The Tingler
We know the Halloween superstores are already popping up, but the season doesn’t truly begin until you’ve put your derrière at risk in one of the Hypnodrome’s specially designed loveseats — the Pharaoh’s Tomb, Heaven and Hell, or the Asylum of Shock — where you might subject your delicate, um, sensibilities to the Thrillpeddlers’ many artistic devices. “
Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra,” this year’s Grand Guignol fete of “terror and titillation,” includes five new one-acts.
Cracking the Vein is a black comedy set during the Gold Rush of 1849, when two miners strike it rich and head to the cathouse to paint the town red. The musical
Down at the Donner Party Diner imagines cannibalism transformed into a tasty roadside attraction, while X-rated family tragedy
The Model House unfurls in the recesses of a mid-century suburb.
The Revenge Of The Son Of The Cobra Woman is an homage to Maria Montez set in the South Seas with music, song, and tiki curses galore, and the series climaxes with a spookshow that plunges the crowd into blackness, where anything can and will happen.
— Silke Tudor
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