Video Tag
Every video tagged “Port Chum” in the library — a focused slice of the Halloween archive.
11 videos
In this mid-season planning vlog, the creator walks through the 2023 design vision for Port Chum, a nautical-themed haunted hayride hosted at Fearville/DK Farms. The video covers the overall layout, the unique constraints that come with designing scares around a moving hayride format, and ideas for props, animatronics, and scare actor placements. It offers an inside look at the creative decision-making process before a haunt season kicks off.
A full POV ride-through of Port Chum, a haunted hayride experience held in Largo, Florida during Halloween 2023. The event was a collaborative production involving scare actors, the crew at DK Farms, and the Fearville haunt organization. The creator uses the video as both a showcase of the experience and an opportunity to acknowledge the cast and collaborators who made it possible. The footage gives viewers an unedited look at the atmosphere and scares encountered along the route.
This vlog from Haunt Former captures the final prop placements and set dressing at Fearville's Port Chum haunt as it wraps up its first two opening weekends of the 2023 season. The creator shares behind-the-scenes footage gathered during live operation, giving viewers a candid look at how the finished attraction comes together in practice. It serves as both a retrospective on the build process and a celebration of the haunt going live for guests.
This is the official trailer for Port Chum, a haunted bay-ride attraction created by Mak Ralston (Haunt Former) for Fearville 2023 at DK Farms and Gardens in the Clearwater/Largo, Florida area. The concept reimagines a traditional haunted hayride as a water-themed experience set in a cursed fishing port where the dead have been cast into supposedly magic waters — with grim results. The trailer establishes a rich original mythology involving reanimated fishermen and mer-maids born from death. It marks a new creative direction for Ralston, a seasoned haunt designer with multiple prior haunted house productions to his credit.
This build vlog follows ongoing progress on 'Port Chum,' a nautical-horror-themed home haunt, covering costume development and fit testing alongside refinements to lighting and prop arrangements. The creator also integrates a diver prop into the scene and experiments with scenting the fog for added sensory immersion. It is part of a larger vlog series documenting the haunt's construction leading up to the 2023 Halloween season. The episode gives viewers an inside look at the iterative, multi-layered process of bringing a themed haunt environment to life.
Haunt Former continues the Port Chum hayride build series with a vlog documenting the assembly of a weathered fisherman's shack set piece. The episode also covers the logistics of transporting props out to the farm location where the haunted trail will run. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at how a themed outdoor haunt comes together in the weeks leading up to Halloween. The Fearville attraction at DK Farms and Gardens serves as the real-world destination for the build.
This video offers a behind-the-scenes walk-around tour of Port Chum, a themed haunted hayride attraction, captured in both daytime and nighttime conditions near the end of its run. Viewers get a close look at the props and costumes that bring the haunt to life, with the contrast between day and night footage highlighting the transformation of the environment. The video is presented as a Halloween viewing treat ahead of the attraction's final run-throughs.
Haunt Former documents the corpsing process for a dead mermaid prop as part of the nautical-themed 'Port Chum' haunted attraction build at Fearville. The video walks through painting and detailing techniques used to give the mermaid a decomposed, horrifying appearance fitting for a seaside haunt environment. At just six minutes, it offers a focused, vlog-style look at one specific stage of a larger professional haunt build.
Haunt Former documents the creation of two nautical-themed props — fishing crates and chum buckets — destined to populate the harbor-side environment of the Port Chum Haunted Hayride. The short vlog-style episode offers a quick look at the build and painting process for these atmospheric scatter pieces. Both props are designed to reinforce the seaside horror setting across multiple locations within the haunt. This is part of an ongoing series chronicling the full development of the Port Chum event.
This short promotional piece introduces Port Chum, a nautical horror-themed 'bayride' attraction featured at Fearville 2023 hosted by DK Farms and Gardens. The video leans into atmospheric storytelling, complete with a voiced character — Captain Flynn — to set an ominous, creature-from-the-deep tone. At just five minutes, it functions as a cinematic teaser rather than a walkthrough or tutorial. It offers a compelling glimpse into how themed narrative can elevate a seasonal haunt event.
Haunt Former documents the painting process for themed signage in the Port Chum home haunt build, including a 'Bait n Tackle' sign and the Port Chum location sign. The vlog offers a look at how decorative sign painting contributes to establishing a cohesive seaside horror atmosphere. It is part of an ongoing Port Chum build series chronicling the haunt's creation leading up to the 2023 season.
