Have you ever imagined what you’d do as the main character in a horror movie? How would you react? Where would you run? Would you sacrifice yourself to save your friends? DELUSION: THE BLOOD RITE brings your worst fears to life and creates a truly immersive and interactive horror experience that is unlike any other haunted attraction.

People may walk down the street in North Hollywood, stroll past an indistinct storefront on Lankershim Boulevard, glance at the letters “Z.J.U.” stenciled above the door and wonder what that place sells. They would likely have no idea that just beyond those walls, unspeakable acts of depravity are being performed with ferocity and zeal before an eager audience.

CARRIE is kind of perfect for musical adaptation. It’s a tale—one of high school anguish, alienation, bullying and the onset of womanhood—in which emotion and tension run high on a constant basis. And in the tradition of musicals, in which when it all becomes too much too bear, the proceedings break out into song, Carrie White’s telekinetic powers arrive in bursts much the same, headed toward a show-stopping finale of a different sort.

You have to admire the marketing of the new hit stage show GHOST STORIES. Anyone coming into the show is met with a warning: “Please be advised that GHOST STORIES has scenes of extreme shock and tension. The show is unsuitable for anyone under the age of 14. We strongly advise anyone with a nervous disposition to think twice before attending.” A great bit of hype, but thankfully the show lives up to it, and in ways you wouldn’t expect.

Manhattan’s famed Players Theater becomes the PLAY DEAD Theater from now through its opening on November 10, and beyond, as magicians Teller (of Penn and Teller fame) and Todd Robbins transform the crimson walls into a theater of blood and fear with their highly inventive and hair-raising show, PLAY DEAD, a journey, quite literally, into darkness.