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The best way to learn anything
is always from the ground up,
hands-on! In 2006 we began the
learning experience, as it
relates to X-Scream, by getting
to know each other and moving on
through design, planning, the
build and staffing the event.
The result was a very impressive
event with the best staff I have
ever had the pleasure of working
with. More importantly, we
learned that this event had a
future that was every bit as
promising as that of the
students that made it happen!
During the 2006 season we tended
toward the "ant hill" method of
haunt design - over 200 students
running in just under 200
directions under the direction
of a haunt designer whose head
had to turn 360 degrees to keep
it all going smoothly! Changes
in the event format for the 2007
season accomplished a number of
wonderful things - for students
and teacher alike! With a total
of over 30 rooms, the new method
assigned each room to a team of
student designers whose tasks included the design, build
and implementation of that room.
This allowed students to
concentrate on the perfection of
their area of the event, work
occasionally "off-site at home"
and to receive due credit for
that specific assignment in the
event program. The end result:
being named as one of the Travel
Channel's "13 Scariest Haunted
Attractions in America" in 2008!
The "Oscar" of the haunt
industry!!! The 2009, 2010, 2011 and
2012 seasons marked continued growth of the event.
Now, with
our SEVENTH YEAR behind us, we have further honed our
skills and will improve the event even more, making us
the most unique haunted house in America! Additionally,
we're again staging our primary attraction in the air-conditioned G-Star Sound
Stage! Also new for 2013
(our eighth season) is the inclusion of even more
peripheral additions including scarezones, roving "scareactors", live music and stage show, food
and vendors. We also would like to announce the
re-introduction of our own dance squad - the
G-Star Scream Team or, as we refer to them, the G-Star
Cadavers!!! Watch for more on the squad - and the event
- in the coming
months! G-Star students are a breed apart and X-Scream
Halloween 2013 is just one more way they'll continue to
prove it!
George Colavecchio - Director
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