For 34 nights this Halloween season, Ben Armstrong, co-creator of Netherworld haunted houses in Stone Mountain, will be the ringmaster, nightly directing roughly 100 actors in elaborate costumes, 18 makeup artists, a team of costumers, special effects experts, lighting technicians and even a coffin-ride operator to pull off what can only be properly described as a full-scale production. Netherworld, which is open nightly between now and Nov. 3, plus two nights on Nov. 8-9, is an “all out assault on the senses,” Armstrong said.
At Netherworld, which has consistently been awarded with spots on national top 10 lists including USA Today’s best haunted attractions , visitors will be dizzied by enormous animatronics, moving floors, optical illusions, props on zip lines, pneumatic air puffers, smell machines, a cacophony of sounds, fog, monsters, mythical beings and a disorienting maze of Hollywood-worthy sets. The usual jump scares, chain saws and terrifying creatures are present; but Armstrong’s nightmarish worlds are far beyond the typical horror house.
