ACROSS THE UPSTATE SPEND THEIR WEEKENDS CHASING SCARES AT HAUNTED HOUSES. BUT WORKING AS A SCARE ACTOR TAKES A LOT OF WORK, OFTEN MONTHS IN ADVANCE, TO PREPARE FOR FALL CROWDS. COME WITH ME AS I TAKE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Halloween right around the corner, the season has arrived to channel one’s spooky energy. There are several ways to get into ...

“I ran around the asylum with my clothes ripped off and scaring people,” the ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ actor tells PEOPLE Matthew Lillard revealed that one of his first jobs was working as a scare ...

Matthew Lillard began his acting career as a haunt actor. Aged 19, the Scream star ran around scaring people with his "clothes ripped off" during a Halloween event at Knott's Berry Farm, an amusement ...

PONTIAC, Mich. — Grotesque makeup, menacing props and intimidating costumes are just one part of a Michigan haunted house’s 25-year-old formula to terrify guests. It starts by educating the actors ...

Around this time each year, as the sun begins to creep below the horizon, dozens of regular people take form into evil ringmasters and unearthed zombies — all with the help of a little makeup magic.

PONTIAC, Mich. — Grotesque makeup, menacing props and intimidating costumes are just one part of a Michigan haunted house’s 25-year-old formula to terrify guests. It starts by educating the actors ...

USA TODAY's Eve Chen went behind the scenes at Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights to become a scareactor. The transformation into a vampire involved an elaborate costume, a prosthetic brow, ...

Thrill seekers and fall fans across the Upstate spend their weekends chasing scares at haunted houses. But working as a scare actor takes a lot of work, often months in advance to prepare for autumn ...