Our Start Up Haunt

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

This vid (that I hope works), is what I put together from the very limited footage I had to work with from 09, our first year.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=109021215817666

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

This is alittle of the useable footage from 2010 that I had on my camera.

Still haven't taken all the video off the surveillance cameras to put together anything real good. But watching some of it, I cry laughing at the scared people.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=134325253287262

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

I dont have a facebook and cant see the vids.

[Randal Johnson 544]

I dont have a facebook and cant see the vids.

I have no facebook either ...

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

Let me check my youtube. I know one of them is there, but youtube messed up the sound sync to the vids. Thats why I didn't use it first.

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

Entrance into the building

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

Cool Man.

I wanna see the vids with the surveillance cameras. I bet that's a hoot!

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

Kitchen scene during construction

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

Cool Man.

I wanna see the vids with the surveillance cameras. I bet that's a hoot!

My fondest memory from watching some footage.... a man and 3 boys walk into the spider cave, man in front. Spider jumps at him and he ran over all 3 of the boys to get away. It was awesome.

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

This little fellow is awesome

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

You can see some more pics here......

http://www.epicenterdesigns.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=60

[nem 2,019]

Looks good! How many actors to you have? That CGI is badass!

Sent you a friend request also.

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

The first year, 4 actors.

We set it up and used animatronix to compenste for our lack of friends as passionate as we are.

This last year, we had 10 actors, doubled the square footage. Also had 3 people who controled parking and line que.

I would sometimes come out of my area and roam the lines to scare people.

So far, 6 - 8 of last years actors have already inquired for positions in this years haunt. We are already planning on more footage. So we will be dropping some cash in St. Louis and then later in Ohio on more stuff.

Everyone liked ours more than the 2 big ones here. Which is our main compitition. We know we don't have the money they have. But we can do bigger and better things than they can do, or are willing to do to scare people. 50 miles to our west, Hallowscream at Busch Gardens. 40 miles to our east, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios.

But that stuff is kiddy games compared to what we give people. We tripled customers from Friday to Saturday on word of mouth. Sunday (Halloween) was just crazy.

Here is the kicker............................. it was all FREE. We had a donation box, made a couple hundred, but we didn't charge.

[nem 2,019]

Well from what I have seen you guys are doing some cool things! Actors make the haunt atleast that is what we have found out here. I wish you the best of luck as you continue building your haunt.

If you happen to see people in St.Louis wearing spookhaven jackets, say HI to them. I will let them know they might run into you.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Very cool. Two guys that run a haunt on here now.

[Kanaworm$ 292]

Very nice! I always like a good scare.

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

Little update to this crazy thing.

Just returned from a 6 day stay in St. Louis at the Transworld Haunters Convention. Sounds geeky to you I am sure. But it is to the haunters world what SBN is to the car audio world.

And it was actually my first time as I had to miss the last 2 similar ones.

Side note.... I will be at the MWC in Ohio in June.

When I can gather them up, I iwll post pics of some of the things we bought to take the haunt to another level never before seen around here. Hell, some of the stuf we already have fits that criteria. But now we are on some next level stuff. IMO.

Some would say we like pnuematics too much, but we use them differently than many others. We don't rely on them soley.

Anywho.....pics later. And when I chop my video up, I'll post that of the convention.

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

Got a 7x12 Clautrophobia

Got 4 of the new snakes offered by Dark Raven Designs. They don't have pics on thier site so I'll have to wait till I upload my video.

Also bought 100' of vine from them. Only because it will save me a ton of time and he gave us a great price we couldn't pass on.

Also picked up 3 silicone mask by a new comer to the game. They have some serious talent. Hell, I was in the convention for probally 15 min and I was already the owner of 1 of these.

By shows end, my partner had also purchased 2 more. What stood out to me was the molded teeth. They weren't flimsy at all and I really didn't like wearing our other teeth with our other mask.

We both picked up the Lunatic Clown version. Mine is being customized with sparse wild hair around the back. My partners is being down with more hair Bozo style and eyebrows in flaming red and more paint.

Here is the basic Lunatic Clown....

The other is called The Immortal....

Scare Factorys ghoulish specter zombiette. No pics online that I found real fast so when I upload my vid, I will show you.

Got 10 or 13 of some vaccume formed walls to make out mortuary seem more real and save us time. Last year, we spent 3 days on this room just carving and making the walls outta foam and didn't get to do everything we wanted. Not this year.

Also getting them to vaccume form us a coffin so it will be lighter than the 2 real ones we have and we have big plans for that.

All the other suff we got were small items to use and help finish off some of the bigger stuff.

Just wanted to share. Already getting hyped up for this.

Edited March 14, 2011 by Epicenter Jon

[nem 2,019]

Looks like you got some nice stuff. We purchased our first set of clautrophobia walls and build the rest. You maybe suprised how easy they are to make.

Let me know how those masks hold up I looked them over because he is using a full mesh and claims the are very tough.

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

We studied the clausto walls and figured out we could make them. I'm pretty confident we can. But after a full night of planning and discussions, we decided to go ahead and purchase the first and when needed, make the rest. Hadest part I can see is choosing the right blowers.

As for the mask, they had samples to try on and small sections of mask you could pull to see the strength. The mesh seemed to be a great addition. And with the customization they offered, we jumped on it.

They feel about the same weight as our CFX mask. Cost less and adding paint and/or hair was half as much as CFX charges.

Now we have 6 silicone mask. Only the most trusted get to wear those.

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

And Neal, I did not see anyone from SpookHaven after that walk-thru night. I looked all around the convention during our strolls with no luck.

I did see a post on hauntforums that they won a southern haunters gift certificate and have it for sale, but I am not sure we will be able to use it so I didn't contact them.......yet.

I probally will as soon as my account there is fully activated to see what it is they are wanting for it.

[EpicenterDesigns 26]

After my video camera died, I started snapping pics with my phone. Here are some of what I got during the lights on walk thru of The Darkness.....

http://www.epicenterdesigns.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=62

Next couple days, I will get to work on my videos.

[xxskatexx 0]

love those masks!

[nem 2,019]

After my video camera died, I started snapping pics with my phone. Here are some of what I got during the lights on walk thru of The Darkness.....

http://www.epicenterdesigns.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=62

Next couple days, I will get to work on my videos.

The Darkness is one of my favorite haunts.