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NIGHTMARE is # 1 . . . again!
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Halloween Haunts
by Juliet Chung
October 27, 2007
Theater director Timothy Haskell's haunted houses focus on psychological fears. Click here for the full article.
The New York Times
Ghouls and Goblins Are Resurrected as Marketers
by Stuart Elliott
October 29, 2007
BLOOD-DROPS on axes and whiskers on witches. Bright copper cauldrons and monsters with twitches. Brown paper packages stuffed with bat wings. These, with apologies to Oscar Hammerstein II, are a few of Madison Avenue’s favorite Halloween things. Click here for the full article.
Put some 'howl' in your Halloween
By Jennifer Milne | Special to amNewYork
October 22, 2007
Ready for a scare? It's that time of year again, when frightful fun is in. Here are some of our favorite spooky events for adults and kids that are sure to make your Halloween a hoot. Click here for the full article.
Halloween Scare Tactics
By: Kristen Mucci, This Old House online, October 2007
Ready to upgrade your home from a stop on the trick or treat trail to a Halloween destination? Forget the pumpkin in the window, and transform your house—or maybe just your basement—into a scary holiday attraction for the entire neighborhood to enjoy. Timothy Haskell, creator of New York City's most popular haunted house —dubbed by many as the scariest in town—offers up some tricks of the trade. Click here for the full article.
Theater of the Damned
Justin Lockwood
Anyone who's worked in theater can tell you that sometimes it's a real nightmare, but for Timothy Haskell, a veteran of quirky productions ranging from I Love Paris to Road House: The Stage Play, that's nothing compared to the fourth incarnation of his wildly popular haunted house, called Nightmare. Speaking on the set of his attraction, Haskell managed to carve out a few minutes to talk to Next Magazine while simultaneously coordinating his production crew and donating items for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' upcoming Halloween auction on eBay. Click here for the full article.
Lawrence Ferber
Time Out New York / Issue 629 : October 18, 2007 - October 24, 2007
For the fourth Halloween in a row, shockmeister Timothy Haskell and the macabre minions of Psycho Clan have invaded Suffolk Street with their Off-Off Broadway version of a traditional haunted house. In keeping with its Lower East Side location, “Nightmare: Ghost Stories” espouses a low-tech approach—no Saw IV tie-ins or Michael Myers doppelgängers here (you’ll have to visit “Blood Manor” for those), just homemade poltergeists and other perturbed presences culled from an online poll of New Yorkers’ experiences with the paranormal. (Full disclosure: TONY is a media partner.) While last year’s five-borough effort, “Nightmare: Face Your Fear,” was a bit of an overreach, Haskell & Co. have tightened their focus to great—and horrific—effect this time around. Click here for the full article.
Rating the thrills at New York's best haunted houses
BY PATRICK HUGUENIN
Thursday, October 11th 2007, 4:00 AM
'Tis the season to be gory, and this year Manhattan's two ever-expanding monster meccas are back with more blood-curdling thrills and chills. How do they stack up in terms of scream potential? Here's a sneak peek at the phantom faceoff between W. 27th St.'s Blood Manor and the lower East Side's Nightmare: Ghost Stories. Click here for the full article.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Working Around the Clock to Keep a House Haunted
by Steven McElroy
September 28, 2007
As Timothy Haskell strolled through the labyrinthine byways of a partly constructed haunted house on the Lower East Side, explaining in graphic detail how each room will be designed, a devilish grin kept popping up on his face. He loves to scare people. Click here for the full article
WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS
New York University's Student Newspaper
The Spookiest Theater NY Has to Offer
Willl Pulos 10/19/07
Why shouldn't haunted houses count as theater? Ghosts and zombies are actors too, you know.
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Do you want to get really scared this Halloween?
This year Ins&Outs Magazine recommends some great places to raise your adrenaline, including New York’s Most Horrifying Haunted House Nightmare: Ghost Stories, created by Timothy Haskell. For its fourth year, the Haunted House opens its doors to the true fans of horror, offering patrons an opportunity to get up close and personal with the creepiest creatures of the paranormal world. Click here for the full article.
The AWE Halloween guide
by Jodi Lee Reifer
Thursday October 25, 2007
Gore guru Timothy Haskell and his Psycho Clan are once again ready to psych out the boldest souls. Click here for the full article.
Voice Choice, Halloween
With random steam-pipe explosions, rats on the rampage, blackouts, and other big-city
dangers, it’s got to be tough to make a haunted house scary enough for New Yorkers.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Be Very Afraid
“Nightmare: Ghost Stories,” a haunted house inspired by actual paranormal experiences, will take over the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center on the Lower East Side from Sept. 28 through Nov. 3. Click here for the full article
“Very cool!"
MTV's TRL
“Timothy Haskell is the ‘King of Horror’”
ABC World News Tonight
"America's #1 Haunted House"
AOL cityguide
"Creepy! Evocative!"
THE NEW YORKER
WORST NIGHTMARES
by Michael Schulman
October 30, 2006
“No one’s really afraid of Frankenstein,” Timothy Haskell said the other day. Last Halloween, Haskell, a theatre director, staged a public haunted house on the Lower East Side, and so many people showed up that hundreds never made it inside. Click here for the full article
"Welcome to your living nightmare"
REUTERS
NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO LIFE IN NEW YORK HOUSES
October 17, 2006
If being buried alive, overrun by rats, or encountering a sinister clown is your worst fear – then welcome to your living nightmare. In the lead-up to Halloween, off-Broadway producer Tim Haskell has set up “Nightmare: Face Your Fear” – interactive haunted houses in each of New York City’s five boroughs – and is daring people to endure a psychologically terrifying experience. Click here for the full article
"You can't cut and run from New York's scariest haunted house!"
NEW YORK POST
FEAR FACTOR
by Michael Bulliet
October 28, 2006
HOMICIDAL clowns? OK. Power-tool dentistry? Uh-huh. Bad Chinese food? Now, that's scary. Gotham's grown-upsonly haunted house, "Nightmare: Face Your Fear," has returned. What began two years ago as a Manhattan-only fright fest has expanded to all five boroughs, with ghoulish goings-on tailored for each locale. After an exhaustive, "quasi-scientific" survey, producer Chip Meyrelles, creator Timothy Haskell and their Psycho Clan team found that Manhattanites are pyrophobic - terrified of fire - and Brooklyn nightmares are made of bad food. Click here for the full article
“A brilliantly conceived spook house forcing you to act out all your worst case scenarios!"
THE VILLAGE VOICE
LA DOLCE MUSTO
By Michael Musto
October 4, 2006
An even bigger humiliation came at a sneak peak of "Nightmare: Face Your Fear," a TIMOTHY HASKELL–created haunted house at CSV Cultural Center, based on polled New Yorkers' admissions of their 13 deepest phobias. (The other four boroughs have a Nightmare: Face Your Fear too, but I'm afraid to leave Manhattan to see them.) The brilliantly conceived spook house led you from dank room to dank room, each one dotted with people in surgical masks and blood-soaked aprons, forcing you to act out all your worst-case scenarios. Click here for the full article
"Some people tremble uncontrollably. Some close their eyes. Some jump and scream. Others can't stop smiling and giggling. Some even cry and beg to get out right now. All of these happened at Nightmare"
THE ONION
DIALECTICAL FRIGHT
By Amelie Gillette
October 26, 2006
It’s October, and with that sharp chill in the air and the crunch of leaves underfoot come October-related questions: What’s the best temperature for roasting pumpkin seeds? Why do people still think that wearing a pink dress and going undercover as a “pink slip” is clever? Did kids always go trick-or-treating in the early afternoon? And, of course which is scarier: a secular haunted house, or a spiritual one? Over a crisp fall weekend, we set out to answer that last question with visits to Hell House at St. Ann’s Warehouse and Nightmare: Face Your Fear at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Click here for the full article
"Unlike any haunted house I've experienced. Good scares are hard to come by and Nightmare has found quite a few of them!"
MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
NIGHTMARE IN NEW YORK CITY: 13 ROOMS OF THRILLS
By Troy Melhus
November 1, 2006
Be afraid. OK, not terribly afraid, not horribly afraid. But do be afraid—at least for a fun thrill or two. Only in New York could you find a troupe (literally) devoted to scaring the daylights out of you. That’s the idea behind “Nightmare: Face Your Fear,” a collection of five haunted houses running through Thursday in New York’s five boroughs. Click here for the full article
