Experience the fear and thrills as you’re strapped into your seat! This haunted house in Tokyo, Japan is now letting customers experience the full haunted house thrill via drive-in. Hideous creatures drenched in blood will swarm towards guests in their cars. Producer Kenta Iwana believes that this new format might be scarier than a traditional haunted house, as Rappler details:
"At the drive-in haunted house, guests are confined in a car so they can't escape the horror until the end," he said.
"It makes it even more scary for them."
Iwana came up with the drive-in solution after struggling with a string of cancellations as the coronavirus outbreak took hold.
"It's because a haunted house creates an environment with three Cs," he said, referring to the conditions Japanese experts warn risk spreading the virus: closed spaces, crowded places, and close-contact settings.
"Orders for conventional-style haunted houses were cancelled one after another and we lost about 80% of our clients."
The squad is usually hired to set up haunted house experiences at amusement parks and similar venues.
A normal experience might involve a windowless facility with actors playing ghosts quietly following visitors and whispering directly into their ears to scare them -- all impossible in the age of coronavirus.
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