Tokyo scare squad offers drive-in horror shows amid coronavirus fears

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Tokyo scare squad offers drive-in horror shows amid coronavirus fears

TOKYO: A Japanese functioning grouping is starting a run of drive-in horror shows for people who are scared of communicable the coronavirus but all the same want to get close-up frights from ghouls and zombies.

Audience members will drive into a garage in Tokyo, 1 automobile at a time, and listen to a murder story and sound effects blared out of speakers, every bit actors dressed every bit monsters bang on the side of the vehicle and spray fake blood over the windows.

The performance group Kowagarasetai - which roughly translates every bit the "scare squad" - is hoping to frighten every bit many as 11 carloads of people a day at weekends in July and hopefully August, coordinator Kenta Iawana said.

Each group will pay up to 9,000 yen (US$84) for the experience, he added. Shows last for nigh 15 minutes until the shutter goes up and another group comes in, and customers without a motorcar can borrow ane.

Kowagarasetai put on regular walk-in shows at theme parks before the pandemic. But bookings dried up equally venues closed and people stayed abode. They have tried socially-distanced shows, but performers had to stay two metres away so it was all a "chip tedious" said Iawana.

"The drive-in will allow people experience our haunted firm shows," he told Reuters. "We might keep them even after the coronavirus has gone."

Japan has fared ameliorate than the worst-hit countries during the pandemic and the regime final month declared an terminate to a health emergency that had airtight bars, restaurants and other public spaces.

Simply cases in Tokyo have risen over the past calendar week, with the daily infection tally exceeding 100 on Thursday and Friday.

(The states$i = 107.5100 yen)

(Reporting past Tim Kelly; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Tokyo scare squad offers drive-in horror shows amid coronavirus fears

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