Welcome to Scare School: As Silverwood becomes Scarywood, actors hone their spooky skills
Haunt supervisor Ashton Polly, left, and 3D haunt manager Dani Linehan put on clown costumes Sept. 13 during a Scarywood training night. Scarywood opens for its 15th season Friday.
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Karen Pixler gets clown makeup done under a black light Sept. 13 during a Scarywood training night. The Halloween haunt opens for the season Friday at Silverwood Theme Park.
Jess Frazier admires her 3Dementia clown jumpsuit in the Scarywood costume warehouse.
Actors have signed their names and character insignias on the dressing rooms at Scarywood for years.
Silverwood Marketing and Entertainment Director Jordan Carter instructs this year's Scarywood actors on how to optimize their scares. Carter is also known to don a ghillie costume and pop out of dark corners to frighten Scarywood's thrill-seekers.
Saige Tolliver gets a scare in Scarywood's Planet Zombie in 2017. This year marks Scarywood's 15th season.
Scarywood's 2024 Scare School graduating class.
ATHOL — Over 300 actors converged on Silverwood Theme Park this week to attend Scare School, a boot-camp-style training where they learn the ins and outs of scaring people silly.
This week, Silverwood transforms into Scarywood Haunted Nights, a spooky season experience for thrill-seekers that opened its gates 15 years ago.
But the transformation doesn't happen in just one dark and stormy night. Today is the last day of Silverwood's regular season. Now crews will swoop in to build attraction sets.
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