i must add
hack was inspired by iron maidens eddie...haha ...more rock influence
and him and other creations we made like him
are simple to make...its really whatever your heart desires..
just as soon as i can find sum time i will edit the hack build video...
and post....
its time thats tough to find though..
i am just gettin in and i think its 1 or 2 am
working round the clock to unleash that new dead acres horror
hope everyone has a great Holiday weekend
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just back from an absolutely awesome vacation
soakin up the sun and all the best things in life
feels great to get back to the haunt though
we have work stacked up and should keep us busy til opening
before i left i converted formats of the hack build and will hopefully get some time to edit this week
til then some more haunted hoochie goodness to hold u over
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this guy is called red head
he hung from a track and charged at the crowd
his mouth n eyes both were hand operated
his eyes are beer balls..haha and looked great lit from inside...
another hoochie creation from the ninties...
Ron (ROMO) Morrison is a guy this operation could not do without...
he is one of the most organized and precision guys on our team...
here he is running red head in 97...
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look not one grey hair...haha...
now seems we all have more grey then anything else...
i have been very lucky to have teamed up with such a great crew
who has stuck it out though soo many years...
Romo is one of my best friends and one of a kind...
he has helped shape the dead Acres into what it is today
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thank you Eric...its been a great ride...
my gramps got me into all this...he was doing a haunted hayride here on our farm since 53,
they did all the old horror at the time..wolfman...creature from the black lagoon..frankenstein etc..
my grandfather rode a horse as the headless horseman...
now a member of city council and the clerk both had come to our farm to enjoy the haunted hayrides as kids...
soo for me its a family tradition
i was talking to one of the grandkids of Dave Grim one of my gramps friends and partner..
and they were just tellin me that they still have an original horse hair wolfman costume that my gramp and his grandfather had made back in the fifties...
he lives around here but the costume is in Missouri at one of uncles...i think Dave Grim had 12 kids....crazy...
but there's a high price auction piece ....
soo anyways when i took over this biz we started off with a bang making things
like it had been bottled up just waiting to get out...
apparently things that had never been done before
soo while i am still around in this biz i figured i would show this community a lil haunted history...
i wish we had some kinda haunted historian on here who could enlighten us
when i did a lil research i cant find anything before distortions electric chair...
and we were doing things that just plain blew that kinda thing away.....
i remember the same year we made our first kicking body for a hanging scene..
Dale Feazel had the idea and Mike Lucas who was working on airplanes, had the technology..
we made a steal armature that just hinged at the waist and the knees...one actuator for the waist and the knees just freely swinging...
we put a hood over his head and gloves on his hands and when he worked it just made us laugh at how unbelievably real it looked...
people who would come thru never guessed he was an animation...
they would say ...i dont know how much you pay that guy but its not enough....
man those were the best of times....
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ill tell you you have to hand it to all the haunts that open in the summer for midwest...
i have done it 3 times now and it is aot of work...and right in the middle of building season...
i do this whole thing outta love...NOT for money...and i know the last time we opened for MHC we made 11 grand for childrens hospital...
which i know some of you know holds a special place in our hearts here...
while we were building the first hack in 1994 my son was born with hirshbrungs disease and we lost him at 10 months old...
my daughter who is now 12 has the same disease....we battle it everyday...and we are blessed to have childrens hospital here in columbus...
when we had timmy my son we had insurance
but the bills beyond the coverage was over 3 million...
soon after his death ...childrens ripped up what we owed them....God bless em
we have made some amazing things since we lastly opened for MHC
and i do like to show off...
sooo maybe
let me think on it awhile
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i was just askin if anyone knew of any other haunts doing this kinda stuff before the Hooch
its not often i bare myself
my family, ,my passion...
for histories sake...
anyways...
red head got lonely so we made him a partner
his name is pug head...
they teamed up to scare..
while one had your attention the other came from behind...
maned by Scott Litz
inspired by the first poltergeist movie
giving credit where credit is due....
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did these old creations inspire others in this industry...maybe ..maybe not..but they definitely set a precedent.. ...
and soon there were 3 local companies making animations here in columbus ohio...
one of which still employs one of our old employees...
have a great weekend
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Great thread- it is always cool to see a haunts evolution. It is hard/ impossible to say who had what first and it does not matter. What matters is you have a great show that a lot of people find worth working for. I love seeing these pics.
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