Earlton Hill Family Campground Halloween Weekend, a SUCESS!!Well hoy hoy! This weekends trail was a bigger sucess than I immagined. 7 Groups of 20+ people, each run. Construction was a three day long process, in which I was involved in 2 days of. They made some awsomely awsome creatures and props with this spray foam that you use to plug holes, some mesh, and a little electrical wires (light up eyes) and such. We built a MASSIVE 40 foot long black tunnel, and I was in semi-charge of spray painting in the tunnel, with neon paints and what not. I did 3 big Murals, one of Jason himself, A dragon monster, and some satan-looking dude, in 3 ultra neon colors.
They had a guy hanging from a "ghetto-gallows" as I liked to put it. Took us 10 minuts to build, and it worked awsome. The guy stood on a milk crate, and played dead in frint of a window in the tunnel, and popped up when people were near it and scared them.
There were 4 or five (useless) kids working, and running around the back woods. A ton of adults and teens, some working the air hoses, some throwing fake guts at people and lurking in the shadows.
One guy had an all black grim reaper costume, with bony finger gloves, and if he didnt want you to see him, he wouldnt. He found a shadow and hid, and you DID NOT (I didnt) see him. Spooky.
They had a chainsaw/victim scene right before the tunnel started, and that was fantasticly done. I guess the woman who was the vivtim had to put on a second shirt because her **** had some 'revealing' holes in it. They had some awsome looking body parts strewn about and skulls all over. Just before that was the main working gate, where the people came in and got prepped and hyped.
The charachters set up to scare were:
- Chainsaw Killer
- Witch
- Demon 1
- Demon 2
- Hung Body
- Freddy
- Grim Reaper
- Killer+Killers Victim
- Jason
- 3 or 4 Gate Keepers
I ended up being Jason, because the origional person is higly alergic to poison Ivy, and there was enogh on the trail, to hurt him.
The guy who played Freddy, whos name was mike, Collected Hotwheels, and Marvel, McFarlane Sports pics, and some other stuff, hooked me up with a hockey mask, I got some long dark close, I got the walk down, had the one eye close, and seriously scared some kids. I made 3 or 4 people cry, and some one (I think he was mentally retarded slightly) beg for me not to kill him.
I kept sneaking around in the woods, passed the group, and re scaring the smart @$$ kids who were like *Oh hey Jason, your sooooo scary, nice mask* and all that wise garbage, and when I scared them, they got frightened to the core.
I kind of lost a bit of dignity when I fell over a tree branch and flipped over 3 or four times, so I just laid there, and people were like *Is he ok?? Is he dead* and I just sat right up and slashed at them with my knife, and they went onto the cemetary, where they had a coffin, and hole in the ground (some one popped out from it) and a chucky doll performing a seance on a crsafix with red flares all below him, down to the "Wully Swamp" where the swamp monster attacked them.
The last group, there was this overly touchy black guy who elbowed me in the ribs, so I shot down the way of the woods in the back, and met up with Freddy, to tell him, and I went down in the woods, Freddy grabbed the guy and pointed the clawed hand at me, and he pushed Freddy, grabbed a little kid, and Used him as a sheild!!! As a shield!!
The got passed the swamp and climbed back onto the hay-ride truck, and I stalked them, and paced back and forth, and found the black guy again, and started a fast Jason power walk to him, and since the speed limit was 5 MPH, I had no problem keeping up untill they dissapeared into the fog.
Then I got lost in the woods because they cut the lights. I wondered the campground back roads for an hour trying to make my way back.
I had a few complaints though. Kids were ruing suprise for people, parents were FORCING their kids to go through, and kids were going through all alone, and crying the whole way.
Now, then there were the parents dragging kids through, and expected us to stop scaring them because their kid was horrified. I wasnt about to NOT scare the rest of the group because of one child. Then, because some parents were complaining, a woman who works there said she was gonna have it shut down after the second run. No way in hell after 3 days of work were we gonna shut down.
All in all it was fun as heck, and a great blast.
Kevin
