Hell Houses

[Colossal Spoons]

...when he's calling for you

 

[chaseter]

My heart was torn away when Spoons just left me on Halo and signed off.

 

[Lantern Venom]

I am a christian and these people are not. It's total hypocrisy to create hellish images when we aren't even supposed to look on them .

Whoa, dude. This is the kind of attitude that starts schisms and holy wars. You are treading on dangerous spiritual territory when you make this kind of judgment. Only Christ has this authority. I'll admit that Christians do a lot of dumb things as faith expressions but that doesn't make their relationship with Christ null and void. God's love isn't that fragile.

 

[Heretic]

Im only disappointed that I didnt see my ex girlfriends burning in hell like I told them to. See, they never listen!

 

[Eric Brooks]

Im only disappointed that I didnt see my ex girlfriends burning in hell like I told them to. See, they never listen!

that they do not

 

[bullets]

God's love isn't that fragile.

I hope not because these people would be breaking his heart. I'm sure Christ will forgive them after whooping them upside the head.

 

[The Lizard]

There's also a documentary on the subject and the website has some clips from it up for viewing. I'm curious if anyone here has ever been to one of these disturbing attractions or knows someone who has.

I've seen the documentary. It's equal parts funny, sad, pathetic and infuriating. To the filmmaker's credit, he doesn't really take a position of pro or con in the documentary. He just lets the "hell house" creators speak for themselves, which is much more effective anyway in showing their mentality.

 

[bullets]

I thought hell was completely dark and your falling rapidly while your body burns and the voices of demons taunt you.

 

[The Squirrel]

I thought hell was completely dark and your falling rapidly while your body burns and the voices of demons taunt you.

I think it's far more painful than that.

 

[bullets]

I think it's far more painful than that.

ouch!

 

[caretaker14]

Ah, Hell Houses... one of my greatest hatreds.

I am an avid Haunted House fan, and I've done almost everything involved in them. I've acted in two and been through dozens. This October, my dream will finally come true as I fully design a house for my squadron's fundraiser.

(I'm leaning heavily towards and "Arkham Asylum" type experience of something I call "Kingdom of the Spiders: Revisited.")

'Hell Houses' pervert the simplistic beauty of 'Haunted Houses' by using the same elements to create a sickening environment in which people are scared into someone else's beliefs.

I am a Christian, and several years ago (when I first gained my love of Haunted Attractions) our church youth group told us (me and my friend) about a 'Haunted house-type deal' going down in the next town. Not suspecting anything, we headed over that night.

The name was "The Hell House," but this didn't clue me in (sounded pretty decent in point of fact. We paid for tickets and got inside.

Ten minutes later, I demanded to be let out.

I had been fooled into paying for and visiting a place where I was told that since my faith wasn't 'perfect,' I was doomed.

For this, and several other reasons, I left organized religion, but maintained my faith.

'Hell Houses' are a bane of humanity. At least, in my oh-so-humble opinion.

 

[E-Man]

Ah, Hell Houses... one of my greatest hatreds.

I am an avid Haunted House fan, and I've done almost everything involved in them. I've acted in two and been through dozens. This October, my dream will finally come true as I fully design a house for my squadron's fundraiser.

(I'm leaning heavily towards and "Arkham Asylum" type experience of something I call "Kingdom of the Spiders: Revisited.")

'Hell Houses' pervert the simplistic beauty of 'Haunted Houses' by using the same elements to create a sickening environment in which people are scared into someone else's beliefs.

I am a Christian, and several years ago (when I first gained my love of Haunted Attractions) our church youth group told us (me and my friend) about a 'Haunted house-type deal' going down in the next town. Not suspecting anything, we headed over that night.

The name was "The Hell House," but this didn't clue me in (sounded pretty decent in point of fact. We paid for tickets and got inside.

Ten minutes later, I demanded to be let out.

I had been fooled into paying for and visiting a place where I was told that since my faith wasn't 'perfect,' I was doomed.

For this, and several other reasons, I left organized religion, but maintained my faith.

'Hell Houses' are a bane of humanity. At least, in my oh-so-humble opinion.

I'm with you on this. I left organized religion too, and it was because I got so fed up with the way things are done. I decided to take an eclectic viewpoint with God, so I just take a little bit of everything from all viewpoints on God. It's really saddening to me that people actually think the way to God is to judge others for not being perfect, and to demonize things to control followers.

 

[Nivek]

I've supplied a couple of these places, and have even thrown a couple freebie design ideas. But they are as pathetic since they are organized by evangelical Christians who are never bothered with showing disturbing imagery.