Chamber of Chills kicks off the 2006 Halloween season with “three new tales of terror,” according to chamberofchills.com, “with a few old faces you have come to expect to see.”
According to David Enloe, owner of Corpse Clan Productions and Chamber of Chills, the first tale, Pain Forest, is about tribesmen who find an intruder stealing treasure from a pyramid.
“[The tribesmen] didn’t care for that too much, so they take care of him,” said Enloe.
The second tale, Dollhouse Dreams/Nightmares, is about a doll that turns humans into puppets.
The third tale, Fortress of Fiends, “is basically [a] post-apocalyptic scenario with half- human, half-animal fiends,” said Enloe.
According to Enloe, the name Chamber of Chills was around during the 1970s. “We thought it was nostalgic for the older people and new for the younger people,” explained Enloe.
Not only does Enloe own Chamber of Chills, his business (C.C. Productions) includes designing and consultations with owners of other events.
According to Enloe, he is the creative designer behind Magical Forest, a Christmas event scheduled to be open in December.
“I travel all through the U.S. every year,” said Enloe. “I will be at Trans World.”
Trans World is a convention, according to Enloe, with over 1,000 vendors and attended by approximately 100,000 people.
Enloe first began his creative career through haunted houses. “I’ve home haunted for 15 some odd years and that just grew and grew,” said Enloe.
According to Enloe, he had a 5,000 square-foot haunted house with 15 actors in his own front yard a couple of years ago.
“The year after that we went pro,” said Enloe. “We just made our design and went from there.”
The process of building a haunted house is not that simple. “There’s a lot of gray area in construction that you need to know,” explained Enloe.
Not only is Enloe involved in the creative processes, he said he has to consider fire codes as well. “We basically lay it out like an amusement park,” explained Enloe, “we have to be able to flow the people.”
However, Enloe’s hard work paid off.
Not only does he succeed in scaring teens and adults who came sprinting out of the exit, Chamber of Chills was voted Best Pro Haunt 2005 by Haunted Media magazine.
Chamber of Chills is located in the parking lot of Golden State Mall, and it is open through October.