TOKYO, July 3 — A Japanese performance group is starting a run of drive-in horror shows for people who are scared of catching the coronavirus but still want to get close-up frights from ghouls and zombies. Audience members will drive into a garage in Tokyo, one car at a time, and listen to a...
Actors dressed as zombies or ghouls stretch before their performance at a drive-in haunted house show at a garage in Tokyo, Japan July 3, 2020. — Reuters pic
Audience members will drive into a garage in Tokyo, one car at a time, and listen to a murder story and sound effects blared out of speakers, as actors dressed as monsters bang on the side of the vehicle and spray fake blood over the windows. Each group will pay up to ¥9,000 for the experience, he added. Shows last for about 15 minutes until the shutter goes up and another group comes in, and customers without a car can borrow one.
“The drive-in will let people experience our haunted house shows,” he told Reuters. “We might continue them even after the coronavirus has gone.”
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