Of course the first is not a real exit. Two of Hangman s House of Horrors classics are rooms designed to play on one s sense of claustrophobia. The Sheet Room is a maze of white sheets hung from the rafters at various angles. Frustration is key in heightening one s vulnerability, and victims have been lost in this room for up to an hour. The Disorientation Maze is built at varying tilts, with the walls, floors and ceiling painted in a black and white checkerboard pattern.
Strobes enhance the dizziness and chaos.
The house is built, operated and staffed entirely by volunteers. Design and construction are carried out each year by the privileged Core, a group of volunteers who have donated a minimum of 40 hours each to the previous year s production. It takes 100 actors each evening to make this house complete, and this does not include assignment coordinators, costume designers and makeup artists, which are all volunteers. The ratio of patron to volunteer staff averages 10 to 1. This volume of manpower makes Hangman's House of Horrors stand apart as an exceptional example of operational smoothness, safety and production quality.