Chateau a screaming success

The Chateau opened it’s creaking doors on Friday, November 17, and the doors slammed shut on Sunday, having terrorised the wits out of many thousands of hapless souls.

The Chateau, which featured a tight maze-like corridor with performance spaces, secret doors and hatches, eerie music, sound effects and a cast of 20 actors dressed like zombies, has been one of the biggest attractions of this year’s Banks of the Foyle Hallowe’en festivities.

The brainchild of Brian and John McGee, Chateau le Fear saw the musty old officers mess building at Ebrington Square converted into a true house of horrors, in which confident ‘visitors’ were reduced to nervous laughter before being shocked and terrorised into bloodcurdling screaming fits by the creepy characters lurking in the dark recesses. The nightmare realm may have vanished,,, but there can be no doubt...the Chateau, much like Brigadoon, will emerge out of the mists once more, for more chilling thrills some time in the future...