One suggestion for Halloween marketers looking to bridge the gap between pop culture costumery and freak-show frights: how about a Bennifer mask?
He declined to take the stage in his kindergarten talent show, a fright he has clearly overcome.
The show, "Stage Fright," collapses Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk into two dimensions, a move that Wagner might not have approved of, but one that Peter Gelb's Met, with its live broadcasts in movie theaters and Times Square, has strategically embraced.
Her approach isn't that of a documentarian or photojournalist, showing the frights and sights how they are supposed to be seen and felt.
That's always been the tone of Les Freres Corbusier, too, the company behind "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant," which set a religion's tenets to songs performed by a preadolescent cast, and "Hell House," an unwinking re-creation of a Christian fundamentalist Halloween fright show.
As the tourists' everyday reality is invaded by terrifying hallucinatory flashes of Blair Witch mythology, "Book of Shadows" evokes mass hysteria as a horror-film fright show, cleverly even slipping in visual homages to everything from "The Omen" to "The Night of the Living Dead".
An attraction based on the series, the Goosebumps HorrorLand Fright Show and FunHouse, opened in October 1997 at Disney-MGM Studios's New York Street.
Accordingly, we regularly observe groups of P. mexicana (and other poeciliids) in close proximity to groups of C. salvini in their natural habitat, where mollies typically would not show any obvious fright responses even towards large, adult predators.
The white fur shows only in fright situations when the animal raises its tail as it bounds away.
