Bunker 13 Almost Ready

Well, it seems to haver taken forever to get here but the website for Bunker 13 is almost ready to launch.  We got the finished promo video yesterday from Better Than Joe Media and, to put it bluntly, its the best we have ever done!  Have a look at the link below for the 2 minute film and see what you think.  The website should be up Friday and tickets will be on sale after that so, fingers crossed, we should be rolling by the weekend.  The props are all coming along nicely and we are about to order a VERY special piece of kit from America which will add a whole new level of fear inside the maze.

Anyway, enjoy the clip and get your tickets booked this weekend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYac4kAtwIg

Bunker 13 Comes To Life

The time is almost here to launch the official Bunker 13 website but, for now, enjoy the artwork as a teaser for the main pages.  We are very happy with what the boys at Pixel One have done for us so far with this website, only a few days left before the full thing is unleashed!!

Haunted - Live & Xtreme Story

For those of you that are interested this is the official backstory for the attraction in York this August bank holiday weekend

Stonegate, the oldest street in the city of York, has been witness to countless acts of murder, mayhem and chaos over the centuries.  First accounts of this road date back to 1118 and stone used in York’s great Minster was brought along this very same cobbled path.  The street is also famous for being home to the Haunted House of York, a place of ghosts, restless spirits and things that defy understanding but most people are not aware of exactly what went on in that foreboding property many, many years ago.  The time of great darkness is almost upon us, the return of the evil itself is getting closer and things on Stonegate will never be the same again for this August in the year of our lord 2011 Hell itself is predicted to spill over into our world and complete a prophecy lost in the mists of history!

Sir Thomas Vanderbelt, by day a respected blacksmith, by night a sorcerer, necromancer, alchemist, satanic magician!  Having summoned up the forces of hell a void spilled over into our world releasing demons, monsters and a whole host of macabre creature’s intent on devouring the flesh of anyone foolish enough to get too close. 

The home to this insane world of terror and torment is reputedly the most haunted property in the city of York and YOU can experience the fear inside for yourself.  From Friday the 26^th to Monday the 29^th of August 2011 the Haunted House of York will be transformed into your very worst nightmare.  Utilising live actors, special effects, sounds, lighting and pure fear you will be plunged into a situation that you won’t forget.  Strictly for over 18’s, Haunted - Live and Xtreme will assault all of your senses at once and leave you rocked, shocked, but thoroughly entertained.

Weekly Update

We have had quite a productive day today with Magna and Pixel One, the website designers.  We have finalised budgets for Bunker 13 now so its full systems go and the website and promo video for the attraction should be live by Monday next week.  We have also seen the work done so far on the new GNG Entertainment website and it’s looking very nice indeed.  Hopefully this will be up and running in the next few weeks.

So, with Bunker 13, this is where we are.  The full design for the maze is finished and approved and the architectural drawings are done.  The H & S team at Magna have given the rubber stamp on the layout which was a load off our mind!  We have a full prop list for everything we need to put into the maze and some of the more bespoke pieces are currently under construction.  We have been approached by a student from Manchester University who is in her last year of studying special effects and makeup who will be joining the team to do the work on the creatures inside the show, we are very excited by this.  The press packs are all done for the launch night and these will be sent out soon to try and get some good newspapers, radio stations etc down for the night along with the industry people, Michael Bolton from Scare Tours/Scarecon has already said he will be making an appearance to review the show so we better pull out all the stops!

Now, on to Haunted – Live and Xtreme.  The website is now under construction and filming of the promo video should be happening next week all being well.  We have quite a tight turnaround to get everything done as the show is in just over 2 months but we are confident it will all be sorted in time.  Tickets for this one will be sold through PayPal or on the door of Haunted throughout the coming weeks.  There will also be discounted entry for anyone who goes on the official Haunted tour as well.  The back story has been approved and all the rooms have now been storyboarded and scripted.  We have 25 actors who have applied to be part of the show so we should get some good talent for the 10 we need for the attraction.

That’s about it for those 2 shows, we are currently working on an outdoor event for Halloween under the working title “Blood Moon”, more on this when we get the official nod.

Bunker 13 Back Story

For those of you that are interested this is the full concept story for the Halloween scare attraction.

Gaz

Bunker 13 Scare Attraction Back Story

Throughout the Cold War the world hung on the edge of Armageddon and total nuclear destruction with seemingly nothing more than a horrible death to look forward to.  All sides in this unwinnable apocalypse battled to create even more powerful weapons with bigger explosive yields, faster delivery times and better launch capabilities to gain the first strike advantage.  Whilst the super powers spent untold billions on their arsenal Britain decided to try something very, very different.

With the onset of all out nuclear war seemingly inevitable the British government set up a super secret organisation whose one aim was to ensure our country would continue to operate in the atomic aftermath.  Known only as “The Occupants”, they created a network of bunkers and tunnel systems to experiment and devise ways of saving our society should the unthinkable actually happen.  There most audacious task was to create a serum that, when injected into the human body, would stave off the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation allowing us to go about our daily lives without the need to be confined inside a fallout shelter.  The Occupants worked throughout the whole of the 1960’s and into the 1970’s without ever succeeding in their goal.  What was created inside the mysterious Bunker 13 never saw the light of day but after a leaked memo confirmed the practice of human experimentation and degrading, sickening acts against men and women the bunkers were shut down and sealed forever

Until now……

At the start of 2011 a routine site survey at the Magna Science Adventure Centre revealed a hidden tunnel.  After considerable excavation the site team discovered the tunnel led directly to a large bunker complex of unknown origin.  Without thinking of the consequences of their actions the team broke the seal and went inside, none of them were ever seen again.

This Halloween, dare you venture inside Bunker 13?  A place of pure evil, a place of hideous creatures and a place of macabre experiments gone drastically wrong.  Will you make it through the bunker complex alive or will you suffer the same fate as the Magna team?  This is NOT going to be pleasant!

Bunker 13 Promo Shots

This is a selection of the photos we will be using to promote Bunker 13 at Magna this Halloween.  Thanks to Rob Cummings from the London Dungeon for posing for us and Dave Pickering from Better Than Joe Media for taking the shots

Welcome to the GNG Entertainment Blog

Hello and thanks for taking a look at our first attempt at a blog.  We have a lot of people who follow us on the official Facebook site and on Twitter but you are limited to what you can put on there so we created this!  This blog will be used to give details about what we are doing, what stage an attraction is at, where we are filming etc so anyone who is interested can keep track.  We will put up construction updates, as many pics as we can and video footage showing you an in depth look at how a scare attraction is created from start to finish, well, that's the plan! 

Enjoy

The GNG Entertainment team
Gaz, Gaz & Ewan