I wish more horror games/haunt experiences would utilize natural disasters as an antagonist. So many people are scared of thunderstorms and tornadoes and like, there’s nothing quite like a good severe weather alert or a siren somewhere.
I remember doing the Twister attraction at universal right before it closed and I LOVED it. It scared the hell out of me but I’ll never forget how the queue line was an upturned house, and how they made their little tornado and the LOUD LOUD WIND. I’ve lived in tornado alley all my life. They still terrify me. If you drove up the mountain ten miles from my home, the woods and neighborhoods were streaked with destruction. My grandpa was in his garage across the street from me when a twister picked up the roof and threw it a quarter mile. It’s awful and real and it could happen to anyone.
I’m thinking specifically of haunt experiences. Get some big industrial fans, some flashing lights, rig up a mister system, crank that creaking and crumbling ambience (and thunder ofc) and go to town with the dilapidated sets. Maybe it’s a supernatural storm generated in a lab that rains some chemical on the town making everyone mutated and murderous, for good measure.
And maybe in the end, your party barely escapes, but with the knowledge that they’ve been exposed, and things can only get worse from here.
Anyway there’s SO MUCH POTENTIAL here. Bad storms are a universal experience, and I’m dying to see more people use it.
