Thread: Haunting Aspirations

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Mr L and I were watching one of those “Las Vegas Best Attractions” shows when he said, “Wouldn’t it be great to open a haunted hotel in Vegas?” Well, we took off from there describing theme rooms to each other.

You’re sleeping when the bed begins to shake and quiver and suddenly you’re surrounded by priests, sprinkling holy water on you, yelling, “The power of Christ compels you!”

You’re sleeping when the blinds open slightly and light begins to creep into the room. You open your eyes and are surrounded by pinhead and the cenobites. “You called, we came.”

I said, “Yeah, we could have a Freddy room where the bed sucks people right into it!” Mr L said, “Noooo, we don’t want to kill the paying guests.” LOL Anyway, you get the idea.

I know some of you are already “living the life” with professional haunts but, if money and time were no object, what do you dream of doing haunt-wise?

I love the idea that you and Mr. L came up with, a haunted hotel would be fantastic! The Hard Rock Hotel here had a "Halloween" room a few years back. The room was painted all black, had black out drapes and throughout the night they had people knocking on the walls and such. I do believe that the room was a connector and that eventually actors came into the room to scare the living crap out of you. From what I heard, it was a pricey room...but fun.

If money wasn't an issue, the haunted hotel concept would be fantastic! Great idea Mrs. L!

Mrs Leatherface and DeadEnd,

I love the idea of the hotel but since it is Vegas we have to carry the theme into the casino and the slot machines. All the wait staff would be costumed as witches, wizards, zombies and monsters. What a great idea!
When people go to check in we could tell them their card cards are bad. that would scare them!

You check in but can never leave !

DeadEnd: Was that the Hard Rock at Universal or the one at Seminole? Can’t believe I missed that! Mr L and I would have definitely checked in there just for the experience!!

Jbrimaco: great idea! Have to get the slots involved. There’s a movie based on a Stephen King book that I can’t remember the name of (damn old-age memory!) It starts with a crazed police officer (who constantly says “tic” throughout his conversations) who stops unwitting victims and takes them to a jail in a small deserted town.

In one scene, a couple breaks out of the jail and goes looking around the town. They walk into a café that has a slot machine in the corner. Our hero pulls the slot machine handle (can’t resist the gambling temptation even when your life is in danger) and a huge pool of blood comes gushing out of the coin return. We could do some great, gory things with those slot machines!

Anyone remember the name of that book/movie?? The demon would take over other bodies in order to keep living. I think the demon spirit lived in the mine in this town and was named Tic. The book was really good. The movie started out good but went downhill once the crazy officer died and went into another body. Now that’s going to bug me all day! I need a new memory card!!!

Lynn: Yep, that’s the idea! We thought we’d include something in the advertising about “You’ll never get a good nights sleep.”

When I got this place I tried the "Haunted Bed & Breakfast". Unfortunately alot of couples seemed to be of the "Opposites Attract" syndrome, one of the pair would love my place the other one was repelled and scared, and it wasn't always the female who was the scared one by any means!
I would take them through the house for the tour, then show them to their room, they would say, "We're going up the street for a beer, we will be back later."
"Later" never happened for a great many of them, no I didn't kill them, they just drove away!
One fun couple left me some nice souveneer ropes tied to the bed, headboard and foot, nice thick, soft ropes that wouldn't leave a rope burn.
I left the ropes there and would mention this to people seeing the house for the tour, one day it had to happen, as I was talking about how the ropes came to be here the people all said, "Yah! We know, they are our friends, they told us they left the ropes here!" (They were from 200 miles away)
I would offer to set up the couple to scare other people coming through the house for the tour, some found that they liked scaring people! How about that?
One very conservative man who no doubt had a very responsible job within a huge corporation was surprised that he enjoyed scaring others.
"You know, I think that I could get to like doing this."
He was sitting on a chair, dressed with a cape and a pumpkin on his head illuminated by just a candle. People would come into the room one at a time and he would suddenly spring to life!
That did it for them!

Definetly have always wanted to run a Haunted Roller Coaster-type attraction - one where you're being rolled through & 3-D movie plays out the action along with live MOB etc. Now if I could only win the lottery...

To build a 2 story haunted maze that changes it's configuration every year from the floor up. Possibly some pieces could be modular in design & interchangeable.

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Jbrimaco: great idea! Have to get the slots involved. There’s a movie based on a Stephen King book that I can’t remember the name of (damn old-age memory!) It starts with a crazed police officer (who constantly says “tic” throughout his conversations) who stops unwitting victims and takes them to a jail in a small deserted town.

In one scene, a couple breaks out of the jail and goes looking around the town. They walk into a café that has a slot machine in the corner. Our hero pulls the slot machine handle (can’t resist the gambling temptation even when your life is in danger) and a huge pool of blood comes gushing out of the coin return. We could do some great, gory things with those slot machines!

Anyone remember the name of that book/movie?? The demon would take over other bodies in order to keep living. I think the demon spirit lived in the mine in this town and was named Tic. The book was really good. The movie started out good but went downhill once the crazy officer died and went into another body. Now that’s going to bug me all day! I need a new memory card!!!
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I believe that movie was called Desperation...I wasn't too crazy about it but can't pass up anything by Steven King

Yes, it was "Desperation". I read the book but I don't remember there being a movie.