"Halloween Extreme" returned this year, along with the "Spooky May-hem" Convention in Orlando. Kind of nice to have a convention close to home especially since Transworld pretty well wiped out our "mad money" for the year.
I won't say there was anything at "Halloween Extreme" that I haven't seen at other haunter conventions, but I did get to spend time once again meeting a whole bunch of people with similar Halloween and haunter passions.
One of the more fun things, that I didn't get to watch at the last Halloween Extreme, was the "Mystery Box Challenge" sponsored by
Ghostride Productions . I was pretty sure I'd be out of my league from the photos we saw of the teams frantically working on their props at the previous Halloween Extreme. After watching this year... I was right.
The Mystery Box Challenge consisted of a maximum of three people to a team. Each team was given some identical materials that had to be included in building a Halloween prop. This year it was half of a face, half a skull, half a brain some turkey feathers... you get the idea. Those materials had to be included in the finished piece. The rest of the materials were available to be pulled out of a huge pile of random junk. The teams had 30 minutes to make their work of art.
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| This years winning prop "Remnants of Jack Sparrow" from Team "Moe's Halloween" |
Each team came up with a name and then picked a last minute name for their finished prop. First place was $200, second place was $50 and third place was $25. Most of the people who entered I knew from the Florida Haunters so it was a bit extra fun watching friends in panicked action.
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| Second Place was "Reluctant Vine Creature" from Team "Eerie Acres Cemetery" |
In the end, last year's Mystery Box Challenge winners, Ant and Lleana Petrone of "
Eerie Acres Cemetery" , were unseated by Maureen Perez's team "
Moe's Halloween" Both winning props and the other four team props were pretty darned impressive, especially when you consider it was accomplished in 30 minutes.
