Zombies v the witches of Salem: How two haunted houses' Halloween 反目，不和 became an all-out war between bad and evil

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
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There has always been bad 血 between witches and zombies.

And now the 戦う／戦い between bad and evil has become an all-out war- just in time for Hallowee n.

The witches belong to one Haunted House in Salem, Massachusetts, the zombies to the other.

Nightmare: A witch guards The Witch Mansion after the traditional bad blood between the feuding creatures became all-out war

Nightmare: A witch guards The Witch Mansion after the 伝統的な bad 血 between the 反目，不和ing creatures became all-out war

The Nightmare Factory, home to the zombies, opened in the town’s East India Square 商店街 five years ago.

So when the Witch Mansion opened shop in the same 商店街, just in time for the popular Salem Halloween season, the 競争 got 激しい.

The trouble started when one of witches tried to trip up a zombie who was touting for 商売／仕事, によれば Marshall Tripoli, who owns the Nightmare Factory.

The zombie in question was wearing a straitjacket which made her 特に 攻撃を受けやすい, he told the Boston Globe.

Tripoli fought 支援する ?by sending his zombies to 脅迫してさせる the actors chasing custom around Witch Mansion.?

The original: The Nightmare Factory has been the only haunted house on the block for five years

Competing terrors: The owner of The Nightmare Factory, shown here, has 宣言するd war on the Witch Mansion


House of Horror: A zombie hovers threateningly in front of Witch mansion in down town Salem

House of Horror: A zombie hovers threateningly in 前線 of The Witch Mansion in 負かす／撃墜する town Salem

And what started as 叫び声をあげるing 侮辱s, got physical on Sunday when a witch deliberately bumped into a zombie, who was 手渡すing out ちらしs.

The unprovoked attack has drawn 猛烈な／残忍な 批評.

But John Denley, co-owner of the Witch Mansion, said the only explanation is that the bumping was 偶発の and that his actor’s 見通し was 限られた／立憲的な by the mask.

一方／合間 Tripoli has 宣言するd war. He said: ‘There is a war, a war has started,' he said. This isn’t a two-haunted-house 商店街, and Halloween is make-or-break. This is their Christmas, when he will 支払う／賃金 his rent for the year, and there are only so many dollars out there.'

Witch hunt: The trouble started when one of witches tried to trip up a zombie who was touting for business

Witch 追跡（する）: The trouble started when one of witches tried to trip up a zombie who was touting for 商売／仕事


Rival hauntings: The witches belong to one Haunted House in Salem, Massachusetts, the zombies to the other.

競争相手 hauntings: The witches belong to The Witch Mansion haunted house, the zombies (shown here) to The Nightmare Factory.

Standoff: Zombies, like the one shown here, won't be bullied by witches, says Nightmare Factory owner Marshall Tripoli

引き分け: Zombies, like the one shown here, won't be いじめ（る）d by witches, says Nightmare Factory owner Marshall Tripoli

Denley said he did not choose the 場所 for the new haunted house to 原因（となる） trouble, but his secret 武器 is the 場所 of the 所有物／資産／財産.

'We were smart in the first place,' Denley said. ;We have a 場所 outside where the people are. We won the war before it started, and that’s why he’s so upset. He’s got a gun with no 弾丸s.'

Britt Mitchell ? the actor who plays Bridget Bishop, the first woman 遂行する／発効させるd in the witch 裁判，公判s - said the 競争 for custom is a 伝統的な part of the holiday season. 'It’s when all the money comes in, so there is 緊張,' said Mitchell.'It’s the only month we make money.'

ZOMBIE FOOTNOTES

  • Zombies are 死体 s brought 支援する to life by witchcraft or 魔法
  • They look like humans but have no consciousness. They feel no 苦痛
  • They are usually hungry for human flesh, often 特に brains
  • The quintessential zombie horror film was Night of the Living Dead. The 1968 film spawned an entire sub-genre of horror
  • Zombie films, such as Shawn of the Dead, now usually 描写する a 決裂／故障 of civilisation

WITCH FOOTNOTES

  • Witches are anti-Christian, evil 魔法 使用者s, usually assumed to be women?
  • They use their 力／強力にするs and incantations to cast harmful （一定の）期間s on 隣人s, take 復讐 against a lover or conjure the dead
  • 伝統的な witches have 黒人／ボイコット cats and can 飛行機で行く on broomsticks
  • Real-life witch 追跡（する）s took place in Europe throughout the 14th-18th centuries. In the US around 150 people were （刑事）被告 of witchcraft in Massachusetts in the 17th century. 14 were 遂行する／発効させるd

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