Etheallmighty
11-02-2009, 01:59 AM
You know how every town has some lame spook house attraction that every high schooler goes to? the one where you walk on a little path as a fiew guys jump out at you, you scream, repeat?
this is nothing like that.
This is called the "fields of fear" in Hillsboro, Oregon (which has nothing to do with corn fields)
basically when you drive up, there are army guys who let your car in, then when you buy your "medical treatment pass "(ticket to get in), you are separated into different lines to wait.
-all the scenery is awesome, big fences with army camo on it and big BIOHAZARD signs and quarantine zone,etc. There were even a sound system playing the emergency radio saying things like "everyone must stay in doors....symptoms to infection include...." ( it was legit)
then they put a groups of about 20 people in bullpins next to each other to wait for your turn to take the "tour" of the facilities and learn the rules.
then when your group goes, you meet two army guys (different ranks) who tell you the rules and tell you that after being treated, everyone will be evacutated via hellicopter to a base in Nevada for safety (this is put on by the City's theatre group, so they are legit actors that do a really good job). sometimes they yell at you to.
needless to say throughout the next 40 minutes or so going around the army facitlities, shit hits the fan. an alarm even sounded at one point and it was awesome. you actually feel like your a part of a movie, with a storyline. in the end the treatment facility is really a extermination room, and you have to run for it as the two army guys duke it out (as things broke down they would fight about what to do with our group, leave us to die, save us, etc.)
they were even so smart as to plant actors in the group istelf!! there were 2 or 3 (seemingly normal people), and my friends had even talked to them. at one point the guy next to me started hacking a little bit. I asked him if he was alright, and he muttered "get away from me" and he violently started making infected noises, seizing and stuff. the army dude told us all to get away and he fought with the infected guy a little before throwing him in this shed and (I think) shooting him.
what was so cool about this whole thing was that it wasn't just this little walkway in a house. it was an open grounds and the army guys would yell at you to "keep it tight" and stuff like that. when infected would breach in, you'd have to run after them into a nearby building, and some of us had to help them close the big sliding barn door at one point, so it's interactive. (then we'd have to book it to another building, etc, etc.)
I can't explain EVERY detail that happened, but needless to say it was AWESOME.
this is definitely not for little kids and families.
*EDIT* O and I kid you not they had a witch in it. there was this little girl on the ground like crying, and the army guys turned off their lights. this normal infected started crawling at us from a dark doorway, and she started screaming and running after us until we got behind this fence and locked it. sweet.
http://www.yelp.com/events/hillsboro-the-fields-of-fear-8
this is nothing like that.
This is called the "fields of fear" in Hillsboro, Oregon (which has nothing to do with corn fields)
basically when you drive up, there are army guys who let your car in, then when you buy your "medical treatment pass "(ticket to get in), you are separated into different lines to wait.
-all the scenery is awesome, big fences with army camo on it and big BIOHAZARD signs and quarantine zone,etc. There were even a sound system playing the emergency radio saying things like "everyone must stay in doors....symptoms to infection include...." ( it was legit)
then they put a groups of about 20 people in bullpins next to each other to wait for your turn to take the "tour" of the facilities and learn the rules.
then when your group goes, you meet two army guys (different ranks) who tell you the rules and tell you that after being treated, everyone will be evacutated via hellicopter to a base in Nevada for safety (this is put on by the City's theatre group, so they are legit actors that do a really good job). sometimes they yell at you to.
needless to say throughout the next 40 minutes or so going around the army facitlities, shit hits the fan. an alarm even sounded at one point and it was awesome. you actually feel like your a part of a movie, with a storyline. in the end the treatment facility is really a extermination room, and you have to run for it as the two army guys duke it out (as things broke down they would fight about what to do with our group, leave us to die, save us, etc.)
they were even so smart as to plant actors in the group istelf!! there were 2 or 3 (seemingly normal people), and my friends had even talked to them. at one point the guy next to me started hacking a little bit. I asked him if he was alright, and he muttered "get away from me" and he violently started making infected noises, seizing and stuff. the army dude told us all to get away and he fought with the infected guy a little before throwing him in this shed and (I think) shooting him.
what was so cool about this whole thing was that it wasn't just this little walkway in a house. it was an open grounds and the army guys would yell at you to "keep it tight" and stuff like that. when infected would breach in, you'd have to run after them into a nearby building, and some of us had to help them close the big sliding barn door at one point, so it's interactive. (then we'd have to book it to another building, etc, etc.)
I can't explain EVERY detail that happened, but needless to say it was AWESOME.
this is definitely not for little kids and families.
*EDIT* O and I kid you not they had a witch in it. there was this little girl on the ground like crying, and the army guys turned off their lights. this normal infected started crawling at us from a dark doorway, and she started screaming and running after us until we got behind this fence and locked it. sweet.
http://www.yelp.com/events/hillsboro-the-fields-of-fear-8