Bad boys and girls faced a night in the slammer with Lord Satan himself after Halloween took a gruesome turn for the worst with Area 51 freaks and fiends mustering for a macabre get-together.
The company staged an extreme horror ‘scare maze’ called “Satan’s Slammer” in the Midlands and its two-year run proved hugely successful.
Originally created as an emergency last-minute replacement for another Halloween-themed experience that had been cancelled, the Slammer brought together high-end props and scenery with spine-chilling performers and devilish ingenuity.
Area 51 bosses had to bang a few skulls together to deliver the all-new Halloween attraction in dead quick time but the frenetic effort was well worthwhile as the event proved so successful it was nominated for several awards and eventually scooped the “Best Set Piece” accolade at The Scare Awards.
“Satan’s Slammer” appeared at the Weston Lawns Equestrian facility in Bulkington on the outskirts of Coventry but all the hard work paid off.
Designed as an in-your-face and powerful Halloween horror jolt to the system, “Satan’s Slammer” saw Area 51’s design team transform a large stable block into an intricate “scare-maze” based on an evil jail, brutally maintained by an imaginary relative of Aleister Crowley, aka “The Beast” for his dark master, the Devil.
Punters visiting the walk-through event had the living daylights scared out of them by a 30-strong team of actors and performers who enacted various ritualistic and spine-chilling series of “happenings.”
Not for the faint hearted, the 25-minute-long Slammer experience included gruesome mock disembowelment scenes, sacrifices to Satan and other suchlike spectacles which led to huge praise from those who attended.
A year after the initial show, Slammer returned in a new guise with a “de-evolution” theme as Satan assembled a group of humans to be experimented on so they biologically “regressed” to terrifying ape-like hominids and then be let loose to spread chaos among those who attended.
The award-winning “moving room” in the scare-maze grabbed attention with its ability to extremely disorientate and confuse the already-spooked guests. With the walls mounted on wheels, the mobile room was uniquely able to move location so guests exited at a different point from when they entered to add to the discombobulation and eeriness of the experience.
