Thread: Anyone consider themselves a Pro??

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Interesting question here...

With the amount of creativity that people are putting into their displays, it is very easy to say that the bar has been raised well past the "Pro" status. Many yard haunts in my opinion are already "Pro" quality that rival, if are not more impressive then what a "Pro" haunt would display. It seems that today's home haunter has made their own "pro" haunt at home. Seeing what Haunted Houses and theme parks have been putting togather over the years has inspired people to do the same in their own yard as T-o-T's visit every October 31st. I guess it really comes down to the size and type of haunt that one puts togather.

Originally Posted by Scatterbrains

I'm a Pro.........crastinator

Make that 3 of us!!

The bar has definitely been raising over the years. When we were all young all it took to make a haunt was several cardboard gravestones, a sheet ghost and a dry ice cauldron. Spencer's was one of the few places to buy cool black and strobe lights.

Well...
The retailers have made it too easy today. Someone can run out and have a haunt up and running in four hours. It is harder to impress these days. In fact I was a little upset about it for a while. This was before I discovered the HF. This forum helped to give me the tools to impress once again!
I strive towards pro status. I have to keep one step ahead of the retailers.

Originally Posted by Scatterbrains

I'm a Pro.........crastinator

Good one! LOL.... Wow, I guess that makes me a pro too!

Originally Posted by bamtunebam

The bar has definitely been raising over the years. When we were all young all it took to make a haunt was several cardboard gravestones, a sheet ghost and a dry ice cauldron. Spencer's was one of the few places to buy cool black and strobe lights.

Well...
The retailers have made it too easy today. Someone can run out and have a haunt up and running in four hours. It is harder to impress these days. In fact I was a little upset about it for a while. This was before I discovered the HF. This forum helped to give me the tools to impress once again!
I strive towards pro status. I have to keep one step ahead of the retailers.

I think that as fewer people decorate, it's actually easier to impress just by doing anything. In my neighborhood, I'm impressed if folks actually leave the light on and hand out candy.

Originally Posted by Scatterbrains

I think that as fewer people decorate, it's actually easier to impress just by doing anything. In my neighborhood, I'm impressed if folks actually leave the light on and hand out candy.

I agree. Where I live, halloween was literally non-existant this past year. I can count on 1 hand how many people actually decorated withen 5 miles from my house.

So with few taking time to decorate, it is easy to impress. But like I said before, those that do have raised the bar. Just look around here on the forum, there are very "Pro" displays that rival theme parks.

As for me... I strive to be Pro, but I focus on giving my guests the best display I can put togather and let everything else fall into place.

And that is all that I do, so this makes me a "Pro" (Also "Castinator")
I have made almost everything here besides doing the large majority of the work in and on the house.
Many years ago I decided to blaze a different path in this entertainment field and just last night (I'm open every night of the year) A Director and his Producer girlfriend were here for the first time(I didn't know they were film makers til the tour was over) They went into great detail talking long about the various emotions I was drawing from them along the way. He left three websites his gps location (My house) "Just incase!" Incase I might be a serial-killer needing more hydes? Really! Yet, they were laughing all along the way at my extreme random silliness with how I was scaring them! Yup! That is what I was trying to do here. I also have some serious events to describe as I speak and maybe these scared them some too?
As fate would have it, I happened to be in very good "Voice" last night and my sense of timing when speaking was also right on. He was amazed that even with the distraction of my Wife coming and going through the front room with a sick cat (going to the vet) they still slipped right back into the "show" and the feelings I was trying to create here!
Before they left they expressd a desire to waste some film on me.
So.. you never know who your audience really is, til later, a very good reason to always proceed as if this might be the last time you will ever have such fun again! The "evil" fun of halloween-scaring someone.