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Saturday Classes: August 9th

  • Customizing Monster Masks // Instructor: Ralis Kahn
  • ShellHawk’s Creations presents Haunting Your House: A Guide to Creating Halloween Fun in Your Neighborhood! // Instructor: Shelley Spranza
  • Horror Digital Writing Lab // Instructor: Julian McCrea
  • Impromptu Magic // Instructor: Joel Ward
  • The Darkwing Manor Flaming Pumpkin Display // Instructor: Cliff Allen aka Lord Fright
  • Pumpkin Carving & Decorating // Instructors: Joseph Yakovetic and Bridget McCarty
  • Flicker Box Workshop // $25 materials fee ($20 for Scare Students) // register here
  • Haunted Lantern Workshop // register here
  • Tombstone Carving Workshop // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $25 materials fee ($15 for Scare Students) // register here
  • Unusual Costuming // Instructor: Concetta Verna
  • Spooky Witch’s Poison Bottle // Instructor: Dr. Bill Ramsay
  • Upgrading Your Haunt to Version 2.0 // Instructor: Dr. Bill Ramsay
  • How to Corpsify Your Skelie Without a Latex Mess // Instructor: Dr. Bill Ramsay
  • Create Disturbing Effects and Weird Experiences with Machine Project — CLASS FULL (Standby line available) // Instructor: Chris Weisbart
  • Bloody Mary’s “Hands On” Decayed Rotted Zombie Makeup Workshop — CLASS FULL (Standby line available) // Instructor: Bobbie Weiner
  • Horrific Hacking: Add Gore FX to Your Props — CLASS FULL (Standby line available) // Instructor: BJ Winslow
  • Fast and Easy Makeup Tricks — CLASS FULL (Standby line available) // Instructor: Steph Koza
  • Nightmare Clown Character Design // Instructor: Steph Koza
  • The Next Level of Haunts // Instructor: Bruce Stanton
  • Animatronics Come Alive — CLASS FULL (Standby line available) // Instructor: Steve Koci
  • An Interactive Course in Haunt Soundtracks // Instructor: Jon Autopsy

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Customizing Monster Masks

Monster mask mania! Learn how to customize and improve that store bought Halloween mask with Ralis Kahn, Mask Maker to the Stars! In this course, you will learn all kinds of amazing techniques and formulas with demonstrations, so YOU can transform that mask or prop into the beast is can be. Learn how to re-paint, add hair and fur, and modify it for a better fit. Create awesome gore plus much, much more! // Instructor: Ralis Kahn

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ShellHawk’s Creations presents Haunting Your House: A Guide to Creating Halloween Fun in Your Neighborhood!

You know that house that the kids (and adults) are talking about all October? It could just be yours this year! Shelley Spranza (a.k.a. ShellHawk and The Mistress of Mayhem) will take you on an inspiring tour of different yard haunts and displays, and show you how to spookify your yard with everything from the stuff in your garage to thrift store finds! // Instructor: Shelley Spranza

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Horror Digital Writing Lab

Ever wanted to write a horror story? This class is a hands-on group writing workshop to create a horror story for the digital age, just in time for Halloween. Creative minds are welcome. // Instructor: Julian McCrea

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Impromptu Magic

Magic … Everybody loves it … Everybody wants to do it … and now you can learn how by master magician Joel Ward. Learn impromptu magic tricks with ordinary household items in an easy to follow format that will enable you to effortlessly and easily perform these tricks for your family and friends. // Instructor: Joel Ward

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The Darkwing Manor Flaming Pumpkin Display

Tired of those boring pumpkins with tea light candles? Now you can have a pumpkin at your home and/or haunt that will be the talk of the town! Join veteran haunter Cliff Allen as he shows you how Darkwing Manor (as featured in the Hantumentary “The Haunting Truth”) took their pumpkins from blah to BAM! // Instructor: Cliff Allen aka Lord Fright

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Pumpkin Carving & Decorating

Disney inspired artists, Joseph Yakovetic, and Bridget McCarty join you in a spooktacular demonstration on how to perfect your pumpkin carving skills and create a pumpkin master piece to decorate your home. Tool descriptions, techniques for carving, etching and painting, will be shared as well as image placement. Each demonstration will be sure to surprise and delight! // Instructors: Joseph Yakovetic and Bridget McCarty

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Flicker Box Workshop

Learn to make movie quality lighting effects for your Halloween party or home haunt. Make your own lighting flicker like seen in any haunted house or horror movie. // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $25 materials fee ($20 for Scare Students) // register here

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Haunted Lantern Workshop

Learn to convert that old oil huricane lantern into a creepy prop for your halloween display, yard haunt or haunted house. // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $30 materials fee ($20 for Scare Students) // register here

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Tombstone Carving Workshop

No Halloween graveyard is complete without them, but why spend big money on the same tombstones your neighbor has? Learn how to carve your own custom tombstones with items found at your local home improvement store. // presented by SoCal Valley Haunters // $25 materials fee ($15 for Scare Students) // register here

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Unusual Costuming

A fun look into finding and using non-fabric materials for costuming. Discover all of the possibilities at Home Depot or your local recycling bin. Unearth alternative ways to create crazy costumes for Halloween or haunts. // Instructor: Concetta Verna

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Spooky Witch’s Poison Bottle

Are you looking for a simple, yet awesome prop for your Witch’s Kitchen/Apothecary? During this fun Make-n-Take course, Dr. TerrorEyes (Dr. Bill Ramsay) will show you how to create a detailed and aged bottle of “witch’s poison” — a basic necessity of ANY witch’s kitchen – by using simple crafting tricks. Let the kind Doctor provide you with assistance in creating your own masterpiece in less than an hour. Course attendees are eligible for the several door prize drawings throughout the Doctor’s course. // Instructor: Dr. Bill Ramsay

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Upgrading Your Haunt to Version 2.0

Would you like ideas, pictures, inspirations, and resources for taking your tired home haunt to the next level? Well, THIS is the seminar you’ll want to experience. This class will provide information about unique props and decorations for your haunt. You’ll learn tips & shortcuts for helping you change your old decorating habit and make your Haunt truly stand out. Resources and non-box store suppliers will be shared. Course attendees are be eligible for the several door prize drawings throughout the Doctor’s course. // Instructor: Dr. Bill Ramsay

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How to Corpsify Your Skelie Without a Latex Mess

Why not change your plain, old, white skeleton into something truly corpsed and creepy? Simply let “Dr. TerrorEyes” (Dr. Bill Ramsay) provide you with the learning experience you need to transform your skeleton from typical to something extraordinary — without the mess of latex glue or paper mache. The Doctor’s 40 years of Haunt experience may provide the perfect make-over your boring skeleton needs. Watch a demo of “boring to soaring” in under an hour as the Doctor provides his therapeutic cure. Course attendees are be eligible for the several door prize drawings throughout the Doctor’s course. // Instructor: Dr. Bill Ramsay

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Create Disturbing Effects and Weird Experiences with Machine Project — CLASS FULL (Standby line available)

The mad minds of Machine Project’s Alvarado Caverns and Mystery Theater share their secrets on how to make imaginative and disturbing visual effects, projections and weird experiences that can be incorporated into a home or pro haunt. // Instructor: Chris Weisbart

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Bloody Mary’s “Hands On” Decayed Rotted Zombie Makeup Workshop — CLASS FULL (Standby line available)

Join renowned industry makeup artist Bobbie Weiner as she teaches a hands-on workshop on creating fantastically gruesome zombies! Attendees will receive a Bloody Mary Makeup Kit to work from, and prizes will be awarded for the best makeup application at the end of the session! Time allowing, Bobbie will demonstrate how to create makeup for other characters as well, and will participate in an intimate Q&A with participants. All participants will be entered into a raffle for prize drawings, so bring a buddy to work on and we’ll see you in class! // Instructor: Bobbie Weiner

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Horrific Hacking: Add Gore FX to Your Props — CLASS FULL (Standby line available)

Don’t be afraid to mangle your props! BJ Winslow, lead prop artist and owner of Dapper Cadaver, shares Hollywood-grade techniques on how to make wounds such as cuts, gunshots and gore that can be added to any existing foam filled prop. // Instructor: BJ Winslow

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Fast and Easy Makeup Tricks — CLASS FULL (Standby line available)

Makeup artist Stephanie Koza (Placebo FX) offers tips and tricks on how to create ghouls and goblins for Halloween, costume parties or special events, using quick and easy makeup techniques with basic applications. A live model will help Stephanie demonstrate how to create the perfect ghoul following some frightfully easy steps! // Instructor: Steph Koza

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Nightmare Clown Character Design

Join makeup/costuming artist Stephanie Koza (Placebo FX) as she takes you step-by-step through the design process of creating a killer clown character from head to toe! Watch as Stephanie transforms a live model in a plain white jumpsuit into a terrifying clown straight out of your worst big top nightmares! // Instructor: Steph Koza

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The Next Level of Haunts

Take your home haunted house to the next level. Reign of Terror’s Bruce Stanton will take a detailed look at key factors in making an excellent experience. This class will look at soundscape, lighting, animation controllers and fog machines. You will be provided with specific examples of themes, concepts, and which products are right for your event. Learn how to “wow” your audience. Once your event is up and running, you will learn crowd management, and making the attraction safe and fun for everyone, including yourself. Bruce will also discuss in detail five of the most effective scares he has ever implemented in his haunt. // Instructor: Bruce Stanton

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Animatronics Come Alive — CLASS FULL (Standby line available)

A practical class filled with ideas to take back and implement in your haunt. Home haunter Steve Koci will cover everything from some of the various motors, servos and pneumatics available to using controllers to bring all your props to life. No previous animatronics knowledge is necessary; you’ll come away with ideas and information even the most seasoned haunters will find useful. // Instructor: Steve Koci

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An Interactive Course in Haunt Soundtracks

Create a one-of-a-kind custom soundtrack live with Jon Autopsy who has created terrifying scores for Halloween events such as Winchester Mystery House Fright Nights, Sinister Pointe, and Knott’s Scary Farm. Learn the thought process of producing haunt audio, win prizes, and have your name added to the credits of a brand new track for the 2014 Halloween season! // Instructor: Jon Autopsy

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