Project Description
Halloween Horror Nights, Haunted House Productions
Europa-Park, 2012 – 2016
For five continuous years, Europa-Park has teamed up with Leisure Expert Group to design and produce haunted houses as central pieces for their Halloween Horror Nights. Based on Europa-Parks concepts, we design the houses into detail and create production guides with details about decor, technology and construction. These production guides make the building phase efficient and make sure the result looks as designed on forehand. To enhance the experience of the haunted houses, we design the perfect AV solutions and implement these into the houses with an overall show control which is easy to operate for operators.
Throughout the years, we designed a variety of new houses which all differed in theme and guest experience. While designing every new house, we kept in mind the age group it was targeting and the budget that was available for the production phase. Besides developing new houses, we also refurbished existing houses into more immersive experiences with the implementation of new techniques or the adaption to a new overall theme.
Services
Concept Design
Experience design
Artist impressions
Storyline
Schematic Design
Elevations
Dimensioning
Floorplan
Materialization & Color Coding
AV Design
Content Design
Soundtrack
Art Direction
Off-site art direction
The Take Away haunted house
One of the houses we developed over time was The Take Away in 2012. This house was themed with the preconceptions of everything happening at a Chinese restaurant, such as the butchers in the back and questionable waitresses. The Take Away haunted house was awarded as world’s best haunted house in 2012.
The Villa haunted house
The Villa was designed as multifunctional house in 2012. Throughout the day, this house was perfect for guests form 6 up to 12 years old with an experience that way mildly scary. And as soon as the darkness fell, the house changed into a gruesome horror experience for adults with literally only one press on the button of the AV operation system.
Nightmare haunted house
In 2014 we designed and produced 4 complete new haunted houses for the Halloween Horror Nights. One of these houses was Nightmare where guests walk through an ordinary house where all kinds of nightmares become a reality. By using this storyline, we were able to implement different themes within one house so it will scare all different fears.
The Mansion haunted house
To go beyond a basic haunted house walk thought, we developed The Mansion as VIP house in 2015. Throughout this experience, guests are invited into a billionaire’s home where they have to play phycological games in order to escape. The interactive elements are guided by video content or with the use of actors.
Code Name 10 haunted house
In 2016 Europa-Park celebrated their 10th anniversary of Halloween Horror Nights. As memorial, we designed and produced the haunted house Code Name 10, in which guests went through different portals that took them back to previous haunted houses. Previous houses that were for example added to the Code Name 10 haunted house were Big Shoe Casino and The Mansion