Growing up in the 1980s in Havre de Grace, Maryland, Hopps' favorite toy was a stuffed King Kong.
Hopps' passion for horror came organically. All we have to do is put a face on it and let them release it.' People who come to a haunted house are already scared. Our brain still has that level of anxiety, and humans are the scariest thing on earth.
Something would come out of the darkness, drag someone out, and you'd hear them being eaten. “It used to be you'd be sitting around a fire outside of the cave you lived in. 'My job is selling people endorphins,” he says.
No one knows this better than Allen Hopps, director of the Dark Hour Haunted House. The world can be monstrous, and the cathartic experience of being scared can be crucial to coping with anxiety.
