GHOST HUNTERS

Michael's Craft Store Anyone who thinks it's too early to talk Halloween can leave the room now! I've been checking out where the themes are going this year so we can prepare for our season. I began by publishing my new book, Adult Halloween: Taking Back the Season!  Now, I'm focusing on the favorite places to shop for the season and the innovators who set the trends. AtmosFEARfx AtmosFEARfx a few years ago came out of nowhere it seemed like, but boy did they take Halloween by storm by using our projection technology to create settings that mean no yard props that can be stolen or ruined in the rain, but chilling homes and atmosphere for parties, yard haunts, and entertainment!  This year, AtmosFEARfx took on projection themes for what we most wanted - more phantoms and ghostly specters. "Phantasms" and "Witching Hour" are two new ones this season. Add that to the fantastic zombie horde, Jack O'Lantern projection faces, ghosts, 80s slasher (Nigh...

Halloween decorating has gotten a lot sexier now that the average person can enjoy some holographics and amazing footage to scare people.  Big thanks to AtmosFEARfx for taking it to a new level. You probably saw the DVDs at Spirit Halloween store last season. The company does ones for Christmas too! So, you have a projector and some sheer fabric and you are ready to go!  I'm kind of hoping they might do pirate ones and maybe even exotic dancer ones and such for parties. Wouldn't a party be better with some pirates or dancers??? Here's some instructions for how to make some awesome holographics. AtmosFEARfx   It's encouraging to know that we can simply portray horror without a lot of setup decorations and other trappings, simply project zombies on garage door windows or project onto a picture window and a few choice objects outside to make it even more eerie, and we're ready to go.