Is Alice Cooper still scary? After all we see on TV and everywhere else, can a 63-year-old rock star wearing eyeliner with a taste for blood and snakes scare the youth of today? I don’t know, Cooper appears so inoffensive these days with his born-again-Christian-golf-lover image that makes him more unoffending than my little cat.
But Los Angeles Universal Studios theme park seems to think he still has his chances in the horror business, as Cooper will launch his ‘Welcome to my Nightmare’ ride, starting September 23rd and running till Halloween.
The attraction, which is described as a ‘spooky maze’, will include ‘guillotine decapitations, electric chairs, a sadistic insane asylum, predatory snake and giant black widow spiders’, and will be playing songs from Cooper’s upcoming album ‘Welcome 2 my Nightmare’, the follow-up to his 1975 album, and set to be released on October 17th.
‘We'll be creating this living horror movie within screaming distance of the sound stages where horror movies first began, so there's no place more appropriate to offer a preview of the new 'Welcome 2 My Nightmare,… This will be a nightmare that will haunt visitors' dreams for a long time to come,’ declared Cooper, ‘If you're lucky, you just might make it out alive, but I doubt it.’
Universal Studios' creative director John Murdy also spoke about the ride:
‘As a life-long Alice Cooper fan who's been motivated and inspired by his craft, I am absolutely thrilled by this incredible opportunity. It's a nightmare come true.’
I am already terrorized.