DVD’s and videos on creating spine-chilling haunted attractions and spectacular Halloween decorations, from DIY home haunts to professional commercial attractions.
X-treme Haunted House Make-Over (DVD)
An easy “How To” video to haunt your home
DVD – X-TREME HAUNTED HOUSE MAKE OVER – HOW TO VIDEO From the special visual effects expert who created effects for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and Showtime’s “Outer Limits” An easy “How To” video to haunt your home. From how to lighting, to make your own fake blood, to making your scene glow with a black light/UV light and much more! Learn from the best! Our experts have done visual effects, costumes, and set decorations for television shows and movies, but you do not need to be an expert. Unlike some Halloween How-To programs, all of these projects are easy to understand and execute, yet the results will make everyone green with envy! You will learn how to do thrilling effects and decorations for the home. Many of the “scares” use items found around your own home. A haunted How-To program that shows you simple ways to create Hollywood and Transylvania quality decorations, props, gags, tricks, treats, and effects for your home. Learn How to:
Create realistic lightning
Make a hand-grabber candy bowl
Make fog hover near the ground
Use black lights to set the place a glow
Create dummies and illuminated props
Make your own fake stage blood
Use fans, leaf blowers, gloves, old clothes and other common items to create effects.
Each Halloween in Southern California, groups of “home haunters”, shed blood, sweat, and tears as they create unique, world-class haunted attractions in their own front yards. Step inside some of these stunning experiences, and meet the wildly-creative artisans who have devoted countless hours and personal resources to terrify, entertain, and bring their communities together – one scare at a time.
By Directors Jon Schnitzer, Jinsha Moore, Jamie McGurk
HAUNTERS: The Art Of The Scare is a heart-warming and heart-stopping documentary about how family-friendly haunted houses for Halloween have spawned a growing subculture of extreme horror simulations.
What kind of person dedicates their life to turning other people’s nightmares into reality, and how far is too far?
Explore the rise of terror as entertainment, by going behind-the-screams and into the lives of Shar Mayer, legendary scare actor, Donald Julson, a traditional boo-scare maze designer, and the infamous Russ McKamey, as he creates the most controversial full-contact haunt of all time… in his own backyard.
Also featuring John Murdy (Universal Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights), Jon Braver (Delusion), Josh Randall (Blackout), Eric Lowther (Haunted Overload), Bruce Stanton (Reign of Terror), Sylvia & Jen Soska (American Mary & GSN’s HELLEVATOR), Jessica Cameron (Truth or Dare) and many more talented artists.
Family of Fear shares the story of a group of people brought together by their love of haunted houses. They came to scare people and they found a family. A documentary about finding inclusion and community in one of the scariest places in the USA.
A complete departure from what you know about reality TV, Spook Show 17 is completely authentic, obnoxiously irreverent, and flat out hilarious. Follow this team’s journey through 14 episodes of design, build, casting, and operating, where you will see behind the scenes what it takes to truly scare the masses.
Filmed in the sleepy enclave of Fairhaven, MA, The American Scream follows the creative minds behind three local homemade haunts and their spirited, passionate and sometimes harrowing efforts in igniting their town’s Halloween spirit each year.
Season 1 of Spooky Kisses Haunts explores the psychological aspects of fear, combining humor and horror to understand the eerie world of Halloween haunted attractions.
Every year in September, a frightening fever sweeps through America as thousands of horror attractions open, and thrill seekers line up to experience sheer terror up close and personal. Take a terrifying tour of the country’s most heart-stopping haunts.
As night falls at Spookers, dozens of seemingly ordinary people become freaks, zombies and chainsaw-wielding clowns. Every weekend, this diverse group of amateur performers unite to terrify punters at the southern hemisphere’s largest scream park, situated in a former psychiatric hospital.
For years Halloween enthusiast Branden Moyer has constructed a haunted house in his backyard, gathering thousands of visitors. With no more room to expand his home haunt, Moyer takes his hobby to a new level by building a massive 4,000 square foot haunted attraction in the middle of a busy shopping plaza. Watch the entire 5 month building process unfold in this behind the scenes documentary.
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