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What's Scarier Than the Upcoming Election? A Haunted House About It

By Nikhita Venugopal | September 1, 2016 3:33pm | Updated on September 1, 2016 4:11pm
 Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
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If the 2016 presidential election is teaching us anything, it's that ghosts and ghouls are child's play compared to the horror that politics can unleash on our lives.

At least that's the thought behind "Doomocracy," an immersive, interactive "political house of horrors" that walks the line of art, activism and horror. 

"Here we have a scenario of hell that is basically your nightly news," said Nato Thompson, artistic director of Creative Time, a nonprofit arts organization that is commissioning and producing the project with artist Pedro Reyes.

Taking over a part of Sunset Park's Brooklyn Army Terminal from Oct. 7 to Nov. 6 — aptly merging Halloween and the presidential election — "Doomocracy" will take a group of eight to 10 participants through a maze of 15 rooms with a jumble of themes.

There, you'll be terrified from themes ranging from climate change to gun control to consumerism and surveillance.

And of course, the battle between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for the White House will feature in the rooms, but in the understated way that it does in our everyday lives.

"When you leave the haunted house, you're still in the haunted house," Thompson said. "That is scary."

"Doomocracy" is free and open to the public but tickets must be reserved in advance. Tickets will go live Sept. 13 but early bird tickets can be purchased through the project's Kickstarter campaign.