Interview with David Bertolino, Quinn Monahan & Anthony Landry of Spooktacular! (Re-release)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everybody. It's Mike from America's hometown horror Flying
Solo right now as I record a little introduction for
this latest episode that we're dropping here in your feed.
Hope everybody had a happy Halloween season. I know that
I did, Kat, Andrew and Matt all did as well.
And also we wanted to acknowledge the fact that we
did not release an episode in October, and a funny

(00:22):
story about that, Kat, Matt and I did actually record
an hour and a half long episode where we did
a draft and drafted the best Halloween episodes of non
horror TV shows, and the episode was uploaded to the
program that we usually use to edit and produce our episodes,

(00:42):
and it turns out there was some sort of error
on either our end or their end. It's actually not
quite clear. I haven't really been able to get a
straight answer, and unfortunately we lost the entire hour and
a half plus long recording. So that was a whole
hell of a lot of fun and of course a
great time for it to happen, being Halloween season. But

(01:03):
I'm actually shocked. It's the first time that it's happened
to us in almost six years of doing a podcast,
but hey, shit happens. Not dwelling on it too too much.
But the good news is that we will be back
at least once in November, hopefully twice. But this is
a little bit of a bonus thing for you here.
You may or may not have heard that in the
last couple of weeks that the long gestating Spooky World,

(01:25):
the movie documentary, which is now going by the title
of Spooctacular, A Look inside America's first horror theme Park,
is now available to watch at home. You can stream
it right now on Amazon Prime Video, and I would
highly recommend that you check it out, as I did recently.
It's a lot of fun and it's really cool to
look back at and see what Spooky World was like

(01:48):
in the nineties and how one of the titans of
the hunt industry started right here in Massachusetts. And definitely
stay tuned after the movie and watch the credits. You
may see a couple of names that you know. Oh,
this is an interview that we did, I believe, back
in twenty twenty one, originally with Quinn Monahan, the director
of Spooktacular, Anthony Landry, one of the producers of the film,

(02:10):
and David Bertolino, who was also one of the producers
and the original creator of the park. It was a
very fun conversation and it was kind of a wild
moment for me as a kid that grew up going
to Spooky World his entire life, and as I say
in the interview, I definitely would not be the horror
fan that I am today without Spooky World. So hopefully

(02:30):
you enjoy this re release of this interview and stay
tuned for some new episodes coming soon. I promise, and
there will be no technical difficulties on these upcoming episodes.
We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Oh, good evening, night, owl, good evening, good.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening. What
is going on every It's another episode of America's Hometown Horror.
And if you can hear me and you can see
me right now, that means that we are live on Facebook,
we are live on YouTube for a very very special

(03:10):
episode tonight that I have been looking forward to for
quite a while. And here we go. This is a
big one tonight. If you're a listener of our show,
you know that we are big into haunted attractions of
all kinds, but specifically local New England based haunts. The
most notorious haunt attraction in the history of New England
is Spooky World, which launched in Berlin, Massachusetts, back in

(03:33):
nineteen ninety one, almost thirty years ago, which I'm sure
we'll talk a little bit more about that later, But
this attraction means a lot to me personally because it's
one that I visited every year when I was growing up.
I remember the original Haunted hay Ride, all of the
accompanying attractions that followed it in the years after, like
the Phantom Mind Shaft, Cirque Macabre, and especially the American

(03:54):
Horror Museum, where I have lots of photos in. And
I should say right now at the beginning of this
podcast that's you know, if you hear barking, it's not
because of a lack of professionalism. It's because of our
dog that refuses to stay quiet during lots of these
live streams. So please forgive otis the official dog of
America's hometown Horror. But back to what I was saying,
I think it's safe to say that I personally would

(04:16):
not be hosting a horror themed podcast or be the
huge horror fan that I am without the experiences that
I had at Spooky World, and I'm happy to say
that right now I am joined by people who feel
the same way and are doing an awesome thing to
kind of bring Spooky World back into the light. And

(04:38):
I am joined by three guests and that they are
the team behind Spooky World the Movie. I am happy
to introduce Quinn Monahan, the director of Spooky World the Movie,
David Bertolino, the original owner of the park and self
proclaimed entrepreneur, and Tony Landry, who is the producer a
host of Spooky one oh one, which is the podcast

(05:00):
dedicated to Spooky World the Movie, and also the only
person that I know that has a cooler piece of
vinted Spooky World memorabilia on his wall than I do.
So I would like to first and foremost say welcome
to all of our guests. I know we are thrilled
to have you here with us. Guys, how we all
doing tonight?

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Great?

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Good, outstanding and right out of the gates. I wanted
to thank you Mike, thank you Val, thank you Andrew
for the support that you have given us. It's been
incredible and I know that we share the same love
for that haunted Barn out in Berlin thirty years ago
and we're all bringing it back this year in the

(05:37):
thirtieth anniversary.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
I appreciate that you're so so welcome, And Tony, I
know you and I are kind of kindred spirits here.
Back when we first started connecting about potentially collaborating, we
both kind of you know, had a similar super fandom
for the old Spooky World in Berlin. So it's nice
to know that there are a lot of other people
out there.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Just like us. It definitely has a special place in
our heart.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
I'll tell you that, absolutely, absolutely, So I should first
I should first say that obviously we are live here
on Facebook and YouTube, so if you are watching, you know,
feel free to drop some questions in and we'll do
our best to answer him. But with that being said,
I want to jump right into this here and I'll
just I'll put it up to a round table, Quinn,
Tony David. I'll start with you, guys, why make a

(06:26):
documentary about Spooky World? Quinn, I guess I'll start with you.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well, you know, I think anybody who ever went to
Spooky World, that knows anything about Spooky World knows the
answer to that question.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
Spooky World was the first they.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Launched, arguably launched the entire Halloween haunting industry. Before Spooky World,
there were scattered little jc's haunts and haunted houses around
the country. You know, of course, not Spary Farm, had
not Scary Farm. But when Spooky World happened in the
early nineties, David Berlino took the whole thing to a

(07:05):
different level, bringing in elements of celebrities coming in to
sign autographs. He will be the first to tell you
that nineteen ninety one was an auspicious year only because
it was the first year.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
It was certainly not the best year, but that year started.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
The ball rolling. The celebrities came in. You'll learn in
our in our documentary that the trail that haunted, the
Hanted hay Ride trail, the Spooky hay Ride, was less
than what it could have been and should have been.
You'll hear some very colorful remarks from Tom Sevini to

(07:48):
that account.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
But when Tom Savini came on board, a true horror.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Icon at this point and at that time was revered
in the industry, and told David point.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Blank, your hay Ride stuck.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
You've got to bring that level up because you've promised
these fans the best, and David realized that yeah, he
hyped the place, but it wasn't all it could have
been it should have been. And Tom Sevini stayed on
to go on to design the Savini Haunted House and
tell him.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
And give him advice about what to do along the.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Trail, and the combination between David Vertolino's vision and Tom
Savigni's artistic creative support is what came together to create
what spooky world became.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
I love it, and yeah, yeah, absolutely, David. David, what
about you? I know, obviously you live this back in
the nineties and you were there back at the park
right from the from from the inception obviously, but you
know what what particularly drew you to this project? What
made you, you know, want to go back and talk
about this again in documentary form.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
You know, it started as just a little part time
gig because I was a sales manager for a halloween company,
Ruby's Costume Company, and you know, we became in kind
of hiatus mode from August till January. So I thought,
let me look into, you know, some Halloween event that

(09:26):
I could work on that I'd enjoy, and I explored
the opportunity of a hayride with stage sets, and you know,
motivation was not much out there at the time, but
we were inspired by various you know, offshoots of what
Quinn talked about, a little fundraiser operations. So I traveled

(09:49):
the country in the research mode and miraculously found this
dairy farm that was being auctioned off by the FDIC,
and I offered to rent it. But you know, they
counteroffered by saying, you know, very little money down, that's
all I needed to hear, and I can rent it.

(10:12):
I can own it for the price of the rented
you know, mortgage payments. And so, you know, my partner
and I, Sean Fogerty, you know, sat down and storyboarded
twenty two stage sets along the hayride trail. Never did
we think that it would turn out the way we did.
Our intention was this little hay ride. And as Tom

(10:34):
Savini would said, change the name right now, it's no
longer spooky hay Rides, where spooky Land or spooky Ville
or Spooky World. Bingo changed the name the World and
that was the second week of October. We literally changed
the name because our intention was from that point on

(10:54):
to add haunted houses every year, to add a spectacular
new event. That's what we did.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's great, And I have to say I was a
huge fan of the name change. And Tony, I've heard
you mentioned this before, but you know, to me, as
a kid growing up in New England, you know, born
in the mid eighties and growing up in the nineties,
this actually felt to me like the Disney World of
New England. Every single year I would look so I
would so look forward to hearing, you know, the advertisements

(11:24):
on the radio, seeing the commercials on TV, and I
just knew that it was Halloween time when Spooky Roll
was back up in the conversation. So I'm a fan
of you know, it gave it that that larger feel
I think with Spooky World. So huge fan of the
name change, Tony. What's what's what's this process been like
for you? And why did you why did you want
to jump on board? And what's it been like for

(11:45):
you since you did?

Speaker 4 (11:46):
It's I think that one of the underlying themes that
you're going to see in the film when it comes
out is this serendipity that took place. All these things
had to come together exactly the right way. In order
for Spooky World to succeed, and the same holds true
for the process of making this film. Every guy has

(12:09):
this box of memories that they hold on to no
matter where they moved to when they leave their house
growing up to when they go to college, to when
they move into their first home. And sometimes you lose
things along the way. And my story here with this
film started with a button. I literally lost a button
that says I think I saw Elvis.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
At Spooky World.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
And of course, if you lose something, where do you
go nowadays? Not the Lost and Found, You go to eBay. Yeah,
so I went on eBay, found the pen. But when
I did the search for Spooky World, it populated up
this list of items that I couldn't believe. And I
looked at the seller's dame and it just so happened

(12:51):
and be Spooky Dave. And from there we started striking
up conversation, reliving some memories, and that kind of came
home with me and John there, well, you're more than
welcome to come over here. Man, after we all get
our shots, we're good to go. Come on over, doors

(13:12):
open for.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
You at continue.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
Absolutely, But what ended up happening was the film started
taking off. I got a phone call from David a
couple of years ago and said, hey, we need to
interview you for this. You're our fan, You're one of
our biggest fans. And I said, absolutely, come on over
my home. I go the signs here. You might as
well get that on film. So as we started talking,

(13:36):
and after the interview, Quinn and David said, we're leaving
back for La on Monday. Most of this operation has
taking place in Boston. You seem to know what you're doing.
You have your toe dipped in the shallow end of
the pool of filmmaking. David did the same thing when
it came to the people who worked at Spooky WORLPE

(13:56):
back in the day. He identified passionate people, he empowered them,
and it took off from there. And that's why Spooky
World succeeded. And I think that that's why this film
is going to do exactly the same. He put his
trust in me, Quinn put their trust in me. And
I think that we're doing an okay job so far,
and I think that we have a lot more amazing
things ahead of us.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
I would say more than okay. I mean, I know,
I personally can't wait to see what you guys have
in store. And you know, you've done a great job
kind of teasing everything with the Spooky one on one
podcast has been very entertaining and as I mentioned before,
you know, before we started recording, I for one cannot
wait to see what you guys have in store with
this movie. So, David, I guess I have to ask you,

(14:40):
what's it been like to see the legacy of all
your hard work becoming shrined in this upcoming movie? And
I mean, did you ever think that the work you
did at Spooky World have the impact that it did?
Even to this day?

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I have to tell you, I am every day stunned.
Quinn has done seventy four interviews and some of them
I bared witness in person, some on zoom. Some I
have not seen or didn't see it, but I've seen
since then and I'm blown away at the impact that

(15:13):
these folks had, you know, either working at the park
or celebrity who had sun finding at the park.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
They speak with such passion. I get goosebumps and the
tear when I hear the stories of you know, this
was the best job I've ever had in my life.
This is the best period of time period of my life.
This was one big, happy family, not like the Mansons,
of course, but they really enjoyed the experience in this

(15:43):
And so I'm just going away at the commentary that
I've heard in the last year, year and a half.
Actually it's going on now, but we've got just some
phenomenal interviews and some of the celebrities are kind of
tears bringing up talking about how what's their favorite place
they worked in various movies, they worked for Universal Studios

(16:04):
and YEP and other places such as that, and speak
so kindly and sweetly of their their life at Spooky World.
It's phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, that's great to hear it. I have to say,
just to comment on what you said before. So Tony
and I had talked about this at one point, but
kind of like my local haunt growing up, the one
closest to me that I love, just the notch below
Spooky World was Barretts Haunted Mansion and Abington, mass And
I had the privilege of working one Halloween one October

(16:36):
a couple of years back, and it was so much fun.
But I have to say, you got to be a
little bit crazy if you want to voluntarily show up
and scare people from multiple nights in October. It definitely
creates a bond between people. So I can see why
people still hold that, you know, so close in their
memories for sure.

Speaker 6 (16:54):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, yeah, I think we had so.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
I guess there was.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
I don't know if you recalled prozac laclown at Barretts.
I think his name is Rob.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
I do remember that.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
Actually he was.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
One of our top actors. You know a lot of
folks headhunted actors at our place. You know, some for Broadway,
some for movies. Others went on for special effects, you know,
with TV shows and film projects, and you know, we
launched just a lot of ships. It's just wonderful to

(17:29):
hear about. It's you know, you get somebody in the
interview seat and they say, my career started at Spooky
World when I was seventeen years old, and it's like,
what you got to be kidding me? And now they're
big stars, phenomenal.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Big tease on that one. If you folks like Marvel Films,
a guy who does that, oh really amazing In our documentary.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Wow, Wow, that's all I can say about in our
documentary safe to say that he is inevitable.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Just like Spooky World the movie.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely so. So I know, you guys are
just kind of talking about all of the interviews that
you've done, and you kind of already made this comment,
but you said there were a lot of emotional reactions
to people that you know had a connection to the
past where that they worked there or fans. But I mean,
has there any been anything else, Tony and and uh
and and Quinn that has really surprised you about this

(18:26):
in these interviews. I mean, you know, anything that you
that you've experienced that you weren't necessarily expecting when you
were interviewing these people.

Speaker 5 (18:34):
Quinn take that.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
Well, I'll I'll let Tony take this.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
A couple of years ago, when they handed off the
reins to me, uh for the the East Coast side
of things, they left town just before the Great Rock
and Shock Convention was taking place, and Uh a couple
of people who were appearing had a very close connection
to Pookie World.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
You're gonna see Kane Hotter in it, Caan I.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
For those who have met Kan, He's a river. He
likes to have fun with you. He has that Jason
like I'm Jason tough guy attitude, but when it Cain
was speaking about Spooky World, we actually saw Cain open up.
He loved his time there. He spoke about it so glowingly.

(19:27):
I was I was shocked, it was. It was so
great to be able to sit down with him. And
actually the person who filmed it is another local filmmaker.
He had camera duty that day survival of the film Freaks.
If you folks have seen that, Bill Folkerson helped me
out with that one. Yeah, great documentary if you go.
That's a sidetrack if you folks get a chance. But
Kane Caine was outstanding and Adam Green, Adam Green also.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Sat down with us for that. Another local kid done well.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
And Adam and Kane ended up from starting off at
Spo World meeting each other as kids, to all of
a sudden making the Hatchet movies together. So you're going
to see how all of this came together. And it
was so cool to be able to put everybody back
into the nineties. And I think that's another thing that
this film's going to capture is we're so connected right now.

(20:17):
I mean, look at what we're doing. We are able
to sit in our homes and have this interview. Back
in the nineties, part of the ambiance Spooky World was
how far it was away from the major cities, how
isolated you felt, how that fourth wall was broken when
you were on that hay ride when they would come
up to you and come out to you.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
So we're going to get into the whole nineties.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Experience with this as well, and Quinn really has his
ear tuned to that.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
That's awesome there.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I could just jump in to expand on that. One
of the strongest impact of a commentary that really made
us move forward on this documentary was I was sitting
home watching Seth Myers a couple of years ago Halloween

(21:07):
Halloween Knight, and they usually have a celebrity come up
for a segment and chat and then they move on
to the next celebrity. So in studio was John Krasinski
and Seth Meyer said, well, fellow New England or do
you have any memories of Halloween in New England? And

(21:29):
his response was, actually, my best memories as a child
was every October going to a place called Spooky World.
And he turned to Seth sets from New Hampshire and
said do you remember Spooky World? And set said, you know,
we were talking about that pre interview in the dressing room,

(21:49):
and some of my staff remembers it. I don't remember it.
Tell me more about it. Well, I got to tell you.
He told so much glowingly about how much he enjoyed
the place, came year after year, and he was a
kid then, and you know, it's just so incredible. And
they came back after break and gave another segment about

(22:12):
Spooky World. I was shocked. I couldn't believe it, and
that kind of you know pushed me for you know,
it was Quinn's idea to move forward with this thing,
and that kind of you know gave me a charge
to say, Okay, this really did have an impact on people.
Let's continue to move forward on this idea. But that
was just an amazing endorsement for this fellow to and

(22:34):
he talked about various incidents that happened, which are right,
that's in the actual movie.

Speaker 6 (22:40):
Now.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Okay, So I'm so glad you brought that up, because
I actually did have this written down to ask you,
because I knew that if anyone knew if this actually
did happen, it was going to be you, David. And
obviously the story that Krasinski told on that show, was that,
you know, he saw some Boston dad with his son
that was clearly more scared than the kid to go
into one of haunted houses and he ended up punching

(23:01):
Draggle in the face. So did that actually happen?

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Uh, it did actually happen, and I paid for the
missing tooth. Fella's name was Barry and he was not
a young kid who was an older man. He played
Dracula in the Savini House and he actually got cold
cocked by a dad.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
So he alerted a policeman and they stopped. There was
no you know, we called it an accident. Everyone was
okay with it being an accident, and poor Barry lost
the tooth over it, and so Workman's cock. But he
had a nice jump that year. You know, it was
but it made for interesting story live on you know

(23:43):
Seth Meyers latshow.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
I know that that is? I mean I heard that
and I thought that was definitely one of those stories
where they kind of added like the Boston element to
kind of make it seem a little bit more extreme
and throw in the accents, and I was like, I
wonder if this actually happened. So I'm actually I'm glad
to hear that it actually did.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
So if I can add a little something about that, sure,
if I might add just a little something about that,
that was that was not an isolated incident.

Speaker 6 (24:11):
One of the things I've learned during this documentary is that.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Many of the cast members in the various ponded houses
and on the trail on the Hayride trail were regularly hit, punched, kicked,
assaulted by the attendees at Spooky World because they were
so good and so frightening that and people just were

(24:36):
not didn't know what to expect from Most people, this
was the first time they'd been to anything like it.
Somebody jumps in your face and says boom, or or
or comes at you with a running chainsaw. You know,
muscle memory takes over and boom. So these guys learned
to get tough real quick. And there were many such

(24:58):
she always say, skirmishes in the in the houses and
on the trail, and you'll learn about that in the documentary.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
I can't wait to hear more of those stories. And
I'm sure there are probably many more than than that.
Just one, just that one. Excuse me, but I guess
while we're on the celebrity component of Spooky World, they
did have some questions about this here. And you know,
Tony to your point, having met Caine Hodd twice in
my life once being at Spooky World, I have a

(25:27):
red hockey mask that was signed by Kane Hodter that
I got there when I was probably eight or nine
years old. And then Cat and I actually the pleasure
of meeting him up in Salem a few years back,
and he was super nice. We have a picture with
him there was it was it was great to meet
him again later in life, so that was really cool.
But I guess you know, David, you know, when when
Spooky Will first opened, you did have a lot of

(25:48):
support from some pretty big celebrities. So obviously we talked
about Tom Savini, but you also had appearances from many
others like Alvira, Linda Blair, Alice Cooper and obviously Kane Hotter.
You know, how big of an impact do you think
it had to have that type of celebrity backing when
the park first opened. How much of a how much
did that contribute to the success do you think.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Well, you know, the celebrities were one component, but I
think it was a very special component because you know,
there were no attractions that were celebrities except for not
Scary Farm, and so, you know, we were thrilled to
have more than the one celebrity. We had three or

(26:29):
four each week, and we were as you remember, we
would rotate them. We would have different celebrities each week,
and that would encourage people to come back week after week.
And you know, clearly the object was to change and
add to the show every year. But then the other
element was can you make it fresh every week during

(26:49):
a one month period, And we managed to do that
with the new celebrities, and so that worked out well.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
You know, David was a celebrity that you did need
that just kind of stood out to you more so
than the other ones, or was it just kind of
you know, they were all this We were starstruck by
all of them.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
All of them were the ones that you thought would
be very cooperative and you know, helpful, and so for
most of them were I'm going to say ninety percent
of our visiting celebrities we treated like part of the family.
I mean, they checked into a hotel suite, they got
you know, basket of goodies we sent over wine, we

(27:29):
sent over, you know, all kinds of perks. We'd send
a limo for them. I mean we treated them like celebrityhood,
like they were going to their Hollywood premiere. And uh
and I say, the guests visiting to get their autograph was.
They're extremely, very enthusiastic, more so than the Hollywood fans.
The Hollywood fans are so used to seeing, you know,

(27:52):
Captain Kirk at Gelson's Supermarket. You know, it's a natural
things and them. But back in Austin, were in the
Boston suburbs. To have three or four celebrities, you know,
your favorite horror celebrities in front of you, it's an
overwhelming experience. And as you said, Alalys, Cooper, d Snyder

(28:16):
and even the media were celebrities. Will it Scott doing
the weather three different hits? Yeah, it was. I don't
know if you remember Ronda Sheer, she did a live
show up all Night, broadcasted from Spooky World, and of
course the Tonight Show Jay Leno with the roving ard
Bill Maher on our stage live.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
We actually watched we watched that clip when we were
prepping for this episode. We watched all of those. So
it's just insane. Yeahane to see all that.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
It just it definitely added, but it also is I've
told you know, Quinn Loves when I mentioned this it
was a Fellini movie. There was lots of stuff going on.
There was you know, Haunted Attractions, six Haunted how as
you mentioned earlier, the American Horror Museum with original props

(29:05):
and displays from the movies, and then of course the
signature hey Ry and you know, even in the waiting lines,
we built stages where performers would you know, do their
act and you know, granted some of it wasn't horrors.
You know, we had a barbershop quartete because they would
work for scale, and we would have you know, various

(29:26):
contortionousnists and singers and dancers, and but we would just
add to the mix. It was one big circus.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
It's awesome. Yeah, I remember, I have to find them
at my parents out somewhere, but I have polaroid photos
of myself as a kid with the pumpkinhead model that
you guys had in the American Horror Museum, and I
think there was one from Howling as well at Warewolf,
I remember correctly. I think I have both those photos.
But you know, since we were just talking about celebrities,

(29:56):
I have to ask what it was like working with
fellow son of bas Austin and also the author or
excuse me, writer of the song that Elvis Presley called
the single worst thing he'd ever heard in his life
or something like that, Hick Bobby Boris Picket up help.
I saw Spooky World several times growing up.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
You know Bobby is this you know, he created he
wrote and saying literally the Halloween national anthem, the monster Mash.
And you know, we made a little I don't know
if you ever saw that little movie the VHS uh
oh use it to Spooky World. We sold that in
the in the gift shop, and we added Bobby you know,

(30:36):
singing line at Spooky World is in the segment there.
And I remember offer, you know, showing it to Spencer
Gifts and I Party, and they loved it so much.
We sold twenty four thousand copies of that with Bobby
in it. And so Bobby got a great residual, you know,
you know, being in our VHS tape a visit to

(30:59):
I never thought this tape would sell outside of Spooky World.
I think I was going to order five or six
hundred pieces, and then I pre showed it, you know,
preview to those two chains, and we literally distributed twenty
four thousand copies throughout the country. And Bobby was, you know,
a part of that. He was very helpful. He did

(31:20):
three shows a night, but you know, basically he was
on the stage for probably five or ten minutes because
he himself would admit, now, folks, I'm going to do
a medley of my one hit and you know, but
he was, you know, he didn't make no bones about it.
He was, you know, now on the flip side of that,

(31:41):
tiny tim would go on for a ten minute gig,
and he would stay on for thirty or forty minutes.
And many times, you know, he scheduled for three shows
a night and he would do five or six show
he'd do once an hour from six o'clock at night.
And so he was he was a real troubadour.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
As we say, that's awesome. And I have definitely seen
a YouTube rip of that VHS video several times, I
can say, and my one regret is not owning a
copy myself, because I do miss that. So that's actually
a perfect segue into a question that I had for you. Guys.
You know, Quinn Tony David, I know, obviously we're going

(32:21):
to see in the movie, We're going to see a
lot of you know, interviews, a lot of footage with
people that actually worked there and had gone there. Can
viewers of this movie expect to see more, you know,
on hay Ride footage, more footage that are in the
haunted attractions, if you can share, I would love to
hear more.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
About that, Quinn, Oh, I could talk about that a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
I was honestly one of my biggest concerns going into
this project.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Do we have the footage to cover the story?

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Because it's great to hear all these stories, but you
can't have a documentary with talking telling you how great
it was without seeing how great it was. And so
we spent the better part of two years digging out
some of these slips. We just recently acquired some terrific

(33:15):
digital video footage original digital video, which digital video was
just emerging as a technology in the mid nineties, and
some people had the good sense to start shooting some
of the spooky World attractions with digital video. And while
it's not high death like we have today, it's damn good.

(33:36):
What I started off working with was a lot of
second and third and fourth generation VHS tapes that had
seen better days in the nineties. These these are most
of these tapes are thirty years old, and I'm sure
we have a lot of VHS fans out there who
know what happens to tape VHS tapes after thirty years,

(33:56):
So that was.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
Our biggest challenge.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
But yes, the short answer to your question is will
you will see and get a sense of many It's
not all of the major attractions Spooky World, with one
caveat that we may never be able to fully experience

(34:21):
what it was like to go through the Tom Savigni
House or be on the original hay Ride in Berlin.
But that's my job is to get as close to
what it felt like to be there for the audience
as possible. And what you may not know you probably
do know this, but what people may not know in
general is that there are fans of Spooky World who

(34:44):
were born after Spooky World's floats, who have learned about
Spooky World on the Internet and through the folklore of
Spooky World.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
And are the second generation of fans.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Maybe their parents went there, or maybe they just discovered
about it but it has. It has taken on a
life of stone. There is a mythology that's around the
Spooky World, and we're going to talk about all of
that in the film.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
That's great to hear and I I, uh, that's just
that's just awesome. I can't wait because I was wondering
that because, you know, with some of the more popular
haunted attractions in the country at this point, So like
let's say, you know, Halloween Hard Knights in Orlando or
Hollywood decides they want to do a haunted house based
on Halloween or you know, Alien or whatever movie they choose.

(35:32):
Generally the night after it opened. There's some you know,
pob videos for me walking through the haunt. You can
see it. You can experience about the footage of Spooky
World that's on YouTube or wherever. It is rare. So
I'm actually I'm super excited to hear that. That's great.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
It really comes across it like a found footage type thing,
you know. And I think that there's something special about
that because it's so hard to find that it makes
it even more special.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
So and I know, and you know, pulling the curtain.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Back a little bit, I've had the privy of seeing
some of the things that Quinn has put together, and
you folks are going to be in for a treat
this man. If you don't know any of Quinn's background,
let me tell you about it right now, because he's
not going to say it, but I will. Quinn is
a producer for the Academy Awards and sag Okay, he's

(36:22):
got spreds.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
I wouldn't believe he worked. He was in the movie Carrie.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
He was a set designer for a Nightmare and Elm
Street Part two. So if we're looking for the right
guy to do this, we've got him. And that's the
amazing part about this film. They understand the history and
the importance of things, and I think that one of
the things we also understand is it's situational awareness. The nineties,
we did not have iPhones or the digital technology that.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
We have now yep, where everybody can just whip it
out and.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
I'm videotaping absolutely everything, you know. I think that the
fact that we are making so much out of the
little old school footage we have, it's gonna be special.
And Quinn is taking it and putting a modern twist
on it.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
That you're gonna love.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Be remiss if I didn't in this venue. I'd be
remiss in this venue if I didn't. Even though we
we have come upon some great footage, I know that
there's gotta be some viewers right now who have a
videotape of Spooky.

Speaker 6 (37:27):
World in a drawer somewhere in their home. We want
that footage.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
If you have something that you think belongs in this film,
whether it's footage or still photos, please contact us through
this show, through this website. The information will get to
us and you'll be a part of Spooky World lore forever.
Anybody who contributes footage to us will will have their

(37:52):
name and the credits, and they'll be They'll be forever
in our gratitude.

Speaker 6 (37:57):
So there you have it. There's my appeal for wow.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Here that folks that might be out there. You two
can be part of Spooky World movie. That's awesome. If
you have footage out there, you can absolutely you can
send it in and you can have your name in
the credits. So I would say, if you're sitting on
that footage, what are you waiting for? Send it over?
Send it over.

Speaker 6 (38:15):
Yeah, we need it, we want to need it. Share
it with the world awesome.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
So Tony, from a fan to a fan, I know
you and I have connected over Spooky World fandom leading
up to this, and you know what's it been like
to work on something that's had such a huge impact
on you growing up.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
It has brought me back to a lot of great
memories and family. I think that we're going to touch
on the note of family in this film because the
family that worked behind the scenes to make this common fruition.
Spooky World's vision was based off of family, the Bertolino family.
You're going to find out that David Bertolino didn't start

(38:57):
at Spooky World. David started with his dad and his
brother at Little Jack Horner's joke shop in downtown Boston
back in the day, which then turned into the place
where everyone in the region got their Halloween costumes at
Boston Costume. David Bernolino is Boston Costume and that turned
into Spooky World.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
So you're going to be.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Learning the history of this man and how this all
came to Fruition. But the family aspect in regards to me,
I wasn't old enough to drive when I first heard
that jingle on the school bus. You know, I had
to rely on my uncle.

Speaker 5 (39:33):
He was like my father figure.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
So my uncle's no longer with me, but I feel
like working on this film, I feel connected again with him,
and it's my way of saying, hey, thanks for bringing
this into my life and having this film to come
to Fruition. And the amazing part is these two guys
on both sides of me and your screen have become
family to me. We have lived our lives the past

(39:56):
two years for the most part, with each other bi coastally.
They've been there through good and bad, good health, bad health,
We've been there through everything. So you're going to see
family touched upon probably throughout the whole part of this.
You're going to see some interviews take place where we're
talking about some of this how it emotionally hits people.

(40:16):
And I'm not the only one who's lost to somebody
who brought them to spooky World. You're going to be
talking to a few people and seeing a few people
tell their stories of their bonds with their family members,
going there, back to Berlin and even Foxborough.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
That's powerful, that's awesome to hear. I you know, I
just I can't state enough how much I love what
I'm hearing, and it's just giving me that much more
hype for this movie coming out this fall. So I
have to ask you guys. You know, obviously TONI, I
know you and I were talking about this beforehand, but
obviously this Spooky World was very clearly ahead of its time.

(40:56):
And I think that a lot of haunted attractions today
have you know, pulled bits and pieces from Spooky World.
And you know, I guess, just a you know, in
a general sense, how much of an impact do you
think Spooky World, the original one in Berlin, had on
the haunt industry today. And I'll open that up to
whoever wants to answer.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Well, I'll answer that I want to answer because I'll
say it's immeasurable.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
The people that we've.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Talked to, like Sidney Neil, who is a goddess in
her own right in the haunting attraction world, flat out says, uh,
there would the industry wouldn't be what anything like what
it has become without Spooky World.

Speaker 6 (41:45):
Many people have echoed that sentiment that.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
It's hard to calculate how much the success of the
Spooky World could have launched the industry. You have to
remember that the Wall Street Journal team knocking first year
because they got wind of how much.

Speaker 6 (42:03):
Money Let's let's be honest, book year old.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Is making that thousands of people were pouring into this
tiny little farm in a in central Massachusetts and.

Speaker 6 (42:17):
They were taking notice.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
And so lots of other people saw that Wall Street
Journal article and said.

Speaker 6 (42:23):
Hmm, this sounds like something I could do in my state.
And from there the rest is history.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, I mean that that totally makes sense to me
because I honestly I think, like like I mentioned, it
was way ahead of its time, and you can clearly
see that other haunts I don't think there would be,
especially in the New England area and throughout the country,
as many haunted attractions that have succeeded as much as
they have without, you know, without Spooky World doing what
it did back in the nineties.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
If I mentioned something here, Yeah, one of the things
that we're going over in our interview Sydney Neil, we're
going to be having on Spooky one oh one coming
up on most fitting day and most fitting weekend possible
Mother's Day because she is the mother of the haunt industry,
so we're going to have her on for that weekend.
But what Sydney and what others have mentioned who are

(43:18):
in the haunt industry.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
There's a certain.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Weekend that took place at a convention back in the
early nineties that David took part in that kind of
was a game changer for the entire haunt industry. David,
could you elaborate just a little bit on that.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
We want to leave some meat on the bone so
everybody tunes in this fall.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
I in my sales manager role at Ruby's Costume, I
am at the It wasn't even called the Halloween Convention
at that point. It was still the trans World Variety
Show merchandise show, and there was a little section of
two or three aisles of people who sold Halloween goods,

(43:59):
and I was they are populating with various props and
costumes that I had, and you know, many of the haunters,
mostly fundraiser types from all over the country that I
was in the Ruby's book and where they saw the
article on the Wall Street Journal or USA Today or whatever,
and so they came around to the booth saying, Kay,

(44:20):
can I have a minute of your time? How did
you do this? What insurance company did you use? How
did you build? And you know, after a day of this,
I said, okay, I'll tell you what. Everybody, come to
my hotel room at seven o'clock at the Marion and
here's the room number and a handful of us, and

(44:40):
we'll talk about you know, I'll answer all the questions
you have when we can all share ideas. Well. Forty
or fifty people showed up in this little hotel room.
I mean it looked like a very tight woodstock bathroom.
And so that was I'd like to say, the birthplace

(45:01):
of the Haunted House Association in the industry. Uh. You know,
we formed a group and they were advisors, and I
never wanted to be a board member, but I was
always willing to open my door for advice. And that was,
as many had called it, the first day that we
launched an organized haunted house association industry. And you know,

(45:26):
it was predicated on my just one year experience. Although
it was a crazy one year. Uh you know, financially
everybody was watching us. In fact, you know, he's an
open question. You folks look like my age, you know,
thirty somewhre years ago. I'm in my thirties, I've got

(45:46):
a family, I want to do this little hay ride
and sometimes you do things with your heart and not
with your wallet, you know, don't think about the return
on it. And so my heart got in the way
and I really had this goal to do this, you
know event, and I sat down with my partner and

(46:06):
I said, what's it going to take to break even?
And we figured it out on paper, David, if you
do two hundred people a night for thirty one nights
on average, we will break even. And you know, to
make a long story short, you can see how that was.
We went from Tudatu is it all in the movie,

(46:29):
but just briefly, the first night we did two two
thousand people and we never did less than two thousand people.
We did over sixty thousand people that first year, and
then our top years, you know, as we moved to
Foxborough and I partnered with the New England Patriots Craftman family,
we were doing ten ten to twelve thousand people night

(46:52):
and that was just believe it saying, I'm blown away
by that, you know, just looking at that in my
past like that.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
I had a chance to acquire from David some of
the sheets from annual attendance and things of that sort,
and it's completely mind blowing. Just how successful the Spooky
World was on paper. I mean, we know how it
is emotionally, it was like success. Spooky World has influenced everyone.
We're proud it's our hometown haunt. But when you actually

(47:24):
see the numbers on paper is when you know that
it was real.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Oh I'm sure, I'm sure, And I can speak from
experience there because I know, I know that a good
chunk of my youth was spent standing in line for
the hay Ride in Berlin and also at not even
jet Stadium, at Foxborough Stadium back then, So I can
only imagine what those numbers might look like. So actually

(47:51):
that brings me to a question I had for you guys.
So I'm sure you probably have been back to the
old stopping grounds out in Berlin for this movie. But
how much footage can we expect to see from the
from the old original Spooky World location in Berlin in
the upcoming movie?

Speaker 2 (48:07):
And we had we had fluentny if I can uh,
we had plenty of uh. We shot uh funny bit uh.
The day we David and I flew out and and
got there. We had arranged for a drone camera to
shoot a lot of aerial footage flying around, and we

(48:28):
were going to get this footage on the ground, and
we set up this shot and we had this the
members of the old crew walking toward the drone and
the and the shot was the drone was pulling away
from them as they you know, if they and the
and the drone flew right into the side of the
barn and exploded into.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
A bit.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Uh and we'll we'll, we'll have a little bit of
that in the film. But subsequently we went and had
somebody else to shoot a lot of drone. But of
course if you go on YouTube, you know there's no
shortage of people just breaking into the place and uh
and filming themselves running around and the abandoned site, and

(49:11):
that's a lot of fun.

Speaker 6 (49:12):
You have genuine fans making a pilgrimage to the site.
But yeah, you'll see you'll see plenty of that in
in Glorious High Death.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Excellent, excellent. I know you had a question about the
the remultilication one.

Speaker 6 (49:31):
I did.

Speaker 8 (49:31):
Actually, Yeah, so you know, you only see these abandoned
like amusement parks are abandoned roller posters, and they're kind
of creepy and eerie.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
If you see any YouTube videos.

Speaker 8 (49:40):
Have you seen or heard of any sort of like
ghost stories or creepy stories now that the building is
abandoned left there?

Speaker 5 (49:49):
Can I take this one?

Speaker 4 (49:51):
We actually have We have a couple of interviews that
did you know that somebody actually lived in the premise
there while Spooky World was it was it was in Berlin. Well,
we actually we there was a caretaker who lived there
and he has a couple of stories to offer in
regards to that back in the nineties, and.

Speaker 5 (50:13):
He'll get a you'll get a kick out of it.
I'll say that.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
I mean, that's not surprising.

Speaker 7 (50:17):
That's from what the seventeen hundreds, that from eighteen hundreds,
that building.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
Farm old, the old Tyler Farm. It's actually a historic landmark.
And we actually just got some footage had a way
for the snow to melt a little bit this year,
but I went right around the corner. It's actually gonna
be a part of the story that David and Tom
Savigni tell about one late night Tom calls up David

(50:46):
and says, wake up, we got to go do something
and I'm going to leave it right there.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Okay, teazer.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
I love that tease.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
I love that te come on, come on, I got it.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
It's only April, folks, really halfway an hour right Halloween.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
That's why you guys are pros. You know what you're doing.
So Tony, what can we expect from from Spooky one
oh one in the coming months leading up to the
release of the movie?

Speaker 4 (51:10):
A lot of baggy eyes from editing, coffee strengthening, things
of that nature, all a labor of love. We're going
to have, like I said, we have next actually this
coming Friday, we have Bart and Barb O'Brien, who actually

(51:32):
own one of the most successful vineyards in Napa Valley,
who were influenced. They're actually they're billionaires Spooky World. Of
course Spooky World help influence them back in the day.
We're going to have them on. They actually took a
trip out from California to visit Spooky World, started their
own haunt in northern California in the nineties, and they're
going to talk about how David helped them with that.

(51:55):
Like we said, Sydney Neil, I can't wait for that
one to come out. That's that's going to be a
long form interview.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
I think that.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Sydney predates David in the haunt industry, but she understands
just how much David changed the game, and she's going to.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
Elaborate on that.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
Also upcoming in the near future. We have quite a
few other folks from the haunt industry, but we're going
to sprinkle in a few familiar faces that may have
signed an autograph or two at Spooky World as we
get closer. And I do know somebody over well on,
let me get it right that Shoulder has a book

(52:37):
coming out in September, and we'd love to hear what
she has to say about her book.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Well, that's certainly very interesting.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
We would like to hear that. We'll explanngle that carrot
out there.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Sure, sure, why not? Hey, So we have a question
that just popped in from YouTube from Keith for Sean,
and he is wondering, and you guys were just out
there in the property recently doing some footage. He wonders
if there might still be some parts of the old
attractions in the buildings that are out there.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Well, I'll say this, up until just a few years ago,
there were some things, but it seems that in the
last couple of years, just about any vestige of the
old Spooky World.

Speaker 6 (53:24):
That wasn't nailed down tight has gone by by.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
You know, just the just the hint of this movie
being considered two years ago got a lot of people
to kind of helped themselves the souvenirs at the old property.
And then in the last year that we announced that
we're doing it full steam ahead, all of a sudden,
the collectible market for Spooky World Memory of You has

(53:54):
gone through the roof. The resale prices are incredible, and
so people have bought up all kinds of memorabauty of
Spooky World and getting top dollar for it now. So
it's just now it's a highly desirable collectible. Yeah, original pieces.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
I can speak to that. David. You might actually audibly
gasp if I tell you what what that poster that
you made back in the early nineties went for on
eBay when I found it a couple of months ago,
so relate.

Speaker 6 (54:26):
Unfortunately, I want to hear what it went for.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
So it was it was let's say it was almost
thirty dollars. Wow, not terrible, gladly, but but yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Well, well listen, if if anybody wants to have a
little bit of Spooky World, Uh, there's still things available
on eBay.

Speaker 6 (54:53):
David, do you still have anything up on eBay from
Spooky You.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Know, the dealers have bought it up.

Speaker 6 (54:59):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
I'm surprised and I don't get this. Well, maybe you
fellows have a good, you know, viewpoint on this. I
always considered Spooky World a New England thing, and then
I walk in the stores when I moved here to California.
You walk into dark delicacies or blasts from the past,
you know, Burder Bay, West Hollywood and Spooky Middle memorabilia.

(55:24):
Original stuff of course selling for top dollar, but it's
a desirable market even for people who hadn't visited Spooky World.
I'm kind of blown them away by that.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
It was such an iconic thing that when you see
that reaper and you see that font, you immediately go
back to the nineties. You immediately remember what it was
like there. And I think that that's.

Speaker 6 (55:52):
A tough talking about that.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
Guy, Tony.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
I couldn't agree more. I couldn't agree more.

Speaker 5 (56:00):
It is, it is.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
It is an important symbol to the haunt industry, that
logo right there, that font.

Speaker 5 (56:09):
I mean, come on.

Speaker 7 (56:12):
That.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
Thirty years later, people still like, oh my god, I
remember Spooky World. I remember going through the hay Ride.
I remember Troumaville, speaking of which our friends over at Trauma,
Lloyd Kaufman, We're going to be heading to Trouma Fest
or they are Trauma Dance Film Festival at Mahoning Drive
In in Pennsylvania in June. If you want to see

(56:34):
us there from Spooky World, the movie, we'll be there
supporting our friends. If you haven't seen the slash Ining
yet from Trauma, keep an eye out for it. Lloyd's
always putting out great content, Uncle.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Lloyd, Lloyd Lloyd. Yeah, he was great on Spooky One
on one by the way, he had me laughing the
entire time.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
With you laughing, I could barely do the interview.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Yeah, tough. That must have been tough to keep it
straight the whole time. I have to say credit to you,
my friend.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
You know, it's an easy He makes it easy. He
Lloyd just makes it easy. And he also is very
perceptive as to who's interviewing them, if they understand the
material or not, and he can either make it easy
or difficult. And I like it when he challenges people.
But for me, walk in the park, I love that man.
That's why Uncle loydy. That's why he's always known as.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
That's great kat Andrew. I know I've been asking a
lot of questions. Do you guys have anything you want
to ask our panel here?

Speaker 8 (57:33):
I actually had a question for Tony, seeing all of
your memorabilia in the background, what's your favorite Spookie World piece?

Speaker 4 (57:40):
I mean, why state the obvious? But actually there's enough
I have. So my original goal from taking a lot
of things off at David's hands were.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
What was that whole? What would it?

Speaker 4 (57:56):
Indiana Jones used to say, it belongs in the museum.
I felt that when David was selling his items that
they should be under one roof and that they should
be displayed to show.

Speaker 5 (58:08):
For historic purposes.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
So I have a lot of items from David, State citations,
awards from the Governor, awards from Haunt Industry. I even
have and I have the blueprints for Spooky.

Speaker 5 (58:25):
World I have.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
Also one of my favorite things is the renderings for
the first sign, which did not have the Reaper, it
had a hockey mask. So I actually have the artist
renderings of that framed and that if aside of the sign,
it would be probably that because it predates that iconic logo.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
Awesome, Andrew Cat, anything else you want to.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
Ask, I don't really have a question.

Speaker 9 (58:55):
I'm just so I never really got to go to
Spooky Roll as a kid, and I went for my
first time last year, which you know, during COVID, I
didn't really get to have the best experience that you
could to really experience it. But watching some of the
Spooky one on one and listening to you guys talk
about it, and just the passion and the energy is
just palpable between you know, listening to just your experiences

(59:19):
and everything that went on there that it's it can't
help but make me feel regret and just upset that
I never got the chance to experience such an amazing
time and history for haunted attractions and I missed out
on that. And so I really that's why I really
can't wait to see the documentary because I feel like
maybe I'll be able to gain a little bit of,
you know, feeling from that that you guys have that

(59:41):
Mike has just upsetting that I wasn't able to experience
that as a kid.

Speaker 5 (59:45):
So I had a window.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
We're going to do our best and that go Quinn,
go ahead, No, I say, we're going to do our
best do that.

Speaker 5 (59:57):
I know he will.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
I from the clips that I have had the chance
to see, I felt like I went back into DeLorean
hit eighty eight miles an hour and was back on
River Road in Berlin, Mass. I can tell you right now,
as a horror fan, from what I've seen and the
job that Quinn has done, you are going to feel

(01:00:20):
like you were there if you had never experienced it.
I promise you that you will and legends never die.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
That's awesome, Andrew, I'm excited for you, my friend. I'm
excited for you. Better right right, Yeah, better late than
never for sure. So I guess just to kind of
to put a bowl on this, you guys. So when
this movie is released in the fall, where can we

(01:00:48):
find it? Rough idea of when it will be released?
Is there going to be merch available eventual Blu ray
or DVD release. I'll let you guys comment away on that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
Well, the terms of the deal, let's go. We actually
have two active participants of distribution and one specializes very
much in the horror field and the other is in
the one hundred and ninety two countries. So it's a

(01:01:20):
matter of where we're going with if its entirety. Whether
there's going to be merchandise from us or through them,
I'm sure they will be. But now we have a
third player involved, very accomplished I don't want to give names,
but names negotiation with a very recognized director locally who

(01:01:46):
is creating a Sprilled TV series And so it's a
scripted series and we're we're, you know, exploring all the
opportunities surrounding that, and so of course the movie will
be first. This could be part of the same package

(01:02:09):
of distribution.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Wow, breaking news that is phenomenal.

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
I got a new four K camera.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
I don't know if you can see the goosebumps because
I kind of these conversations and it's going to be
worth the wait, folks. I do know that this week,
our good buddy Joel Robinson, who you may be familiar
with his artwork on many of the Universal re releases
from Screen Factory and from Conventions. One of the nicest

(01:02:40):
guys on the planet. He has actually been enlisted to
do our teaser and our one sheet and the covers
for our if we have a hard copy. I can't
wait for him to bring that to you. Some of
the ideas that we have are going to hit the
new notes and the old notes, and I think it's

(01:03:02):
important that we have all of that together.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
Awesome, all right, Wow, Well this has just made me
even more excited over the last hour than I was prior,
which I mean I was already through the roof. So
this has just been so enlightening and so great to
talk to you guys about this. But I don't really
have any other questions. But is there anything else that
that you three, the creative team behind Spooky World, the

(01:03:28):
movie you want to put out there in the ether,
anything else that you want to tease, any other information
you want to give.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
It's it's coming. It's so the released. I mean, there's
actually some very significant celebrity tie ins and interviews that
are in the editing room, and you know, just waiting
for releases and so forth. So we promised that you
will be one of the first too.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
If you're I'm just providing an avenue for people to
get information out here, I'm totally not at all asking
for myself or anybody else.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Everyone's listening, you know, David, repeat that last part for us.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
I was just saying that Tom Sabini is executive producer of.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Project Yes, that is phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
That is great, and let's all let's all wish Tom
well in his recovery from his recent little mispap on
his bicycle.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
But I'm cold that he's recovering. Nice week.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
That's great to hear. Yeah, I was actually just I
was just thinking that when you guys mentioned it. You know,
obviously we all wish him nothing but the best and
a speedy recovery as well.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
I'm sorry, film, I'm still zoning out because David's just
teasing me over his shoulders with that all of that
original Clive Barker artwork.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Yes, forgive me. I have a little yeah in front
of me. That's pretty cool, though I didn't notice that
at first.

Speaker 6 (01:04:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
Yeah, Clive lives nearby and he had a flood in
his storage area a couple of years ago, and so
he called me and asked if he can borrow I
purchased eleven pieces from him you mentioned earlier the American
Horror Museum. These populated the American Horror Museum, and so

(01:05:21):
I loaned them to Clive and he made a twenty
piece edition of each of these, and so they're reproductions,
but there are original reproductions. I guess they call it.
These are his originals that appeared and so I just
put them up. You asked if they had them on eBay.
This collection actually is up on eBay now, so the

(01:05:43):
first time offering the entire collection and selling it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
On So not only are these original, I just want
to remind people not only these original Clive Barker artworks,
but they hung at the American Horror Museum in Cookey World,
so there's that lore behind them as well.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Oh absolutely, well you heard here first.

Speaker 4 (01:06:10):
Lord wow yeah, he uh, He's got a few of them.
And the cool part is at America's Horror Museum. That
was the closest that we had had anything like that
in our area back in the day. And to know
that those hung up in there, that just brings me back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
That's crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:06:28):
Wow. Hey David, David, are you are you willing to
sell them by the peace or are you selling it only.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
As a as a as a collection.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
I think selling them by the piece would encourage the
fans to own them, so yeah, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:06:50):
I wouldn't say any fans with any fans who wanna
who want to invest.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
It in their future should snap them up because they're
gonna do nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:07:01):
But go up in value.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Oh, I can imagine that's all.

Speaker 6 (01:07:05):
I agree about that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Hey, if you're out there, I hop on that now, folks,
if you're listening, you heard it here.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
First my check book big Lebowski references.

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
Yes, you know what to do with that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
If you're wondering what to do with that stimulus check
get on your bay.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
That's stimmy to use. There you go, then go. Well, guys,
I have to say this has been an enlightening hour here.
It's been an absolute pleasure to talk to you, and
I just want to say thank you for taking the
time to hop on our show and and share all
the info you did with us. You know, obviously huge fans,
and we can't wait to uh to see what you
guys have in store, and you know, obviously in the

(01:07:47):
future if if we can, you know, promote anything for
you in any way, obviously let us know. But I'll
start off. You know, Tony, I know I already follow
you guys on all social media, but if some if
someone that does not already follow you guys, wants to
find Spooky World the movie, where can they do that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:05):
You can find us on Facebook at Spooky World the movie.
You can find us on Instagram at Spooky World the Movie.
You can find us on Twitter at Spooky Spooky World
the One, and you can also find us we have
a website. Are incredible. Jen is putting together our website
right now, should be out any day. So that's going
to be the mother ship where we launch everything out from.

(01:08:27):
So I will keep you folks appraised.

Speaker 6 (01:08:29):
To that and tell them about Stooky one on one.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
Oh, yeah, that thing, Yeah, that that little show. Yeah,
Spooky one on one. We try to put out probably
two shows a month. I have still about five more
interviews already recorded ready to go, and next week, this
coming Friday, we'll be putting out the one about Bart
and Barb O'Brien and their successful vineyard out in California

(01:08:56):
and how Spooky World helped launch them into that. So
we have a lot more celebrities to go, a lot
more folks who built it together. As a matter of fact,
the gentleman who commented Keith Vashon is one of the
few people who was actually there the day that the
fire marshals decided to exact their will on Spooky World.
And I think that, folks, I'm gonna to let folks

(01:09:19):
know about this film. You know, who's to say that
one film can contain this?

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
Oh oh oh, how about that?

Speaker 5 (01:09:30):
Just to put that out there.

Speaker 6 (01:09:32):
I thought I was gonna say about that, but.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
That a lot though, I know that's exciting enough. Well
hey again I I I can't thank you guys enough
and it's an absolute pleasure talk with you, and uh,
I cannot wait to see what you guys have in
store for us leading up. So thank you all very
very much much, thank.

Speaker 5 (01:09:56):
You, and thank you for all of your support.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
I cannot speak more highly about your podcast, about your support,
and I am so happy to know that we will
be working with you going forward. And if you hear
any breaking news and it's from us, this is where
it's going to be.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
And so yeah much completely humbled, thank you so much,
thank you so much. But would that being said, I mean, hey,
if you do want more of America's Hometown Horror on
social media platforms, you can also find us on YouTube
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already found us, but just go on there search for

(01:10:37):
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but specifically Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, so Stitcher, Speaker,

(01:11:01):
and pretty much everywhere else. My name is Mike. I
am the host of America's Hometown Horror, and as always
I'm joined by Andrew and Kat, my co hosts. And wow,
what an episode this has been. That's all I can
say is just wow. Thanks to Quinn, thanks to Tony,
thanks to David. Guys, look forward to say bye everyone. Bye, guys.

Speaker 6 (01:11:22):
Everyone.

Speaker 10 (01:11:23):
Hey, hey everyone, It's Mike from America's Hometown Horror and
I want to say thanks again for listening to another
episode of our show.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
If you're interested in more local Plymouth podcasts, I highly
recommend you check out the show from our friends over
on the Inebriart podcast network. In addition to America's Hometown Horror,
you can find shows from Anebriart, The Old Colony Cast,
Bar Talk, Theme Park legends and Retrodoctopus, so head on
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