Haunts

"I love this," Fetterly says. He heads to "The Draculator" and after a quick repair has some fun. He keeps his secret door inched opened and as a group passes by opens up and yells, "Where you going?" Two guys jump back and then jump again as the animatronic gets them from the other side.

Kirchner says haunts beat a scary movie any day.

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Haunts -- They'll scare the crap out of you

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"A good haunted house is like a live opera mixed with a roller coaster ride mixed with a horror movie," he says. "A live opera because it's a live play right in front of your eyes, it's a roller coaster ride because it gives you that adrenaline rush and it's a horror movie because you should feel like you are in one. Why would anyone go to a horror movie when they can be in a horror movie? Where you are Jamie Lee Curtis, you're the girl in the shower, you're the teenagers that are having premarital sex and you're going to be killed. You are that person, you are the one that is the star and at the end, hopefully, you survive."

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