Press release
The Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield has hired Hollywood Special FX legend, Director Robert Kurtzman, and his twisted team of artists at Creature Corps to create an all New Halloween Horror Spectacular.
Kurtzman’s credits include hundreds of Film & TV shows including Classic Horror Films such as From Dusk Till Dawn, The Green Mile, The Nightmare on Elm Street, and the Evil Dead film series. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476071/
“We are so excited to unleash our creative forces onto such an iconic site as the Historic Ohio State Reformatory,” Said Kurtzman. “We are bringing to life all new characters and creature creations with more scares and fantastic visuals. We are going to pull out all the stops to make the 2016 Halloween experience better than ever.”
The new attraction theme is titled Monster Lockdown and is based on a secret society formed in 1964 of monster hunters and occult warriors from around the world. They established a heavily fortified monster containment facility in the heart of Ohio. They are called the SOD – The Slayers of the Damned.
Behind the gothic stone walls of the Historic Ohio State Reformatory (film site of Shawshank Redemption), the SOD have imprisoned hundreds of creatures from this world and beyond. Their mission: to understand the nature of the creatures through scientific study and to ensure the safety of mankind. Until the night it all goes horribly wrong. Flash forward to October, 2016: A violent inmate has broken free and released the evil creatures from their cells. Now the SOD must battle to take back control of the facility before the monsters can break out beyond the walls and once again terrify our world! Think Guantanamo Bay for monsters and madmen.