What goes into crafting the perfect scream? A KUT producer signed up to be an actor at a haunt in Buda to find out.
Alexander Gelderman, an actor at Bat City Scaregrounds, gets paint sprayed onto his teeth before the haunt opens. Around 70 actors work at Bat City throughout the Halloween season.
Trahan eventually returned to his hometown of Austin and wanted to bring his business closer to the city. He bought a swath of farmland in Buda, built Bat City and officially opened in 2021.On the ride from Austin to Bat City, I watch as skyscrapers morph into empty fields. I arrive a couple hours before opening. The sun is still high in the sky.
As we walk past a fence stapled with dismembered baby dolls, Scarah tells me everybody at Bat City has their own reason for loving Halloween. I ask for hers. “You get to do whatever you want. Your frustrations with your daily job, your frustrations with life, you're allowed to take it out on ,” actor manager Josh Wilson tells me.“It offers people a release to let out stress almost involuntarily,” Scarah says. “We're all bound up. There's real scary stuff in the world everywhere you look. So when we create an environment of fear that's safe, it's kind of nice.
“Weird improv is the name of the game,” he says. “Find a fetish. Find something you really like – like you can have a foot fetish.”
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