The Deep End is actually a very likable bar. Inside, the pastel-painted walls create an alien, subaquatic world full of the cute mermaids, balloon fishes and unicorn octopuses. The only thing that cues you in that something twisted could happen there is the drawing of a Marilyn Monroe, her head exploding like an atomic bomb. 

And indeed, something twisted happens every Halloween here since 2017, when co-owners Jon Gneezy and Jorge Mdahuar turn the bar into one of the most scary haunted houses in the city. 

“It kind of started small, like we could maybe do this and see what happens, and then it kind of was a hit,” Gneezy told me. “We love doing it. We love Halloween.”