Havoc

There is no reason to get drunk or buzzed before attending Horror Nights. The haunts are designed as a deep sensory experience. Good haunters attempt to involve as much of your senses as possible. They use lighting, sound, smell, texture, and detail. I have even used sub-audibles (sound below the range of hearing) in my haunts to induce a sense of unease. Alcohol and most other controlled substances either deaden or alter your sensory perception, meaning that you miss out on something that the designer intended. Of course if the haunt sucks I suppose you can get wasted... but you can do that at home watching and old DVD. From another perspective. I have worked several haunts including my company (Phobia Productions) Knotts and HHN. Knotts encourages drinking with its growing amount of alcohol for sale and every year the attacks get worse. Drunk people tend to be violent. Buzzed people tend to laugh all the way through so you don't really bother with a good scare, they wont notice anyway. People who have just had a drink or two tend to be belligerent ...trying to scare the monster, yelling I seeee yooooou, demanding that you didnt scare them or that you did scare them, and just generally ruining the experience for others. I have even had friends that didn't remember the event at all. These things happen much less often at HHN Hollywood where there is a zero tolerance policy. Scareactors feel much safer and go for bigger scares knowing that they are less likely to be attacked by some drunk. Now I don't have anything against alcohol or drinking but if you really need it to have a good time, especially at HHN how boring are you? Don't even get me started on people who text in the maze.