The heart of Surfers Paradise will be beating (literally) to the sound of guests being slowly digested, as they creep through the twisting passages on their journey through the inside of the human body!
On October 31, the Haunted House attraction in Surfers Paradise will celebrate two years in the scream scene with the launch of a new crawl through experience, simply called Digestion. The new installation has been created on the fourth floor of the five level walk through horror maze and features 30m of themed passages that give its victims a taste of what it’s like to be swallowed whole and then slowly digested.
Unsuspecting visitors will find themselves standing in front of a 3m sculpture of, wait for it… Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s face. The only way forward is to crawl into the gaping mouth, slide over the giant spongy tongue and then continue on a bizarre journey that takes you past heaving lungs, a giant beating heart, through a squirming stomach and then into a twisting maze of intestines.
Not for the squeamish, the claustrophobic or the politically sensitive, but guaranteed to have you rolling in laughter. Hi-tech animation and audio visual FX create a sensory experience that’s designed to churn the stomach and set your mind in a whirl.
Since opening its doors in 2007, the Haunted House has been churning through hundreds of horror buffs a day. People of all ages, thirsty for a thrill and a screaming good time have dared to walk the myriad of passages, featuring optical illusions and lunging creatures. This latest experience is a response from past observations of patrons. Dracula’s CEO Alfie Schmid explains.
“People just love the tactile displays, things they can reach out and feel. The latex bodies, the wisps of cobweb, basically anything that sets off their sense of touch, especially when it’s pitch dark.”
The Haunted Housekeepers and artists have been working on the new installation for over six months and have just finished the large intestine in time for the launch. In one end and out the other, this weird and unsettling experience culminates in patrons having to squeeze out through the… well, let’s not give all the secrets away.
One thing’s for sure, the now familiar queue of victims entering the spooky attraction is guaranteed to give Kevin a bad case of indigestion. It’s an, “I don’t remember eating that”, kind of feeling. |
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