Screams at the Beach - Spawning Nightmares in Southern Delaware Since 2011
Everyone has a favorite holiday, right?
If there's young children at home, chances are pretty good that Christmas is one of the highlights of your year. If you're a die hard romantic, then you're probably the first one in line at the florist on Feb. 14. And if you love nothing more than enjoying a bountiful feast and a full-day of nonstop football, then there's no better day on the calendar than Thanksgiving.
But for Screams at the Beach Manager Angela Colone and her misfit gang of psycho clowns, flesh-eating zombies, chain-wielding maniacs and bloodied corpses, the 364 days a year simply lead up to the best one of them all - and that's Halloween!
Now in it's seventh year, the award-winning haunted attraction between Georgetown and Lewes welcomes thousands of visitors every fall and promises new haunts and a fresh batch of surprises each and every season.
It's also locally owned and operated, which allows us to profile all of the spine-tingling action here in our continuing series of southern Delaware business features.
A self-proclaimed "horror fanatic," Angela has been involved with Screams at the Beach since it's inception. Truth be told, she was an actor during the attraction's inaugural year in 2010, when it was known as "All Hallows Revenge."
She completely embraced her character and did such a memorable job of scaring people that they asked her back the following year, and the transition to "Screams at the Beach" began.
Today, she literally thinks about the best ways of scaring people 12 months a year. She watches movies, reads articles, talks with other like-minded people and even visits other attractions.
Anything to get new and innovative ideas for what has really become one of her life's passions - and that's scaring the daylights out of people any chance she gets.
"Each year, we try to get a little more extreme and do whatever we can to give people a unique experience and something that they're going to remember forever," Colone reveals. "We work really hard to make the sets seem very real. We want people to feel like they're walking into their very own horror movie when they visit Screams at the Beach."
One of the ways Colone and her crew does that is by making things as realistic as possible. This includes several methods, from importing unpleasant odors that smell of vomit and feces in the appropriate places, allowing visitors to incorporate themselves into different rooms and themes and even utilizing perhaps a dead rat or squirrel into the on-site landscaping.
It all adds to the realistic nature of the attraction, which is one of the reasons why "Screams at the Beach" has won multiple regional and national awards, including earning the second spot on HauntRater's annual list of the "scariest haunts in America."
"I personally take a great deal of pride in taking something that I've been thinking about and bringing it to life," Colone admits. "I have an entire team here that feels the same way, and we love sharing that with people. We have a dysfunctional family, but we definitely put the functional in dysfunctional."
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