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I Survived Jimmy Fallon’s Tonightmares Torture Basement
Is the late-night host’s haunted house in the bowels of 30 Rock worth the cost of admission?
After descending the escalator, I went through a metal detector and took note of the warning sign, which cautioned visitors not to enter the experience if they have a medical sensitivity to strobe lights or fog, suffer from a fear of enclosed spaces, or have undergone recent surgery. Lit up with the sort of excitement he normally reserves for making Ariana Grande spin a wheel of musical impressions, he told me that he “met with the people from Universal and asked, ‘What if I bring Halloween Horror Nights to New York?’ And they said no,” but eventually they relented and he got to spitball with “these real nerds” (he meant it affectionately) about ideas like spooky scarecrows and the like. These houses featured some of the most elaborate, creative production design I’ve ever witnessed in person, full of the sorts of practical effects you just don’t see in movies anymore and based around a blend of IP tie-ins and wildly original concepts.
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