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"Instead of Christmas cheer, we are spreading some holiday
fear," said Carroll Moore, who is turning his Halloween season
"Death Yard Haunted Attraction" in Hendersonville into a
Yuletide horror show this Friday and Saturday.
For $10 and an unwrapped new toy, visitors can pass through the
13,000-square-foot warehouse northeast of Nashville crammed with
horrors. For $5 more, they can go to the paintball range just
outside and take 15 shots at Zombie Santa and his friends.
"You can unload on the undead," Moore said. "Maybe Santa Claus
wasn't good to you last year."
The unwrapped new toys will go to Last Minute Toy Store, which
operates out of a Nashville church and gives parents who cannot
afford toys a chance to look for things their children might
want, for no cost.
Moore said he hopes his Zombie Christmas attraction will become
just as much a holiday tradition as driving around to look at
lights or going to see the Rockettes.
Moore is also offering chainsaw-wielding maniacs and killer
clowns, dressed for the holidays.
Nita Haywood, who helps run the Last Minute Toy Store at the
61st Avenue United Methodist Church, where she is director of
children, youth and family ministries, said she will visit
Horrific Haunted Holiday.
"It's different, but new toys are new toys. And what a way to
get teens involved," she said.
(Reporting by Tim Ghianni; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Sandra
Maler)
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