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Are you interested in becoming a Professor?
Do you have special or unique skill that you feel should
be taught to the Halloween or Haunted House industry. Please
email us with as much detail as possible at Rob@HalloweenUniversity.com
We can only select a few choice professors each year, but
we are always open to new ideas and future expansions.
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Professor Anomalous
Kristen Phillips, Controller of the Critter
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My interest in design, fabrication, and all things creepy
began when I started dabbling in special effects makeup and
sculpture in high school. I attended college for film and
video production but continued to explore my interest in these
areas. Since 2001 I have designed and built costumes, props,
set pieces, and animatronics for theatre and small film productions,
costume shops, television networks, and of course, haunted
attractions in the Greater Philadelphia area. I also work
as a special effects makeup artist with my business partner,
Michelle Harnish.
Over the past few years I've built up a backlog of ideas-
for props, costumes, masks, and animatronics inspired by working
in and with haunted attractions. After some research I found
that no other companies were making items quite like the ones
I had in mind. I decided to build them myself in order to
make them available to the industry. And thus, Safari Anomalous
was born.
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Professor Scream
Derek Cain, Master of the Delightfully Creepy
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Derek Cain operates and maintains a large store in Bensalem,
PA called Halloween Scream. It is open all year long with
a constant huge supply of Halloween products, costumes, theatrical
make-up supplies and props. Founded in 1994 as a division
of Cain Industries, Ltd., Halloween Scream is backed with
15+ years of experience. Halloween Scream has established
a relationship with our customers that will last a lifetime!
Our mission is simple: to provide the best products and service
to our customers at the lowest prices possible. We take great
pride in our company, our commitment to customer service and
in the products we sell. Derek is a very professional business
man with many years experience running a retail store. His
goal is to show and teach the aspects of running a retail
store of your own either full time or seasonally and how to
profit from it while having fun at the same time!
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Professor MacCabre
Ricky Dick, Master of the Painted Arts
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Ricky Dick, aka Gravely MacCabre of Castle Blood, has been
teaching makeup to performers for over 20 years. People at
well over 100 Science Fiction, Horror, Clown, Variety Arts,
Haunt, and Costuming conventions have all improved their skills
from Ricky's teachings. Now you can, too, in these easy-to-follow
visual demonstrations, at your own time and pace.
Ricky and Karen Dick have been long known
for their theatrical Halloween event Castle Blood, now getting
ready for its 16th season in SW Pennsylvania. Castle Blood
combines story telling, magic, and true interaction with
the public to send patrons on a bizarre quest to solve the
problems that are laid out before them for the night. The
Castle is a very character driven attraction and actors
from all over the U.S come to take part. Half of the present
cast has been participating for over 10 years.
As their alter egos, Gravely and Grizelda
MacCabre, Ricky and Karen and many of the other Castle's
Denizens have turned those talents to the small screen.
Castle Blood's Midnight Monster Hop combines the couple's
30 years of experience as costumers, performers, and haunters
into a new take on the Horror Host Genre. They have combined
their attraction and the TV show into one seamless event.
Every Saturday night at midnight, all year
round, Castle Blood fans can tune in to Pittsburgh's RTN
channel, throughout all of western Pennsylvania or on CSMTV
in southern Maryland to see the goings on at the Castle
when the public isn't there. Gravely hosts a classic B movies
for the evening while the rest of the cast goes about their
"normal' routine" and viewers are all welcomed
along for the ride. They also use their show to highlight
and promote Haunted attractions, often using haunt footage
from around the country in the show
Not content with just entertaining western
Pennsylvania, plans are currently under way for the show
to be broadcast in other states as well.Episodes of Castle
Blood's Midnight Monster Hop are now available on DVD. The
DVDs can also be purchased at wholesale to stock haunted
gift shops. Please come talk to Ricky and Karen to see how
the show can be used free of charge for line entertainment
at your event
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Professor Nightmare
John Denley, Master of Scareology
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John Denley is the president of Boneyard Productions and runs
one of the largest "mega-haunts" in New Hampshire.
This year he ran the famed 'Spookyworld'.. His company has
built and consulted for hundreds of haunted attractions from
Madison Scare Gardens and Terror Behind The Walls to Hong
Kong's first Haunted Theme Park. John, better known as "Professor
Nightmare" to the media has been featured on The Today
Show, CNN and Psychology Today Magazine.
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Professor Fear
Todd Patton, Master of the Unknown
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Todd Patton has been working around haunted houses for over
20 years and has managed, had his own or consulted with haunted
attractions for the past 10 years. Todd has been a guest speaker
at numerous conventions, Con Nooga, and for a few haunted
attraction's staff and managers. Todd has managed the Ruby
Falls Haunted Cavern (a cave 260 feet below the surface) with
his partner Tim Green (www.FEARCONNECTION.com)
for the past 3 seasons and they are negotiating with several
haunts for the 2009 season. Todd also introduced 'sliding'
to the Chattanooga Haunt market in 2005 and has since trained
sliders for Ruby Falls. Todd became known from the marketing
doll known as 'Stabbo' the infamous clown that attends conventions
with him and his team. Todd has also joined the convention
world by acquiring Con Nooga a 'Multi-Fandom' convention covering
everything from films, haunts, anime, comics, fantasy, sci-fi,
costuming and more. (www.CONNOOGA.com)
and becoming a partner with a Gaming Convention called: "Dicehead
Siege". (www.DICEHEADSIEGE.com)
Todd lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee with his wife, 2 kids,
2 dogs, Stabbo, 17 coffins and hearse.
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Professor Zombie
D.E. Christman, Master of the Undead
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D.E. Christman is an artist that simply wants to scare the
hell out of you. And he takes great pleasure in doing so.
He makes his living through his company Grendel's Den Design
Studio, which specializes in web design and graphic design
for various industries such as Speculative Fiction publishing,
Alternative Music labels and the Haunt industry. Over the
years he has been involved in organizing various spooky events,
including the Philly Zombie Crawl and Zombie Prom, and the
Philly Pirate Cruise.
He is also owner and operator of the genera-bending fan
web log Zombie Monkey Projects and PhillyFrights.com. And
on top of all of that he is also regarded as one of Philadelphia'
s premier zombie experts and has given various interviews
and lectures regarding his knowledge of the Living Dead.
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Professor "Tattoo"
Mike Krausert, Master of Scenic Design
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With 19 years of experience as a haunt designer, Mike is the
Director of Operations for Nightmare New England located in
Litchfield, NH and President and co-owner of Bad Boys Scenic
Design headquartered in Green Bay, WI. As a respected designer
within the Haunt Industry, Mike has written several instructional
articles for Haunted Attraction and Haunt World magazines
and has co-taught
classes on Styrofoam design methods at Transworld National
Halloween Show (2003), HauntCon (2004 - 2008), Midwest Haunters
Convention, and now the Eastern Haunters Convention! As one
of Bad Boys Scenic Design's resident consultants, Mike continues
to promote new techniques to advance the design evolution
within the Haunt Industry. He is available to fellow haunters
looking to employ innovative yet practical design techniques
to their own venues. He is steadfast in his commitment to
develop and share Bad Boys Scenic Design's creative approach
to haunt design that can benefit the needs of novice and expert
haunters alike. Mike resides in the Boston area.
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Professor John
John Ehrenreich, Master of the Foam Carving
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In a previous life, John was an Engineering
Manager for a major electronics firm. In pursuit of hobbies
and other interest, John and his wife Pat, have found the
many uses of Styrofoam. They have been users of various
hot wire tools to sculpt and carve Styrofoam for over 15
years. Now retired, John, with Pat, have represented Hot
Wire Foam Factory as Sales Consultants for the past five
years. John has applied his experience with hot wire tools
to his own Halloween front yard haunt as well as to various
other hobby and craft interest such as model railroading,
village collectibles and historic miniatures. www.hotwirefoamfactory.com
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Professor Scrye
Chris Handa, Master of Spooky Magic
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In addition to 14 plus seasons of haunting
and work with about a half dozen different attractions, Chris
Handa brings years of experience to haunting from two different
arenas: his life experience as a professional entertainer
and as a volunteer/event manager. A magician since age 8,
Chris began to apply his experiences with magic to different
environments in high school. He met others with mutual interests
in haunting and magic, and learned that he could have fun
with both as a performer, designer, and teacher of spooky
magic.
For 10+ seasons, he has worked with Castle
Blood as "house magician" and magic designer/consultant
for both the seasonal haunted attraction and CASTLE BLOOD'S
MIDNIGHT MONSTER HOP, a weekly horror host with an ensemble
cast that airs in several markets. Chris has presented spooky
magic to several organizations outside of haunting, consulted
with several attraction owners and managers, and has taught
magic at numerous haunt conventions and gatherings since
2001. He has written two smaller publications containing
his original magic scripts and is in the process of completing
a larger book on his experience with the design and performance
of magic at Castle Blood.
As a manager/administrator, Chris' attention
to detail has put him in lead positions with theatrical
events, conventions and gatherings, camp programs, and haunted
attractions and events. Chris has considerable experience
in the area of event and volunteer management as a former
Professional Employee of the Boy Scouts of America, and
has a knack for both finding seemingly-impossible solutions
to emergency problems and finding ways to get paying customers
to empty their pockets of cash before leaving events. With
Castle Blood, Chris works on the administration/operations
side with concession/front of house operations as well as
in his role as Safety/Compliance Officer. In the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, he is a registered Class I Amusement Inspector
and is happy to share tips and advice to help other haunts
work with their state and local officials.
Chris has worked in haunts since 1984
and is a fan of all types of haunted attractions from home
haunts to county fair trailer mazes to the dark rides at
Universal and Disney. He'll travel half a day just to see
an attraction, and honestly believes that seeing any haunt
is better than a day without seeing a haunt at all. He and
his wife Kari have visited more than 100 attractions since
their marriage in 1999. Their daughter Katelyn (4) has visited
many haunts as well, but still isn't sure whether she likes
all of them or not.
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Professorious Vox Satannas
Dick Terhune, Master of the Dark Arts of Advertising
& Marketing
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You spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars perfecting
your haunted attraction. You drive web-designers to acts of
madness with your nitpicking and warped sense of detail when
putting up your haunt site. You agonize over every dollar
spent on marketing and advertising. And it can all get shot
down in sixty-seconds by a DJ doing a bad "Lugosi"
with thunder and screaming in the background.
If you want to set your haunt apart from amateurs,
ratchet up the terror and drive advance ticket sales, you
don't just need a "a scary voice"…you need
the power of the Voice from Hell.
Haunt enthusiast and award-winning voice-talent
Dick Terhune provides world-class voiceover and commercial
branding services customized to the Haunt Industry. His
is the sound of fear…his is the Voice From Hell.
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Professor Gore
Jeremy D'alessandro, Master of the Art of using Blood
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Jeremy D'alessandro started haunting when
he was 14 years old acting for a home haunt. In 2002 he opened
his first Haunted Attraction. Since then he has ran 5 Haunted
Attractions in the last 6 years. The Zombie X Treme in seaside
NJ was rated 5 star rating in its first year of operation.
His Haunted Houses have been featured in the Daily news, The
Staten island advance, News 1, Hauntworld the magazine, Haunted
Halloween 2, 3, 5, Hauntfreeks.com, Newsday, The Bay and kings
news.
Jeremy has also built in designed Haunted
3D laser tags. In 2003 Jeremy started a new project called
Creepycollection.com. Jeremy always had a passion for prop
making and props that looked real. Creepycollection.com
became a fan favorite right from the start. After 4 complete
years creepycollection.com has become the #1 custom props
online beating all competitors and has become known for
the most realistic props on the market today. Jeremy also
has started to get to do TV & Movie Production besides
selling props in the Haunted Attraction Industry. Creepycollection.com
has sold props to The Discovery Channel, Off the Lot, After
Dark Films 8 movies to die for, FNS Productions, Clothing
Designers Like Marc Jacobs NY, Beverly Hills, San Francisco
as well as for Crime scene investigators.
Jeremy's Biggest attribute is the he
is a well rounded Haunter he can build you a prop, give
you set design, costuming, make up, masks, Film and production
& Advertising events. Jeremy is also a Advertising rep
for TRIBUNE and has 6 years of experiences in media, marketing
and design.
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