Haunted Houses: Profit Going Extremes, Generate Hundreds Millions Dollars, Metropolitan Art Museum

The claim that these haunted houses are economic powerhouses is slightly misleading. While indeed raking in hundreds of millions, they provide no product, and their service: scaring people, may not be the type of luxury that leaves a lasting level of happiness. Paying to be scared and frightened may not be an economically beneficial “service”. The argument to justify Art is hard enough to make during economic hard times when many are worried about losing shelter and ability to purchase food & clothes.

But the lack of ability to pay mortgages hasn’t stopped the American consumer from spending record-breaking levels on haunted houses, which are expected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. The method? From Christian Haunted “Hell Houses” to more theatrical performances, to the grotesque: Haunted Houses have deviated from the normal yawn scares and transformed to an ever competitive attempt to scare an ever desensitized population or to amuse with laughter or fun. This year, though, art & haunting has fused together: the Metropolitan Art Museum is running a haunted house. Known as “the Met”, the Museum will feature a more artistic form of scare. The Museum has one of the world’s largest art galleries with over two million works of art.