This is where we build everything here and as you can see we have quite a lot
here. These parts will be the arms. Usually the arms has two parts to it
which is the part coming from the shoulder which is mount something like
this and then another part that comes out. So just use two parts like your arm
here to here and I always leave the last part in which is for the hands.
I get all those with the wires all coming five pieces of wire coming and
actually looks like veins coming down and I mount those and drill a hole and
put them into a stick and then when the hands like this you can pose it and bend
it and it's been something that I that I almost perfected because before I
used to put these type of hands that don't bend or move and they look good but
after they wanted to hold a knife it's not going to do that. My name is Ralph
Bernardo. I've been called the Santa Claus of Halloween because I make Halloween props.
We made this. I had the Wolf mask. I bought the Thriller outfit I believe about six
seven years ago Thriller was popular the outfit got the outfit and I could have
put the mask of Michael Jackson up there but I said you know what I'll put the
one that we turns into a wolf way better. So he has his shoes, his paint loafers
and silver socks he moves his head moves Michael dances we have the music that
plays along with him on the day of so he's been a real crowd pray. He's been
holding up pretty good too. Pinhead along with the mask I got the mask and I
built the other body here with a vinyl a little leather and Jason is
recognizable with all the kids all the kids recognize Jason. Frankenstein's
about two years old and when I love about this Frankenstein it's the old
universal Boris Karloff Frankenstein. Brady's a new addition out this year so
maybe he'll be out for a couple more years but he's a he's a new addition as
far as a prop. Now I found a sweater believe it or not in a thrift store
I was lucky to find that sweater because it's just like the original I wonder
who wore that sweater before but that's Brady's sweater. Once we I filled the
body up with it and get the measurements like I said in and get the
hose filled in it's just a matter of putting the pants on what shirt I'm
gonna put on there and then it's ready to go. A lot of the young kids don't know
who this is that's a zombie I go well this is old bub this is the evil baby
here he's just a regular old zombie that's called zombie and this is the
grave digger here that's a favorite too. Michael Myers this is the Rob zombie
version. I loved it because on Donna's day he had his headphones on he had his
headphones with this Walkman in his pocket. Looks good you got all kind of
myths on your nightgown there. Alinda later on we get her where she spools
stuff out of her mouth the green ooze comes out of her mouth so we haven't
set her up yet so she may be in the haunted maze soon so the the hands are
probably the most intricate part of building that's probably about the best
accomplishment in the props that I've done so far is be able to make the hands
movable and be able to grasp some grasp at something so that's I'm really proud
of that part and you can't pose it as well as you can on a two by two these
you have to glue and hold and and I think I'm already done using PVC completely.
This was a part of one of the favors I thought it was Jeepers Creepers but Jeepers
Creepers is not coming out this year. This zombie was a favorite in the yard
for years latex zombie and this year he's gonna be a zombie in in a truck.
People ask me why I do this and it started about ten years back and we like
celebrating Halloween from it's always been in our family love go trigger
treating and when I was a kid and bags of candy and we didn't get a lot of kids
come to the neighborhood here so first year we put a couple blow-ups from there
we got to progress and put in characters let's do characters out there that
people recognize we started getting crowds of people horror movies are I
believe everybody's fascinated with with horror movies for me I'm still
frightened of the old classics and it's not having a really special fix to it so
I think people that they want to be scared they want to look for something
more thrilling as each time comes along to just get them to the next level and
in that back I look for that same thing to create out there they'll say oh look
he's got something new or that's really scary so it motivates me and building
the prop I'm working on to make it scary or make it something that's gonna be
memorable when when they leave that that night after Halloween say we love that
prop you tell you a lot of work so it's motivational for me and that sense I've
got to be in here almost every day and putting stuff together because time is
of the essence getting close to Halloween
so we have a little control button here that's I guess gets stepped on and
well somewhere along the line here he's somewhat activated I don't know what
side activates them but well well that's that's scary that's scary yeah
