diefordethklok Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 (edited) What I want to see at a Haunted House at Halloween Horror Nights this year is Scary (muppet styled ) hand puppets. while you were walking in any haunted house in HHN, a goulish person with a scary hand puppet pops out of the wall, and scares the living hell out of you. Matt Ficner "Puppeter" (right) Edited January 24, 2011 by diefordethklok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I can just picture a scary puppet popping out at you through a "door boo-hole" like through a picture frame or something. I love that idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diefordethklok Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 I can just picture a scary puppet popping out at you through a "door boo-hole" like through a picture frame or something. I love that idea! THANKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 It would certainly allow for scares to pop out of unusual places, like picture frames, mini-doors, air vents, etc. Just looking for an alcove or door would no longer help you dodge the scare. You'd just need to be careful about drunks vandalizing the prop, because now you might very well have a hand in there for them to grab! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman875 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 It would certainly allow for scares to pop out of unusual places, like picture frames, mini-doors, air vents, etc. Just looking for an alcove or door would no longer help you dodge the scare. You'd just need to be careful about drunks vandalizing the prop, because now you might very well have a hand in there for them to grab! Very true! I, for one, wouldn't be volunteering to be one of the people behind the puppet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diefordethklok Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoolboy Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I must say..I am digging this idea and would LOVE to see it put to use in a Haunted House . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Director of Horror Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 (edited) Remember the Chucky heads in Friends Til' the End? I would like to more puppets used (where appropriate of course). Don't put them in a house just for the sake of using them and being scary, though. The bad thing is, the actors that operate the puppets woudn't (I suppose) have much fun. The fact that they wouldn't be able to get in the role a whole lot, or use a lot of physical motions wouldn't make me want to do it. Edited February 10, 2011 by The Director of Horror Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. D Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 The dog puppets in The Thing were a good scare...But I agree with DOH....The Scareactors behind these puppets would get bored with it after a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV-426 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 correct me if I am wrong, it might be a rumor, or false information but, I heard that someone using the Dog puppet in the thing house in 07, I heard that a drunk person started to pull on the puppet and they broke the actor's arm, I don't know if I heard this in the Vault, I really don't remember, But I remember hearing that was the reason they took those off afterward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reilysclone Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Speaking as a former Thing: Assimilation cast member, yes, we had issues with drunks messing with the actors operating the monsters. There was a night where the dog puppet actor did get a pretty serious arm injury (some idiot slammed both fists RIGHT DOWN on the puppet), but he luckily didn't have anything broken. One effect didn't even make it past employee preview night. In the hallway before the rec room, one of the windows on the right had a Thing face that would pop out. It ended up getting torn down by someone, and I don't think it got replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 At least scareactors in grease paint and dirty clothes can dodge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman875 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 When I was a fence inmate in PS:HFTH, we were told only to put our faces up to the fence and not reach our hands into the guest's path. I didn't even consider it because I could just imagine my arm getting grabbed and then me being pulled into the fence. That wasn't a puppet, but an example of what could have been done if there was a puppet on the end of my arm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 They use to be more common. The original Screamhouse had a puppeteer, (moving random body parts in the fridge), and Jungle of Doom had a butt-kicking gremlin that flew at you from out of a cave. The girl in my cast who did the puppets in Screamhouse wasn't a huge fan of the role. She liked that it was easy, but couldn't even see any of the scares she got. Personally, I think puppets are a hair too impersonal. They're great for startle scares, but unless it's an imposing beast of a puppet (like Cerebus SHOULD have been), or a distraction, I think guys in garb is the more effective (and most importantly, safer) way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Going off of what Legacy said, actual scareactors have the advantage of flexibility. A scareactor can go high, low, or right at eye level for a scare. They can find new ways to come out of a boohole or be given two or three holes they can jump out of to ensure unpredictability. They can follow a guest out of a boohole or give a very personalized scare against someone they know. What does a puppet do? Comes out of the same hole the same way each time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cramer Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 It shouldn't be hard to automate them, though. I mean, not full on animatronic, but just something that would shoot them out of a wall or something, and then retract them. Or, better yet, give the puppeteer several different booholes to choose from in a particular area/hallway or something, and give them one that they can control with a rope that would drop from the ceiling or something. I can imagine now walking into a hallway and hearing some small demonic creature scurrying around, making some nasty breathing noises, and then hearing it follow me through the hallway from behind the wall or above me, and then it jumps out from a random hole. I think it'd be epic, and wouldn't be very hard at all to pull off. Except maybe the one that'd be coming from the ceiling, but that wouldn't even be necessary to make it a great scare. Best part would be that if you go through the house multiple times, you'll never know where it'll pop out from to "get" you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhnholdem Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 They use to be more common. The original Screamhouse had a puppeteer, (moving random body parts in the fridge), and Jungle of Doom had a butt-kicking gremlin that flew at you from out of a cave. I vaguely remember a puppet in the Scary Tales house in 2001. It was a very small thing resembling a clown, placed on a bookshelf up high, and it would lean down and move its arms in a punching motion. I believe it was right inside the entrance and was one of the very first few scares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dante Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Well if you want puppets well Chucky is perfect....Chucky's Insult Emporium which is native to the HHN in hollywood...this is something i would love to see this brought to Orlando...heres a vid if you havent seen it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Well if you want puppets well Chucky is perfect....Chucky's Insult Emporium which is native to the HHN in hollywood...this is something i would love to see this brought to Orlando...heres a vid if you havent seen it..... We had it in the nineties. We've moved past it. And this thread is specifically about using puppets as a scare in houses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dante Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 We had it in the nineties. We've moved past it. And this thread is specifically about using puppets as a scare in houses. ...sorry..i read incorrectly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taskmaster Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Am I the only one that thinks a Smile Time (Angel) Scarehouse would be sick! I want to see those kind of puppets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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