My role was to animate the Box. The Box is this ratty old wooden crate with
no bottom and chains strung around on the outside, large enough for a kid
or small adult to fit inside and push around. I don't have any pictures
of it. The idea was originally a packing crate shipped from some mysterious
location with a monster inside which was about to escape. In this case I
set myself up behind the Box, squatting in the little alcove of fence where
the gate to the dock is,
and the whole setup was alongside the walkway but not blocking it.
A drape of cloth on one side of the enclosure blocked the guests' view
of me and the Box until they came up right next to it, whereupon it
would suddenly jerk and rattle seemingly by itself.
This was before they even got into the graveyard area itself, a good
location where they weren't expecting odd things to happen yet.
I got some great startle
reactions out of people, because basically anything that does a sudden
movement and noise is the standard scare device in haunted houses. In
fact I had gotten into the idea of participating in runtime like this
because I'd been poking around some of the numerous haunted-house videos
up on youtube and by seeing how actors run those, got sort of inspired.
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