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speaking of metal...
you don't get more metal then lamb of god
they rawk...we hung out n told them bout all the crazy stuff we do...
now when ever they blow thru town
they make a stop by the hooch
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but lets get back to the 90s...
what inspired you ?
we have been working in the shop lately...on our newest creation
which let me tell you is freaking amazing...
and no doubt will be something everyone will soon want in their haunt..
and all the while we have been talking about inspiration...and how it is unavoidable to not be influenced..
although we were oblivious to what other haunts were doing around the country...pre internet back then...
while we were blazing a path borne outta our own minds we also watched movies...
and what inspired us at the time was the movie evil dead...
and it all started in a cabin out in the woods..
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happy friday the 13th
this is Toby Miracle..
this year is Tobys 22 year with haunted hoochie
I probably couldn't keep doing this without him
my entire dream team is still together..
its been the best of friends having the best of times
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its been a great building year so far for us..
hope the same for everyone else..
we have been in negotiations on more land
which has its positives n negatives
1.8 million is the price tag....
glad i despise money and greed so much...
not too sure how this project will end...
negotiations means please split me off a smaller piece...
and no land equals
not opening the old historic hoochie woods back up...
decisions decisions..
even with the failing economy pataskala (my city) is poised to grow..
i guess time will tell...I'm easy
heres more from the 90s
not sure how many of these we made...many..
btw...i have my favorites and heres one
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Awesome thread Timbo!!! Its truly making my brutal blood boil with nasty necrostalgia!!! I am lucky to by now i think to be remembered as one of the originals. The ones who built the haunted hoochie up with just sadistic ideas, blood, sweat, and shear devouring determination to do diabolical deeds to people and stay outta jail, lol....well all that and a whole lotta trips to the hardware store. Im proud of my 17 years with you man, & what youve help me acomplish in my life. I was just a 15 yr old kid when I wandered onto your farm with just a hunger to scare. The endless support you show us all, especially me in creation and the very idea of creavtivity, balls to the wall, no limits chaos kind of creation. And quite the brainstorms you have sent me into, hell brain hurricanes!!! How else could I have come up with the idea for the DEMON BIRTH that has sent shock waves that I have seen through the industry. You never saw even the idea of birth and mutilation even mentioned...even discussion of such too Taboo...until....It pops in this sick brain u created in me..out of no where the next year there are bloody babies and fetuses flying across the show floor in Vegas!! Lmao. hell...even I thought....."NOOOOO....We cant do that! can we...? NOOO!" But two words from you Tim have always stuck with me, almost guiding me through life, "Why Not". wisdom to live to die by right there.
so instead of going back to my boring job, i called you and hesitantly told you my gruesome totally outrageous offensive never been done because of so IDEA.
.....and I will never will forget your explosive enthuisiasm. "HELL FUCKIN YES!!!! I know just how to engineer it. Its PERFECT!! I'm out the door to start on it RIGHT NOW!!"
(it was dead december winter folks, maybe christmas eve, record 100 year ICE storm was in effect all I can remember is thinking hes finally gone crazy)
thats the kind of work ethic it takes to be such a pioneer, such an inspiration as Tim is to us all. I know it seems im laying it on kinda of thick, but im really not. he truly is one of a kind, my mentor in mayhem...my brother.
thank you Tim for all you have done for me and for us all,
your friend and brother in harm, Nate~
hell yeah~hell yeah indeed
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Here is a pic of me as just a 15yr old fledgling frightener(a 6ft 210lbs intimindating fledling)
I just took a latex micheals myers mask and put dreadlock extensions in it(dam that old latex got HOT as u can see)
~but everything evolves~
So here is one of the evolved present day me(if not lost in the data transfer would have looked badass in that new issue in the article I wrote,lol)
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Nate i gotta say nothing goes with coffee in the morning like sittin down and finding your post...
thank you very much sir...
it has been my pleasure to give you a platform to hone your skills...
you have been an important part of the team since the first day we met...
besides Dave Basham...
no single other person has added more ideas that we have built then you...
and i thank you ....i am a very lucky man to have such a creative team..
without a doubt i have not been a success on my own...
i surround myself with creative geniuses ...
then practice good listening...even good note taking skills...
u Nate along with so many others are the Haunted Hooch at Dead Acres...
its all you...
i am just another workaholic....
and without your direction i would not have a job....
soo thanks again brother...///
its Great relationships like ours that makes for the best things in life...
even tho its 9 am and i have pl glue stuck to my arm hair..
and i have already spilt contact cement on the shop floor...
and there is no way i am buying 17 acres for almost 2 millions dollars.....
i am all smiles today...:oops:
this time of year always feels like crunch time to me...
with running a paintball biz..company pic biz....and the Hooch
there is such limited time to pull off the impossible...
so its a round the clock job...
and even when i sleep i cant turn off the brain...
but as much as we do ...
we accomplished more back in the 90s....haha
i think i could post our 90s creation pics all summer....
heres another one of my favorite corpses...
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its awesome how metalheads and haunters are usually intertwined.. at our haunt, we only play metal of the most extreme kind.. black, death, grindcore, and thrash!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkangel
my absolute favorite kinda metal is rusty
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the project of moving haunted hoochie indoors to dead acres was 7 years in the making ..
and i had many visions of what i wanted it to be like...and that included alot of rusty metal...
i am a certified rusty metal head....
so out behind the new building i started a rusty relic pile...
that grew over the years...and after we moved
i started placing relics from the pile...
the last of it i grabbed with the bobcat forks...and carried to where i was using them..
and at the very bottom of this pile was this cemetery gate...
but i had never put this gate in the pile...
i had never even seen this gate before...
apparently it had been under the ground where i started this pile of rusty relics....
waiting there through the years...
apparently over many many decades ...
to become part of dead acres......
or maybe the haunt is built over on old abandoned cemetery...i just don't know..
anyways i thought that was something special to share with u all...
i hate reading on here about how haunts sucked back in the day....?????
speak for your self...
haunted hoochie was kick ass....and still is...
to kinda quote the black eyed peas..
if your not 3008 then your 2000 n late
back then we were paving the way to what haunted houses have become today...
and we still are
this is what we called the wipeout...
another haunted hoochie original ....
its an old Kawasaki drag bike ....
and would pile em up back in the day...
The lyrics are "I'm so 3008 you're so 2000 and late"
Great video and pics it's great that you documented it so well over the years to chart your growth.
DA
yeah dark..i was puttin my own spin on their lyrics...
if your not paving the way then your just following the herd...
was my point..
the fact is the old hooch is truly not well documented...
i am amazed at how much we just took for granted...
for example we were carving foam mausoleums and facades with hardly a pic to be found in my collection..
like video of the talking tree in action...
or this great effect where we had this huge monster that lifted the roof off the building and reached in at the patrons with a huge hand....not one pic...uugh
we still have the head ...
we use now use in bad trip in 3d but no pics or video of the kick ass effect of having a monster looking in and reaching at your group.....
at least not that has been uncovered yet...
and soo many more simple ideas and effects that didnt seem so revolutionary ..
until a vendor is selling them in chicago... omg...
we all evolve and back then i was too wrapped up in creating and not enough of taking pics and video...
now days i may take 100 pics to get that perfect pic to present to the public...
its a testament of my evilution that i will even show off old pics here on hauntworld....
i am always concerned about how i represent my passion...my art
and those old day pics just don't live up to my current standards...
but i am only here to show off to my peers...
stir up some ideas for others to use....
and show where some of these creations originated...
for us anyways...cause like i said before we just didnt have anyway to gauge what other haunts were doing...
we were flying without a map so to speak....
which if you ask me is where the magic happens...
its not wondering what the next big movement for the industry is ...
its just following your own passion...
look at any of the great haunts...
you could say Ben Armstrongs parade march is big for this industry....
or his adding lions and elephant bones and more to a haunt is big...its changing the game..and changes perceptions..now a haunt can be like a museum...
or even hitting your costumer's in the parking lot with amazing actors...
the list goes on...
but its passion that is the driving force that changes everything...
all the greats are the same...
haunted overload's effigy inspired buildings..etc...its his ...it has Erics stamp on it...
erebus...Eds vision of what a haunted house is...is painted on everything in that house...
house of shock...Ross is soo passionate about this game we all play...maybe too passionate..haha
the next big thing for this industry is sitting out in your garage...
you just take this thing...and add some more of those things to it..
and talk to that guy down the street that knows how to help make this idea happen...
its all in your head and you already know its gonna be great....
when u follow your passion...
you are a leader...
and it doesnt matter if your idea ends up in haunts all over the country...
you are making a living doing what you love to do...and for me that's reward enough...
but your idea just might catch on...
and change how everyone thinks about haunted houses....
hope that came out right...
i better get back to work...
my girls Gina Plank and Vanessa Williamson and other actors from the Hooch are heading up the Columbus Ohio zombie walk this year.....
zombies helping feed the community seems like a very good thing
heres another promo they put together..
i should mention the torch was handed down to them by Kurt Channey aka actiondeath on here
he laid in wait behind the bushes..waiting on the unsuspecting public...
first you would here some rustling then..he would rise to a height of 40 feet...
his whole body was animated ...arms legs torso...and he talked to the crowd.....chanting haunted hoochie...
we named him Hack...
another first of his kind...
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he took all spring and summer to construct...
and one of the only ones we videoed the entire build...
does anyone know of another haunt back in the 90s that was making monsters like this ???
or even to this day..?? he is definitely a monster of monstrous proportions
yet he was just part of the infancy of the Dead Acres
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I've been to a lot of haunts and I've never seen a monster that size except at Haunted Hoochie. I remember there being strobes flashing on him and him talking to the crowd asking to give him a HELL YEAH.
Dave Basham n myself standing on a john deere 630 posing with Hack in 98
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and today Hack is retired and guards the ticket barn at Dead Acres
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Maybe you can give us a basic rundown of how you made monsters such as hack
i must add
hack was inspired by iron maidens eddie...haha ...more rock influence
and him and other creations we made like him
are simple to make...its really whatever your heart desires..
just as soon as i can find sum time i will edit the hack build video...
and post....
its time thats tough to find though..
i am just gettin in and i think its 1 or 2 am
working round the clock to unleash that new dead acres horror
hope everyone has a great Holiday weekend
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just back from an absolutely awesome vacation
soakin up the sun and all the best things in life
feels great to get back to the haunt though
we have work stacked up and should keep us busy til opening
before i left i converted formats of the hack build and will hopefully get some time to edit this week
til then some more haunted hoochie goodness to hold u over
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this guy is called red head
he hung from a track and charged at the crowd
his mouth n eyes both were hand operated
his eyes are beer balls..haha and looked great lit from inside...
another hoochie creation from the ninties...
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Ron (ROMO) Morrison is a guy this operation could not do without...
he is one of the most organized and precision guys on our team...
here he is running red head in 97...
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look not one grey hair...haha...
now seems we all have more grey then anything else...
i have been very lucky to have teamed up with such a great crew
who has stuck it out though soo many years...
Romo is one of my best friends and one of a kind...
he has helped shape the dead Acres into what it is today
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presenting Haunted Hoochies own Koolaide
representin at the midwest haunters convention..
Miss Scary midwest 2012
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That is an awesome looking costume!
Now you guys need to open for MHC 2013...it IS their 10 year anniversary! ;)
Hope to make it back to Columbus in the next year or 2 to see the Hoochie again...
Kirk
Awesome! This is a great thread!
thank you Eric...its been a great ride...
my gramps got me into all this...he was doing a haunted hayride here on our farm since 53,
they did all the old horror at the time..wolfman...creature from the black lagoon..frankenstein etc..
my grandfather rode a horse as the headless horseman...
now a member of city council and the clerk both had come to our farm to enjoy the haunted hayrides as kids...
soo for me its a family tradition
i was talking to one of the grandkids of Dave Grim one of my gramps friends and partner..
and they were just tellin me that they still have an original horse hair wolfman costume that my gramp and his grandfather had made back in the fifties...
he lives around here but the costume is in Missouri at one of uncles...i think Dave Grim had 12 kids....crazy...
but there's a high price auction piece ....
soo anyways when i took over this biz we started off with a bang making things
like it had been bottled up just waiting to get out...
apparently things that had never been done before
soo while i am still around in this biz i figured i would show this community a lil haunted history...
i wish we had some kinda haunted historian on here who could enlighten us
when i did a lil research i cant find anything before distortions electric chair...
and we were doing things that just plain blew that kinda thing away.....
i remember the same year we made our first kicking body for a hanging scene..
Dale Feazel had the idea and Mike Lucas who was working on airplanes, had the technology..
we made a steal armature that just hinged at the waist and the knees...one actuator for the waist and the knees just freely swinging...
we put a hood over his head and gloves on his hands and when he worked it just made us laugh at how unbelievably real it looked...
people who would come thru never guessed he was an animation...
they would say ...i dont know how much you pay that guy but its not enough....
man those were the best of times....
Dark..
thank you too....
ill tell you you have to hand it to all the haunts that open in the summer for midwest...
i have done it 3 times now and it is aot of work...and right in the middle of building season...
i do this whole thing outta love...NOT for money...and i know the last time we opened for MHC we made 11 grand for childrens hospital...
which i know some of you know holds a special place in our hearts here...
while we were building the first hack in 1994 my son was born with hirshbrungs disease and we lost him at 10 months old...
my daughter who is now 12 has the same disease....we battle it everyday...and we are blessed to have childrens hospital here in columbus...
when we had timmy my son we had insurance
but the bills beyond the coverage was over 3 million...
soon after his death ...childrens ripped up what we owed them....God bless em
we have made some amazing things since we lastly opened for MHC
and i do like to show off...
sooo maybe
let me think on it awhile
if your just clickin on this be sure to read the bottom of the last page...
some good info in there and searching for some haunted facts..
no responses
dont plead the
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i was just askin if anyone knew of any other haunts doing this kinda stuff before the Hooch
its not often i bare myself
my family, ,my passion...
for histories sake...
anyways...
red head got lonely so we made him a partner
his name is pug head...
they teamed up to scare..
while one had your attention the other came from behind...
maned by Scott Litz
inspired by the first poltergeist movie
giving credit where credit is due....
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did these old creations inspire others in this industry...maybe ..maybe not..but they definitely set a precedent.. ...
and soon there were 3 local companies making animations here in columbus ohio...
one of which still employs one of our old employees...
have a great weekend
red head still hasn't retired
and lately he has been doing side jobs scaring for Netherworld
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Great thread- it is always cool to see a haunts evolution. It is hard/ impossible to say who had what first and it does not matter. What matters is you have a great show that a lot of people find worth working for. I love seeing these pics.
Allen...
i'm sure your right...
everyone was making huge monsters in their shop...
i would love to see some ...
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Allen..
I'm glad you like the thread...
it was inspired by Erics haunted overload thread..
and Americas most influential haunt article...
its been a great ride scaring the hell outta america..
and the best part has been dreaming something up
then making it happen...
i think it is clear to see what influenced us with this skit....
this piece dates itself..haha..
just another part of our haunted hooch history>>>enjoy
the nineties sure was a blast
before animation companies existed and most haunts were black plastic and jaycees in kmart masks...
the Hooch was kickin ass n clearly treading where no haunts had before.....
just like we still do today
following our vision of the future of haunted houses.....
and i have only touched on what brings people from soo far and wide..
but before we git into that..
heres another look back into the world of the early days of Americas baddest haunted house....
the haunted hoochie at dead acres...
Again,
I have GOT to dig out the pics and video of us making puppets in the early 90s.
we built life size creature marionettes, and the 15' giants that are the forefathers of what we make now.
Anybody know how to convert VHS to digital in a easy way. I have so much weird stuff on VHS you would not believe.
Kevin i use a sony multi function dvd recorder model vrd-mc5 ...
i think best buy could hook u up....
i remember your tall stalk arounds with legs...
cant wait to see more of your old stuff...
i want to edit the hack build its just soo time consuming..
and we seemed to video between actual working ...
but i will eventually post it...
heres something a lil different from bad trip in 3 d...
everything here moves...
the dragon flies and butterfly wings
the preying mantis head and hands...
walking spiders and lady bugs...
the head of the snake...
and not pictured is the flying bees...
besides the fly trapp...made by Bo at unit 70
i guess u could say theres alot going on here..haha
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