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Audition Info for Winchester Mystery House’s Fright Nights

Friday, July 1st, 2011

One of the most anticipated haunts of 2011 is the Winchester Mystery House’s Fright Nights, and Scare Zone has the information on how YOU can be a part of this brand-new haunt!

Auditions will be held August 8 and 9 at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. In addition to scare performers, they will be casting for the high-profile roles of Sarah Winchester and the Caretaker Emcee.

 

AUDITIONS

Scare Performers

Chainsaw Wielders, Witches, Boogeymen, the Undead

and many more terrifying characters!

The world famous Winchester Mystery House is hiring a cast of performers to be a part of our ALL NEW 2011 Fright Nights Haunt. Do you have the scare skills to entertain our guests at one the World’s Most Haunted Places?

Monday AUGUST 8, 2011

Sarah Winchester 4:00 pm

Open Call 6:00 pm               

 

Tuesday AUGUST 9, 2011

Caretaker Emcee 4:00 pm

Open Call 6:00 pm

 

Location: Santa Clara University – Center of the Performing Arts: Recital Hall 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053

Scare Performers: Male & Female all sizes & talents to bring to life the scare element of our event!

Sarah Winchester: to portray famous rifle heiress, erratic and haunted by her past.

  • Mature Female (ages (25-60), Short Stature (4’11-5’3″).

Emcee Caretaker: to portray the gaunt caretaker of the grounds.

  • Improv Performer, Male (ages 25-60).

Requirements:

  • Must be at least 18 years of age
  • Please wear non-restrictive clothing
  • Please bring a photo of yourself to the audition
  • Must be available on selected weekends from September 29th – October 31st
  • Must be available for rehearsal performances on September 24th thru 28th

General Inquires: Email frightnightsjobs@winchestermysteryhouse.com

 

Click here for a printable flyer with all of the information.

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“Fright Nights” at the Winchester Mystery House

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

A few months ago, we reported that the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, was going to get its very first maze, brought to you by the folks at Sinister Pointe.

Now, details of just what this Halloween event will entail have been posted on the Mystery House’s Web site. And we’d like to be the first to say that it looks awesome!

They’re calling the event “Fright Nights,” and it will be open weekends and selected weeknights September 30 through October 31. The event will include one maze, the haunted flashlight tour of the mansion, roaming “scare performers,” and “nightmare-inducing tales.”

They’ve had the flashlight tour in the past, so the addition of the maze is the real news here. And they’re not messing around: Sarah Winchester herself is the star of the maze. They’re digging up her bizarre life story and turning it into a haunted attraction for our amusement. Everybody wins! Well, except for respect of the memory of the real Sarah Winchester, of course. Anyway, on to the description!

For a lifetime, Sarah Winchester built and built and rebuilt her house to avoid this treacherous curse and escape her husband’s legacy of damnation. But this Halloween, a portal, a gateway between Heaven and Hell, has been irretrievably opened. Those who perished long ago are seeking revenge, now ready to sacrifice souls before midnight strikes.

Guests find themselves trapped inside a mansion empowered by the undead, traveling through the Corn Fields of Winchester Mystery House, into the haunted ruins of the family Graveyard and ultimately, a showdown with Sarah herself in the middle of one of her infamous séances.

Survive it all, LIVE, only at Winchester Mystery House.

Maze Length: 15 Minutes

We can’t wait to see what a Sarah Winchester “scare performer” looks like! Maybe something like this?

Along the way, guests will also run into giant spiders, scary “pump house” workers, and a corridor of pumpkin heads (which looks particularly amazing).

Check out the web site to see more of the storyboards. The story and atmosphere of this haunt look first class, and we know that with Sinister Pointe at the helm, it will be as scary as hell.

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2011 Haunt Coming to the Winchester Mystery House

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

The twisted minds behind the excellent Sinister Pointe haunted attraction (formerly located in Brea, California) have been hard at work in 2011 designing haunts for other locations. They’ve been sharing details via Facebook about some of their projects, and we were excited to hear that they’ve been helping design a brand new maze for 2011 at the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California.

The Winchester Mystery House was built continuously between 1884 and 1922 by Sarah Winchester, heir to the Winchester gun fortune, who was convinced that she had to keep building the mansion in order to ward off spirits of those who were killed by her husband’s rifles. The house is 4 stories and 160 rooms, including stairs that lead to the ceiling, doors that open to a sheer drop, and a repeating motif of the number 13. The house holds tours year round and features a nighttime “flashlight tour” in October. Some claim the house is actually haunted, and they play up these stories to attract tourists.

Sinister Pointe did not give any details about the haunt or where exactly it would be located, but there’s no way the haunt will be in the actual Mystery House itself. The house is a mansion and includes things like gold chandeliers and impressive antiques. So don’t expect to be walking through those halls waiting for a monster to jump out at you.

Sinister Pointe also claims to be working with Horror Hall haunted house in Scranton, Pennsylvania. And of course, last year, they helped the Queen Mary completely revamp their Halloween offering into a great, scary event. Check out our 2010 review of Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor.

We just hope that with all this consulting, Sinister Pointe still has time to bring their own haunt back to Southern California this year.

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