The scent of cooked flesh greats you in some scenes. Throughout the attraction, we were very impressed by how good the scareactors were. The maze winds between indoor and outdoor sets, for example, through the pump house and then back outside into the gardens. The lighting throughout the maze was great and really set an eerie and haunting tone. Towering scarecrows with Jack-O-Lantern heads loom above to create an impressive scene. Given the tight coherence of the rest of the maze with the legend of the Winchester house, this was the one scene that didn’t seem to fit.Īfter leaving the children, you enter the estate grounds where men in old-time Western wear wield the Winchester rifle in your face. This scene is spooky and has some great lighting, but we weren’t entirely sure who these children were supposed to be. The first real scene is a sort of creepy playground with some scary child props and a creepy scareactor asking for her mommy. This is actually part of the line, but it sets the tone and spirit for the attraction immediately.
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Ambient lighting in the windows of the house and rows of Jack-o-Lanterns really pull in the Halloween theme right away. The attraction begins in front of the house, where you encounter the caretaker lurking about the porch. The house itself has an interesting history and many ghost stories that go along with it, so WMH had a great pre-existing story on which to build their haunted attraction.
The haunt tells the story of Sarah Winchester and the house she built to keep the spirits of those killed by her husband’s Winchester rifles at bay. The “Curse of Sarah Winchester” maze is located on the grounds and in the outbuildings of the famous Winchester Mystery House (WMH) estate in San Jose, California. Their haunted attraction has captured the elusive magic of Halloween in a nearly perfect way.
But with all of these possible themes, the iconography and spirit of Halloween itself can sometimes be lost in a maze of cannibal butchers and killer clowns.īut not at Fright Nights at the Winchester Mystery House. And some even combine multiple themes into a single haunt (have you ever walked through a haunt and progressed from vampire lair, to alien autopsy, to slaughterhouse? Because we certainly have). There are standard themes (vampires, horror movies, hillbilly cannibals) that can be adopted, or more original ones to be invented. Haunts have to decide what theme, or story, their maze/walk-through/haunted house is going to tell that will make guests want to visit their haunt rather than the one in the next town over. Each year, new haunts pop up around the country, and as they search for their position in the increasingly crowded haunted attraction market, they have to distinguish themselves from other haunts in some way.
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