Not everyones idea of a great date....

...but this is where I am going tonight, for my birthday outing. I have been to haunted house before, it was freakin' marvellous!! and REALLY REALLY scary! Everything is so well done, the actors never break role, the special effects are realistic, and grown men do cry!
Tonight we are doing the corn field, the forest, and the vortex. I loved those Children of the Corn movies. I am a horror/gore fanatic, the gorey the better, but it is quite different being in the middle of it, and even though you know you are not going to actually get hurt, I was surprised at how scared I was last time, and surprised by how brave Rob was!

...later that night.... what a great night. We did another indoor haunted house, where you have to wear 3-D glasses and the walls are painted in floru/glow in the dark paint. People come out at you from walls and wardrobes etc. (What I didn't tell you before that everything here is set up in the building of a defunct mental institution. I had an uncle who lived most of his life there)
We also did the forest of fear. This was not so frightening, for two reasons. a) I felt it was more open and you could run if you wanted too, where as in the house, you HAVE to go thru it to get out. The second reason for the forest not being as good was the STUPID girl in front of us. The actors have to break out of character if you ask them to - in a hysterical screaming kind of way - well this girl did this at EVERY SINGLE SCARE, and although they leave gaps between groups, she would argue with them and when we got there the spookers were still out of character trying to sort her out. There was still some great bits though.
The final one we did was the CornEvil, a maize maze. Fan-f*****g-tastic!! Again it was a bit like the house, even though you were outside, the corn is so tall and the paths narrow, it felt quite claustrophobic, and the spookers are in such great makeup. The suckers (thats us, the paying public, lol) have torches, it is not lit at all, but all the spookers wander around in the dark, jumping out from corn. One girl behind us just bolted and ran off into the corn with Rob, me and her mates just ROCPOL (rolling around the corn pissing ourselves laughing ). She had no torch or anything, she just ran. The reason for the running, the spooker with the chainsaw...the REAL chainsaw .
Most of the actors that work here are just local highschool kids, and they are really good. A really fun night in a 'oh I just crapped my pants' kinda way. I can thoroughly recommend it.