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October 27 - Night of the Dead on 13th Street

OCTOBER 27, 2011 3:02AM

October 27 - Night of the Dead on 13th Street

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I haven't felt so alive since I survived my latest ordeal with the living dead...at Salt Lake City's "Nightmare on 13th" haunted house. 
I attended their 'Night of the Dead' presentation last week, and despite my age (I'm wayout of the demographic) I came out of it like a giddy teenaged horror fanboy.  Highly recommended, especially after shots of absinthe and with friends who throw their filters out the door and treat each and every monster as the real deal!
In 'Night of the Dead' you run a gauntlet that starts in the line outside, as  menacing medieval gargoyles on stilts hiss in your ear about your impending doom.  I wish I had pictures. 
When you go in, familiar friends greet you - you can get your picture taken with the Elvis of Nightmares, that dream demon from that well-known street in everytown USA.  You're given dire menaces and warnings by a certain puppet-faced master of torture as morality plays.  You also get to visit with the young girl with a penchant for popping out of TVs. 
But they're just icing on a cake of rotting flesh.  This is your mission (from Nightmare on 13th's site):
Most nightmares fade into a distant memory but this is one nightmare you can’t escape, even after you’re dead. The apocalypse encroaches upon you and grows with every death. The dead desire their same fate for each and every one of us. As their instinctive hunger drives their every move, one wonders if they even know they are dead. This is the time for bravery. We must stand together to defeat this infestation before it finds victims in all mankind.
I don't want to spoil much more, but if you go, be ready to face zombies from every walk of death.  Is there a profession that disturbs you? The law? Children's entertainment? Health care? Hospitality?  There is  a zombie for it waiting for you right around the corner. 
Also, make sure you keep up your death-trap evasion skills, because they too are there waiting for you.  MASSIVE SPOILERS: a room of live wires with water and zapping noises really did unnerve me, and the Twilight Zone chamber almost made me lose my dinner - bad idea to have absinthe right beforehand. 
In short, an exhilarating good time.
Special guest appearance by the Chupacabra!

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Can't do the haunted houses, my imagination is too active. I'd never be able to sleep again. About Absinthe, do you really drink it over sugar cubes or is that a movie affectation? :)
Muse - that's how you should have your absinthe, however, these shots were done at a friend's house without the sugarburning equipment. I've done that in New Orleans at Pirate Alley, however, at the time wormwood absinthe was illegal in the U.S., so it was the non-hallucinogen kind.
Sounds like you had a blast. I'm glad you didn't lose your absinthe, though.

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