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Dr. Albert Caine better known as the Caretaker is one of the icons and recurring characters of Halloween Horror Nights. Not including the unused Eddie Schmidt, he was the second ever icon of Halloween Horror Nights to be made for the parks.

History

Background

Origins

Dr. Albert Caine was once a skilled surgeon. Dr. Albert Caine came to be caretaker of the Shady Oaks Cemetery in Carey, Ohio at an unknown point in time. Doctor Caine renovated the nearby Victorian mansion which he and his family lived in to be the Shady Oaks Funeral Parlour. Caine also had a tendency to dress in Victorian clothing.

Albert also had a daughter named Cindy Caine, whose origins and continuity is unclear. In the haunted house The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes, it was said that Cindy Caine was a pyrokinetic young girl in Carey's Good Harvest Orphanage who in the October of 1920, burned the place down with her pyrokinetic abilities. If/how this connects to her history as Dr. Albert Caine's daughter is unknown.

To further his knowledge of the human body, Doctor Caine, his assistants and his family began desecrating graves to use the corpses in their experiments. Caine desecrated over two-thousand graves, and his, "Family" was known to dance with the human remains, and even cannibalize them. When Doctor Caine required fresher specimens, he would lure away homeless people and then perform brutal procedures and experiments on them without anesthetic. The Caretaker's weapon of choice were large metal shears. Around the 1980s, he may have starred in a film with production connected to Carey called, "The Cult of the Beast Baby".

Screamhouse

One year (possibly around 1992 as the 2002 Haunted House said the events occurred ten years prior), a pair of teenagers wandering through the cemetery happened upon one of the Caine family parties and alerted adults about it. The townsfolk became enraged and burned the funeral home to the ground with the Caine family inside. The only body recovered by police was that of Albert's young daughter, Cindy Caine, while the others had disappeared. The authorities also discovered a series of seemingly endless tunnels underneath of the house, causing it to be unknown if Doctor Caine and his family had died or escaped.

The authorities closed off any access to the cemetery and the ruins of the Caine family home were set to be demolished. A year later, three rotting corpses were discovered on the premises of Shady Oaks. Authorities began sending in research teams to investigate, only for three of them to go missing in the premises (presumably being murdered by Doctor Caine and his family). Doctor Albert Caine would become a murderous being known as, "The Caretaker", though it is unclear if he was undead or a human serial-killer.

Islands of Fear

Note: The continuity of this overarching Halloween Horror Nights event is unclear.

The Resurrection

In 2003, the Caretaker moved from Carey to Nobel, Georgia and had his filing permits for a commercial/residential structure to act as the new Screamhouse were approved on November 2nd. The Caretaker also dug up the corpse of his daughter, Cindy, and used a dark ritual to resurrect her within the new Screamhouse. Caine continued his other experiments and crimes from within said location.

Horror Nights Nightmares

Note: The year setting of this haunted house is unknown, but it came out around 2004 so may be set around that time.

At some point, Universal Studios did production on a film based on the, "Halloween Horror Nights" incidents known as, "Horror Nights Nightmares", produced by L. Surphlis and R. West, co-produced by W. Robinson, while written by K. Babel and M. Aiello. The Caretaker was amongst the real monsters/criminals used in Universal's production, acting in a morgue scene. The production crew made it a rule that no-one on the set was allowed to have sharp objects and that anyone feeling sick should remain calm and contact first aid. For his scene, the Caretaker demanded complete silence.

On the thirteenth day of filming, October 13th, Jack's presence seemed to cause special effects issues for his part of the shoot. For some reason, a VIP tour group was allowed onto the closed set and were attacked by the Caretaker as well as the other monsters.

Twenty Years of Fear

In 2010, the paranormal-investigator organization Legendary Truth: The Collective inadvertently released the ancient deity Fear from his lantern prison at Universal Studios. On September 24th, Fear took over Universal to celebrate his, "Twentieth Cycle" and summoned five heralds, one of whom was the Caretaker representing Death.  Truth launched a mission to oppose Fear, and were ultimately able to trap him within his lantern along with his heralds and various other monstrous supernatural entities.

Icons Captured

While trapped within the lantern, the Caretaker and various other, "Icons" bound within terrorized some

Development history

Appearances

Halloween Horror Nights

The Arrival

The Cabin in the Woods

Jack the Clown and the Caretaker made a (likely non-canonical) cameo in the elevator scene, likely as monsters used by the Organization for their sacrifices.

Carnage Returns

Chance used the Caretaker's shears and made a comment about him.

Castle Vampyr

Halloween Horror Nights: Islands of Fear

Port of Evil
Screamhouse
Town Square of Tortured Souls

HHN Icons: Captured

Caretaker had a scene where he was in his mansion with his minions while directing bodies.

Horror Nights: The Hallow'd Past

Horror Nights Nightmares

The Caretaker was one of the HHN icons who appeared on the set, terrorizing guests.

ICONS: HHN

Jack Presents: 25 Years of Monsters & Mayhem

The Caretaker and Cindy appeared on signs for Jack's circus.

Screamhouse: Revisited

This was a remake of the original Screamhouse.

Screamhouse: The Resurrection

This was a sequel to the previous Screamhouses, set in Georgia rather than Carey.

Shadows from the Past

Slaughter Sinema

The fictional film, "The Cult of the Beast Baby" starred one Albert Caine and was distributed from Carey, Ohio.

Tribute Store

The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin

The, "Caine Cemetery" was a location in this haunted house set in Carey.

Trivia

  • Dr. Albert Caine has some similarities to fellow HHN icon, Dr. Mary Agana AKA Bloody Mary.
  • In Icons Captured, Mary was shown to have been in possession of Sleepwell/Sleep-Well, a fictional drug from the 2007 haunted house A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamwalkers where it was used to prevent nightmares (and Freddy Krueger).
  • The Caretaker was one of many serial-killers of HHN continuity active in the town of Carey (with some presumably being active around the same time). The Meetz family of Meetz Meats were also a family of serial-killers in Carey who performed cannibalism and targeted the homeless.

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