Method and System for Haunted Entertainment Attraction Using Movie Artifacts

• US 20100075767A1
• Filed: 05/26/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Richard Correll
• Original Assignee: Richard Correll
• Inventors: Correll, Richard
• Application Number:
  US12/471,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20100075767A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 472/136
• CPC Class Codes: A63G 31/00 Amusement arrangements hoop exercising apparatus driven by the user A63B19/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63G 31/16 creating illusions of travel

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing an educational and entertainment attraction that also provides a museum for horror, science fiction and fantasy movie artifacts. The attraction being centered on museum education of movie history in addition to also using visual and/or audio materials designed to frighten audiences. The attraction including at least one interior exhibit hall and at least one movie artifact positioned within the interior exhibit hall in conjunction with its source movie to frighten a person passing through the interior exhibit hall on a pathway.

Claims

1. An educational and entertainment attraction that also provides a museum for horror, science fiction and fantasy movie artifacts, comprising:

an exterior hall with an entrance for a person to enter into the exterior hall;

at least one interior exhibit hall in the exterior hall;

at least one movie artifact positioned in the interior exhibit hall to show how the artifact was used in a movie to frighten and entertain an audience; and

a pathway leading from the entrance to the interior hall for the person to follow into and through the interior exhibit hall.

2. The education and entertainment attraction according to claim 1 wherein there are more than one of said interior exhibit halls, said interior exhibit halls include movie artifacts for a Lou Chaney Hall, a Graveyard Hall, a Mausoleum Hall, a Body Bags Hall, a Frankenstein Laboratory Hall, an Egyptian Set Hall, an Werewolf Set Hall, a Black Lagoon Hall, a Cavalcade of Sci-Fi Hits Hall, a Possessed Hall, a Poster Hallway, an Alien Set Hall, a Hall of Heads, a Lobby Cards Hall, a Rogues Gallery, a Madmen Set Hall, a Hannibal'"'"'s Mind of Madness Entrance to a Clown Room, Skeleton Room, Spider Web Room, Bloody Kitchen, Brick Wall Corridor, Family Plot and Gothic Chamber, and a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Maze.

3. The educational and entertainment attraction according to claim 1 wherein the artifact is set out in a display featuring a three-dimensional visual presentation for a viewer of the display.

4. The educational and entertainment attraction according to claim 1 wherein the movie artifact is mounted to be moved from a stored position to a position nearer a viewer of the artifact.

5. The education and entertainment attraction according to claim 1, comprising:

a speaker and sound system, with the speaker mounted in the interior exhibit hall to project sound into the interior exhibit hall.

6. The education and entertainment attraction according to claim 1, comprising:

a carriage mounted on the pathway to transport the person from the entrance to the exterior hall and through the interior exhibit hall.

7. The education and entertainment attraction according to claim 1, comprising:

at least one wall barrier positioned at an end of the interior exhibit hall, and the wall barrier including an archway through which the person can enter or exit the interior exhibit hall.

8. A method for providing an education and entertainment attraction that also provides a museum for horror, science fiction and fantasy movie artifacts, the method comprising:

providing an exterior hall having an entrance for a person to enter into the exterior hall;

selecting and positioning at least one movie artifact in the interior exhibit hall to show how the artifact was used in a movie to frighten and entertain an audience; and

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providing a pathway from the entrance to the exterior hall for the person to follow into and through the interior exhibit hall.

9. The method according to claim 8 wherein there are more than one of said interior exhibit halls, said interior exhibit halls includes movie artifacts for a Lou Chaney Hall, a Graveyard Hall, a Mausoleum Hall, a Body Bags Hall, a Frankenstein Laboratory Hall, an Egyptian Set Hall, a Werewolf Set Hall, a Black Lagoon Hall, a Cavalcade of Sci-Fi Hits Hall, a Possessed Hall, a Poster Hallway, an Alien Set Hall, a Hall of Heads, a Lobby Cards Hall, a Rogues Gallery, a Madman Set Hall, a Hannibal'"'"'s Mind of Madness Entrance to a Clown Room, Skeleton Room, Spider Web Room, Bloody Kitchen, Brick Wall Corridor, Family Plot and Gothic Chamber, and a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Maze.

10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising providing a three-dimensional visual presentation for a viewer of the artifact set out in a display.

11. The method according to claim 8 further comprising providing a movable mount for the artifact to move the artifact from a stored position to a position nearer a viewer of the artifact.

12. The method as in claim 8, further comprising:

providing a light source mounted in the interior exhibit hall to illuminate the horror movie artifact.

13. The method as in claim 8, further comprising:

providing a speaker and sound system, with the speaker mounted in the interior exhibit hall to project sound into the interior exhibit hall.

14. The method as in claim 8, further comprising:

providing a carriage mounted on the pathway to transport the person from the entrance to the exterior hall and through the interior exhibit hall.

15. The method as in claim 8, further comprising:

providing at least one wall barrier positioned at an end of the interior exhibit hall, and the wall barrier including an archway through which the person can enter or exit the interior exhibit hall.