The Texas Haunters Convention™ is a great place to learn some new skills!

Wilhelm will walk you through the tips and tricks he has learned over the years from making professional costume builds.

You will get to see examples of quick easy cheap builds that look more than they cost.

This class will walk you through how to best utilize show design for the maximum numbers of scares in your haunt.

This class will guide you through the creation of LED lighting for haunts and costuming.

• Understanding the colors of LEDs that are available
  • Including where to order them
• Understanding how to wire them up – It is much easier than you think!
  • You will learn the few tools that you need and how to use them
• Adding effects to your LED’s
  • Strobes
  • Fades
  • Flickers
  • Switches

Coming Soon!

Frightening Energetic Aware Reliable

Your patrons have selected your entertainment as an entertainment choice.  The ultimate goal of haunted house acting is entertainment and the best way to know you have succeeded is to provoke a reaction.  A startle, true fear, laughter, or even awe are good reactions and let you know you are getting the job done.  How do we do this?  By learning the basics.

In this session, you will learn one of the most valuable things in haunted house acting which is how to quickly evaluate the customers you will see.  If and when you know how to identify certain members of your audience, you will learn a big secret to the success of any GREAT haunted house actor.

Haunter’s Enthusiastic Actor Retention Training using the three R’s!

This class will cover aspects from Recruiting (acquiring paid and volunteer actors), Reinforcing legal stuff/hiring, to Retention year after year in a single or multi-haunt setting.

From adorable cat videos, to Let’s Plays, to a series that could rival Red vs Blue, learn what to do to start a successful YouTube channel from the ground, to the penthouse suite.

This class will guide you through how to bring your creations to life using motors.

•  The class will have operating props so you can see first hand how to create these motions for your haunt props.
• Understanding the operation of the motor.
  • Connections
  • Rotational speeds
• Understanding how the circular motion of a motor can provide more motions than just things rotating.

Follow Culley Franks as he explains how he walks through the costume distressing process.  He will explain the logic behind how fabric realistically weathers and distresses achieving a realism most costume designers overlook.  This class will show you how to achieve a high level of realism only using tools from your local home improvement and hobby store, and he’ll only use the scissors once (maybe twice).

Brandon will walk you through the various techniques he uses around corpsing skeletons.  Learn how to use basic plastic wrap as well as more realistic “skin” techniques. He will show you how to incorporate wood stains and saddle dyes for a truly creepy professional look.  This is gonna be a fun class and a must for taking your skeletons to the next level!

Stunts and Stilts can be a great addition to any amusement park or haunted attraction by building the shock and awe factor. Whether it’s a strange creature towering over you, charging and sliding at your feet, or lunging full speed in mid-air just to land right in front of your face; it is sure to get the attention and scares you’re looking for.

The profession of writing has taken numerous twists and turns since the invention of the paper and pencil, but the idea of the starving author is going away. Why is that? The invention of the internet! Learn how to break into this medium and write for horror stories such as Creepy Pastas from MrCreepyPasta himself.