Lead makeup artist Skye McLaughlin has been doing special effects makeup for over a decade. They received some guidelines, but it’s mostly left up to them to flesh out exactly how they’re going to act.ĭress rehearsals had to involve people actually being present - not just actors performing to thin air - to understand the “mechanization of how people move through the attraction,” according to Giannetti, the actor playing a construction worker. The actors went through multiple sessions to get acclimated to their roles, per Augustine. Stepping into the Lincoln Mill Haunted House, you’ll encounter dozens of scary figures: modern day construction crews infected by paranormal pollution by the old mill, spirits, ghosts, millworkers, mill owner Victor Kane, and Kane’s sidekicks, like Gretchen the textile designer and Edwin the nightwatchman. And then they come into another room, get scared again, they go up on the peak, and then they come down, scared again - down, up, down.” Sunken eyes and ‘gooey’ skin for full effect “You want them to get scared, get excited, and then kind of relax a little bit - that’s the valley. “When the customer goes through the haunt, you don’t want them to just be scared and up all the time,” he said. To do this, the creators and crew had to figure out how to create “peaks and valleys,” Augustine, the actor manager, said - a term sometimes used in the haunting industry. Part of developing the attraction also involved figuring out the ebb and flow of things to keep guests scared, but not too scared. To bring the exhibit to life with actual actors, the haunted attraction hired between 50 and 60 people out of about 200 applicants, Bilsak said. Inside Lincoln Mill, construction worker scares await Kimberly Paynter / WHYY Rebuilding, property owner Brian Corcodilos decided to pivot away from a restaurant or bar tenant on the first-floor, and now the site hosts the Lincoln Mill Haunted House. The first floor, formerly home to Mad River Bar & Grille, was swamped with 7 feet of water. But then you realize you’re safe.”įor the next few weekends, Gianetti will be haunting the line outside Manayunk’s newest seasonal attraction: a haunted house in a former textile mill ravaged by Ida floods. If you came through and we got you, there’s something joyful, because you feel the tension and the fear. “I love it when I see a teenage boy jump into his mom’s arms even though he’s too cool to be scared. “I love it when I see couples cling to one another,” Giannetti said. What truly brings him joy is scaring people ~ together ~. Despite his job title, he doesn’t love scaring people. Anthony Giannetti is a scare actor at the Lincoln Mill Haunted House in Manayunk.
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