The Sudden Impact! Entertainment Company is an entertainment company based in New York City, United States. The company has created temporary and permanent scare attractions for amusement parks and traveling carnivals across the globe.
History The Sudden Impact! Entertainment Company was founded in 1991 by Lynton V. Harris. Harris was born in Australia and began his career as a DJ at age 15. From there he worked up the ranks to be marketing director for 10 Australian radio stations. In 1991, he travelled to the United States and discovered the money that could be made in entertainment attractions. Harris started the Sudden Impact! Entertainment Company with an aim of operating attractions at Madison Square Gardens in New York City. In 1996, the company began a four-year season of Madison SCARE Gardens selling approximately 250,000 tickets.
In the early 2000s, the company was ready to open their attractions in Washington, however, due to the September 11 attacks and the Beltway sniper attacks (in 2001 and 2002 respectively), these plans were shelved costing the company and Harris millions. Sudden Impact began to focus on attractions in Australia with the opening of several temporary attractions at amusement parks and traveling carnivals. In 2009, the company began to deviate from the standard scare attractions with the opening of themed indoor laser skirmish games such as AVPX at Dreamworld.
Attractions
Name Location Opened Closed Notes Angoscia Dreamworld Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia AVPX Dreamworld Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Chamber Live: Serial Killers Madame Tussauds London Central London, England Chamber of Horrors Live Madame Tussauds London Central London, England Early Freakshow 3D Thorpe Park Surrey, England Freddy's Nightmare maze Warner Bros. Movie World Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia The Freezer Dreamworld Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Thorpe Park Surrey, England Madison Square Garden New York City, United States The Fright House United States Gotham Underground Madison Square Garden New York City, United States Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Enter the Tomb Dreamworld Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Luna Park Melbourne St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria Royal Adelaide Show Adelaide, South Australia, Australia The Mummy Live Madison Square Garden New York City, United States The Mummy Returns Dreamworld Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Universal Studios Hollywood Los Angeles County, California, United States The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Live Dreamworld Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia La Ronde Montreal, Quebec, Canada Night at the Museum Live Sunway Lagoon Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Pirate Jack's Halloween Adventure Chessington World of Adventures London, England Prison Break Live Luna Park Melbourne St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria Luna Park Sydney Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Royal Adelaide Show Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Sunway Lagoon Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Psycho 3D maze Warner Bros. Movie World Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia 2010 (seasonal) Rumah Hantu 3D Sunway Lagoon Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SAW maze Warner Bros. Movie World Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Six Flags Great America Gurnee, Illinois, United States The Scorpion King Live Scream Madame Tussauds Shanghai Amsterdam Terminator Alive Sunway Lagoon Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Terminator X: A Laser Battle for Salvation Adventure World Perth, Western Australia, Australia La Ronde Montreal, Quebec, Canada Royal Adelaide Show Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Six Flags Mexico Mexico City, Mexico Sunway Lagoon Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 2012 Terror in the Towers Alton Towers Staffordshire, England Terror Tunnel Sunway Lagoon Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Tomb Raider Legend Live Adventure World Perth, Western Australia, Australia Trolls Village Dreamworld Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia 2018 2019 Universal Studios Monsters Alive Las Vegas, United States Van Helsing Universal Studios Hollywood Los Angeles County, California, United States Warwick Ghosts Alive Warwick Castle Warwickshire, England Zombie Apocalypse maze Warner Bros. Movie World Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Wet'n'Wild Hawaii Kapolei, Hawaii, United States Zombie Evilution Dreamworld Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia March 2018
Shows
Ice Age on Ice
Scare School Almost all of Sudden Impact! Entertainment Company's attractions feature live trained actors, commonly known as "scare actors". To be hired in this position, scare actors must complete the Scare School program. The Scare School is a 40-hour program where actors are trained to become the best "scarers" they can be. The Scare School has travelled the globe and has been featured in its own television series. The majority of the training is done in broad daylight with very little done indoors or at night-time.
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