Fall Guide | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: Few haunted attractions have garnered as much attention as ScareHouse. Every year, the Pittsburgh Halloween staple has lured crowds with high-quality frights executed by dedicated, professional scare actors and crew members. Oscar-winning horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and actor Elijah Wood gave ScareHouse their approval and, in 2023, it earned the title of Top Haunt by the Haunted Attraction Association.
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I’ve never heard of ScareHouse but it sounds like a cool experience. I probably hadn’t heard much about it because of the problems they’ve had in the past few years listed in the article (going bankrupt, COVID). I think it’s cool they also do events outside of Halloween that are still horror centric like the Valentines event they talked about in the article. I’d like to work for seasonal events but I’m afraid of how difficult the business model is in which you’re only open for certain section of the year. I also think if I ever wanted to work in seasonal events I’d work with companies with long standing reputations and good histories of consistency because I’d be too scared of taking on a potentially unstable job. I love horror though and think it would be cool to work in escape room/haunted house settings. I think escape room design would actually be so fun.
It would be awful to see what has been a large, successful Scarehouse go under because of conflicts compounded by Covid. Struggling to stay solvent in an entertainment industry is difficult. Trying to find the balance between being able to make enough money to pay expenses while trying to bring new and better entertainment is a tough challenge. This only enforces the importance of thorough planning and contingencies to overcome problems and challenges that some people are unaware of. Wanting to expand operations to open up your business to more people does expose you to an unproductive season if the changeover delays your set up for your new season. Unfortunately for the entertainment industry and fortunate for them, bureaucracy does not have the same go, go, go mentality that entertainment often does. The return to their roots feels promising with a mock-tail bar will hopefully draw a larger audience that does not only want to go through the basement but hang out upstairs while others go downstairs.
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