Video Tag
Every video tagged “Haunt Former” in the library — a focused slice of the Halloween archive.
437 videos
Haunt Former reviews a life-sized mummy animatronic spotted at Costco for the 2023 Halloween season, sharing his reaction and impressions of the prop. The video takes a fun, personality-driven approach to evaluating a mass-market animated Halloween decoration available at a major warehouse retailer. Viewers get a close look at what big-box stores are offering haunt enthusiasts and home decorators this season.
In this brief closing video, the creator behind Haunt Former announces their departure from YouTube. It serves as a farewell message to the channel's audience and directs viewers to watch the final upload. No Halloween tutorials, builds, or reviews are featured in this video.
To mark five years of the Haunt Former YouTube channel on National Haunters Day 2018, creator Mak shares a personal retrospective about his journey as a haunter and content creator. The video blends faith, personal testimony, and a passion for Halloween into a reflective milestone piece. It serves as both a celebration of the channel's anniversary and an intimate look at the person behind the props and haunted house builds.
Haunt Former takes a critical look at Lowe's entry into the Halloween animatronic prop market for 2023, focusing specifically on a pneumatic Guard Zombie offering. The video evaluates how well the big-box retailer holds up against dedicated Halloween prop vendors. The host shares candid impressions on the zombie's scare factor and overall quality, with a tone that suggests mixed-to-skeptical findings.
This short tutorial from Haunt Former walks viewers through constructing a creepy doll workshop table prop suitable for a haunted house or home haunt. The build is presented as accessible to most skill levels, requiring minimal expense while delivering an effectively unsettling display. The finished piece creates a disturbing vignette centered on a sinister toy-maker or doll-repair theme.
Haunt Former takes a close look at the 2022 Gemmy Jason Voorhees animatronic prop, discussing what the licensed Friday the 13th decoration brings to the Halloween market. The video covers the prop's features and appeal for horror fans and home haunters alike. As a discussion-style review rather than a build tutorial, it focuses on impressions and observations about the product.
This short review covers the Gemmy Industries LED Lightshow ThunderBolt, a ready-to-use Halloween light that combines projected lightning visuals with accompanying thunder sound effects. The video is part of the Haunt Former channel's ongoing R.I.P. Reviews series, which evaluates seasonal Halloween products. It gives viewers a quick look at what the unit produces in terms of atmosphere, helping haunters decide whether it's worth adding to their setup.
Haunt Former returns with a halfway-to-Halloween 2024 discussion centered on Spirit Halloween's latest offerings, including what appears to be a revival of gore-themed props and a spotlight on the Rick Ratman animatronic. The video takes a commentary-style approach, sharing the creator's enthusiasm for the new season's releases. It serves as an informal preview and discussion piece rather than a hands-on review or build tutorial.
Haunt Former delivers a review of the 1988 cult horror-comedy Killer Klowns from Outer Space, a fan-favorite among Halloween and haunt enthusiasts. The video offers commentary and opinions on the film in a style aimed at the haunting and horror community. At roughly eight minutes, it's a compact watch for fans curious about the movie's Halloween appeal.
This is episode five of Haunt Former's 'Nightmare Fuel' series, a curated horror commentary show exploring deeply unsettling images, sounds, and internet phenomena. The episode covers topics including a hanging Munchkin urban legend, disturbing audio described as hell sounds, and the creepypasta-adjacent concept 'There Is Nothing.' Atmospheric music and narration are used to build dread throughout. The format blends horror education with entertainment in a style reminiscent of late-night horror anthology programming.
Haunt Former's R.I.P. Reviews series takes a look at the AtmosFEARfx mobile apps, which deliver digital Halloween atmosphere effects including spooky portraits, creepy spiders, and eerie flames. Unlike previous prop-focused episodes, this installment explores how haunters can deploy scary visuals entirely through their electronics — no physical prop required. The review highlights these apps as an accessible option for adding digital scares to a haunt or home display.
This short-form video from Haunt Former's 'Uncanny' series explores the real-life paranormal legend of the Belmez Faces — a mysterious phenomenon in which ghostly faces reportedly appeared, disappeared, and reappeared on the concrete floor of a home in Belmez, Spain. The episode recounts how a woman's attempts to remove the original face only led to more faces emerging, deepening the mystery. It is part of the channel's HauntTober seasonal content lineup, blending Halloween atmosphere with historical paranormal storytelling.
Haunt Former takes a quick look at Spirit Halloween's 2017 Hi-Voltage Fenced In Zombie prop as part of his annual Spirit Sneak Peeks series. The short video showcases the animatronic or static zombie trapped against an electric fence enclosure ahead of the Halloween season. It serves as an early preview for shoppers and collectors eager to see what Spirit Halloween has in store for 2017.
Part 2 of Haunt Former's 2018 build series for 'The End' haunted house focuses on constructing a dead alien prop from scratch. The creator applies corpsing techniques to a skeleton base to achieve a convincing extraterrestrial corpse effect. The short runtime suggests a focused, practical demonstration of the prop-making process suited for home haunters looking to add a sci-fi horror element to their displays.
Haunt Former revisits a piece of Spirit Halloween history with a nostalgic unboxing of a classic animatronic and its original packaging. The video leans heavily into retro and throwback vibes, treating the box itself as a collectible artifact. It's a short, personality-driven segment aimed at Spirit Halloween enthusiasts and prop collectors. The creator's signature style blends light horror atmosphere with genuine fan enthusiasm.
This is the second episode of Haunt Former's 'Nightmare Fuel' series, a hosted segment in which the creator shares genuinely unsettling images, videos, and subjects that personally creep them out. The episode references a range of disturbing topics including a Pixar-related oddity, performer Robert Helpmann, and an entity or subject called Glesgorv. It sits outside typical Halloween how-to content, functioning instead as a horror curiosity and commentary show aimed at fans of all things eerie and strange.
Haunt Former hosts Jared and Mak run through their top killer suspects as MTV's Scream Season 2 nears its finale. The video is a fan-theory countdown rather than a how-to build or haunt walkthrough, with voice acting provided by a guest contributor. It sits on the pop-culture commentary side of the Halloween-adjacent content spectrum.
Haunt Former reacts to and discusses a Department 56 Halloween village piece centered on an alien and UFO theme, apparently one he feels compelled to add to his collection despite some reluctance. The video has a lighthearted, personality-driven tone as the creator reckons with his love of alien-themed Halloween collectibles. It appears to focus on the 'Udderly Unbelievable' cow-abduction style piece from the Department 56 lineup. This is more of an editorial reaction or review than a hands-on build or tutorial.
Haunt Former hits Halloween retail stores on November 1st to scout the post-Halloween clearance sales, where decorations and props are marked down significantly. The video serves as a store walkthrough tour, giving viewers a look at what remains on shelves and what deals are available after the holiday. It's a helpful guide for bargain hunters looking to stock up on Halloween décor and props at reduced prices for the following year.
Haunt Former (Mak) kicks off the 2022 build season with the first vlog entry for the Cotton County Crematorium home haunt. The video walks viewers through the overarching theme and backstory driving the haunt's concept, then transitions into a detailed walkthrough of the floor plan and room layout blueprints. It serves as a foundational planning episode that sets the creative and structural direction for the entire build. Fans of narrative-driven home haunts will find this a compelling look at how story and layout work together from day one.
This short POV walkthrough video takes viewers through a Halloween haunt built around the fictional Thurston Theater, a 1920s movie house with a tragic backstory involving a fatal fire in 1952. The creator frames the experience with in-universe lore suggesting the theater is still haunted by characters from classic horror films. Atmospheric music and first-person camera work set the immersive tone throughout the roughly three-minute runtime.
Haunt Former takes a sneak peek at Spirit Halloween's 2017 Cryo Chamber Corpse prop, giving viewers an early look ahead of the Halloween retail season. The short preview showcases the prop's cryo-themed design and any animatronic or visual effects it features. As part of the Spirit Sneak Peeks 2017 series, the video is one of several early reveals from the Spirit Halloween lineup that year.
A short walkthrough tour of CVS's 2017 Halloween seasonal section, spotlighting the candy and decorative items available at the pharmacy retail chain. The video is part of Haunt Former's broader Halloween Store Walkthroughs 2017 series, offering a ground-level look at what mainstream retailers were stocking that season. It serves as a casual shopping guide for Halloween enthusiasts curious about CVS's holiday offerings.
Haunt Former previews the Moonshine Barrel Zombie, a Spirit Halloween 2015 retail prop, in this short sneak-peek showcase video. The clip is part of an ongoing series highlighting new Spirit Halloween offerings ahead of the season. At just three minutes, it gives viewers an early look at the prop's design and overall aesthetic without a deep technical breakdown.
