Halloween Has Gone High Tech!
It is amazing how Halloween has changed since I was a child. Back 35 to 40 years ago, a high voltage strobe light on my neighbor’s porch, and some spooky Walt Disney sound effects was all I needed to have the coolest Trick-o-Treats! This simple setup was just the preview to what we call Home Haunters today. By today’s standards, that is a lame attempt to entertain the kids. Or, is it that today’s Home Haunters are trying more to keep up with the Jones like what we see with Christmas décor.
One thing is for sure, today’s Home Haunters’ decorated houses rival the kind of high-tech entertainment that only professional Haunted Attractions have. You now have holographic type ghost illusions, talking/singing pumpkins, spooky looking props/scenes and animatronics that far surpass anything Walt Disney has in their Haunted Mansion. Some of them are mini Haunted Attractions in their own right!
In my time, there were no themes to haunting your porch. Now, the theme invades the whole house, from interiors to all parts of the yard and garage. And what themes! Horror, Gory, Aliens, serial killers and creatures from other dimensional whelms. With all these changes, where are all the adults?! Well, they are right next to their children running and screaming as they try to escape their neighbors dressed as monsters.
Oh yes, Halloween for trick-o-treaters has greatly changed. Changed from eerie sounds and blinking lights to a fantastic journey of high-tech themed effects rides; designed for both kids and adults.
Ghost Illusions is from Atmosfx and Outrageous Media. Check them out!
Happy House Haunting!!
Evolution of New Product
Now that Your Custom Haunted House is out of the prop renting business, (except for the Party Maze and
Portable Haunted Maze, we can focus more on serving the public and our clients through using our new product Creeperum!
Halloween Monsters
Since the ribbon cutting ceremony in October 2016, our new professional haunted attraction has scares and entertained thousands. Despite over whelming issues that threaten to keep Creeperum from ever opening at all, the haunt open on time to the delight of the public. Our 2017 Valentine’s week end event went even better, with five star reviews across the board. People drove hours from outer state to join us and play with our actors.
Haunted Actor
With each event opening, Your Custom Haunted House will be able to support local artist, laborers, technicians and actors. With our portable unit, most of the work goes out of state and Connecticut looses major tourism opportunities. The best part of having an attraction in one location is the lack of wear and tear to our props when transporting them, setup and tear down during rentals. We can focus on improving, adding upgrades and creating a more intense experience for our customers with out the concern of packing/unpacking. Another perk is that we can work with our favorite non-for-profit and fund raisers and give back to the community we live in.
As for the future, Creeperum will be replacing the portable haunted attraction in the next two years and adding new rides and interactive activities that is currently impossible with the portable Maze. We intend to become a major tourism location as well as become the preeminent interactive haunted attraction in all of Connecticut!
