all, you know,

we don't see it anymore anyway, right?

So, you know, we can keep ourself Disney-esque

and we can use things that pull your senses away from you.

And we don't have to use all the cheap parlor tricks

that I think people, you know, resort to.

There's a trend, though,

in a lot of haunted houses to start touching now.

That's kind of a new haunted house trend,

but to do the whole you come in,

we can touch you kind of thing.

-Do they have to -- I mean, are there any regulations?

Because I know that they were saying

that you guys don't touch here, right?

-Right, right. No, not necessarily,

but it's not part of our, you know,

our shtick where we're not going to touch anyone.

But, you know, it works at some places.

I mean, haunted houses are like movies, right?

You know, every director is going to have a different way

he wants to direct and have his movie feel and sound and --

and work.

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-Can you first start off letting us know

how long you've worked here.

-Uh, about 17, 18 years.

I've been doing haunted houses since about '88, '89.

-How far do you go to scare people?

-Uh, right up to the point of they won't let us touch them

or bash them over the head and drag them off anywhere,

so I had to kind of stop at that point.

But, uh, yeah, we go all out here.

-How far do people drive from?

-We have a group that come from, every year,

that come from New York.

Uh, a big group of girls that come from,

I think it's Minnesota.

Uh, they come from all over.

-So we all kind of grew up in the area.

And there was a, um,

I guess a thing that a radio station was doing

where it was kind of like, if you got through the maze,

then you would win a monetary prize.

That somehow you couldn't get through

or something like that, like trap doors and all that.

-Yeah, it was, uh -- We still have it.

We call it The Pit. -Okay.

And it's, uh, roughly about a 20,000 square foot maze.

There aren't any monsters or actors or anything in it.

Uh, we line everybody up at different doors,

we give them a glow stick and give them,

I think it's like 5 or 6 minutes to go through it.

We take the top times, call them back out,

we change the maze up and have them go through it again.

And then whoever makes it out,

then, uh, I think it's like a trip to Cancun

or something like that.

-Is there like a Halloween regulation board

or something like that? -Not really.

-So pretty much people can just do whatever they want

until they get busted, right? -Yeah.

Unfortunately, yeah. Or till they cross a line,

and someone actually kind of freaks out.

I heard of, uh, uh,

House of Shock in New Orleans

doing a lot of weird, crazy stuff,

but I have never been to one that really does that.

Thank goodness, that's invading my territorial bubble.

I tend to freak you out if you start trying to tie me up.

I grew up with three sisters.

They always tied me up and did things to me,

and I don't, uh -- Yeah, I don't --

Yeah, no, I wouldn't --

I wouldn't go for that.

-We wanted to show you a little bit of what Cutting Edge

looks like in the daytime hours.

We've got a nice little "Ghostbuster" hearse

and see this fog is rolling through.

And I mean, as you can see, like,

everybody's already lining up.

We're here tonight,

it's going to be one of the craziest nights.

We even have a, uh, hearse.

Hearse lifted.

Only in Texas, I guess could you get

a hearse lifted. [Laughs] On lifts.

Is that what -- Is that the correct lingo?

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-One of the big hypes here, they have scare outs.

And one year I think they had, like, close to 1,200 scare outs

where people walk in the door, and get halfway through

and said, "I can't do this anymore.

I'm out, I want out."

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-I'm Jeff Kandt.

"Jammin'" Jeff Kandt and I DJ here

at the Cutting Edge Haunted House

in downtown Fort Worth.

-Right, now, how many nights are you here?

-Uh, we've been here since August 13th,

when the haunted house opened.

-Okay. You're here every single night?

-Every night, out here playing

great music for all the people.

-Right, so you just make -- People come here

and they stand in line for what, like, three hours?

-Yeah, at least. It's worth it. It's worth it.

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-Are you excited to go in?

-Oh, yeah. Absolutely. My girlfriend's not as excited.

She's sitting in the car right now.

-I'm glad. I'm glad that you leave the girl in the car.

-What am I gonna do?

You're gonna be scared. -World Record stuff.

-You're gonna be scared without your girlfriend.

Go ahead, go ahead.

Try to have fun without your girlfriend.

-This is unbelievable.

-So wait, what's the deal with Blue Skeleton?

-It's one line by the way.

Oh, Blue Skeleton.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Blue Skeleton? -Yeah. What's the deal?

We've heard a lot about this place, but nobody

can, like, really tell us what it's all about.

-Have you ever seen a dead person before?

-No.

-Well, I mean, it looked like they were dead,

and they smelled dead,

and they felt dead, like, you walk by one of them,

and you can touch it, it's cold.

I don't want to get into this. -So, wait, are you --

Are you saying that there's, like, real dead bodies there

and stuff?

-I'm not gonna say they're real dead bodies,

but they're probably not real live bodies.

-I don't even know what that means.

-I don't even know what that means either.

This shit is fucked up so if you want to check this place out

'cause it's supposed to be okay.

-So we're gonna compare and see what happens.

-All right. Well, all right.

Thank you guys for talking to us.

-Thanks. -Have a good night. Enjoy.

-Do you think you could ever be like any of the people

that work at a haunted house? -For sure I would.

-Yeah. -Oh, yeah.

-Really? -Of course, kind of...

-I've done that before. -You have?

-Community service.

[Laughter]

-How's community service

has you being in a haunted house?

-I did, I actually did. I had to.

-Your community service was working at the house?

Scaring people? -For real. For real.

I feel like that would be like the opposite

of what they'd want you to do. -No doubt.

-Had I known that first,

that make it scarier going in.

-Right? -Yes.

-What kind of people have that?

-Community service guys work in a haunted house.

Yeah, 'cause you don't know what they've done.

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-No, no, no, no, you guys are coming with me on that one.

[Screams]

[Indistinct]

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-Turn the light on and hold your camera high.

[Horn honks]

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-[Screams]

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-[Screams]

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-What are you gonna ask them?

-Well, everyone's led us to believe

that these people are using real bodies.

People using real body parts. -Yeah.

-The whole thing, the cremation process makes sense.

Those are bodies that will never be found again.

Never have to be used again.

Double sell.

Sell somebody a pile of ashes.

-Think they'll throw us out?

-Kind of hope so. -[Laughter]

I couldn't do it, I couldn't -- I couldn't deal with...

I don't know, I'm still afraid to die, so I don't know.

-You haven't accepted it yet?

-You know, I really haven't.

I don't -- I don't think I have, like, I have a --

I have a tough time seeing my parents get old.

So, um, you know...

I'm not afraid of -- I don't know.

I don't think I'm afraid of what happens afterwards.

I'm just -- I just don't want to die.

Hey, Zach, why don't you tell us what you're --

what you're about to attempt?

-I am, uh...

Going to go in here and I'm going to ask them if we can --

Well, I'm gonna -- I'm gonna tell them

that we're doing a documentary.

And I'm assuming

that they are going to assume we're doing a documentary

about the cremation process or death or dying.

And really, I'm just going in to see if we can talk to them

about if people use dead bodies in haunted houses.

So this is Bobby's crazy theory thing,

but I'm happy to oblige since he will get back on track

once this is over. -It'll be interesting

regardless. -Zach.

Thank you. All right.

This is going to be odd. I should just watch --

Should I just watch-- -No.

-No? -We'll kill it.

-It'll be like we're crashing the party.

-Make sure that's not like a funeral going on.

-Yeah. -Be respectful though.

-Here he is.

-He doesn't look like a yay or nay.

-Can't even see him.

-Not gonna happen.

-At all? -Uh, no.

-They legally can't do anything unless

the director of the funeral home's here, so.

-No one can talk to us?

-She said she would talk to us,

but not on camera. -You didn't tell her that

it's a haunted house documentary wanting to know

if they sell their bodies to...

-That I left out. -...local attractions?

Fuck. Listen, just for a second.

Listen. We have to do it tonight.

We can move Terrorplex. We have to do it tonight.

He's in -- No, listen.

He's an understudy for, like,

Wizard of Oz's all over the United States.

He's in Odessa, it's five hours from here.

-Odessa? -Odessa.

That's the entire night.

We're going to interview one person in an entire day...

-Back me up. Zach, this is

the best scare actor we're going to have this entire trip.

I guarantee you, this guy is off the charts.

-Ok? Get it next week. -We can't.

He doesn't even live here.

We literally -- I've been texting with him

for about three weeks -- 'cause Jeff's worked

with him before, and it's absolutely packed.

It's October.

But he said, I've got an interview.

We have an hour interview with him.

We have -- We have too much stuff to do.

-Okay, I know, I know,

we keep changing everything, but just call.

Call them and ask if we can move it.

I'll double up on the nights. It's fine

If they stay open till two, we can double up one of the nights.

-There's no...

-Just try.

-And if it's nothing, just try it.

-I mean, I'll call him, but if he --

If he can't move it, we're not veering off schedule.

We can't miss Terrorplex. -Or we can take a team vote.

-Terrorplex is the place -Jeff's worked with him before.

-And ten scare actors.

-Jeff's worked with him before.

-We'll call it and see if... -[Chanting] Wicked Witch!

[All chanting "Wicked Witch"'

-Do you think that things have ever been taken too far

in a haunted house?

-Taken too far in terms of...

-Scaring people or...

-Uh, sometimes.

Sometimes the haunted house industry can take

things a little too far just to get a scare

or the benefit of a scare, which I don't really approve.

But I also stay away from the decision makers

who make those decisions.

-Do you think that maybe you have a stopping point

when it comes to scaring people too much?

-[Laughs]

Uh, a stopping point.

I have been asked,

and I have done many different things over the years.

There were a couple of scare actors

that actually did take it to another level.

Not often, but there were a couple.

-What do you mean by take it to another level?

-Um, they would actually --

they wouldn't come to Spooky House,

or any of the haunted houses I've ever done,

in character, but they would leave as the character.

And if they had done something the previous night

that they liked about that character,

they would actually, um, embellish on that

and they would live it overnight

and come back even worse than it was before.

So there were -- there were some that -- not many --

but there were a couple that took it to a different level.

It's actually very sad that, uh,

there was a scare actor that was employed

that, um...

he was a very good actor, had a very good reputation, um,

was friends with a lot in -- in the camp.

And, um...

Uh, I actually worked with him for about a month

in my area, and he was a substitute actor

for another actor that I had, and he was always reliable.

And he was he was a great younger individual.

He was about 19, 20.

And, um, he ended up, uh,

not being able to come back one season

because he, uh, slashed his whole entire family --

father, mother, sister in real life.

And that shocked us for one entire season.

All of us were just devastated that someone could --

someone who had been employed at the park

could take their character to another level.

That was actually very scary.

And, um, I was very wary of actors after that.

-Because these people could be anybody.

-It could be anybody. They could be your brother.

They could be your cousin. They could be your employee.

You just -- You have no idea.

And I would never have known,

never have known, that that individual was capable

of doing what he did to his family.

All of them.

Unbelievable.

-7:30 in the morning.

-Everyone's still asleep inside.

Um, Jeff and I had kind of a cool night.

We ended up doing as much research as we could

to try to find out who

and if it was factual about that killer at Spooky House in 2006.

Uh, and it turns out it is true.

We found his name.

He's in prison, um...

Which I would really like to go and interview him.

I'm sure Gestapo Zach in there is not going to like that.

But we're going to do our best to try.

Um, we even actually found his blog.

He -- He's still -- He's on MySpace.

His profile's still on MySpace,

because it was 2006 and no one took it down.

And we found a bunch of different,

uh, bunch of different quotes.

Um, he said, "I want to drown the world in blood."

Um, this is a blog

we found that he actually -- he actually wrote.

Let me read it to you first for the impact.

"Sunday.

Hung out with Neil and Maury.

Had fun. Later hung out with Sam.

Saw her prom dress. It's red.

Hot. Nice, though.

Perform perfect 180-degree skid in Moe's car.

Went home, happy.

Ate dinner with family, sad.

Killed family, happy.

Wrote live journal entry.

Realize still writing live journal entry.

Stopped."

He ho-hummed literally hacking up his entire family.

He was 19 years old when he did it.

I don't know, I'm just still kind of shocked it happened.

Um, I thought it would might have just been,

you know, urban legend type of thing, but it's not.

You can Google it and you -- you can find it.

It is very real.

So real in fact, I mean, I have his name.

His name is Brandon Menard, and he's at Northridge

and he's the one he literally went home and killed his family.

Yo.

Let's go.

We already got coffees.

Got breakfast. Fuck off.

-No, dude. Get up.

We got a long way to go.

-Brandy, you decent?

-Yeah, I mean...

-Those are straight from his blog.

-"Fuck off, brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-Tip."

"Yeah, so I'm just wanting to stab people with sharp,

rusty objects for some reason because I just kill, kill."

"Yeah, take that keyboard."

-Read that one.

-"So I'm -- So I'm in a really evil mood right now,

but I may remedy it later this afternoon

by going to Magic Mountain with some good friends.

I already got the tickets free, so, yeah,

if we don't go, I'm going to kill my family just for kicks."

-What?

-I told you. Enough to wake you up?

Is that a reason to wake you up? That doesn't --

That's still live. Still on his MySpace.

Pretty fucked up.

And that's a dude walking around

with some latex mask.

-Alrighty, so we're here at Daryl's place.

He's the owner of Satan's Hollow,

where haunting is a family business.

And so as you can see, they like to kind of build their own sets,

starting off with a big old pile of wood.

And, uh, this over here

is what is going to be the next big thing

that they've got going, it's a secret.

He won't tell us what it is,

but I'm thinking it might be scary.

-What we do is we make the scares legitimate,

and we make it as frightening as possible.

We don't want a carnival attraction.

We don't want cotton candy and clowns running around.

We want it to scare you from exactly

what the core of a human fear is.

And that's -- that's our whole goal.

We, you know, we might take an extra step to definitely,

uh, you know, frighten you and make you piss your pants maybe.

-We heard that when your father passed away last year,

you had a unique way of, you know, I guess,

paying tribute to him.

And so, if you don't mind us asking,

would you mind telling us about that?

-No, not at all. Um, what we did is --

My father, he loved this.

I mean, this was his life, basically.

I mean, every year come Halloween time,

the months leading up and the months afterwards,

it was always about the haunted house,

and it's always about the attraction.

And this is what he lived, basically.

And he instilled that in me from a young age.

And so what I wanted to do to basically,

you know, pay him as much respect

as I possibly could for all the hard work and dedication

he put into this is, um, much like a -- just like --

Much like the Micks do with their Irish wakes,

basically we -- we displayed his body,

but in a kind of a haunted attraction way.

And I think he would have loved it.

I mean, he never personally asked me for that,

but I thought that would be a good way

to pay him his respects and do it in a way

where we could have people come and see him one last time,

but also maybe kind of give them a little bit of the willies.

And I'll say that people get more creative than that.

Um, they they do things that...

I'll just say that they get creative.

There's a guy out there that many, not just myself,

a lot of different haunted houses have used him.

He's a pretty good -- what I'd say a good consultant

on things like this.

And, um, he's got a little bit of a reputation.

Um, and he certainly helps me take it a step further.

But I know that he has a reputation also

for helping other folks do some things

that I wouldn't want to do here.

-Thank you so much for having us.

It was very nice of you.

Do you want me to help you with that?

-Great. Thanks. -Mic.

-Thank you.

-So, um, I know that you're -- sorry.

Um, I think that you were saying something

about that, uh, consultant.

It would really help us out

if I could maybe get the guy's phone number.

I mean, of course I would, you know,

not have it coming back to you at all or...

All right, hurry, before he comes back out here.

So as I was taking his mic off, I got that number.

-The number? -Yeah. That number. Yeah.

Wait. Off, off, off.

-All right. 6921. It's on this road somewhere.

Oh, there it is. Wow. This is...

-Probably the back door, right?

What's that?

We're shooting a documentary.

-That movie is so fucked up.

-Make a left at the driveway? -This is what we want.

-This is real backwards. -Sorry.

-This place is...

-Oh, wow.

-Alright, so I guess you're just giving us a little walking tour.

-Okay, um, our building, we've got a lot of, uh,

autopsy and surgical equipment,

embalming equipment, and all the coffins, and they're all real.

-Oh, really? -Oh, yeah. Yeah.

So a lot of that stuff, they say has got a, you know,

an attachment to, you know, particular spirits.

-So, how do you choose -- like, do you get a lot of stuff

that are real, from like real mortuaries?

-Well, we try to keep a lot of stuff as authentic as possible.

Like even when you get to the House of Wax,

even the silk flowers came from the mortuary.

And we're one of the few haunted houses,

actually, the only one that I know of that

actually has real human remains inside the haunted house.

-Okay, wait. -Yeah, there really is.

I'll show you, inside the House of Wax,

there's actually real human remains

inside the haunted house.

-So, wait, does that mean that they're real human beings

inside the house?

-There are parts of real human beings inside the haunted house.

-So, like, at one point in time, that was like a real person?

-We wanted to go a step further,

instead of decorating with just plastic skeletons

and rubber body parts and stuff like that.

So we went a to step further.

And we actually have two human body parts

inside the haunted house. -Oh, my gosh.

See, now that's scary. Anybody anywhere

could be using real body parts.

As a matter of fact, you all are probably

familiar with the urban legend of the haunted house

in California that had the gunslinger's body on display,

and they didn't know it was real.

-I didn't know that. -You didn't know about that?

-What's that story? -In the '70s, there was, um,

a haunted house in California,

and it actually had what they thought was

a wax figure, came from a wax museum,

and it was a gunslinger who had died,

and he had been put on display.

And over the years, he started to deteriorate.

And they took the body, and they coated it in wax,

and it was inside the haunted house,

and they didn't know it was real.

And then they were doing a, uh, an episode of

"The Six Million Dollar Man",

and one of the cameramen backed into it,

and when he backed into it, he broke the hand off.

And so when they went to put the hand back on,

they found out the hand was real.

-Now, we also talked to the guy he owns hauntedhouse.com.

-Right. -And he was telling us about

a place in New York

that I guess, like, you get a shot of whiskey,

you get tied up, you get blindfolded and all that.

-I thought all that happened after the

haunted house. -[Laughter]

-But, I mean, we were hearing some crazy things like that

and people using real bodies and stuff like that.

I mean, what is kind of...

-A lot of that is the crowd that we cater to

is becoming more sophisticated.

So it takes a lot more to really impress people

and really, you know, wow them.

And so everybody's trying to find your little niche.

[Laughs]

-Because it just seems like everybody's

kind of trying to one up each other

and make it more real and more real and more real.

And it's like where, you know what I mean,

where does it stop? -Exactly.

-Where does it stop? -You get to a certain point,

and I joke about it every year.

I say, you know, we're to the point

where we're almost to the point

where we're going to cuss these people and gang rape them.

You know, I mean, it gets to the point where -- and we get people

that are like, "I want it hardcore.

Don't hold back. I want you to touch me.

I want you to cuss me. I want you to push me.

I want you to shove me, yell at me."

-Right. -And, you know,

it's like horror.

You know, there was a phase there

when they had the horror exploitation.

You know, they had all the exploitive horror films.

And it's gotten to the point now

where people are wanting that level of exploitation

in the haunted house.

-Yeah. -As a matter of fact,

there's been a big issue in the haunted house industry

that they're starting to do horror slash porn shows

where they have topless actors in the haunted houses.

-Oh, really? -Oh, yeah.

And a lot of these haunted houses up north are the ones

that are starting to convert over into the more extreme.

-Right.

-You know, they're starting

to phase out a lot of the traditional stuff

and starting to go into this extreme stuff.

If I've got a group of six or eight,

you know, 21 year old males, and guy comes up to me,

he tugs on my sleeve,

and he says, "Hey, I want it hardcore."

-Yeah. -You know, we'll clear

the house out if there's nobody else in there.

And it's just that group of six to eight guys,

so nobody else is going to experience what they experience.

We'll run them through there.

I mean, I'll tell the guy I'll do everything short of kill you

to scare the crap out of you.

And they're like, "That's what we want.

That's what we want."

And I'll go in there, and we'll tear them up.

[Screaming]

An interesting side note.

There are several chainsaws in here that are real,

and they do work, and some of them have a chain still on them.

-Do you have anybody actually grab the real chainsaw?

-Um, we've -- actually I have done tours

with the chain on the chainsaw. I'll leave it at that.

[Laughs]

[Chainsaws revving]

-Stop teasing!

-How do you find all your spare actors?

-A few of them come, like through social networking.

Some from Myspace,

Facebook, uh, you know, all those kind of deals.

I have a few ex-students.

Once they graduate high school, that come work for me.

And then they, you know, they recruit some of their friends.

-It seems like everybody's

kind of going for that whole real thing these days.

-I won't touch the horse, but I feel like

the Headless Horseman would try to kill me

if I touched his horse.

-They've been just throwing out a bunch of different places.

I mean, like Satan's Hollow or like Blue Skeleton.

Like all these houses where they're just -- where it's

like it's all about the real factor

and, like, using real blood, real bodies.

Do you find that that is present now in haunted houses?

-Yeah.

You find two different kinds of haunts.

You either find extremely high

detailed, heavy actor oriented,

or you find extremely gory.

We're down here in the Bible Belt, you know,

down in the Dallas-Fort worth area.

So I've been to haunts in Columbus, Ohio,

and Detroit, Michigan, and Kansas City in St. Louis,

some of the biggest haunts in the country.

And they do things there that are over the top and extreme

that we can never get away with down here.

-Can you describe some of that? Because we haven't been up --

We haven't been up north yet.

-Well, how graphic do you want me to get?

-You can get as graphic as you want.

-There's no rating on this. -If you, uh --

There's a place in Columbus, Ohio.

It's called the [bleep]

And you walk in the front door of the haunt,

and when you walk in, it's NC-17.

And when you walk in,

they encourage you that if you're not at least 17

or 18 years old, they don't want you to go.

They're going to sell you a ticket,

but they don't want you to go.

So we walk in the first room,

and this guy brings about 10 people in,

and he's got this megaphone,

and there's this real loud music playing.

And he's, you know, "Are you guys having a fucking good time?

If you're not having a fucking good time,

get the fuck out of here."

And for about five minutes, all he did was throw,

you know, fuck this, fuck that for five minutes.

And then he goes, "I want you guys to go around the corner,

and this guy is going to blow his fucking brains out."

So we go around the corner to the first room,

and it's an old shack.

And this guy sitting in a rocking chair,

and he pulls this shotgun out, and he sits down,

he puts a shotgun in his mouth,

and there's a door, a window behind him to the house.

It's Plexiglas.

And he pulls his shotgun, it explodes,

and the guy's brains blow out, and it splats,

splatters all over this window,

and the guy falls over in the chair.

And that's the first scene in the haunt.

-Is this a real guy? -No, no, no.

Well, the stuff is coming from behind the plexiglass,

and it splatters from the inside.

And it looks like he just shot his brains out.

So that's the opening scene.

-Well, how does it end? How does the finale end?

-Well, we'll get to that in a second.

So as you're walking through all these rooms,

it's extremely detailed.

It's in a big giant like 25,000 square foot --

Looks like a big giant red barn.

So as we're going through, you come to another room

where there's this pregnant girl sitting up on a table,

and she's getting ready to have a baby,

and this guy takes a sledgehammer,

and he smashes her in the belly,

and this baby pops out from her crotch

and shoots across the room and hits the wall.

When it hits the wall, blood's dripping down everywhere.

That was another scene. Another scene is a guy is laying

on a -- he's getting a proctology check up,

and he's laying down with his rear end sticking up in the air.

And they take this drill, and they drill it into his rear end,

and they got a hose that, you know, sticks out of his belly

and it's shooting out behind him,

and all this stuff starts squirting out

as the drill's going in and out of his rear.

And then at the very end,

they piled all these groups into this room

that was maybe 30 foot by 30 foot square.

And they had a stage up there,

and they had a guy sitting in this chair,

and a guy behind him had a chainsaw,

and he was, you know, cussing at us, yelling at us, taunting us.

And they wanted to see if they want to split this guy

in half with a chainsaw.

So somehow this guy slips out from

behind this animatronic figure, and the guy takes a chainsaw

and he splits the chainsaw right down the middle

of the guy's head, and then the head just opens up.

And then as that happens,

these doors pop out from the bottom of the stage,

and you get pinned into this room with like 20, 30 people,

and there's chainsaws all around you.

You can't go anywhere.

And everybody's running and jumping, you know,

bouncing back into each other.

And that's how they end the show.

-We live -- we're so desensitized towards everything,

whether it's the Internet.

I mean, I remember growing up, Faces of Death,

that was a big. -The first one was crazy.

-That was the first time that we saw anybody

who we thought died on screen.

And it looks like -- I mean, they try to reenact

that in front of you now.

And that's just kind of -- it's weird.

The Internet is made sometimes just the ghouls and goblins

and the scares not enough.

And it's kind of sad for society.

-But it's -- -20 years ago,

you could scare people with some of the basic stuff we do now.

But now, like I said, with the movies --

-It's always one upping.

-Yeah, if you can't get extreme like they do up in the north,

if you had to rate the top 25 in the US,

I've probably been to about 10 to 12 of them.

And nobody can nobody can touch what they do.

To go over the extreme with gore and torture porn and that stuff,

the [bleep] is the only one I've ever seen even get close

to even wanting to even take that step,

because they've set the standard.

I think they've been open for 20, 25 years,

and they've always been over the top, over extreme.

So they're expected to do it.

And I think every year, they have to go one step further.

So every new scene they add, you know, every year,

every two years just has to go, you know,

one step beyond what they did the previous year.

-It makes you doubt -- you wouldn't know

the difference between real and fake when you walk through.

-If you're an impressionable, you know, 13, 14, 15,

16 year old kid or, you know, even a young 20s kid, you know,

that was already on the verge of having some mental problems

and you went and saw something like that,

you could have a recipe for disaster on your hands.

-We interviewed a wicked witch

that does a spooky house out in Pasadena.

-Okay. -He headed up a troupe,

and one of his scare actors,

19 years old, went home, cut his whole family up and killed them.

It was in '06. -In reality?

-Yeah, really happened.

And it's just so weird because he was telling us

how he didn't feel responsible,

but it was just, it was that part

of people taking things home.

And it was kids that he had to watch over.

And it's just weird kids being impressionable.

-There was a haunted house down in the South somewhere.

I don't know if it was in Alabama or wherever it was.

We have a forum, chat room for haunted house owners,

and, uh, there was a younger kid, maybe 16, 17,

18 that was in a scene where it was a hanging scene,

and he had replaced the breakaway noose

that was in the scene with his own.

And he slipped or something.

I mean, I don't want to give all the details

because I may not be exact,

but he accidentally hung himself up,

and it was part of the show, you know,

but because he tried to take it over the top

and make it look more realistic, he ended up hanging himself.

And by the time they were able to take care of the situation,

I mean, he was already dead.

-This was like in a haunted house?

-This was in a haunted house

while the haunted house was open.

-Foreboding Mockingbird Lane.

-Dude, seriously -- -Are those bats and birds?

-Just answer my question. We're talking about a witch?

-No. And I'd say you're a buffoon.

What have you been doing the past two days,

while we sit in here and interview these people?

-So, what do you think...

What do you think this guy was saying?

-What I think is we're off track.

This is not the documentary anymore.

The documentary is falling. I want to go to that prison.

-We're not going into a prison.

There's a haunted house documentary.

It's not a prison documentary.

It's not a documentary about criminals.

It's about people that put on haunted houses.

-But the guy that was the criminal

worked at a haunted house. It all goes together.

-I know, but we're losing focus of the story.

That's not what our documentary is.

-There's a better story. That's the difference.

That's a better story.

He went home and hacked up his family.

-You go film the chasing criminal documentary

on your time. -We have an owner that has

a wake with his dead dad.

His dead dad he put in the damn --

Put in his haunted house.

A real dead body. That can't be legal.

-He's lying. -They're not lying.

These people have nothing to lie about.

You're telling me that wasn't heartfelt?

Dude, the dad died. It's a fact.

That's why we researched him in the first place.

He took over -- it's a fact he's dead.

-It may be a fact that he's dead,

but it doesn't mean that he put him in a haunted house.

-Well, who's to say he didn't?

-These people, a lot of them are sketchy.

I wouldn't believe a word out of their mouth.

They're characters, they're just doing...

They're saying what they need to say.

-Alright. So let's prove it.

-I don't know what you're even proposing.

-I'll tell you what I'm proposing.

The next place we go, I want to take a cotton swab.

They'll never see me do it.

And I want to swab some of their exhibits.

I'll get blood on there, and we'll send it to a lab.

-[Laughs] You want a cotton swab their exhibits.

-Yes. -For what? The corn syrup?

-Why do you think this -- -I don't know.

-The point is randomness.

The point is that anyone at any time

could have seen a dead body in a haunted house.

-No one knows. That's why the morgue thing.

I want to go to a morgue, as well.

I'm gonna keep adding things for you to pay for

because they make the movie better.

-[Indistinct talking] -No shit. Let's go.

-You agree this is a waste of time, don't you, Jeff?

-I'm just here to...

-Gentlemen.

-Swabbing time, son.

-Did you get a blacklight?

-Check for blood splatter?

-That's a fantastic idea.

I do want to get a blacklight.

-You know, don't antagonize here.

-Why do you need to get a blacklight?

-What harm is done?

We're going through the same exact haunted house,

and all I'm doing is this, a swab, a little cotton swab.

Little sample. -Idiot.

He's just an idiot.

Conspiracy theory mastermind.

But he is probably -- He would go so far as

to create his own haunted house probably

and use the real shit just to perpetuate the myth.

-Riveted by your face washing. -[Laughs]

It can't be that interesting.

-It's, uh... So, how's it been?

-Go, go, go now.

-Are you fuckin' serious?

No way.

He said he got a text.

I'm not letting him fuck this up.

-Hey.

-Mike said you got text.

-I did. -It's from who I think it is?

-It is? -Let me call him.

-I'm about to. -I need to call him.

-I've talked to every single person. Relax.

I'm going to call him.

-Let me call him and just set this whole thing up.

I'll give you all the details on it.

I just don't want this messed up.

I don't. I don't. Please. -Whatever.

-I'll take it. All right?

He said to call?

-Yes.

-Hi. Yeah. This is an Zach, the producer.

Yeah. How are you doing?

All I care about is tomorrow night.

-What did we say? If you could stay on task.

-We're on task. Mike's on board now.

Brandy's on board. Yes? -Bored.

-Not bored. On board. -On board for what?

-For tomorrow night. -I love how Bobby says

two people are on board.

She says "bored" like she doesn't even know what it is.

And Michael goes, "What?" -We're going Blue Skeleton.

We're going. He set it up, and we're going.

Simple as that. He told us exactly where to meet.

To normal people, they charge about 150, 200 bucks.

We are not getting charged.

This is extreme shit.

-150 bucks each. Not happening.

-And we don't have to pay.

That's the point of how good it is.

-They pick you up? -No.

Well, we go meet at -- we know the intersection

where we have to meet, and they pick us up,

and they take us to an undisclosed place.

-We know the intersection that we have to meet.

-It's how it works. That's where we want.

Have you guys not -- the last half of this trip,

we want shady.

We know about all these weird places up north,

and they say they have one down here.

-I'm in. -So we're going to get

in the car, and they're going to drive us to a random place

so we don't know where we're going.

-Okay. People are signing releases.

Are we going to have to sign a release?

-Well, I don't care. I don't care how we do it,

as long as we have film in that camera and we go tomorrow night,

this is the last time. I won't ask for any other place.

Alright, let's go guys, wake up.

Today is the day. Brandy, get up.

We have to honestly hurry.

There's another fucking storm coming in.

-Bobby, seriously, you know, I'm always totally down for

everything, but it just seems so weird.

Like we're supposed to meet them at an intersection?

Like, that's like shady.

That's like you're going to get raped 101

that you learn in high school, like don't do.

-Is there still a chance. -Possible tornado they said.

-Is there still a chance of that?

-Yeah, they just said possible tornado.

-They interrupted the football game for it.

-Bobby, it looks like you lost

some of your Splendas on the way.

-They interrupted the football game to show us

where the tornado is going to be.

-Oh, that's fun. -So basically we're

going in the tornado. -Sweet.

-That has now turned into "Twister."

Twister real. -Totally.

-I am an extreme sports adventurer.

-Tornado equipment to help us.

-Tornado equipment? -Yeah.

We have the only the best.

-We can make that shit out of Pepsi cans.

-Bobby, are you Bill Paxton? -You're Philip Seymour Hoffman.

-I know I'm Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I know. That's not even a question about who I'd be.

Thanks. -Wait, who would I be?

-Do you want to be Helen Hunt?

[Laughter]

-You just don't like the sound of her last name, did you?

-The way I said hunt.

-Well, this was worth driving half way across Texas.

-Zach, even you have to be a little excited about this.

-I don't know.

Oh, we passed Victory, didn't we?

-Yep. -Left at Victory,

right at Tennessee.

-Beat the storm, dude. -[Chuckles]

-You can't beat this fucking gas price, though.

-Oh, I love it. What is it? Like 5 bucks a gallon?

-You love it. You're not paying for it.

-40 gallon tank, huh? -It's ridiculous.

Are they still inside? -Yeah, they're inside.

-I'm gonna tell you something.

You have to swear to not say anything.

Mike showed me a rough cut cut of the film,

and it pains me to say this, but I think Bobby's right.

We got something. But do not say anything,

but we've got something good, and I think the right thing

to do is drive to Ohio and New York tonight.

-Shut up. -Yeah.

If you can drive, I need you to drive all the way through.

So get some Red Bulls.

-I'll get like 10 Red Bulls.

-And we're not going to say anything to them.

We're just going to wake up and be there.

-We're just going.

-Don't say anything to Bobby.

I don't want to hear him bullshit all night,

but I also -- we need Mike, Brandy.

Everyone needs to be focused for tonight.

We came all this way, we're right around the corner,

and we're going to an intersection

to go to haunted house.

So I -- We need to be on point tonight.

And not just tonight, but strap it on

because it's going to be a hell of a ride.

-Let's do it. Let's do it.

-We're in the middle of an alley.

-They told us to wait.

I'm sure they're going to fucking be here.

-[Scoffs]

I mean, this just makes no sense.

-It's fine. It doesn't matter. It's different.

These are the different extreme ones.

We didn't get a chance to do Detroit or New York.

They said they're going to be here.

They'll be here.

He said we'll no. He said we'll know when they're there.

-That sounds comforting.

-I know. What if this is just like one big scam or something?

-It's not a fucking scam. They'll be here.

I don't know what we're waiting for,

but it might as well.

This is what we wanted. We want something different.

We're going to get it.

-Why is it just us? Is that how they normally do it?

They just pick up... -I don't know anything.

What did he say? 150, 200 bucks a head?

-Yeah. -I mean, I can't imagine

there'd be a fucking line.

It's fine.

-Well, there might be other people.

Like if there's different locations.

-Maybe we pick other people up, I don't know.

-I'm just glad you got us in free.

-[Chuckles] -I'm excited now.

-VIP.

-How long did they -- -I hear cop sirens.

Does that comfort, Brandy? -Yeah.

-How long is this one, Bobby?

Like, how long does it take to get through?

-I hear something.

-That's just maybe an ambulance.

-The ambulance just getting closer.

-I don't know.

School bus.

-Fuck this, dude. What...

-This is it. This has to be it.

-It says Boy Scout Troop 259.

-Do those guys have fucking masks?

-No fucking way. -You've got to be kidding me.

-This is it? -Zoom in. Zoom in.

I want to see. Look what their faces look like.

-Dude, I'm in now. Let's do this shit.

-Oh, fuck. -Bobby, this is weird.

-No. It's fine. We're here.

You with four guys. Everything's going to be fine.

We're just going to take a couple shots,

and they're going to take us back to our car.

It's simple. This is just Halloween bullshit.

That's all it is. -All right. Whatever.

-It's another spook. I mean, this is --

-Whatever. -Look, we've been to

a ton of different houses.

They all have different gimmicks.

This is their gimmick, and we're going to get it on tape.

-Yeah, but it's fucking midnight right now.

-Let's go.

-Look, it'll be fine.

-It's going to be fine. Seriously.

-This is stupid. -Everything is fake.

-Let's go. Lock it up. -It locks. It's locked.

-I got to lock it up. Hold on.

-They're going to kill us.

-Hey! Let's go.

I'll handle it. It's fine.

Get on the bus.

-This is some weird fucking shit.

-Keep that fucking camera rolling.

-We have five people.

Let's go.

[Door closes]

-We don't know where we're going?

-Uh, what the fuck? We got to put these on?

-Bobby. -Brandy.

-Bobby. -Brandy, it's fine. It's fine.

-I like it, I like it.

-Wow. -Alright.

-Bobby, this is fucking fucked up.

[Bus driving]

-Okay. What are you -- what's going on?

-Yo, what's going on?

-Calm down. -Be careful.

-What's happening?

-Jeff, you alright? -He took the camera from me.

I don't know. I guess that's part of --

-Hey, just please keep filming.

If you're taking the camera, just be careful.

-Be careful with the camera.

Brandy, it's fine. You alright?

-Mm-hmm.

-Hey, man, come on, dude.

-Don't break that camera.

Hold on to the fucking camera, dude.

[Indistinct shouting]

[Engine revving]

-We're not going far.

-How the fuck do you know, dude?

You have no idea where we're going.

-We're not going far. It's fine.

[Door opens]

-Doors are open. -We're here.

-Taking it off. Just taking it off.

-Blindfold. You're taking the blindfold off?

-Yeah .He gave me a number. -What?

What do you mean?

-Take it off? -I have 4.

-There you go.

-All right, I got 1. I'm first?

Fuck.

-Let's go. -Okay, I have 3.

-We need to be in order.

-You go with Brandy.

[Indistinct talking]

-Glow stick?

-I'm 2.

-Go ahead.

-All right, all right, all right.

Are you ready for this? Yeah, boy!

-Stop being a fucking dick.

-All right. Can I have my camera back?

Can I have the light?

-Part of the deal?

-Hey, you can't take the light, man.

I need the light back.

Fucking took my light, dude.

-It's a black box. -Gave us glowsticks.

It's a blackout. -How am I going to shoot it?

I don't have a fucking light.

-They gave us a glow stick. It's a blackout.

Let's go with it.

-That's a couple hundred bucks.

-Let's go.

Let's go. Brandy, stay with me. Let's go.

-The number of doors.

-Turn the camera off right now.

-You keep saying turn the fuck -- Turn it off!

Turn it off.

-I'm 1.

-How many -- wait, wait. How many total doors?

-Four. -We each have our own.

We have our own door? -This is fucked.

-All right. This is gonna be fine.

-It's fine.

-I'm not going to do this thing by myself.

-You're not. Jeff's going to go with you.

What color are you? -It's green.

-All right, let's go. Let's go See you on the other side.

Never stop filming.

-Jeff, you're coming with me.

You're coming with me. I'm not going in by myself.

[Whirring]

-[Door slams] -Shit.

-I'm not fucking doing this in complete darkness.

You've got to be kidding me. No, let's go back.

-Right here.

Um, shit.

Uh, yeah. There's no door handle there.

-How can there not be a door handle?

-There's -- there's no fucking door handle.

I swear to God. Like... -[Pounding]

I can't fucking get out. -This is ridiculous.

-Hey, uh, can you put up your glow stick?

To tell you the truth, I'm actually a little

scared, to tell you the truth.

-I mean, what the fuck are we doing?

-I don't know what we're doing.

-Like we just supposed to keep walking

through this place in the darkness?

I just -- I don't -- I don't understand.

-Well, I think that's part of it.

I think we're supposed to...

-I mean, who the fuck would pay $200 for this?

-I don't know, it's kind of lame.

-Bobby!

-Keep the glow stick up. -Okay. Okay. Okay.

-All right. So I can see where you're at,

because you're the only thing I can actually see.

-I just don't understand. I mean --

-Bobby!

-Michael!

-Hold on. Wait, wait.

-Do you hear anything? I can't --

Be quiet.

-Hey, Bobby!

-Okay, I don't hear -- -Over here!

-Shit. -Okay. Where is over here?

Bobby! -Hey, Bobby!

Let's, uh...

-Okay. I mean, should we walk back that way or walk forward?

-Let's -- here. Where's your glow stick? I can't see.

-Okay. Sorry, sorry, sorry. -Let's go back.

He might be back there. -Okay.

-Bobby!

-Okay. This is fucking weird.

I don't like this.

-Why the fuck isn't he answering?

Bobby!

-Hold on. Jeff, I see something.

-Where? Where?

-Holy fuck! It's a glow stick It's another glow stick.

Wait, no shit. Okay. No, Jeff, come here.

-Where? -Here.

-Oh, shit. -Okay, I got your hand.

-Wait. Who's glow stick -- Who had that color?

Oh, shit. -God.

You okay? -Yeah.

-Okay. There's a wall. Okay. This is -- okay.

This is not all right. It's not okay.

-Um... -Fuck, fuck, fuck.

-Bobby!

-[Speaks indistinctly] -I don't even know

why he would have dropped his glow stick.

That makes no sense.

You can't see anything in this place,

and he drops his glow stick?

-Why don't you just, um... -No.

I fucking want to get out of here.

-Let's try to get out of this fucking place.

Fucking $200.

Why don't -- um, try to...

Can you try to go back the way you came or...?

-I mean... -Can you find...

I can't see fucking shit.

-I mean -- -You got to. I can't see you.

-Okay, I'm here. Do you see me?

Yeah. I see you.

Okay.

Bobby!

Fuck! I fucking hate this.

-This is not okay.

-Um...

-Shit!

-Don't fucking touch anything. -Okay.

Just scares me.

-This is the way we came in, right?

-I think so.

I mean -- -[Both scream]

-What the fuck was that? -Fuck.

-Jeff, I'm really fucking scared right now.

-Fuck, dude, that actually really fucking scared me.

Seriously. That really did.

I'm not gonna lie.

-No, Jeff, this is fucking scary.

-Um, here, uh, you want me to go first?

Well, I can't. -I don't even know what to do.

This is fucking scary.

I'm not fucking around. Turn the camera off.

Just turn the fucking camera off.

-Okay.

-Hey, are you ready to go again? Because we got to...

-Jeff, this is, like, weirding me out.

I don't know what to do.

I mean, I know I jump a lot, and you guys make fucking fun of me,

but this is not funny.

I mean,are they fucking with us?

Jeff, you would know.

You would know if, like, fucking Bobby and Zach --

-They're not fucking with us. They are not fucking with us.

They would have told me. All this shit we did on,

you know, the fucking zombie...

on the RV, and all that stuff, like that's...

We would never, ever do this to you.

And I'm here with you.

-I know, but what the fuck is going on?

There's nothing here. There's no bodies.

There's no, like, stupid shit to scare me.

It's just...

-It's just wrong. There's something...

There's something not right.

So... -I don't know.

There's just not that fake stuff anymore.

And I don't understand.

I don't understand what's going on.

Like I just have no fucking clue.

It's like weirding me the fuck out. I just don't understand.

Like, I just don't understand

why Bobby would fucking want us to go on that bus.

For 200 fucking dollars and just fuck around

and be stupid and dumb with it.

The fuck? -What's the fuck's that?

-I see something.

I see something.

-Do you think it's somebody else?

-I don't know. I see it.

-Okay. Do you feel me? -Yeah.

-Okay. -I see something down.

You see it down at the end of the hallway?

-Yeah. -Okay.

I think it's a fucking glow stick.

Zach?

Zach?

What color? What color?

-Pink. -Pink, I think pink, Zach.

-Shit. Hey, Zach. Fuck. -Fuck.

Where'd he go? -Fuck!

-Fuck! Okay. I think he went this way.

I think he went this way.

-Hold on.

Did you trip on something? -Yeah.

-What is it? -Holy shit. Zach's shoes.

[Both screaming]

[Footsteps running]

[Panting]

-Brandy! Brandy, where are you?

Brandy, hold up your glow stick.

Brandy? I can't -- Brandy, I can't see.

-Is this better?

-That's a good one, dude.

That's a good one, man. [Chuckles]

Definitely got me.

Pretty unorthodox. Uh...

Hey, uh, Brandy, you can come out now.

Hey. Hey, Mike!

-You think this is part of the show?

-Brandy. Hey, Brandy. Come on.

Just come out already, all right?

No, seriously, just stop fucking around, okay?

Bobby?

-Bobby, get the fuck out here, okay?

Stop fucking around! This is over.

Let's fucking get out of here!

Mike!

Brandy!

-Dude, just come on. Get the fuck out of my way!

Fuck.

Brandy!

[Punches landing, grunting]

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