Rob Zombie And Kevin Lyman Announce Haunted House Plans

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Rock deity Rob Zombie has partnered with Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman to create one of the largest haunted houses in the country.

According a to a new interview with Lyman, from which you can read an excerpt below, Zombie and Lyman will soon launch a 3,700-square-foot “Great American Nightmare” haunted house at the Pomona, California Fairgrounds. The details are vague at this point, but given Zombie’s work in horror we expect nothing short of sheer terror. Here’s what Lyman had to say:

So what have you learned about the work involved with building a haunted house?

KEVIN LYMAN: What I learned about haunted houses was to make sure you find someone that can build a big haunted house. Because when it was brought to me, my [experience] was too narrow to digest the whole project. But by putting the rest of the team together, I think it has a great chance for fun success. Rob Zombie and [manager] Andy Gould contacted me a little over a year ago. They were looking to do a haunted house“something based on Rob Zombie’s things. He’s done some stuff with [Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk]. He’s done attractions before, but he’s never had his own kind of vision, his own project.
They asked me, Where would you do it in LA because they weren’t getting a lot of great ideas from some of the traditional promoters. They were giving them their traditional venues, and being a guy who has probably done shows in most areas, I was able to say, There’s the LA County Fair where we do the Warped Tour. I’m also on the fair board there; I’m always looking to bring some new business to it, and I think the location is perfect. It’s east of LA where a lot of these people live. The building had the structure, but it still didn’t have the element of the haunted house. I brought [Taste Of Chaos/Mayhem Festival co-founder John] Reese in, and this guy talked to Reese. Steve Kopelman, who is known for building some of the best haunted houses in the country, came in as a partner to design the haunted house. With that being said, we were going, How do we make this really special? These kids, all they do is spend the night in line for these other attractions, so what we did was we started using our ability to book shows. For every night of the week, there’s some special entertainment we’re hoping to provide [as a part of] an all-inclusive ticket. You can come to the haunted house, you can go to a concert, you can experience what’s been called Bloody Boulevard”which will be sword swallowers, fire breathers, all kinds of things like that, and make a whole evening of the event for a single price.