I'm with Jor. Most that I've seen advertised in the last five years or so try too hard to do something cutting edge. The last one I went to was in Pittsburgh that a friend had free tix to. It was an "alien encounter" instead of a haunted house ala Area 51. There were some really well done get-ups and props, but it was all flashy and smokey. They built it on the site of an abandoned drive-in, and had some interesting things on the screen, too. Sadly, although I was entertained, there wasn't anything even remotely adrenalizing about it. Everything was so predictable as you were lead through the sets. Some alien would pop up or a shuttle pod would burst into flames, and people would go "oooh, that's neat," but nobody looked like they were creeped out by it. Now, I imagine if they had done a set with the inside of a spaceship and had a tour group happen upon an anal probing or some other kind of invasive operation, and then the aliens look up at the people who had walked in, and suddenly the floor shakes accompanied by the sound of engines firing up, from which the victim is stirred to consciousness enough to scream to the group to get out before it takes off....<sigh> that may have been a bit frightening.
And what the hell are these religious people thinking?
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