Saturday, September 21, 2013

Nightmare: KILLERS2 Returns Sept 27th!


"I Don’t recall when I’ve experienced anything that terrifying” – William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist 

“This is a no-nonsense haunted house, a taut, assured production that knows exactly what it wants to do (scare the hell out of you) and performs its task with ruthless, coldblooded precision.” — New York Times

“Step carefully into Killers: A Nightmare Haunted House, a legitimately f***ed-up and fascinating labyrinth through the history of serial killers.”  - UrbanDaddy.com

NEW YORK’S FIRST AND MOST TERRIFYING HAUNTED HOUSE WILL CELEBRATE ITS MILESTONE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH  

THE HARROWING SEQUEL TO LAST YEAR’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED “KILLERS” INSTALLMENT WILL CONFRONT EVEN MORE OF THE WORLDS MOST NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLERS 

SEPTEMBER 27 – NOVEMBER 2, 2013

AT THE CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL CENTER

(107 Suffolk Street, NYC) 

(New York, NY) – New York’s first and most terrifying haunted house, NIGHTMARE, will be celebrating its 10th year in New York City this fall. This milestone Anniversary comes as producers Timothy Haskell (Creator of Nightmare) and Steve Kopelman, (producer of Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare”) announce plans for KILLERS2 a horrifying, immersive haunted house experience about our obsession and fascination with serial killers both real and fictional.  KILLERS2 is the follow-up to last year’s widely talked about, highly successful and critically acclaimed “Killers” installment and will run September 27th through November 2, 2012 at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street between Rivington and Delancey on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. www.hauntedhousenyc.com

This year, visitors navigating the tormenting labyrinth of NIGHTMARE: KILLERS2 will encounter various psychopaths, including Harrison Graham, Aileen Wournos, and Charles Manson - among others - who are neither glorified or romanticized – but rather presented for what they are...scary as hell! Focusing on both the perpetrators and their victims, both historical and contemporary, KILLERS2 sets out to prove that the most haunting experiences are those that are real. There is nothing more frightening than the monsters that walk among us.  

"In ten years we have never repeated a theme. This will be the only time we do,” says creator Timothy Haskell. “When I designed the house last season it was epic, but it was too big to fit into the venue, so we split it up into two years. Additionally, the theme was so terrifying and fascinating that I felt it had to be explored a little further."

With regard to the 10th anniversary of Nightmare, Mr. Haskell explained that “When I started Nightmare, I did so because there were no other haunts and I was a working theatre director who loved haunted houses. Now ten years later I couldn't be prouder of what Nightmare has become. We were the only haunt in town back then and now there are nearly a dozen! We’ve been able to keep our identity the entire time, and do it the way we always have. Audiences have now made us a Halloween tradition."

Production Design for NIGHTMARE: KILLERS2 is lead by Paul Smithyman. Art direction is by Justin Haskell and David Hinkle, sound design is by David Roy, costume design is by Sarah Swafford, lighting design is by Garin Marshall. Video design is by Alana McNair.  

For a full schedule of performances visit www.hauntedhousenyc.com  

Tickets for NIGHTMARE: KILLERS2 are $30 - $60 and available at www.hauntedhousenyc.com, or at the box office prior to each performance.  
Twitter: @NIGHTMARENYC

Visit Timothy Haskell’s blog at www.iscareyou.com

Timothy Haskell (Creator and Co-Director) recently directed Sex You (I’m Gonna) by Nathan Phillips at the ACE Hotel and then in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this past summer.  Other credits include Off-Broadway’s Stitching (The Wild Project and The Elephant in Los Angeles), The Jaded Assassin (Ohio Theatre), Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy starring Corey Feldman at the Classic Stage Company,Corporate Rock (Blue Heron Arts Center) and the Paris Hilton spoof I Love Paris by Doug Fields also at the Blue Heron Arts Center. He also co-curated and produced the first ever Fight Festival at The Brick Theatre premiering his new work Last Life that later transferred to the Ohio Theatre. He is perhaps best known for creating and directing the cult hit Road House: The Stage Play, which transferred from Off-Off Broadway to Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre. Mr. Haskell is also the creator and director of the annual Nightmare: New York’s Most Horrifying Haunted House, which has run each fall for the past ten years. The most recent installation was KILLERS: A NIGHTMARE HAUNTED HOUSE.  

Steve Kopelman (Producer) has been actively involved in the Haunted House industry for 30 years.  He is currently a producer of haunted attractions in 5 American cities. His accomplishments include production of Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare and The Nest Haunted House, selected by Good Morning America and ABC News as “The Scariest Place in America.” He has been involved with over 60 haunted attractions in 17 different cities all over the United States, including his work as a producer of Alice Cooper’s Welcome to My Nightmare Haunted House. Kopelman and his haunts have been featured on MTV, The Travel Channel, CNN, and The Food Network among others. 

John Harlacher (Co-Director) is an actor and director. Acting work includes the indie feature Love Simple; Off-Broadway’s Dog Day Afternoon, the revival of Israel Horovitz’s Rats, with the Barefoot Theatre Company, of which he is a member; and NEXT! at the HERE art center. Directing work includes the recent comedy Franklin Stein, Penetrating The Space and Callous Cad at The HERE art center, and the feature film Urchin, which he also wrote. Released theatrically and distributed worldwide, Urchin was banned in Malaysia as a “threat to culture." He is also the Editor-In-Chief of Weird Tales Magazine. 

LISTINGS EDITORS:

WHO: NYC Haunt Holdings presents

WHAT: Nightmare: KILLERS2

WHEN: September 27 – November 2, 2013

WHERE: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center

(107 Suffolk St., between Rivington and Delancey Sts.)

$30 - $60 tickets at www.hauntedhousenyc.com

PHOTO CREDIT:  Anathema Photography Caption: Ed Gein, one of the killers profiled at Nightmare: KILLERS2.

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