00:00Scream and Shake is basically a cafe slash bar. We have a lot of kind of
00:05horror themed decor, we have props from movies, we have wax works of characters.
00:09So initially I was working as an actor at Passage del Terror, which was a dream
00:14job chasing people around with chainsaws and lots of good times. Then one day I
00:19noticed that the old little horror crypt attraction had closed down. We kind of
00:24did it up, refurbished it, put lots of wax works in that myself and my friends
00:29had built and that attraction did well for three years but people mostly used
00:33to come and travel to it and they would buy cups of tea and coffee from around
00:37the corner and come and stand and talk to me about horror movies for like three
00:41hours. So one day I had a bit of like the tiny bit of business part of my brain
00:45which is very tiny sparked off and was like if I was selling the cups of tea
00:48I'd be making more money than selling admission tickets. We took all the
00:53props, we took the kind of social element, the cafe. Yeah so we've got an
00:58allegedly a strand of Charles Manson's hair. We've got an actual life magazine
01:02that he's on the front cover of from 1969. We have a bit of Ed Gein's fence
01:07that was a birthday present one year from a friend. People know that I like weird
01:11stuff. People might say it's pretty morbid and it's pretty grim and like oh
01:15you should be ashamed of yourselves for making money off murder and stuff. Yeah
01:18but in general people do see that it's not they're glamorizing anything. These
01:22things are presented alongside like you know Frankenstein and Dracula so it's
01:26not like we're saying here's a bunch of great guys and fly from it you know
01:30he's a monsters you know he's a terrible people. We've got very irregular
01:35regulars. It's exactly what I wanted. I always wanted to be some like a safe
01:39haven for the weirdos. So at the same time we have regulars that are people in
01:42the 60s and 70s who just like to come down have a cup of tea and maybe they
01:47were fans of like old films back in the day and stuff or they just enjoy the
01:51atmosphere. So I think even though we look a bit scary we're all quite polite
01:54people I think. I've always been a big horror fan since as long as I can
01:59remember. Blackpool was somewhere that I came on holiday with to with my parents
02:04because I knew there was a lot of strange things here that would keep me
02:08entertained. The Two Sides exhibition used to be a Louis Two Sides and used to
02:13have the big chamber of horrors underneath kind of thing. So when years
02:17later I moved to Blackpool and like that place had gone I think like a lot of the
02:21ghost trains had closed down and stuff. I just wanted to kind of do something to
02:24kind of keep Blackpool weird.
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