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To my amazement, the Exorcist maze exceeded my expectations. It was an unseasonably cool and breezy fall- like day when I met Horror Night creative director John Murdy on the Universal Studio backlot on Tuesday afternoon for a walk- through tour of the Exorcist maze.“It’s been a long quest,” Murdy said. Predator and An American Werewolf in London. But never The Exorcist. Until now.“I’m afraid to watch the movie,” Murdy said. The film violates two of his three criteria for a good Horror Nights maze. While “The Exorcist” has high audience awareness, the film doesn’t have many interesting environments you would want to see or readily identifiable characters that can be easily replicated with live actors.“When you boil it all down, . I want people to feel like they’re getting possessed.”Spoiler alert: What follows is a detailed scene- by- scene preview of The Exorcist haunted maze and the technical aspects that helped bring the Horror Nights attraction to life. It wasn’t just Plant reverse-singing Satan’s praises, either. According to Yarroll, bands ranging from Styx to the Beatles also had secret backmasked messages. Telltale Games is returning to Gotham, and sooner than you think—alongside new games based on their ongoing The Walking Dead series and their Fables adaptation, The. An artist rendition of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft passing Jupiter (Photo: John G. Mabanglo/Getty Images). But it wasn't all bad. Comics, faced with the cancellation of all its horror and true crime comics, threw all of its effort into perhaps the single greatest. Throughout the maze, visitors continually meet the three main characters: Regan Mac. Neil, the demonically possessed 1. Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest and psychologist; and Father Lankester Merrin, an elderly priest who performs the exorcism. Pazuzu, the demon possessing Regan, tracks us throughout the maze. Sandwiched in the middle of the maze are several identical bedroom scenes where Regan’s possession and exorcism take place. To pump up the scare factor, the theatrical scenes are broken up with blackout hallways where visitors encounter subliminal visions of Regan, Pazuzu and even the priests. The entrance to The Exorcist maze, located behind the Revenge of the Mummy indoor roller coaster on the theme park’s lower lot, recreates the iconic movie poster with Father Merrin standing with a briefcase before a Washington, D. C.- area brick townhouse. The film’s “Tubular Bells” theme song plays amid the fog as a bright light shines from Regan’s upstairs bedroom window. Just inside the foyer, visions of the demon Pazuzu flash on the walls in a subliminal effect that will repeat throughout the maze. On an antique secretary desk, a planchette seemingly moves by itself on a Ouija board. A behind- the- scenes performer controls the Ouija board with magnets, Murdy said. And then bam. There it is. The film’s most memorable scene. The terrifying spider walk. Regan walks down the staircase upside down on her hands and feet. Via an audio track, visitors hear Regan’s mother say: “I’m telling you, that thing upstairs isn’t my daughter.”The spider walk scene, which never appeared in the original movie, was restored for the remastered version of the film, released in 2. In the movie, it was wire work with a stunt performer going down the stairs,” Murdy said. So that’s why they didn’t use it in the movie.”Murdy said some Horror Nights performers can do the spider walk, but not up and down a staircase over and over again for an entire night.“There’s no way you could do this with a performer,” Murdy said. During Horror Nights, a hidden performer controls the mechanical spider walk effect from behind the staircase, Murdy said. Between scenes, visitors travel along blacked- out hallways populated by demonic visions, puppeted figures and live “scareactors” with the ability to trigger audio and lighting effects.“We loaded up these dark transitions,” Murdy said. Otherwise it would be just like watching a theatrical version of . Doors fly open, windows slam closed, chairs move, pictures spin and cabinets shake. A demonic Regan lies on the bed as the mattress tilts wildy.“There’s a team you’ll never see on set behind the scenes doing all this stuff,” Murdy said. Which is what we do. We just do them live.”The live actors in the maze will wear silicone masks so the familiar characters look alike from scene to scene, Murdy said. The masks, developed for The Walking Dead year- round maze, allow scareactors with dialogue to realistically move their mouths. The bedroom scenes repeat — each time with Regan becoming more demonic than before. Her head spins and she spews green vomit. She levitates above the bed as the walls crack. The possessed girl flicks her serpent tongue and Pazuzu magically appears in the room. All interspersed with blackout hallways filled with in- your- face scares. Reprising “Tubular Bells,” the maze ends in classic Horror Nights fashion with a final scare, a final- final scare and a final- final- final scare. The Exorcist maze somehow managed to exceed my high expectations — even with the lights on and without any actors or audio effects. After a decadelong wait, Murdy and the Horror Nights crew delivered every scene I was hoping to see from “The Exorcist.” I can’t wait to come back when Horror Nights starts and see the finished production. Halloween Horror Nights 2. Friday and runs on select nights through Nov. Ticket prices range from $5. CAPTIONRevelers joined community members and indigenous leaders from around the world at the Symbiosis Gathering in Big Summit Prairie, Ore., to mark the Great American Eclipse. The Fight to Save America From Satan's Subliminal Rock Messages. On April 2. 7, 1. California Assembly’s Consumer Protection and Toxics Committee gathered in Sacramento to hear Robert Plant endorse Satan. This was not a straightforward testimonial. For one thing, the Led Zeppelin frontman wasn’t actually in attendance. Also, his pro- devil paeans could only be heard when you played “Stairway to Heaven” backwards. After circulating pamphlets with the “backward masked” declarations spelled out, that’s precisely what Assemblyman Phillip Wyman and panel witness William H. Yarroll II did. The relevant portion of the eight- minute classic was first played forward for committee members and then reversed. Here’s what Wyman claimed could be heard: “I sing because I live with Satan. The Lord turns me off. There’s no escaping it. Here’s to my sweet Satan.” Yarroll, who identified himself as a “neuroscientist,” noted that a teenager need only listen to “Stairway to Heaven” three times before these backward messages were “stored as truth.”It wasn’t just Plant reverse- singing Satan’s praises, either. According to Yarroll, bands ranging from Styx to the Beatles also had secret backmasked messages hidden in their music—messages that, in the words of legislative proposal A. B. 3. 74. 1, had the power to “manipulate our behavior without our knowledge or consent and turn us into disciples of the Antichrist.”As the bill’s sponsor, Wyman wanted mandatory warning labels on all rock albums containing these morally dubious backward messages. Indeed, this was the truly insidious part of backmasking. Even though you had to play records in reverse to decipher the occultic messages, they could still subliminally imprint themselves upon young teen minds when played in the standard direction. During the same news segment, Yarroll described how the brain unscrambles a backward masked message: “We have it stored in the unconscious as a truth image,” he said, “and as the creative unconscious side of the brain does, it goes through scanning the unconscious brain to go about and bring those truth images to the surface and make them reality for us.”After calling the issue “exciting and interesting,” committee chairman Sally Tanner (D- El Monte) delayed an official vote until the music industry and band members could weigh in on the matter. That day never came. But the national panic surrounding subliminal satanic messages in rock music was about to reach fever pitch. In the early ’7. 0s, backmasking—or the practice of recording vocals and instruments backwards and then reinserting them into the forward mix of a song—was something a music savvy (and possibly stoned) Beatles fan might bring up. A decade later, it had become a cause c. Whether it was the reversed voice of Freddie Mercury declaring “it’s fun to smoke marijuana” on “Another One Bites the Dust” or Styx imploring Satan to “move through our voices” on “Snowblind,” there seemed to be mounting evidence that rock music was literally becoming a mouthpiece for the devil. Believers held record- smashing parties, appeared on popular TV talk shows, wrote books, formed watchdog groups, and, perhaps most importantly, called their government representatives to warn them. By 1. 98. 2, state and federal legislation was being introduced at a steady clip to combat rock and roll’s hidden satanic agenda. Two weeks after the California Assembly hearing in Sacramento, California congressman Robert Dornan introduced H. R. 6. 36. 3 to the House. Also known as the “Phonograph Record Backward Masking Labeling Act,” the bill aimed to do the same thing as Wyman’s A. B. 3. 74. 1, only on a national level. Some of the books that would “expose the sinister nature of rock and roll music”. Courtesy Amazon. While it would ultimately be shuffled off to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism to die, other bills—including one in Arkansas a year later—were passed unanimously by both house and senate members (then- Governor Bill Clinton ultimately vetoed that one). For its own part, the music industry responded with a bemused skepticism. Styx’s James Young called the whole idea of satanic backmasking a hoax perpetrated by religious zealots, and refused to attend any meeting or hearing where the topic was discussed. Then there was Bob Garcia of A& M Records, who declared, “it must be the devil putting these messages on the records because no one here knows how to do it.” A spokesman for Led Zeppelin’s record label, Swan Song Records, issued just one statement in response to the “Stairway to Heaven” satanic allegations: “Our turntables only rotate in one direction.”Taken as a whole, these reactions only stoked the righteous (and possibly entrepreneurial) fires of religious leaders like pastor Gary Greenwald, who started holding backmasking seminars all over the country. Soon, books like Backward Masking Unmasked, Dancing With Demons, and The Devil’s Disciples: The Truth About Rock, were exposing “the sinister nature of rock and roll music,” while watchdog organizations like Parents Against Subliminal Seduction (P. A. S. S.) tried to block rock concerts at various venues. The problem, as you may have already guessed, was that the whole thing was a bunch of diabolical tihsllub. Let’s pause here to do something most satanic backmasking proponents never did during the controversy: distinguish between real engineered backmasking and the majority of messages people thought they were hearing during the ’7. The former is a technique that dates back to the advent of recorded music. The latter is the result of what psychologists call pareidolia (more on that in a bit), and is simply the brain’s attempt to make sense of the gibberish that results from phonetic reversals.“Recording things backwards really began when the field of sound recording began,” says Alex Case, president of the Audio Engineering Society. After Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1. Fittingly, the phrase “mad dog” (“goddamn” in reverse) seems to have been a crowd favorite. Real backmasking—intentional backwards music or speech in musical compositions—began to come into vogue during the 1. Pierre Schaeffer. Playing records (and later, tapes) backwards was, according to Case, a way for musicians and composers to fool around with timbre and produce new and distinct sounds. The band famously used backward instrumentation, including a backward guitar solo, on their 1. Revolver. Its coda is a backwards version of the song’s first line: “When the rain comes, they run and hide their heads.” Yet while the Beatles may have popularized the practice, the satanic backmasking scare of the 1. It also needed some good old fashioned pseudoscience. A drive- in movie theater in Fort Lee, New Jersey just happened to provide a perfect junk science laboratory. Over the course of six weeks in 1. Using a special high- speed projector, researcher and social psychologist James Vicary inserted the words “drink Coke” and “eat popcorn” into movies that summer. Invisible to the human eye, each message lasted for 1/3,0. By the end of the six weeks, Vicary claimed 4. He also claimed that popcorn and Coke sales went up 5. At a press conference held later that same year, Vicary described the results of this now infamous study to help boost interest in his new “Subliminal Projection Company,” an attempt to commercialize what he called a major breakthrough in subliminal advertising. The public and press went bonkers, and not in a good way. The first sentence of an influential op- ed responding to the press conference by journalist Norman Cousins read: “Welcome to 1. He, like many others, wondered what such a technology could mean not just for advertisers who wanted to sell us stuff, but also for governments seeking to steer public sentiment. For its own part, the FCC almost immediately threatened to suspend the broadcast license of any company that dared use Vicary’s machine. In the years following the experiment, the CIA started looking into the “operational potential of subliminal perception” (they found it “exceedingly limited”), and authors like Wilson Bryan Key began cranking out books such as Subliminal Seduction, which claimed that sexual images (and the actual word “sex”) were being hidden in hundreds of ads. The station later told viewers they had inserted a message and asked them to guess what it might have been. Almost half of the roughly 5. James Vicary sought to prove that “subliminal advertising” was effective, by flashing the words “drink Coke” during a film. Steve Snodgrass/CC BY 2. Vicary’s study was clearly on the public’s mind, which was problematic because it was completely made up. From the beginning, Vicary refused to release key details about his study. Not only was there never any independent evidence to support his claims about the effectiveness of subliminal advertising, years later, Vicary admitted he had done only enough research to file a patent for his machine, and actually had collected barely any data. Even worse, his machine didn’t seem to work half the time once people did try to test it. Of course, none of that mattered by the late ’7. Subliminal messaging was being used in self- help tapes, in department store Muzak to ward off shoplifters, and, if you believed Key, to sell the American public lots and lots of booze and cigarettes. Fast- forward 2. 5 years, when two psychologists from the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada decided to figure out why so many of their neighbors to the south were hearing devilish incantations in their rock music. After being contacted by a skeptical local radio DJ who had attended one of pastor Gary Greenwald’s backmasking talks, John Vokey and his colleague Don Read agreed to come up with a series of experiments that would directly address the idea of subliminal satanic messages. The psychologists decided to start their study by recording a few simple passages from Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky and the 2. Bib. Me: Free Bibliography & Citation Maker. Select style& search. Select style & search. Search for a book, article, website, film, or enter the information yourself.
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