Suddenly, a pair of headlights caught Zombos in their beams, and a car crashed just a foot or so away from him. He was too startled to scream this time. Like I said, the second person always gets it but good. From there it was a feverish, twitchy-tour, from freak-me-out room to you-go-first room, each filled with a mind-numbing tableau of terror. At one point we had to climb over a bed to get to a door on the other side. Mr. Chin took the initiative after I — and even Lawn — balked at ruffling the bedsheets for fear of what lay underneath.
Then there were strobe lights. Really disorienting strobe lights, flashing out time-slices in that bizarre, mixed-up, non-linear way of theirs. In the room of mummies, we found ourselves desperately trying to avoid their touch as they changed position to the beat of the strobing light, blocking our exit. Or did they even move? Perhaps the alternating darkness and brightness made it seem they were moving. The tableau reminded me of the blind nurses' devilish mannequin dance in Silent Hill. I wanted out from this temporal aliasing so bad I could taste it.
I finally managed to get past the blinking mummies... and into the twirling laser-light tunnel, spinning around and around and around, taking what little wits I had left and spinning them around, too. The coup de grâce was stepping ankle deep into something grainy and squishy, down a tenebrous hallway, just before we were set free.
"Lord love a duck, would you look at my shoes," I said. Whatever it was we walked through was still in my shoes.
"That was the most harrowing experience of horror I've had," said Zombos, clutching his heart.
"Tarnation! What a ride," said Lawn, dusting off his boots.
"Damn, let's do that again!" said Mr. Chin. We looked at him in horror.
Then we did it again.
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Article comments
1 - andrew
Thanks for the review - friends were skeptical so will check it out!
2 - Iloz Zoc
Andrew,
Definitely go and have fun. Even Mr. Chin, who wasn't too impressed last year, insisted on going again this time around.