Thanks to everyone involved! And sorry, Kevin. There are thorough content notes and timecodes for even minor jump scares in the description if anyone's a bit too worried to watch. And if you're wondering why there's quite so much blurring: RU-vid's advertisers prefer not to partner with videos that have even obviously-fake blood!
Edit: in this case the captions were just late, which is odd considering you’ve had at least four days to get them up. Have you become so ableist now that you’ve even stopped adding captions to this channel? Discontinuing the captioned version of Lateral wasn’t enough discrimination for you?
His online appearances are all fabricated -- body double. The real Kevin is locked in a basement. There's a terminal there, he thinks it's a lifeline to the outside world... but all his words are printed into a shredder, never to be read again.
Thank you for the nice presentation. I never would have thought the inner workings of a haunted house would interest me so much. But you people really are artists!
Hah! Im glad to have discovered you here! You seem like a really cool person and are clearly happy/passionate about what you do! It's infectious!! ^-^ ❤️
Haunted houses never seemed like more than a cheap gimmick to me because the ones I've visited were either low-quality or tailored to kids. But dear god, Mortem Manor looks amazing and the behind-the-scenes stuff was really interesting. Definitely on my bucket list if I ever visit the States. Thanks for showing everything off!
That "Thanks for letting me out" sounds like Tom Scott has a dungeon full of random youtubers who are willing to do anything with Tom for a chance of a gasp of fresh air
What’s funny about that is when I worked at a haunted house, i’ve personally chased people down a set of stairs….. Always the best time because of how athletic you can be in that situation…. the only person that fell down was me though so
Hi Tom. I'm an actor in an haunted house here in Italy, and i've been for close to 8 years now. You have no idea how much pleasure this video gave me, some appreciation to the hard work we do every day to get people some good old high intensity screaming cardio. Being scary is not easy, fear is such a personal thing people can walk without a whipmer by 10 butchers, 20 doctors, 30 Old ones... but then just scream for somebody standing up and yelling. You never know, and it's such a delight to find out where each of your customers gives that "aaaaaaaaah" of fear i honestly think that, for people with such a (maybe twisted) understanding of humanity, there's no better job satisfaction. (for us it feels like, as an example, how the train car "felt" when you screamed "i love rollercoaster" in the Alton Towers video, that's what we feel when our customers leave the house trying to catch their breath and laughing) Long story short...welcome, if just for a bit, to the great horror family, we've been waiting you for so long... Ps: don't feel to bad to get jumpscared by the animatronics with full lights, it happens ibce a weej even to us who work in the same house for years when we're not paying attention.
Y'all do a great job. I remember going into a haunted house at a theme park thinking it would be a laugh. It scared the bejesus outta me, and not to boast but that's a hard thing to do. Since then I've had a lot more admiration for the performance element of haunted houses, it really takes it to the next level
I've trained haunt actors for a decade, and i have to give props to Mike for helping Tom to develop his own scare despite not having been bit by the scareacting bug (yet). Absolutely thrilling to see another cast and crew who love haunting so much they look to share it with the world, rather than hide it like a stingy two-cent magician. Hope your season went well, Mortem Manor! Happy Halloween!
I love that the guy had to tell him like 3 times to just sit up in varying different phrases, and because he wasn't listening, he hurt himself. Twice. That'll learn him. I was half expecting him to do it again when his moment came.
I wonder how the conversation went "Kevin come to this haunted house, we are gonna film a video together." "Oh sure, we are gonna go in together, right?" "Umm nooo, you are gonna go in alone, but there is a surprise inside!"
they used the fog swamp effect another haunted house I went to recently. The lore behind it was that the whole thing was set off by hurricane Ida's flooding uncovering something best left buried. The swamp fog was on a ramp, so it felt like the flood waters were rising as you went, until you had no choice but to 'dive'
Aw, I love how Jess is presenting everything like he's just introducing his family members and showing of his home instead of displaying gory puppets in a haunted house. Like a proud dad.
I've always wondered why haunted attractions don't borrow from Walt Disney and add the sense of smell to their repertoire. The Disney parks pump smells into the walking paths. As you pass by a bakery, the smell of fresh baked pastries is pumped into the air. Walk into a dark room with grandpa and his entrails everywhere is one thing. Walking in that same room and bad smell hits you is something else entirely. It would sell the effect a lot more. It doesn't have to be a lot. Just the subtle hint of rotting. I was really surprised to see them show that they're doing exactly that. They're doing it right. I'd love to visit this place
my understanding is that it does generally reduce the tendency to throw up (or similar unplesent instinctinve reactions) when exposed to something that is beyond one's tollerance levels for gore and such, though.
I'd love to find a haunted house where you can just walk around without guys jumping out at you. I love the theming and _mysterious items_ all around, I just want to look and figure out the "history" of the house.
I'd kinda love to see more haunted houses that are basically escape rooms. Basically a big sprawling puzzle. With that said, if you implemented augmented reality into the experience, you could potentially turn it into a co-operative version of Resident Evil, complete with light guns and hidden objects in the environment.
“mysterious items” is giving me unknowable eldritch horror vibes and it would absolutely be cool to have a more psychological horror mystery house that tries to go more for deeply unsettling you rather than jumpscaring you
Escape rooms* & any installation by Meow Wolf might be right up your alley! *I worked at an escape room and we had a "horror themed" room with zombies that had a zombie mannequin in a partially ruined closet the second room but during Halloween we'd have an actual actor in there playing the zombie. Some groups took long enough in the second room that the zombie would just start chatting with the customers and giving thinly veiled hints.
As much as Kevin got scared for good by Tom, the moment I loved the most was the "Nice try! AAAAAAHHHH!" part with Mike HAHAHAHAHA That starts at 18:41
As a haunt actor, I'm always glad to see a video highlighting the work behind the scenes (as well as see how other folks make their sausage :p), this video is a delight!
Every part of this video was awesome, I love the idea of Tom emailing his YT friends like "you wanna help with my bucket list?" Victor seems like a right laugh too!
The behind the scenes part was fascinating because I paint miniatures and the blood effect methods described and how much work goes into weathering rings true for both fairly different disciplines
Man even seeing it all with the lights on was still a scary experience. I really respect the work that gets put into Haunted Houses like this, especially Walk Through Attractions seem so hard to pull off since you can't control what the guest sees and does. Also being a scare actor looks like so much fun.
I love your content so much, and I love you and your team's dedication to accessibility even more. CC, content warnings, all of that is always spot on with your productions. Thank you so much.
If only the Lateral team had the same dedication to accessibility. And when the captions on this video were late, I was seriously worried that that lack of accessibility was spreading to his other channels.
No way you brought Kevin along 😂. I'm so happy to see two of my favorites collaborate. I saw a comment on the last video about you trying to create a "Six degrees of Tom Scott" and I absolutely believe that now.
I truly hate jumpscares and would never visit something like this as a guest, so I appreciate this video all the more... So cool to get a look behind the scenes and see the actors do such a good job!
I love how Jess knows the place inside and out and knows exactly how nonchalant to be on things that are either up ahead or work on a delayed timer...I can see the one at 8:29 being absolutely brutal "for real" - just as Tom did, you are juuuust suspicious of it enough to pass it by after confirming it's not leaping out at you, then - bam! Also I appreciate the person writing the scare warnings' sense of humour
Tbh I will never ever go to a haunted house, but seeing this makes me about 10x more likely because having worked on stage and in acting, knowing that behind the scenes is just as chaotic a mess of actors hopping around and stuff makes them feel infinitely more approachable for some reason
Props to the acting coach. I love that he semi stays in character, he has that Cryptmaster vibe about him. Edit: I also like the meta-scare in that Tom changed up what he was going to do without telling the audience.
I ran a haunted house for work a couple of years, before the pandemic. Scares the crap out of people. I was wondering about the folks that brought toddlers through, though.
The first and only time I was in a haunted house I ended up being the last person in a group whilst walking up the stairs. I was absolutely kacking myself that someone or "something" was behind me. There wasn't, but the fear and thought was there. I never thought that they would never scare anybody on the stairs
This was great! As someone with PTSD, this is my version of nightmares. But going around in the light, and knowing Kevin signed up for it made it enjoyable still!!
Way back in elementary school we turned out cafeteria into a haunted house every year. I may have been 6 or 7 at the time but I distinctly remember helping to paint the set and spray cobwebs around. This takes me back.
I relate so hard with Tom, just a polite, introvert nerd who's thankful for being pushed out of his comfort zone in a good way. Bless his face and every single one of his socks.
As someone who had worked in a haunted attraction for over a decade, I always enjoy seeing how other haunts put their scenes together. I can attest that the twisting & winding hallways are definitely there for disorientation and dual (or triple) scare locations. We also used the air cannons, scents, laser swamps (complete with squeeze bags to make it hard to walk through), a squeeze room (aka claustrophobia room), shrinking room, and at one point, coffins that the guests would enter and drop through to another level. It's all about the redirection of attention and miscues. Get them to focus "here" and scare them "there". It was all so much fun to work inside, and even more to work the queue lines. My only regret - I am so desensitized to haunts that I generally walk through knowing where most of the scares are going to come from (and I feel really bad for the actors that give their best but can't get me with much more than a mild startle.)
I absolutely LOVE haunted houses! One of my earliest memories in life was going to one with my grandmother. I was even a haunted house critic for 4 years. We would go to all 20+ haunted attractions in our city... sometimes 2 or 3 in one night... and rank and review them on our website... since the local haunt guild was responsible for the "reviews" in the local newspaper. I also would turn my entire house into a haunt each year before that. Growing up near Salem, Massachusetts and having actors for parents stoked the love of haunts and Halloween. I now want to rig up my glue gun to a compressor! Happy Halloween, y'all!
This video is so amazing and I haven't even seen the scary part yet. Thanks Tom for these amazing videos, I really like the plus channel as an addon to the usual videos :)
this was really cool to see. Really cool that you got to work with these guys to scare the pants off Kevin and let them show off a bit of what they do.
i was in a local haunted house for 14 years. its alot of fun really. seeing how everything is all set up. its all harmless fun. its alot of thought put into how things are done. being mindful of possible trip hazards and fire hazards and trying to avoid those. the guy is right when people are scared its no telling what they might do. people react differently to being scared.
I used to love mostly local to Kissimmee (where Mortem Manor is) and would take my vintage Hearses out for the weekly car cruises at Old Town. While that was always a delightful time, what I truly miss is Mortem Manor.
Kevin really went from eating dog food to being scared by Tom Scott...what a life. Jess is living his dream. Love how passionate the actors are! The blurring really makes the video feel more horrific, like a censored snuff film. Mortem Manor is in Kissimmee (not Orlando proper), just outside Celebration (a town that Disney built during the Eisner era...Defunctland's favorite era) and Disney World property. So for those staying around Disney, this is a great thing to do if you wanna do more than just Disney.
