In casual conversation I usually start off describing Blackout as being “a haunted house type situation that includes a lot of naked wieners,” but I understand how that doesn’t paint the picture very well. To flesh it out a bit: Blackout — located on the Lower East Side, just a few blocks from Nightmare: New York — is a violently sexual, immersive experience that is more like a date with a mid-range dominatrix than a walk through a haunted house. Doing away with any sort of monster gags, spooky ghosts, zombies, or whatever else standard haunted houses rely on, Blackout banks on knowing what people are afraid of MOST: darkness, and, well, wieners.
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I Survived ‘Nightmare: New York,’ the NYC-Themed Haunted House
I am terrified of haunted houses because they usually include the things that I find to be most terrifying: People leaping out from around corners, people screaming something in your ear, teamwork of some sort, and theater majors running at you from down a hallway. None the less, I still very much enjoy going to them because I get a great deal of pleasure out of being in uncomfortable situations. Being in a uncomfortable situation, for me, is the same as going to a day spa because it cancels everything out to zero. You’re there. Things are happening to you. And you don’t have to think about anything else.
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