Your guide..."Prepare to die, ha, ha, ha, ha...!"

In 1998, we promoted 'going back home', meaning having the house at my parents, where it all started.  This was also our 10th year...hence 'decade of terror'.

        "Ten years ago the bloodshed began on Seagrape Road.  After 6 years,
          the house of horror was forced to move.  Now the terror has come home."

        "What started in 1989 as a small fright for children and became a neighborhood
         horrorshow in 1995 has now become a regional terror."

        "In 1989 the terror began.  In 1995 you were tricked into becoming a treat
         for the dead.  Now prepare yourself for the unimaginable."

        We had seven different flyers, here are two.

This year we did a lot of planning, we even started keeping notes, ideas, etc. in a book we call "the planning papper".  Unfortunately, we lost this on Halloween day...I think someone left it on the roof of the car during prop transportation.  We started another one in 1999.  We keep everything in this tome, paint and blood formulas, Party City flyers, layouts of the haunt, internet research, etc.

    These pictures were taken on All Hallow's Eve.  We were at the house
    getting a head start on transporting and setting up.

We had 5 distinct areas that people walked through.  At the front people waited behind a small graveyard fence which sat in front of a wall. 

Unfortunately there is no picture that shows the wall but you can see it in the background of the cast photos.

The center section can be seen in these photos, it has a large pentagram with the words Ave Satani above it.  Not visible in the photos is a beating heart that was placed in the center of the pentagram.

The wall was made from 4' x 8' pieces of plywood, stood upright and held in place by 2x4's angled at the back.  To accommodate our lack of wood (we only have about 8 pieces), we spread black visqueen between to increase the length of the wall.

The only downside is that we didn't have sides to this wall.  People could see from down the street, so we put up halogen lights facing away from the 'action'...no one could see beyond the lights.  To correct this, in '99 we built a wall which completely encircled the front yard...unfortunately it did not withstand a thunderstorm at 5pm and we will not risk wasting our time with it again.

Once inside the wall, guests walked through our graveyard.  Note that we have about 15 grave markers...here's a sampling.

You'll note that the Voorhees stone has some dates painted over.  One of the cast members thought it would be cool to list all the years Jason died.  The rest of us didn't think it was such a great idea.

Hanging in a tree overlooking the graveyard is Ned...dead Ned from under the bed.

  We built him without a skeleton, so he's a little limp and stretched.  In
  low light, he gets the job done.

Beyond the graveyard was a casket and a gate.

        "We're waiting to feast on your flesh."

The gate would open mysteriously to reveal...

    The gatekeepers and their garden of heads.

Guests would suddenly hear moaning and screaming coming from a shed.  There they would find leatherface and his helpless victim.  None of our guests attempted to help her.

Leatherface would 'kindly' ask the guests to move into the next area...a long black corridor with a strobe light facing them.  Halfway down this corridor a demon would appear, killing a young boy.

The demon looks like a young boy also, one wearing a mask.  Unfortunately his cloak was being used by yours truly due to a mix-up with the costumes.

Walking through thirty feet of a narrow corridor looking into a strobe light can be very disorienting.

Spend too much time here and you could end up looking like this guest...face locked in a painful scream...on display for others enjoyment.

Or this guest...dismembered and nailed to a cross.

  Meet the butcher, our own resident cook.  He carves up the best meat
  in town.  Be sure to come early and enjoy the carving ritual.  Some say
  it's like being at a Japanese restaurant with the cook slicing and dicing
  away right at your table.  Just be sure not to get to close or part of you could end up on the menu.

  The guide grabs a snack and invites you to take a closer look.  The
  guides really enjoy this room...it's tasty.

On your way out don't move too slow, like this kid. 

Below are some extra pics...

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