![]() Melissa Suarez of Long Beach, 38, said the haunted car wash helped fill the void left by missing out on Halloween-themed celebrations at local theme parks. “I think this is going to be the next thing now. ![]() “They did a good job,” said Julie McCarty of Lakewood, who messed with her kids, Cade and Cassie, in the backseat Thursday night by rolling their windows down when a monster approached with a chainsaw. and will be in action every night through Halloween, except for Monday. "Tunnel of Terror” runs from 5 to 10 p.m. They’re encouraged to tune their radio to 100.7 FM for creepy background music to accompany the ride. Attendees first go through a single-file car line before entering the wash, and surprises ensue. Vo has a cast of about a dozen monsters creeping about at the car wash. Vo is part of a local promotions company, We Simply Rule, and he had plenty of Halloween props collecting dust at his home during the coronavirus pandemic. Russell said he talked with the car wash’s controller, Bri Nikoletich, who had seen a couple of car washes on the East Coast with a haunted theme in years past.Īt about the same time, promoter Long Vo reached out to the car wash to figure out a way to put together the assembly line of alarm. With our state, the state of California basically canceling Halloween, among other things, we were trying to figure out how we could bring some fun to this.” You can’t really plan for something like this. The amount of support and excitement over a haunted car was, I’d say, slightly unexpected. “We’ve had nothing but phenomenal feedback,” Russell said. The first weekend was so popular that the company switched to prepaid ticket sales only. ![]() They don’t get out of the car - but that doesn’t mean someone wearing a scary mask might not try to get in.Ībout 400 cars per night have been experiencing the “Tunnel of Terror,” co-owner Chase Russell said. Participants go through the car wash like normal, and their car gets washed like normal. ![]() Zombies and monsters are occupying Russell Fischer Xpress car wash in Huntington Beach as Halloween night creeps closer, after the Beach Boulevard business put together what it calls the “Tunnel of Terror.” They may appear playful, even if the chainsaws they sometimes carry suggest otherwise. ![]()
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