im an actor at a haunted house. This will be my second year, and I don't want to do the same routine I did last year (which was playing the part of the little bloody girl who wants to be your friend and play and that kind of thing. Basically setting people up for the real scare, the big guy behind me waiting for them.) I will be in the same area as I was last year, and no doubt there will be another big guy around since im a small girl and playing the role of a hurt girl who needs help or the charming girl who wants to kill you suits me. But I need a new routine. New things to say, new outfit ideas, etc. Anything will be much appreciated!!
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hi, sounds like a neat scare.
how old do you look for this scare and what sort of specific changes are you looking for?
you could be sweet and harmless all the way through as if the big guy didn't bother you.
or you could be terrified and crying, incoherently explaining the danger.
hope that helps a bit.
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I look any where from 14 to 16 years old (im actually seventeen, just small) My managers want me to stick with the little girl thing. I like to switch around between me being captured and scared and warning the customers not to go on, and being evil and wanting to kill/hurt the customers and urge them to play a game or else go on to meet their death. The problem is, i've run out of ideas of phrases or else other things to say or scream at the customers. I don't want to just say the same things I did last year (though undoubtedly I will every now and then) it'd just be nice to have a new routine and some new ideas.
People seem to get freaked out more with the demented little girl act, as opposed to the captured and scared girl. So i'm thinking about maybe sticking with that for the most part. Maybe doing a zombie-like routine?? Not like walking around with my arms out mumbling incoherently, but blood around the mouth wanting to eat the customers. Maybe have a fake knife or other weapon and beg for just one drop of blood or one cut/bite??
My costume right now is knee high black boots, fishnets, a black skirt that comes down to just above the knee and a black/white blood stained t-shirt. It's the same thing I wore last year. Should I keep this outfit?? or think of a new one??
Does any of this sound good??
I've actually thought about wearing pajamas before. But I work in the haunted woods and we're all supposed to wear dark colors to blend in. I'd have to talk to my managers, but I think pajamas might work with my act. If I get the right kind and alter them a bit. Spray them with blood, rip them up a little.
Any other ideas?? I still need some help on things to say to the customers..
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you could try a dark victorian style dress, ringlets in your hair or a ringlet wig, very porcelain doll like only dark-ish, with vampire fangs, do the whole cruel but loving it vampire routine. if you haven't seen it watch interview with the vampire and pay attention to claudia.
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I can tell the difference between punks who need a little lesson in manners... and the freaks like you who would just enjoy it.
How about some sort of poem about the haunt. One of the creepiest images I've seen is actually from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, Hush, where a young girl is holding onto a wooden box, chanting in a sing-song voice. Maybe you could use something like a twisted kids rhyme:
1, 2 - who are you?
3, 4 - can't find the door
5, 6 - you're looking sick
7, 8 - gonna meet your fate
9, 10 - won't get back again
Or something suitably creepy.....I'm not a poet....
I like the victorian dress idea. I wanted to wear one last year, but I had a hard time finding one for cheap. I don't want to spend $80 on a dress that's just going to get messed up working in the woods. I'm going to look again though.
And i've always wanted to do the creepy little rhymes or songs, but there is another girl who works at the opposite end of the woods where I work that does the nursery ryhme thing. And there can't be two of us doing the same thing. Thanks for the suggestion though. If she isn't working this year i'm jumping on that act.
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the dress, if you get it to fly w/ the manager, can be stored and reused for future years if not gored up too much. you best bet for reuse is to get an adjustable sized dress so if you leave (change character or shape) it wont be an akward never to be used/once in a blue moon thing.
*poof* now you're square shaped ... hehehe
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ideas??
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