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Animatronic
A form of robotics used to make props move
App Application
Armature Framework inside a prop that you
build upon. Could be chicken wire, fake skeleton or pvc pipe, etc.
Axeworthy Flying Ghost
Moving ghost prop using pully, crank and assorted moving parts
Bart 3/4 size artificial
skeleton
Bleeding Portrait
A
regular portrait turned into one that "bleeds" from eyes or other
parts
Bleeding Fountain A
fountain that uses fake blood instead of water
Blow Mold
A manufacturing process where hollow plastic
parts are formed AKA Blow Forming
Body Slinger
Pneumatic powered corpse that jumps
out of coffin
Boris Talking head
you can buy already made. Many people hack it to make it do what
they wanna
Bottomless Pit A
prop using mirrors and lights to give the illusion that it never
ends
Bucky or
Blucky Skeleton
"Bucky"
is a hard plastic skeleton made from molds of actual skeletons. Used
for anatomy studies and haunters.
"Blucky"
is a (usually cheap) softer plastic skeleton. It usually looks that
way, too, and takes work to make it look like something you believe
to be realistic.
Christmas Hack
Taking apart a Christmas decoration to turn
into a Halloween one.
Con
Convention and/or Trade Show; HauntCon, ComiCon,
DragonCon
Corpsify, Corpsing,
Corpsification Turning a fake skeleton into a
corpse with rotting flesh and such.
Cryptmas Haunter's
term for Christmas. No offense intended.
Distressing
Making an object look old, worn, torn up
and/or bloody
Doom
Buggy
The cars you ride in at Disney's Haunted
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Door Minder A beam hooked up to a door
which monitors movement. When the beam is broken it trips some type
of action. Lights can go off, a prop begin to move or a scream
sounds for example
Dougie
Fake Douglas fir tree that sings and dances
Drop Panel A panel built into a wall or
door that drops down to reveal something or someone scary. Often
hidden behind a painting
Facade Fake front
such as a "stone" wall made of styrofoam
Fallen Angel A
hacked angel statue or doll, making it creepy, to decorate a
tombstone
FCG
Flying Crank Ghost
Fixall Plaster
medium
Fog Machine A
device that heats up a mixture of chemicals that produces artificial
fog
Fog Chiller A
device that cools artificial fog so it hugs the ground
Fog Juice
Chemical mixture added to a fog machine
to produce artifical fog
FX Effects
GLFF
Great Lakes Fright Fest
Gornament Phrase
coined by Stolloween to describe a group of Halloween ornaments
Great Stuff Brand name
for spray insulation foam. Used to fill or make sculpted props. Can
be formed or sculpted to your choice of shapes.
Hack Take apart one
thing to make it into something else it was never supposed to be
Haunt
A place to get the pants scared off of you.
May have actors or moving props.
Haunter
A (usually otherwise normal) person who
enjoys putting together a haunt
HauntCon Convention
and Trade Show for haunters
Haunt Trail
A haunt that takes place outside, following
a trail or path that has been set up to scare the pants off you
Hexmas
Haunter's term for Christmas. No offense intended. |
IAHA International
Association of Haunted Attractions
JOL Jack O' Lantern
MIB Management Information
Base A
database for managing devices that make props move, make noise or
nifty things like that
Monster List
Resource for haunted how-to's.
http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/
Monster Mud
Mixture of joint compound and latex paint used
for many sculpting apps
Pepper's Ghost
An illusion technique using
glass and lighting that makes an object seem to appear and
disappear, or to morph from one thing into another
PM Papier
Mache
Pop Up or Pop-Up A
prop that jumps up out of something such as a grave
Prop Any item that is
used to scare you. Could be a full-size werewolf or a hand sticking
out of the ground.
Prosthetic Fake
limb
Reaper Grim Reaper
(hopefully a)
prop
Rock Speaker A speaker
inside a fake rock. Yup, that's all it is. Oh, you may want to
poke holes in it so the sound comes out.
Scene Setter
Backgrounds, usually made of paper, that you put on a wall or
garage door, etc., to set the scene or mood
SFX Special Effects
Static Prop-
One that doesn't move
Toe Pincher
A coffin that is narrow where the corpse's legs would be
TOT
Trick or Treater
Trash Can Trauma-
A prop such as a monster or skeleton jumps
up from a previously closed trash can
Vortex Tunnel
A moving prop that you walk through, simulates a
swirling vortex
Wall Crawler-
A prop that appears to crawl up a wall or
other object
Webber, Web Caster, Web Spinner
or Web Shooter Hot
glue gun with fan adapted to make quantities of fake spider webs.
example 1
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