slepy millcreek hollow offers commercial halloween activities in marriott-slaterville, october 2009 how to scare friends and horrify people NANCY VAN VALKENBURG Standard-Examiner staff nvan@standard.net It's Halloween season, and that gives you a once-a-year free pass to scare the Jujubes out of your friends and family. Are you really going to waste this rare opportunity by jumping out from behind a door and bleating "boo"? Shame on you. You can do so much better. "The 'startle scare' actually works for some people, but there are so many more scares you can do," said Bill McCalmant, general manager of Haunted Hollow, now in its 10th year in West Haven. "You can tap into phobias and fears. We have a tunnel with areas that will bother claustrophobic people, and we have features for people who are afraid of the dark wet places, and the forest, where there could be spiders and snakes. We try to help everybody's fear come out." Sue Bodily, a veteran haunted house worker and founder of the Utah Renaissance Festival and Fantasy Faire, opened a new Halloween haunt last week. Sleepy Millcreek Hollow is on a farm in Marriott-Slaterville. The venue will donate most profits to local animal rescue organizations. "The most terrifying thing to most people is the unknown, whether it's going to the dentist for the first time, or any other situation they have never experienced," Bodily said. "There's a little fear in everybody, and if we HOMEMADE GORE her secret recipe for homemade gore: Combine 16 ounces of strawberry jam with 16 ounces of raspberry jam. IWix In a packet of cherry drfhk powder, such as Koof-Aid. Blend thoroughly. Add a small amount < ' fwater if thinner gore is desired. Apply to s) the desired location, such as the corner of your ; mouth, across your neck, or on the back of your hands. (Applying "gore" to the palms of you~ hands is a bad idea, unless you want fruit-ff vored gore on everything you touch.): "Gore'' also is delicious in a peanut butte sandwich^ Bodily said. To customize gore for decorative use, adi drop or two of blue food coloring for a darke : more venous blood; or add tiny bits of charct for a burned-and-gory look. And to keep gore from beading up on a slick surface, Bodily suggests mixing in a few drops ' IfctoHJ Hquid. can work that and get imaginations going, we can get a big scare. We love to make imaginations run wild." ^. Some of our local fright 'Mjl experts agreed to share ^ their psych-out secrets, cp oc ^. for use by those making v mental preparations to visit a commercial haunted house or maze, and just as S useful for people planning private- home haunts. Here are some of their best tips for how to scare people: • Rattle people's self-confidence a bit. See SCARES | Page 4 StandandlNII WWW, STANDARD. NI VIDEO: Behind the scenes in the scare business '^.,vr ONLINE: For an interactive map of haunted attractions, visit the Features page on www.standard.net ERIN HOOLEY/ Standard-Examiner Kami Mckinny. 15, gets her makeup done at Sleepy Millcreek Hollow in Marriott- Slaterville. Mckinny said she is going for an Old World- style vampire look. Ogden resident Joseph Jauregui (left) shows off his zombie look at Sleepy Millcreek Hollow.