Durmersheim (dpa / lsw) - Undead victims of a megalomaniac doctor should teach Halloween fans in Durmersheim (Rastatt district) to fear. For the first time this year, Marcel Lang and his team will be playing on an 800 square meter area on a club site. Up to now he had only transformed his house and garden into a walk-in horror cabinet every year on the occasion of the horror festival.
Now, up to and including Monday - the actual Halloween day - Lang expects more than 1,000 visitors every evening, as he said at the start of the "Halloween Horror Nights 2022" on Saturday. In the past few days, advance sales have really started. "I'm assuming that we'll notice that again at the box office."
The focus is on "Asylum": a kind of sanatorium for the mentally ill with a 1970s look, complete with a discarded surgical chair. The audience will be guided room by room until they meet "the professor's failed attempts" in a "zombie arena", Lang revealed in advance. Disguised people are supposed to frighten the guests here. There is also a "scary cabinet" for children.
Mayor Klaus Eckert (SPD) described the privately organized event as a "nice figurehead for Durmersheim". It's great what Lang and his team have been doing for years.
The festival of Halloween goes back to Celtic-Irish traditions. It is celebrated on October 31st. The name derives from the English term "All Hallows' Eve". The Catholic feast of All Saints' Day is celebrated on November 1st. In recent years, the custom of decorating houses and front gardens has spread in Germany. Sometimes this happens to an exuberant degree with creepy things like ghosts, blood and spiders.
