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By Drew Grant 9/06/12 12:51pm

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The new face of terror (Facebook)

Paranormal Activity Producer Sets Up New Halloween Haunted House With ‘Terrifying … Smells’

Look, we here at The New York Observer are no scaredy-cats when it comes to haunted houses. After all, we’ve overcome waterboarding for the sake of journalism to make last year’s Halloween something special.

But even we are getting a little bit tired of the “real” horrors that producers have started coming up with in order to test our boundaries. For instance, this new haunted house by the creators of Paranormal Activity (1-4) and Insidious sounds terrible, and you couldn’t pay us enough money to go to Los Angeles and try it out. (Actually, you probably could … that number is around the dollar amount of a round-trip plane flight.) Read More

By Drew Grant 12/08/11 4:28pm

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Everyone loves Blackout!

'The Guardian' Finally Reviews Blackout Haunted House: NYC's Premier Waterboarding Experience

It seems so long ago that we were handcuffed and thrown into the pitch-dark of Blackout Haunted House, the midtown scare-fest that included a whole section of fun-times waterboarding. Our sinuses have all but cleared up entirely, and we’ve put the whole experience behind us.

Not so for Hermione Hoby from The Guardian, who posted her review about Manhattan’s Halloween torture-reenactment event last week (despite the fact that Blackout closed in early November). Read More

By Drew Grant 10/12/11 1:36pm

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A promotional still from BlackOut Haunted House

The Disturbing Reality of New York’s Premiere “Haunted House”

What comes to mind when you think of a haunted house? Is it being handcuffed, water-boarded, and physically assaulted by a bunch of burly men screaming obscenities at you? Would you pay $50 for the experience?

Congratulations, you are part of the elite group of thrill-seekers that have kept New York’s most infamous Halloween spectacle, Blackout Haunted House, up and running for the past five years. Read More