2008 Woodie Awards
Get your scream on
Andrea Furlong, Blake Havard and Christina Voss
Issue date: 10/13/05 Section: A&E
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No, you haven't stumbled into a horror movie, just one of the many local haunted houses.
Canfield's Frightmare Forest, located at 4811 Preserve Lane, returns in 2005 with a new chapter in its chilling nightmare with the addition of the new False Awakening tour.
Owned and operated by Chad Canfield, the entire trail of Frightmare Forest is controlled from one tech booth. Canfield's technical director, Ian Austin, engineered some of the software used in the trail.
"No other haunt in the world has the technology Frightmare Forest has," Canfield said.
Frightmare Forest is a haunted attraction focused on the unexpected.
"All the props we build, for the most part," said Canfield in a previous interview. "We really try to avoid any clichéd things like 'Friday the 13th.' You're not going to see Jason and you probably won't see Michael Myers. But what you will see is stuff that comes from our heads and we're pretty sick."
The main haunt this year is titled Rapid Eye Movement (REM). This year will offer more visualization and automation than previous years but will still consist of the "high impact" scaring that patrons know and love.
The False Awakening, a continuation of the main haunt, takes a much different approach.
According to Frightmare's Web site, "The False Awakening will take you on a path through the part of the forest that most of our actors or even owners, will not go in during the day, let alone at night."
To find out more on why most people won't enter this part of the forest take a read through the "Real Ghosts?" section on their Web site at http://www.frightmareforest.com.
Another attraction this October is the 17th annual Haunted Hayrack Ride sponsored by the Swisher Men's Club. The hayrack ride is full of ghosts and goblins.
"All the money raised will be going back to the community and to the future education of our children," said Clint Smith, coordinator of the hayrack ride.
Food and music will also be provided, so be sure to show up early.
If haunted houses or hayrack rides don't appeal to you, check out a humorous approach to Halloween. Starting the third week of October, Collins Road Theatres will offer a different Halloween comedy every Friday and Saturday, as part of its midnight feature. Four dollars will buy you a ticket to "The Nightmare before Christmas," "Evil Dead 2," or "Shaun of the Dead," depending what weekend you go. For more information you can visit http://www.collinsroadtheatres.com.