{"id":3245,"date":"2025-10-14T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/3245\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:16:11","slug":"how-do-they-make-fresno-fright-nights-i-dont-know-how-these-guys-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/3245\/","title":{"rendered":"How do they make Fresno Fright Nights? ‘I don’t know how these guys do it’"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013 The Fresno Fright Night experience is here, and with it comes a cast of dozens and dozens of scare-actors who\u2019ve been waiting all year for the chance to give guests the heebie jeebies.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Visit Fresno County<\/a>, Fresno Fright Nights\u00a0is Fresno\u2019s first-ever Halloween haunt festival, spanning six acres and featuring four terrifying haunted attractions all in one place. The event started on Oct. 3 and continues until Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tFresno Fright Nights: 6 acres of terror at Island Waterpark\t<\/a><\/p>\n

The Island Water Park has been remodeled to house attractions like the Chemi-Kill haunt, designed to scare guests as they walk through.<\/p>\n

But the haunt would not be possible without the dedicated scare-actors that work inside the maze as living parts of the attraction.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe joy of entertaining people. That gleam that they get when they\u2019ve been entertained. It reflects back to me and gives me the same joy,\u201d scare actor Vernon Sanders said.<\/p>\n

Sanders says that even now, after his retirement, he still remembers when his obsession with scaring first began.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy\u00a0first experience was at a high school haunted house, and I was the victim,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cThe scientist would say his lines, and then at the very end and he\u2019d bring a meat cleaver down on a bone, I would just let out a blood-curdling scream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanders said when he first heard of the auditions for scare actors<\/a> at the Island Water Park, he jumped at the opportunity alongside his daughter, and they both made it into the cast.<\/p>\n

First-time scare actor Carissa Holmes says she\u2019s always wanted to be a scare actor \u2013 and getting a chance to do it is a dream come true.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love The Walking Dead, and I just love scaring people,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But the actors and robust sets would be nothing without the expertise of the Head of Make-up and Costuming at Fresno Fright Nights, Stephanie Galvan.<\/p>\n

Galvan says she\u2019s been a lifelong fan of horror and has always appreciated special-effects make-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favorite makeups? I would say Frankenstein,\u201d Galvan said. \u201cI love how they made it out of nothing. The color wheel and stuff they used for those movies was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once Galvan is done putting on the final scary touches on the actors, they are ready for the haunt. <\/p>\n

Galvan says she is a big fan of the haunt experience and participates alongside the actors, hiding and scaring unsuspecting guests.<\/p>\n

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YourCentralValley.com sent one of our own producers, Manny Gomez, to Fresno Fright Nights to experience the haunt as a scare actor for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how these guys do it for so many days in a row,\u201d Gomez said after a full shift of scaring at the Chemi-Kill attraction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are moments where it\u2019s just tons of people coming through,\u00a0then there are moments where there are little lulls. That\u2019s what\u2019s fascinating about it is that you want everyone to kind of have your best moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

To watch the full version of Gomez\u2019s behind-the-scenes look at Fresno Fright Nights, watch the next episode of Your Entertainment Escape available on KSEE24\/CBS47+<\/a>. The next episode premieres at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 14.<\/p>\n

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