Nightmare: Fairy Tales -- New York's Most Horrifying Haunted House
Clemente Soto Velez Ctr CSV (107 Suffolk Street New York, NY 10002)
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The last date listed for Nightmare: Fairy Tales was Saturday November 5, 2011 / Various Times.
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Reviews & Ratings
Featured review from Deborah R. Clark
view more less of this reviewMy daughter and I arrived at the Clemente Soto Velez Center at around 7:00 p.m. prior to our appointment of 8:30 p.m. We waited outside on this long line. We did not enter the building until 8:30 p.m. just to get on another long line. After reaching the front of the line it was after 9:30 p.m. We were blindfolded and led into a hallway where the silliness started. This was a big joke. It wasn’t scary at all it was very much overrated. After going through the first part I was ready to leave but my granddaughter told me there was two parts to this event. I was never so humiliated in my life as we had to sit down and be questioned as to when was the first time you had your menstrual cycle and at what age did you have diarrhea. All of this we had to go through because they wanted you to wait to get your pictures at the end. We didn’t leave there until after 11:00 p.m. We did not get home until after 12:00 in the morning. All they kept saying is we are sorry. We were going to eat dinner after that but that never happen. I wouldn’t do this event again.
star this review starred report as inappropriatethis was the worst attraction i have ever been through. was not scary at all. they had a guy with a pantyhose on his head trying to scare people outside.Inside was just wood cut outs and maybe one or 2 people going boo.The 5D experience, you had to wait a long time to get into and while you were waiting you had to hear a ridiculous survey than you went in the experience and have them pretend you were in a experiment and they squirt water on you .I wish i would have left early or never bought the tickets, if you like to waste money buy tickets. i wish i could get my money back.
star this review starred report as inappropriatehorrible do not waste your time or MONEY!
star this review starred report as inappropriateI have been attending Nightmare since they started at CSV, moved to Houston St and back. My favorites are tied between "Bad Dreams" and "Asylum". This year’s event was awful and disappointing! The "Fairy Tales" were not played out well and we spent a lot of time trying to figure out who they were trying to portray. The set up was so confusing we kept walking off course and into storage areas. It seemed to be short staff and actors. I almost went home with a potato sack the actors were supposed to take from me. It was very predictable and not like the “Nightmare” I have grown to love. Let’s not forget to mention the second half of the event, O boy it was simply ridiculous! Since I usually, absolutely rant, rave and LOVE Nightmare I was very, very disappointed and downright upset. Since I know how hard it is to produce these events, I also know it can be a hit or miss! I hope they redeem themselves next year!
More Information About Nightmare: Fairy Tales
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Quotes & Highlights
- “Clever, meticulously designed and slyly cast. It works on old anxieties, tweaked just enough to make something new. The most terrifying haunted houses mix the traditional with inventive showbiz intelligence.” —New York Times
- “Sick. Deliciously, awesomely sick!” --Time Out New York
- “A brilliantly conceived spookhouse” --The Village Voice
- Nightmare is AOL Cityguide's No. 1 rated haunted attraction in America.
- "This year the theme takes the once happy fairy tales and sickly converts them to horrific and gruesome variations." --TheNYNightLife.com
- "A fabulously interactive and varied journey, Nightmare forces visitors to don blindfolds, isolates members of groups for some quality alone time and utilizes seriously cool puppetry in addition to the physical performers." --Fangoria
Description
In what is perhaps the most stylistic Nightmare to date, this year’s theme is Fairy Tales. Under the direction of Creator and Co-Director Timothy Haskell, Nightmare: Fairy Tales stages the original versions of well-known (and some lesser known) fairy tales at their most gruesome and horrific. Over the centuries many of these fables have evolved into sanitized entertainment for children, but they began as racy and violent tales intended to keep children from misbehaving.
Get lost in a dark forest and wander through the woods while becoming the characters and reliving the terrifying experiences extracted from over a dozen twisted stories handed down by The Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen and more. Try and stay on the path as you go from cottage to cottage - each housing a familiar tale told in the way they were intended - to scare the wits out of you! Each cottage gets more and more intense until you reach the climactic conclusion. Then you have to find your way home. Be careful, though, there are hidden cottages to explore.
"The original purpose for virtually all fairy tales was to scare children straight, so they wouldn't do anything dangerous, bad or amoral," says co-director and creator Timothy Haskell. "We are going to teach those same lessons to our audiences! The narratives of the Fairy Tales chosen lend themselves to Nightmare's unique theatricality, while giving opportunities for fantastical scenarios and set pieces."
Another component to this year’s Nightmare will be a sensory assaulting 5-D theater experience called The Experiment created and directed by John Harlacher and Timothy Haskell. Unlike year’s past where the second event was a much smaller prelude to the main event, The Experiment is actually Full-on, every bit as satisfying and experiential as the haunted house. Experienced from your chair in a small lab, you are a subject in a case study for research on the threshold of fear.