The Rise Of American Horror Theatre

(hat tip: Infowars)

Editor’s Note: Artistic trends often speak volumes about whether a culture is on the rise, or in decline. As Americans protest in cites across a country suffering an economic collapse and a bankrupt Washington ramps up its war plans across a global military theatre, it seems like most of America’s creative industry still lives in a feeble state of denial and decadence, relentlessly promoting a satanic culture of violence, vampire worship and inwardly obsessed filth. Yet, there is a very real and growing satanic industry in America right now, and this disturbing trend continues to attract investment and ticket sales, as an intoxicated nation inhales its final moral and social breaths, opting not to deploy its great creative and media industry to produce material that will speak to the social, civil and international issues gripping the nation at this critical juncture in history.  

Hermione Hoby
Guardian
December 4, 2011

“Scream, bitch!” roars the voice. “Scream louder! You’re not fucking getting out of here until you scream as loud as I want!”

This, I will tell my friends, is how I spent my Monday night: on my knees, being waterboarded and having paid $60 for the displeasure.

This is Blackout, a sold-out attraction deemed the most terrifying of the United States’s estimated 3,000 Haunted Houses, which make up an industry thought to be worth an extraordinary $500m.

This year, for example, New Yorkers could opt for the shlocky – such as Blood Manor with its 37 gallons of fake blood per night; or the artsy, including the Steampunk Haunted House in the hipster-heavy Lower East Side; or, indeed, just the confoundingly expensive: Nightmare, which bills itself as “America’s #1 Haunted House” and is now in its seventh year, offering “Super VIP” tickets for an alarming $100. Clearly, the opportunity to feel terror without danger is irresistible for a lot of Americans willing to part with a lot of cash.

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