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Fans of Manga may be familiar with the name Junji Ito. He has authored several horror works, including Uzumaki, which has also been made into a movie.

I bring this up because of the premise of Uzumaki. A town is under a curse involving spirals. As a result, the people of the town are obsessed with and paranoid of spirals. There's a whole plot with a character's hair starting to spiral and draining life energy and so on. The concept I'd like to extract here is how this escalates, ...

I tend to lean to the theoretical. I was told in a high school class I was very abstract and should be more "concrete". Maybe. Still, when I see interesting pictures, I like to imagine how they might be re-created in real life, in real time. Of course, for the purposes of this forum, I think how they might be useful in a haunt. I usually end up thinking more in terms of atmosphere and story, rather than pop scares. Here are a few random thoughts inspired by stuff I found on the web. ...

Last week I posted a video of an effect by Daniel Wurtzel. Today I just want to share a little more of his work using air to create effect.

I hope you enjoy.



Check out his page here:
http://www.danielwurtzel.com/

Sometimes you just come across something and wonder why you've never seen it before. At Amaluna by Cirque du Soleil, I saw a large silk cloth floating and dancing above the stage. It was levitated and animated by fans as shown in the video below.

Wouldn't that be a cool effect in a haunt? You'd want the fans hidden behind a low wall and enough sound to mask their noise, but how surreal and ethereal!

Are they like, dating?