If you’re planning to attend SCARE for a CURE‘s haunted house, here are a few insider tips to make your experience more enjoyable:

  1. Dress appropriately. You’re in the haunt, not on the sidewalk! You can expect to run, duck, crawl, and climb through all sorts of alarming places, so don’t show up in your best duds. Wear comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting dirty in, and sturdy shoes that won’t slow you down if you need to make a quick escape. Fashion doesn’t count—survival does!
  2. Pay attention to your guide. Our guide staff is made up of haunted house veterans, and their role is to help you have a great time. Whether they’re giving information you’ll need later on or providing directions to help keep SCARE safe and fun for you, the other guests, and the cast and crew, when they speak it’s in your interest to listen.
  3. Play your role well. You didn’t think you had a role? Well, think again! What you get out of your SCARE experience is influenced by what you put in. We do this because we love it, so if you take the fun out it for us by making a big deal of being unimpressed or hostile, you’ll get a flat and uninteresting show. Not only that, we’ll make fun of you in the crew room after the show. Bad groups of guests fade from the crew’s memory almost immediately, but we remember the really good ones for years. If you are totally into it, the actors and techs will love you and will give it all they’ve got to give you the best show possible. Suspend your disbelief and throw yourself into the story line, no holds barred, and you’ll come out feeling like you had a real adventure.
  4. Don’t be ashamed to be scared! SCARE aims to provide an immersive experience, but we want you to enjoy yourself. If it all gets to be too much, you’re allowed to call it quits. Just tell your guide or another crew member and we’ll tone things down or make sure you have safe passage to the exit gate.

We hope you’ll follow these suggestions, have a memorable time at SCARE, and then tell all your friends to come experience our haunt for themselves!