Thread: What type of Haunter are you (Updated)?

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I've noticed that there tends to be a few common styles among the different displays by some of the Haunters. Just for fun, I'm going to try to categorize them based on how they set up their decorations. This is all for fun, but feel free to add on.

Gravers- These people feel that the cemetery and gravestones are the most important for their displays. The more tombstones, the better. Something about the final resting place is their ticket.


Themers- Every year has to be different. One year it's the Flintstones, next a board game, etc, etc. Scary is not requirement for these folks. As long as it is within said storyline and different, it's good.


Monster Squad- It's not Halloween unless they have a army of monster in front of their home. The more creatures of the night hanging out, the better they are for war with the neighborhood.


Harvesters- The most basic of fall fashion. They tend to shy away from the horror and go more farm like. Nothing but pumpkins, corn stalks and bays of hay. Talk about dull.


Mazers- You can't have a treat til you walk though their maze/display. They are more into the live entertainment value then anything else. Don't be surprised if you have to go to the back yard or garage to get the full effect from these Haunters.


UPDATED:

Lighters- Screw the decorations! I'm a DJ, damn it! These folks may have gotten their ideas from X-mas and enjoy a huge electrical bill two times a year. A light show with music is their art.


Carnies- A childhood fear that still sings "Can't sleep. The clowns will get me.". A circus display is always the thing for these ICP nuts. And they still believe that Bozo feels that they all float down here.

SUB-CATAGORY (Due to popular responses):

Kiddy- It's for the children. Blow up those globes and cartoon characters. Tape up the paper cut out monster. Hide the beer and smokes.

Gorers- The more blood, limbs, screams, and what ever bodily fluid you can squeeze out the better. As long as they leave with a scared vision in their heads, you've left your mark.

Effecters- The better the special effects, the more they feel they have accomplished. Not just simple fog machine and sound effects CD, these guys bring their work to that of an engineer.


Updated:
Partiers- Either you're throwing it or you're always going to one! It doesn't matter if it is a house party or a nightclub. As long as Halloween is involved, you're there. Don't know if it is the vibe, booze or scantily clad girls, but give me a costume and I'm in.

Paraders- It's all about the costumes, not the home decorations. These Haunters would rather spend days and money building their outfits for the one day of showing instead of setting up the displays. The parade/nightclub/costume contest is their scene.


If you think you fit one of these groups, feel free to post your front yard display as an example. If you think a group is missing, post what you think it is and why.


And if you have to ask, I'm into the Monster Squad. They will take over this subdivision when I am done!!!!!!!
Two years worth of Halloween pics

I am most definitely a "Graver" by these definitions. But what about those of us who also feature walk-thru's? Now THAT's where the ACTION is!

hey, i like this post. i'm a big time themer. every year a different theme. that's my big time scheme of the haunt. scary is good, No gory. i am a little mazer too, but they get a treat and then if they go through and play a game, they get a prize. i do a graveyard, but it's not my central although this year i'm going to do more on it. and i enjoy harvesters, i don't find them boring.

update, i was a carnie but only one year. i am for sure a kiddy.

Originally Posted by Wolfman

I am most definitely a "Graver" by these definitions. But what about those of us who also feature walk-thru's? Now THAT's where the ACTION is!

Walk-thru is a Mazer. I was orginally going to call them Haunters, but the term is currently being used for all of us anyways.

Combination of Monster Squad and Harvester.

Mazer and themer here.

Here's part of the 3D maze:



But, I also have a cemetery:



So, I guess that makes me a Mazer/Themer and Graver.

i know i am a graver. i also think of myself as traditional...

Yes! i'm guilty of being a "Graver".....after all, Halloween is the time of year we celebrate the dead. It's All Hallows eve when the dead are entitled to walk the earth..........

I'm a themer. Everything new from the ground up each Halloween. Last year was Jabberwocky, the year before that an ocean theme, the year before that a garden, the year before that a haunted fairgrounds, the year before that Halloween Americana, and the year before that the Munsters. Before that, it was a monster squad, wherein my grandmother and I would paint the windows with different connected characters from Halloween greeting cards and cartoon specials and my father would hang orange lights on the house.

This year's the Silver Screen, wherein I will be erecting a facsimile of a multiplex on the front lawn that has elements of a maze. It will lead to an easier time doing the maze through the whole property, as the roadside section of the haunt will be set for years to come under my new Midnight Movie branding. Also, I'll be adding as many characters as I can to the haunt that can easily be altered to new characters year after year.

No live actors unless I have to go fix something in costume. Creepy, but not scary. Definitely not explicitly gory. The closest I've ever come was a knife-thrower's aftermath with a bit of fake blood thrown on the wheel; it was highly stylized and stayed in the candy-color-scheme of the fairgrounds.

I guess I would be a mazer, as I have a designated path that ToTs walk through before reaching the front door.

I think all of these categories could be sub-divided into "playful" and "gore" as I know a lot of people that can't add enough guts and blood, while others (like myself) are all about the playfulness of dressing a scene. I love my bluckies -- every year they're my main characters!

Great post idea!!