Prism Haunted House

During our inaugural year in 2018, we opened to the public for a total of 3 nights and 7 hours. During that time, we had 750 terrified guests
experience the haunt and most lived to tell the tale.

With humble beginnings came great learning, and we used this season as a way to both kickstart the Prism brand and experiment with techniques that would grow into the techno-haunt-horrorland we now put on every season.

Prism started as a passion
project designed by two friends, David Fetterman and Andrew Ducote, as a free-to-attend haunt for the community. It was a resounding success in every category except for number of gray hairs generated. It has grown in quality and scope ever since.

In 2019 we expanded the haunt to 7+ rooms and 10+ minutes of horror. Taking our Prism name literally, each room was themed on
a color or the visible light spectrum; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, Indigo and violet. Terror came in all shades as you wound through the Doctor’s lab and encountered his “advanced humans.”

We also ratched up the special effects, with home-grown animatronics powered by Raspberrvy Pi’s and Arduinos. Ever enter a fleshy room enveloped in countless, twitching eyeballs?

Thrown into the mix was a multitude of cinema-quality pre-recorded special effects including
character videos, monster projections, and world-building advertisements for the big, bad parent corporation, Prism
Research Group.

More Horror. More Thrills. More Safety. During an unprecedented pandemic, Prism adapted, leaning into safety measures as an opportunity to experiment with new formats and new technologies.

We built out an open air show with a pre-recorded multi-projection main experience that blended live-action actors and special effects all meticulously timed to an amusement-park-level of “wow.”

It was haunt automation nirvana, and provided a consistent, repeatable experience for our almost 3,000 safely-distanced and guests.

The Doctor extracted an audience member, extracted her worst nightmares, and then unleashed them upon the laboratory. Our victim/heroine was tasked with initiating the lab’s self-destruct mechanism to contain the creatures manifested from her subconscious.

Our biggest season yet… and we’re outgrowing the ‘hood.

With 3,700+ guests, we’ve reached a limit on what our quaint little street can support. We receive our first warning from the city that we’ll have to tone it down – a badge we wear with honor. We realize that in order to reach our full potential and build the experience we’ve always dreamed (nightmare’d?) of, we’ll need to find a new home, soon.

We have one hell of a season, but we’re already looking ahead to what will become the biggest adventure of our lives.

Westminster Mall. 10,000 square feet. Hand-in-bloody-hand with our friends at Hauntington Beach Manor. We pull off the impossible – a 20-night commercial-scale haunt with high-tech thrills, and killer scares.

It wasn’t easy, but it was worth it. The haunt is exceptionally well received, and both a personal and business success – something many commercial haunts can’t claim.

We’re absolutely thrilled, but exhausted. Time to crawl back in our coffins and hibernate until next season.

A wee baby haunter joined our family and dad needed some time to… well, dad. We took a step back and Prism Haunted House returned to its Orange County roots with a smaller, more intimate haunt for the neighborhood – by our ridiculous standards, of course. We can’t wait for those little hands to get strong enough to wrench on our future haunts with us.

This year, guests explored Doctor Sanguine’s acid bath disposal tank and tried their best not to melt off those few extra pounds….