How Much Are The Darkness Tickets?

The Price of Darkness: This, however, brings the question of; How much does it cost to get a ticket for the world’s scariest haunted house?

Anyone who is interested in something scary around Halloween will find something like a haunted house as a perfect thing. The most famous and frightening haunted house people drive for miles to attend is called, McKamey Manor’s Descent into Darkness. This intense haunted house attraction boasts of a frightening experience to the extreme, and could take up to 10 hours, but how much would customers have to pay for a ticket to this extreme?

What is the story of the McKamey Manor and its Descend Into Darkness?

Hauntworld has had the distinct pleasure to stay and investigate McKamey Manor and it is owned by Russ McKamey; This haunted house is at the top of world’s most extreme and controversial haunted attractions. Their most intense experience is called The Descent Into Darkness, specifically designed to let guests be hunted and potentially terrorized for as long as 10 hours if they don’t pass tests throughout the ordeal. It is in Summertown, Tennessee and contains strenuous physical activity, cramped spaces, dim light, smoke, loud music and sounds, and contact between staff and people visiting the haunted house.

Because the haunt is so intense, potential guests have to complete a questionnaire, pass a sports physical, watch an informative two-hour video of what the experience is like, and sign a forty-page document that spells out what they are getting into before they can attend. The students can only be from the adult category, and such adults must be 21 years and above and would have to pass through a screening process. The haunt also has stock safety phrases that a visitor can use if he/she wants to leave early. The following are the general warnings given at McKamey Manor regarding Descent Into Darkness: It is not suitable for those with health problems, pregnant women, claustrophobics, individuals with fear of the dark, and those who are not comfortable with physical contact.

The ideology of tailored terror and the managerial claim of being one of the most intense haunted attractions globally have sustained the curiosity and anticipation for McKamey Manor’s Descent Into Darkness. But first, just how much does such an intense, individualized, and lengthy scare encounter run per guest?

The Price is Surprisingly Low, or, The Lowest Price that is Still Too High. This line ‘If You Make It All The Way Through’ is the last of the lyrics and is complete in the song.

This is a rather interesting concept regarding tickets to the Descent Into Darkness at McKamey Manor that cost just twenty dollars. but there's a catch. Only clients are allowed to pay for the service being offered since the whole place is a 10 hour haunt that must be complete without giving up.

In a way, actually, tickets are free for those who consider the experience too much of an thrill and have to use the ‘Emergency Exit’ phrase to leave. The attractions primary focus is fear, disorientation, physicality and endurance both of body and mind and with these in place the majority of those who attend do not survive the 10 hours of the haunt experience they have paid for.

No matter how long they stay – 10 min or 10 hours – they are allowed to pay only the ticket price of $ 20 as long as they do not descend to the full darkness at the end of the tunnel and start descending again. And so McKamey Manor gets to provide a uniquely horrifying and comprehensive haunted house attraction that is either free or extremely cheap.

Why is a ticket so “cheap” for such a wild show?

The general price range for most of the popular haunted houses and theme park fright fests during Halloween are: $30 and over $200 per head depending on the event. How can a theatre-style extreme haunt such as Descent Into Darkness, which caters to 8 to 10 people at a time, cost only $20 per person for up to 10 hours of fear and offer such a complex staffing strategy, scene arrangements, and professional performance?

There are a few important factors that allow McKamey Manor to offer tickets at such a low price:There are a few important factors that allow McKamey Manor to offer tickets at such a low price:

1. In these movies, there is less attention paid to the complexity of set designs/effects or grand, sweeping narratives.

   What differentiates McKamey Manor from other large-scale fright factories that have been developed as elaborate movie sets with animatronics, costumes, and cinematic special effects are absent here, but instead of this simple sets with bare walls and floors that combined with psychological tricks and interactions with staff frighten the guests. Cheap corridors, simple rooms, chains, a food trough, too intense lighting, illogical disorder, uncomfortable positions, and deliberate sudden movements of the personnel are used to evoke fears instead of creating expensive conditions.

2. The Willingness to Cut Losses and Accept Losses on Those Who Quit Early

   What it means is McKamey Manor is willing to make money at a loss and provide a completely free experience, to the majority of those that request to be removed from the property, because they cannot handle it. While there is a one in a fun-out to complete a game and pay 20 dollar, there are many more individuals that will never pay anything because they could not handle it anymore. The waiver process serves a purpose of sieving out the less serious enthusiasts so that the key human resource is dedicated to extreme haunt enthusiasts who are willing to take the risk.

3. It is passion that defines their desire to deliver exquisite and intense experiences.

   Owner Russ McKamey is more concerned with maintaining an extreme haunt as he wants it than he is about the profit result. He has self-actualization objectives that involve offering unique services that meet the visitor’s needs for excitement and fear, specifically customized. On this count, it does not appear that making money is his major objective when ticket prices are kept at $20 for this rare occurrence. The business is best described as a year-round Halloween house rather than a moneymaking commercial haunted attraction site with themes akin to an extravagant theater company.

4. Non-insurance/Non-liability with over waivers Costs less

   The 40 page super intense disclaimer that each participant must sign before going further also eliminates the high cost of liability insurance and accidental injury claims from the Manor. Since visitors are aware of numerous possible physical dangers and psychological pressure one can stumble upon, there are fewer possibilities of being held financially liable for problems that may affect patrons during or after the event, like in the course of Descent Into Darkness.

5. No Advertising/Marketing Costs

   This company has gotten free publicity by having people post videos of themselves screaming and running online, having celebrities such as Steve-O visit the site, and having the news report on the extreme scares at McKamey Manor. The excitement created by such acts results in thousands of requests for tickets every year without any advertising, thus avoiding high costs.

   In Conclusion

   Despite being on the higher end of the scare factor spectrum in terms of time, which can range from 2 to 10 hours of theater-like scares by the McKamey Manor team, the Descent Into Darkness only costs $20. But that is where you have to pay the $50 if you don’t make it though the whole haunt!

   The innovative low budget scary strategies the focus on the offering quality services rather than investing in complicated effects and setting the rigorous screenings and waivers that minimize liability issues and the absence of the need to advertise to create demand all enables them to keep the tickets cheap for the few, few who will make it to the end of the night. McKamey Manor has discovered a business model that aligns with their mission to provide the scariest fears for those that love extreme haunted attractions and is not an attempt to make as much money as possible like Haunted House businesses.

   It was an alright run, but last year Putnam and his crew had to endure up to 10 hours of customized descending into darkness at McKamey Manor and if you think you have the stamina or the mental strength to survive such a Halloween event that seems so exciting and terrifying at the same time then this place is for you. Just know that if you finish the tickets are VERY cheap, but if you’re going to be that $20 for the price you’ll pay after going through what most consider to be a traumatizing nightmare experience that is designed with the sole purpose of pushing you to your very limits!