Happy Holidays--IN HELL!!

December 2, 2001 9:35 AM

Happy Holidays--IN HELL!! I think someone in Scotland has been watching too much "South Park".
posted by gimonca (15 comments total)

The Dungeons are rather interesting, yet fun in that morbid kind of way. I have been the the London Dungeon, and it had scenes of wax figures depicting various tortures and cruelities based on historic events. I wonder what this exhibit would be like at the Edinburgh Dungeon, sounds like an adult version of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.
posted by crog at 9:54 AM on December 2, 2001

This is just wrong on an infinite number of levels...and it's violently pinging that 'crane-your-neck-to-gawk-at-the-auto-accident' gene for me. Any cheap flights to Scotland?
posted by tpoh.org at 10:11 AM on December 2, 2001

This reminds me of a halloween 'Hell House' display a local church did a few years ago. They tried to show the terror and evil of sinning, and only managed to entertain a hundred or so drunk people. The scenes included a car accident (Which was great. It looked real.), a girl shooting up, while listening to Nine Inch Nails (this church thought they were worse than Marilyn Manson), a boy shooting himself (I believe they used firecrackers for the gunshot), and last, but not least, a real person strapped up on a cross, covered in blood. At the end, they'd ask you what church you went to and try to get you to come to theirs.

All in all, that last part was the scariest.
posted by trioperative at 11:12 AM on December 2, 2001

A leading psychologist also said "there are dangers" in allowing children as young as eight to see the display.

Well, duh.
posted by geoff. at 11:16 AM on December 2, 2001

Isn't that a typo -- Satan Claus? Anyway, I'm surprised to see all this going on in Scotland; I had heard that the Devil went down to Georgia . . . .
posted by LeLiLo at 11:19 AM on December 2, 2001

Lets see, terrifying small children with satan and fire and brimstone....
....sounds like a pretty normal Christmas to me, and I bet it does to anyone else lucky enough to have Scottish grandparents.
posted by Catch at 11:39 AM on December 2, 2001

Looks like the Edinburgh Dungeon's purpose is to "depict darkest chapters of Scottish history." Looks like a year round haunted house, intended not to encourage bad stuff, but offer bad stuff merely for entertainment value. The people complaining about this thing obviously have no concept of good, clean, old-fashioned, morbid fun. =)
posted by ZachsMind at 12:16 PM on December 2, 2001

That's one for the NTK bizarre BBC hand-crafted photo collection, for sure.
posted by Mo Nickels at 12:57 PM on December 2, 2001

That's one for the NTK bizarre BBC hand-crafted photo collection, for sure.
posted by Mo Nickels at 1:02 PM on December 2, 2001

That's one for the NTK bizarre BBC hand-crafted photo collection, for sure.
posted by Mo Nickels at 1:08 PM on December 2, 2001

Jesus. My browser's going off the deep end. This page has been in the background for ten minutes, just posting, and reposting, and reposting, with not a peep or error notice.

(I really do know how to use this thing...)
posted by Mo Nickels at 1:10 PM on December 2, 2001

It is terrible to use the image of glorifying Satan to make money


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posted by y2karl at 4:27 PM on December 2, 2001

OHMYGOD! The curse of Mo Nickels!

Mo Nickels!

Mo Nickels!

posted by y2karl at 4:43 PM on December 2, 2001

curse you spinal tap and all the hell hot bitches that follow you. hell is truly black. black...serene, but black... like pastel black.
posted by eatdonuts at 7:46 PM on December 2, 2001

Mmmmm... nasty presents.
posted by apollo at 8:10 PM on December 2, 2001