The Haunted House of Hataeda / 幡枝の幽霊屋敷 2015

Dare you visit...Dr. Zucco's Secret Laboratory!/ズッコ博士の秘密の実験室へ! 無料!

Friday, October 30, 2015 – Sunday, November 1, 2015
The Haunted House of Hataeda / 幡枝の幽霊屋敷, Kyoto, Japan

The Haunted House of Hataeda / 幡枝の幽霊屋敷 2015

Dare you visit...Dr. Zucco's Secret Laboratory!/ズッコ博士の秘密の実験室へ! 無料!

Friday, October 30, 2015 – Sunday, November 1, 2015
The Haunted House of Hataeda / 幡枝の幽霊屋敷, Kyoto, Japan

What you need to know

幡枝のお化け屋敷が京都に戻ってきた。

 

5周年記念ハロウィーンパフォーマンス

「ズッコ博士の秘密の実験室へ!」!

 

 

京都市左京区:スチュワート・ガルブレイス IVは京都在住の映画史の研究者(黒澤明と三船敏郎の生涯—2015年9月出版)ですが、京都市左京区岩倉の幡枝町で「幡枝町のお化け屋敷—ズッコ博士の秘密の実験室へ!」を開催することになりました。

 

この無料イベントは5年目を迎えるハロウィーンパフォーマンスですが、今年も魔女、狼男、ミイラ、巨大なゴキブリ、幽霊などたくさんのお化けを紹介する予定です。

 

主催者のガルブレイス(49)は妻と娘の理解と協力を得て、開催期間中お化け屋敷に活用すべく、9月頃から事前に準備をしてきました。機械仕掛けの人形、特殊なビデオ、小道具や、昔ながらのステージ魔術を用意いたしました。昨年は700人を超える方が怖さあまり、叫びながらは家に帰っていきました。

 

「昨年はメディアの方にご紹介いただいたおかげで大成功に終わりました。ありがたいことに長い列に90分も並んでみていただいた方もおられました。今回は5周年を迎えるので前回とは異なる趣向で、長い間待たずにお楽しみいただける催しになると思います。」

 今年ガルブレイスがご用意したのは「ズッコ博士の秘密の実験室へ!」

通り抜けのお化け屋敷ではありませんが、ハロウィーンで飾り付けた家の前でのパフォーマンスが20分ごとに行われます。

 「無料の予約チケットを準備してますし、1回のショーは30−40人の方が参加できるので長い列に並ぶ必要がなくなりました。」と話しております。

1994年初めて日本に訪れた時にはハロウィーンを誰も知りませんでした。しかし徐々に人気が出てきましたが、本場でのトリックorトリーティングやハロウィーンのお化け屋敷はまだまだ馴染みが薄いようです。約5パーセントは日本在住の外国人ですが、ほとんどが日本人の5歳から15歳の子供とその両親です。最初は非常に怖がる人が多いのですが、三分の二は非常に楽しんで、再び、お化け屋敷の列に戻ります。喜んでくれる姿を見ると、準備が報われた気がします。

昨年面白かったのは空手教室帰りの子供たちが来て、『怖くなんかないさ』と強がってお化け屋敷に入って行って、中では大騒ぎで悲鳴をあげ、『ほら、全然大丈夫』と帰って行きました。」(ガルブレイス)

 

「幡枝のお化け屋敷」は三夜だけの催しです。

 開催期間1030日金曜日から111日日曜日の午後5時45分から9時30分半まで。

 妙満寺様にご協力を頂き、駐車場をご用意してます。

 入場無料

 京都市左京区岩倉幡枝町9310

*17時をもって当日分無料チケットの予約を締め切りますのでご注意ください。

**ショー開始後はショーに入場いただけませんので時間に余裕を持っていらしてください、お願いします。

 

 


Stuart Galbraith IV                                                        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The Haunted House of Hataeda

(090) 6600-3114 (英語)

(080) 3808-9663 (日本語)

stuart4th@yahoo.com

 

 

THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HATAEDA returns to Kyoto

5th Anniversary Special Halloween Show: Dr. Zucco’s Secret Laboratory!

 

Sakyo Ward, Kyoto: Stuart Galbraith IV, Kyoto resident and Japanese cinema history scholar (his book Kurosawa Akira to Mifune Toshiro was published in September) announces THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HATAEDA PRESENTS: DR. ZUCCO’S SECRET LABORATORY, an all-volunteer Halloween attraction, in the Hataeda neighborhood of Iwakura, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto.

The free event, celebrating its 5th Anniversary, features Halloween favorites, including a spell-casting witch, menacing mummies, a cackling giant spider, a colossal cockroach, and ghosts – lots of ghosts.

Galbraith, 49, has been converting his ordinary, two-story Japanese home into a phantasmagorical spook house for the neighborhood kids, leaving just enough untouched space so that his understanding wife, Yukiyo, and their daughter, Sadie, could sleep during the attraction’s annual three-night run. Last year’s HAUNTED HOUSE OF HATAEDA was a resounding success, with over 700 visitors screaming their way through its labyrinthine passageways.

“Last year was huge thanks to all the media coverage,” Galbraith says, “But we were also so inundated with guests that many braved long lines and waits up to 90 minutes or more to see it.

“Partly for this reason, and partly because I wanted to create something really special for our fifth anniversary, we’re doing it a bit differently this time, but I think our visitors will find it equally enjoyable.”

This year Galbraith has planned a special Halloween show, “Dr. Zucco’s Secret Laboratory.” The front of the house will still be decked-out with special Halloween props and surprises, but instead of a walk-through attraction the main event will be a theatrical presentation running every twenty minutes.

“We’re offering free advance tickets so that our guests won’t have to wait in long lines,” he says. “Further, we’ll be able to accommodate 30-40 guests at a time, which should cut way back on wait times.”

During each performance, Dr. Zucco, esteemed scientist from Vienna, welcomes visitors to his secret laboratory, a spooky hideaway complete with high-tech equipment: a Jacob’s ladder, a jar full of eyeballs, test tubes – while at the center of his laboratory table rests a bubbling tank containing a human brain, attached to various wires and rubber tubes.

Dr. Zucco then invites guests to witness his astounding scientific breakthrough: the transplantation of this human brain into the skull of RASPUTIN, a monstrous gorilla, recently shipped to Kyoto from Darkest Africa.

Note: Galbraith and Dr. Zucco have carefully trained Rasputin not to attack guests or climb Kyoto Tower.

“When I first visited Japan in 1994,” Galbraith says, “Halloween was virtually unknown here, but gradually it has become quite popular. Nevertheless, western world concepts like treat-or-treating and Halloween haunted houses are still fairly alien and unfamiliar.”

“Although maybe 5% of our guests are foreign residents, the vast majority are native Japanese from about 5 to 15 years old, and their parents. They love it, and their reactions make all the work that goes into it worthwhile.”

“My favorites from last year included a group of kids fresh from karate class trying to act tough. ‘This isn’t going to be scary at all!’ they insisted. Then I heard them scream all the way through like schoolgirls only to boast, ‘See that wasn’t scary at all!’ on their way out!”

Galbraith is available for interviews during the last week of October, and a Special Press Preview of the Haunted House will be held from 5:30 – 5:50 pm on Friday, October 30th, where members of the press are invited to view a performance of DR. ZUCCO’S SECRET LABORATORY and where, before the show and briefly after, they can interview cast members.

THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HATAEDA PRESENTS: DR. ZUCCO’S SECRET LABORATORY will be open to the public for three nights only: 

Friday October 30th

Saturday October 31st (Halloween)

& Sunday November 1st

Address: Iwakura Hataeda-cho 93-10, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0015

京都市左京区岩倉幡枝町9310

Hours of operation are from 5:30pm-9:00pm. Admission is free.

For more information and to reserve free advance tickets visit: https://www.facebook.com/hauntedhousehataedajapanese

https://www.facebook.com/hauntedhousehataeda

  

Stuart Galbraith IV has lived in Japan since 2003. He is the author of five books about Japanese cinema, including Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! (1998), The Emperor and the Wolf (2002; a Japanese-language edition will be published in September), and Japanese Cinema (2009). He writes DVD and Blu-ray reviews for several websites, including his own, World Cinema Paradise, and does home video audio commentaries and creates original documentaries on Japanese films such as Otoko wa tsuraiyo (1969), Tora! Tora! Tora!, Musashi Miyamoto, Rashomon, and Battles without Honor and Humanity.

 

 

 

Location

The Haunted House of Hataeda / 幡枝の幽霊屋敷
Iwakura Hataeda-cho 93-10 / 左京区岩倉幡枝町93−10 , Kyoto, Kyoto, 606-0015 Japan

When

  • Friday, October 30, 2015 5:30 PM
  • Ends Sunday, November 1, 2015 9:00 PM
  • Timezone: Unknown Region (UTC) Time
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