![]() “You don’t have air conditioning,” said Addison Severs, another haunt designer. There’s certain things, due to historical properties, we can’t change.” On the downside, Scott continued: “It’s on a ship, so there’s things you can’t really drill holes in. ![]() The designers build what Scott calls “modules” within the hold, each decorated to create a particular effect. “This ship was designed to carry 14,000 tons of cargo, so that’s a lot of cubic feet of real estate that we have to work with,” he said. Irvin has pros and cons as a haunt venue, Scott said. “They’re like, ‘Oh, I know what you did there.’ So we’ve got to be a little more creative and stay one step ahead of them.” Making the haunt happen The Haunted Ship creators do extensive research on YouTube to keep up with the state of the art, “but the general public sees that, too,” Crowe said. “The haunt community is a very tight-knit group that all likes to share, because most haunts don’t have competition,” Crowe said. ![]() You can still find your basic chainsaw-in-a-cornfield attractions, but the Haunted Ship is among a growing number of haunts that raise the stakes via sophisticated storytelling and sensory immersion. The genre started surging in 2017, the year of Jordan Peele’s game-changing “Get Out.” By the 2020s, horror had doubled its market share to over 12%.Īt the same time, “haunts” have progressed far beyond peeled grapes and jump scares. ![]() For decades, horror films accounted for about 5% of movie tickets sold. Attendance at live events generally surged last year as COVID-19 vaccines permitted a return to in-person entertainment, but there’s more to the growing appeal of the Haunted Ship. ![]()
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