“You can tell the people whose heart is in it,” he said. Scott Taylor, a packaging engineer for Avon by day, has worked at Headless Horseman for 10 years, with nine of them spent playing a very unsettling clown. What makes a great haunt actor? “There has to be at least a little something off about you,” said Will Szigethy, a longtime Headless Horseman actor. Now they typically audition remotely, scaring the camera. Before the pandemic, applicants came in for interviews and auditions. While some haunted houses use trained actors, most fill their ranks with enthusiastic amateurs. In the weeks leading up to Halloween, we spoke to some of the actors of Blood Manor, amid the hustle of New York City, and Headless Horseman - which operates escape rooms, haunted houses and a very scary corn maze on 65 acres a half-hour drive from the nearest train station - about how they make those scares happen.
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