Welcome to my Nightmare (on Grayson)

by Blair Warren

I’m a kid at heart - especially when it comes to Halloween.

I love everything about it: scary stories, horror movies, masks, costumes, candy, smoke, strobe lights, and most of all, haunted houses.

So it should come as no surprise that one of my favorite places in the world is a haunted house right here in San Antonio.  It’s called Nightmare on Grayson.

I’ve been hanging around the place for so many years that the people there are almost like family.  And my son has practically grown up there.

Well, I was recently going thru some old videos and stumbled upon a TV commercial I produced for them about 7 or 8 years ago.

Watching it brought back some great memories.  Though we had practically no money to produce the spot, it was one of the most fun experiences I’ve ever had. 

I must have spent 2 or 3 days working on the soundtrack alone.  (If you listen carefully, in the background you can hear a baby crying, a swarm of angry bees, and some audio I recorded in an actual slaughterhouse.)

We tried to tell a complete story - and squeeze in the sponsor tags - in just 30 seconds.  To do it, we picked a simple theme:

A young couple visits Nightmare on Grayson and things go terribly wrong.

Of course, this is an exaggeration; as they tell you when you enter the haunted house, “Don’t worry.  Almost everyone makes it out alive.”

Anyway, since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d celebrate a little bit by posting the commercial here.  I hope you like it.

Happy Halloween everyone! 

P.S.  If I could figure out how to make a living producing things like this, I’d do it in an instant.

Posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 11:00 PM

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