For the last five years, Veneziale has been transforming his family’s suburban Philadelphia home into a theatrical Halloween walk-through of deranged clowns, lurking zombies, and jumpscares galore. “Joe is obsessed with Halloween,” says his mom, Christine Veneziale. In 2020, he organized his first “haunted house” in the driveway of his family’s former home. Sixteen-year-old Joe Veneziale builds all the sets for the haunted house himself with the help of his family, especially his grandpop Goose, a lifelong carpenter. “And then…surprise!”Although smaller in scale than most professional haunted house attractions, “what you can see at them you’ll likely see here,” says Veneziale.