Revenant Manor Halloween 2024: PENUMBRA

Stunning work here.  Oh, to stroll through those ruins on Halloween night.  So much texture.

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Grim Trails Haunted Attraction

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Revenant Manor 2023: Illusions Of Time

There's an elegance and sophistication that I haven't seen topped elsewhere.  The Haunt of Revenant Manor is more like a small haunted attraction than a home haunt.  It feels wildly professional, like this is where the inventor of the Haunted Mansion must have ended up when he retired from Disney.  It's complex and classy, dripping with spooky atmosphere.  The kind of Haunt where I'm assuming folks linger a long time.  Where it's the first stop on the Halloween trick-or-treating route for those who are too excited and can't wait... and where it's the last stop for those with some self-control who want to end the night on an extreme high note.

Click below for a beautiful video from Revenant Manor...Illusions of Time:

And click here for his IG account where there are loads of wonderful photos and short videos.

More Oak Crest Cemetery

So much atmosphere...

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Boston Haunted Manor

Really great stuff here.

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Evermore Park: Lore

Can't find many photo galleries online of this attraction, but the pics that are out there are pretty neat.

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Revisiting Revenant Manor

Here's to all those folks who create a cemetery on their properties come each Halloween.  Temporary undertakers, funeral directors, gravediggers, ... Morticians.

Tending to plots of unrest and horror, with unholy moans and groans, flashes of lighting, unusually thick fog...  and, of course, the Undead.

Whenever I see a beautiful artificial cemetery, I am always deeply impressed with the amount of time such an undertaking must require.  It's staggering to me.

One of my personal favorites is the hallowed ground of Revenant Manor.  So much detail... so many beautiful props.  The atmosphere is off the charts.

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Oak Crest Cemetery

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The Props And I

Back in 1987, the director of the high school play The King and I approached my brother and I with a proposition:  I will give you a lot of money to build props.  He didn't say those words, but we knew we worked cheap.  So he was assuming his list of prop requests would take a long time and cost a lot of dough.  It didn't.

I recall things on that list like "A small elephant toy...a small locomotive toy...two golden Buddhas...two Foo Dog statues... masks for a dance..."

The director knew that my brother and I went all-out making mache props for an annual Halloween display, so he figured this would be a great partnership.  It was the first time we applied our Halloween prop skills to non-Halloween props.  And it was the first time that symmetry would be required in building identical props.  We had never done that before, and it's putrid, actually.  Turns out he used both Foo Dogs, but only one Buddha (that still hurts til this day).

Anyways, here are some photos of the props.  I think it's hilarious to ponder other parents taking photos of their children performing in the play, and my mother was out in the audience taking photos of the props we built.