00:00It became the thing that I looked forward to most every single year.
00:04It's hard to explain to somebody who didn't go there and see it.
00:08Do you remember Spooky World in Boston?
00:10No, in the middle of nowhere in a farm that was terrifying.
00:13The golden age of horror started in the United States in 1978 with the release of the original
00:20Halloween. And shortly thereafter, the first Friday the 13th, Freddy Krueger, Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
00:26Hellraiser. In this perfect moment of time, 1991, out of nowhere, in the middle of a Massachusetts
00:35cornfield, we have Spooky World.
00:39I'm standing next to the legendary Star of the Exorcist Academy Award nominee, Linda Blair.
00:47You could come out of the Freddy Krueger experience, and you can meet Robert Englund.
00:53Ready to be Freddy.
00:55Fred Krueger.
00:57It's become this runaway train, this national phenomenon.
01:09I'm at Spooky World, Jay.
01:11Oh, Spooky World.
01:12Spooky World is the Disney World for the Halloween crowd.
01:14America's horror theme park.
01:17It became part of the culture almost instantly.
01:20Let's go back to Spooky World.
01:21But with growth has come some controversy.
01:24Sends the wrong message to children.
01:26We intend to do something about this terrible scourge of violence.
01:29Now the attacking chainsaw Lewinsky.
01:31The body parts don't go flying until later evening hours.
01:34I got some Mary Jane shoes, white socks strapped down my breasts.
01:40It's just theater, it's all make-believe.
01:41My character is based on Sleazy P.
01:44Only a lot of this stuff was not make-believe.
01:46Four to five hundred employees on any given night.
01:48You do the math.
01:49My marriage had broken up because Spooky World, I went a little nuts.
01:52And I had a great time going nuts.
01:54I'm going to bring my whole family.
01:56It was a revolutionary idea back in the early 90s.
01:59I started an event called Spooky Hayrides.
02:01Making millions in one month.
02:03Berlin's an old farm town and they were not gonna have it.
02:07There's no way that those figures were not cursed.
02:09Spooky World paved the way for other trails and haunted houses across the world.
02:14The first haunted attraction.
02:16No matter who's doing what today,
02:17they weren't the pioneers.
02:20It was David Bertolino.
02:21Spooky World is legend.
02:31com where you are.
02:35It was David Bertolino.
02:36They're both Laura
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