Park People
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Brighton shut after just a few months. Pasaje del Terror in Blackpool is open for about nine months a year, but then Pasaje del Terror in London closed within a year. If you can’t do it in London where can you do it? I don’t know how successful the London Bridge Experience and London Tombs are, but they have undergone a change of ownership within the past year. Then there is the Dungeons, and they work well, but there is more of an educational component to them and I think that is part of why they work.
In the States I think the form of entertainment is more accepted and part of popular culture, whereas in the UK people are still constrained to thinking about Halloween. That may change, but for now it’s still very seasonal. We hope things may be different, however, in Portugal, where somewhere as vibrant as Lisbon should be able to sustain a year-round attraction.
What else is coming up for AtmosFear? At the moment we are in the final stages of the attraction in Lisbon, which will open in April and is called Labirinto Lisboa. We are the producer and the client is an entrepreneur who has had this vision for a long time. It’s a huge permanent scare attraction with a lot of investment and a historical narrative based on myths and legends of Portugal. In every attraction we
produce there is some kind of story; people enjoy it, they get more involved online and ultimately come back to visit you again and again. We will also be opening up part of the Manormortis building later this year as a horror dining experience set inside a Victorian ballroom, featuring a live stage show based on the Grand Guigno French theatre style. We are going to re-imagine it for a contemporary audience, it will be very gory and we are going to play to corporate groups, team building exercises etc. In fact, we’ve already got a wedding booked!
atmosfearuk.com Manormortis “
L’aMortis
is being pitched and young adults rather than families. It would make a great first date – you can grab hold of your partner or find a new one in the dark as you cling to each other in fear!
” Asian Attractions Expo, Beijing, 2014 June 18-20, Booth 335
FEBRUARY 2014
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