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What Would it Take to Clean Up After 'Carrie' and 'Friday the 13th?'

While audiences may enjoy these slasher flicks, a real-life biohazard clean-up expert explains what it would take to fully remediate these fictional film scenes.

This is a press release from Aftermath, which has an office in Middletown:

Every Halloween we look back at classic horror films and some of the most gut-wrenching scenes in the scary movie genre. Movie buffs talk about the special effects, the acting, etc. — but has anyone ever asked “what would it take to clean up such a terrifying scene?”

We took some iconic scenes from some classic horror movies and asked an expert from Aftermath, the only national biohazard remediation company (with an office in Middletown), to explain how the scene would be cleaned up.

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