Thread: "This is Halloween" House

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YouTube - Halloween Light Show 2010 HD - This is Halloween ( Marilyn Manson )

That is freaking great!!! I love Manson and the light show is fabulous. How do you do the moving faces? Is it rope lights? Lite o rama?

I didn't do it. Just thought some might like to see. Is like to try making one if the faces to make a Monster house that can talk.

I like that. Is that the "Halloween in a box" system?

No, this is a 140 channel light-o-rama setup that serious Christmas decorators use to sequence AC lights. More haunters seem to be getting into this too. This guy is from Riverside, CA and I would guess in the entertainment business in LA in some fashion, or at least he should be

Oh, and if you want to what I believe IMHO is the most amazing use of light-o-rama in christmas displays, look up "Holdman Christmas lights". He has demos of several songs showing his house. It is stunning, jaw dropping, amazing... pick a superlative.

I've spoken with him a few times, great guy. I think he started to market some of his things now, but he started out just doing a christmas display. But he moved to a gated community and they nixed opening the gates for his display, so he moved it, but think it is coming back in 2010. He lives in Utah and almost always has snow on the ground for his display

The Manson video is by KL92508 & he has his own YouTube channel. Found it looking for "Holdmans Christmas." He's got some other cool videos on there.

Apparently Mr. Holdman does Halloween too:

I like the strobes and the bright white spots for accents. That's different. This is certainly cool but it's not something I would be into, personally. At least, not applied like that. That's fine if you want a generic display primarily featuring a sync'd light show. I've put my efforts and investments into props and scenes, not a dancing light show. So for me, I would think about using a modest system with no music sync at all. Rather, I'd put together slow and interesting fades to feature different scenes, and/or re-color the entire display many times throughout the night. I've thought about lighting my display like that a lot- sort of a fluid ever changing color wash and very subtle. I'm not big on chasing, blinking lights, even at Christmas. I prefer steady on and slow fades. And yet I love strobes, so go figure. And I prefer to keep light strings out of my halloween display most times. I have one or two purple strings but generally, I find string lights for halloween too distracting and 'novice' looking. But I suppose I could use the LOR type thing for lighting the way I want. But all that isn't cheap and my budgets go to props and scenes mostly. Someday maybe!

This was nicely programmed though, for that type of thing.

Dan

Looks like that guy only gives out tricks. As per the sign on the door in the second video.