Zombie Attack

The coronavirus pandemic has devastated businesses, with the hospitality industry, live entertainment venues and airlines hit particularly hard. 

After being inspired by the resurgence of drive-in theaters, one entertainment company in Japan, has come up with a creative option that really takes into account, social distancing. 

Kowagarasetai, a Japanese haunted house and horror event production company, claims the concept – a drive-in haunted house – is the first of its kind. Actually, it is a hybrid, somewhere between a drive-in and a drive-thru. 

Located in a covered parking garage in a non-descript building in downtown Tokyo, gives visitors a 360-degree, front-row experience that simulates being stuck in a car during a zombie onslaught. 

Use your own car for ¥8,000 ($75), or if you're like many Tokyoites and don't own one, they will provide a vehicle for ¥9,000 ($85). For an extra ¥1,000 ($10), visitors can have their car covered in fake blood. 

Given that you're just sitting in the garage, no driver's license is needed. Meaning, cars remain stationary throughout the "show".

 

Visitors turn off the engine and the garage shutter comes down, plunging the vehicle into total darkness. And drivers receive a set of Bluetooth speakers and the spooky tale begins. 

"Around these parts, there's a legend that the ghosts attack humans. Honk your horn three times if you want to hear more", intones a voice from the speaker. In Japanese, of course. 

For the next 17 minutes, blood-soaked ghouls and zombies press up against the windows, rock the car or climb the bonnet. 

"At the drive-in haunted house, guests are confined in a car so they can't escape the horror until the end", Kowagarasetai producer, twenty-five-year-old Kenta Iwana (right) told AFP. "It makes it even scarier for them". 

Fear not, even if the horrors are up-close, you will live through it!