Video Tag
Every video tagged “corn maze” in the library — a focused slice of the Halloween archive.
28 videos
Distortions Unlimited showcases their Sleeping Giant animatronic prop, a large-scale character that snores, speaks, opens its eyes, and rises to a standing position. The prop is designed for high-traffic professional environments such as theme parks, haunted attractions, and corn mazes. Its versatile fantasy design allows it to function as a giant, troll, or ogre depending on the event's theme.
This video offers a floor tour of the 2016 Transworld Halloween & Attractions Show in St. Louis, one of the haunted attraction industry's premier annual trade events. Filmed by Distortions Unlimited, the walkthrough showcases the wide range of vendor offerings on display, including animatronics, SFX props, masks, costumes, and escape room products. It serves as both a highlights reel for those who attended and an introduction to the scale and variety of the professional haunt industry for newcomers. The footage provides a useful snapshot of where animatronic and prop design stood in 2016.
VanOaks Props presents a budget-friendly method for building realistic-looking fake cornstalks using common craft and hardware supplies. The build centers on a PVC pipe spine wrapped with masking tape and jute rope to build up texture and form, finished with layered acrylic and spray paints. The video is inspired by and credits the Beyond1031 Ultimate Fake Cornstalk Tutorial as its source material. The result is a lightweight, reusable prop well suited for yard haunts, haunt scenery, or seasonal outdoor decorating.
This highlight reel captures Distortions Unlimited's booth presence at the Transworld Halloween and Attractions (HAA) trade show across multiple years in St. Louis. The video showcases the company's lineup of high-end animated Halloween props and monsters, including zombies, gargoyles, sleeping giants, and more. As a major manufacturer in the dark attractions industry — with television exposure on the Travel Channel's Making Monsters — Distortions Unlimited uses the HAA convention to connect with haunted house operators, corn maze owners, and escape room designers. It serves as both a product showcase and an industry event overview.
Distortions Unlimited founders Ed Edmunds and Tom Cassidy unbox and assemble the Jack Widow, a new 2022 giant Halloween prop that fuses a black widow spider with a jack-o-lantern design. The prop features poseable bendable legs, a detailed hourglass marking on the abdomen, and two built-in LED lights for an eerie glow. Handcrafted from latex and foam over a metal armature, it is designed for durability in home haunts, yard displays, corn mazes, or professional haunted attractions.
Poison Props showcases the SCP1333, a pneumatic scarecrow prop that launches upward approximately 18 inches and bobs at full extension while blasting loud startle screams through an onboard speaker. The unit is motion-triggered and arrives as a complete, ready-to-run package including the character, pneumatics, controller, and sound system. It is engineered for professional haunted attractions, corn mazes, and dark rides where sudden, high-impact scares are the goal.
Distortions Unlimited showcases their giant Haunted Tree prop, a professionally handcrafted Halloween decoration standing approximately 9.5 feet tall — or up to 10 feet with arms raised. Built in the USA from latex, foam, and metal armature, the prop ships in five modular pieces for straightforward setup and compact storage. Poseable arms and fingers allow custom positioning, while an included LED flame bulb illuminates the glowing eyes and mouth for dramatic effect.
Distortions Unlimited showcases a lineup of their premium hand-crafted animatronic Halloween props in this short compilation reel. Featured pieces include Lullaby, Exorcism, Gravebuster Barb, La Llorona, Jack Attack, and Mother — each designed to deliver impactful scares for home haunts, yard displays, corn mazes, and professional haunted attractions. All props are manufactured in the USA and branded under the Frightronic and Shocktronic lines. The video serves as a product highlight rather than a tutorial or walkthrough.
Distortions Unlimited showcases their Evil Tree animatronic, a large-scale possessed tree character designed for professional haunted attractions, corn mazes, and theme park events. The prop evokes a menacing forest spirit reminiscent of fantasy tree creatures, bringing a haunted woodland atmosphere to any dark attraction. This brief product spotlight highlights Distortions Unlimited's reputation for producing high-quality, large-format Halloween animatronics for the professional haunt industry.
The Scarecrow Flyer 2.0 from Poison Props is a commercial-grade pneumatic animatronic featuring a scarecrow mounted at height and flanked by two red LED-eyed crows. On trigger, the scarecrow launches forward, bends at the elbows, and moves its head in multiple directions for a dramatic startle scare. The unit ships as a plug-and-play package including the character, pneumatics, stand, post, programmed controller, and motion sensor. An optional audio package adds a digital player, powered speaker, and scream effect.
Distortions Unlimited showcases their new-for-2021 Pumpkin Stalker, a towering 8-foot evil pumpkin-head prop built from a foam-filled latex skin over a metal armature. The figure features glowing, flickering eyes and mouth and posable arms, making it highly customizable for display. It's designed to anchor large-scale scenes such as a haunted pumpkin patch or corn maze, though it's equally suited to yard haunts and home haunts. The video is a brief product reveal from a company with over four decades of Halloween prop manufacturing experience.
This short showcase video features the Cracking Crypt, a zombie tombstone animatronic from Distortions Unlimited's Grave Buster Frightronic series. The prop is designed for cemetery and graveyard-themed scenes and suits a variety of settings including yard haunts, professional haunts, and corn mazes. Distortions Unlimited is a manufacturer and online retailer specializing in haunt props, masks, costumes, and animatronics.
Distortions Unlimited showcases their large-scale Sleeping Giant animatronic, a handcrafted character capable of snoring, speaking, opening its eyes, and standing upright. The video features footage from multiple real-world deployments including Transworld, a private Lord of the Rings-themed event, and various attractions worldwide. A standout clip demonstrates the giant programmed to speak Spanish, highlighting the prop's multilingual audio flexibility. Built for durability, the piece has been installed across haunted houses, corn mazes, mini golf parks, and theme park-style events.
Distortions Unlimited showcases their Mean Dog animatronic prop in action, demonstrating its barking, growling, and shaking movements. The prop is designed for professional haunt environments including haunted houses, corn mazes, and themed attractions. Distortions Unlimited is a veteran animatronic manufacturer with over four decades of experience in the Halloween industry, and this particular piece dates back to a 2015 release.
Distortions Unlimited showcases a custom-built spraying skunk animatronic designed for professional outdoor and indoor Halloween attractions. The character is fully animated and built to commercial-grade standards suitable for high-traffic environments. Distortions Unlimited offers bespoke fabrication services for a wide range of venue types, from corn mazes and hay rides to theme parks and haunted houses.
Distortions Unlimited showcases two large-scale inflatable walk-through attractions — The Creature and The Giant — that allow guests to enter and explore the interior anatomy of massive monster figures. These self-contained, portable structures are designed to draw crowds and serve as headline attractions at a wide range of venues. Their eye-catching designs and immersive theming make them viable for haunted houses, theme parks, fairs, corn mazes, and carnivals alike.
The Poison Props PKL1009 Pumpkin King Lunger is a large-scale pneumatic animatronic designed for professional haunted attractions, corn mazes, and dark rides. The prop uses concealing trees that dramatically open to reveal a Pumpkin King figure that lunges upward to a reported height of around eight feet, with arms moving in multiple directions and a side-to-side head turn. An included audio package rounds out the scare with a digital player, powered speaker, and a scream effect. The prop requires both AC power and a 100 PSI compressed air supply and ships via freight.
This vlog captures opening night of Six Flags Fiesta Texas Fright Fest 2022 in San Antonio, showcasing the park's Halloween scare zones, roaming scare actors, and seasonal decorations. The hosts explore new additions including a corn maze added to the family-friendly Boo Fest area. Viewers get an on-the-ground feel for the event's atmosphere, scares, and crowd energy throughout the evening.
Distortions Unlimited showcases their Gravestone Geezer, a zombie-themed tombstone animatronic from their Frightronics product line. The prop is designed to fit naturally into cemetery, graveyard, yard haunt, and corn maze settings. Distortions Unlimited is a US-based manufacturer with over 40 years of experience producing Halloween masks, costumes, and animated props.
Distortions Unlimited showcases their Demon Rising animatronic prop, part of their 2020 Frightronic Halloween lineup. The piece is fully electric and features an up-and-down rising movement paired with detailed, durable construction. It is marketed as a versatile scare prop suitable for home haunts, yard displays, corn mazes, and similar seasonal attractions.
The Pumpkin King Reacher (PKR1008) from Poison Props is a towering 8-foot pneumatic animatronic with an 8-foot wingspan designed for professional haunted attractions, corn mazes, and dark rides. It delivers an aggressive multi-axis scare sequence — lunging forward, swaying side to side, and raising its arms and head — all driven by an included programmed controller and motion sensor. The plug-and-play package bundles the character, pneumatics, controller, and an audio system with a digital player, powered speaker, and scream effect. AC power and a 100 PSI air supply are the only on-site requirements.
The Poison Props WFL1130 Wicked Farmer Lunger is a professional-grade pneumatic animatronic that conceals a farmer ghoul character behind a pair of trees, then launches him upward to roughly 8 feet tall with moving arms and a side-to-side turning head for a realistic, organic scare effect. The unit ships as a complete plug-and-play package including the trees, character, rig, pneumatics, and a pre-programmed controller with a motion sensor. An optional audio package adds a digital player, powered speaker, and scream effect for a fully immersive experience. It requires a standard AC power supply and a compressed air source at 100 psi to operate.
Distortions Unlimited showcases their Scarecrow Wrath, a towering 7.5-foot Halloween prop handcrafted in the USA from latex and foam over an internal armature. The prop ships in four pieces for easy assembly and storage, features a flat-backed design with a full head and neck, and includes illuminated eyes for added menace. Arms, fingers, and neck are all poseable, allowing owners to customize the scarecrow's stance and expression. It is pitched as a versatile centerpiece suitable for home haunts, professional haunted attractions, corn mazes, and theme parks.
This walkthrough video takes viewers through Terror in the Corn, a sprawling outdoor haunted attraction at Anderson Farms near Denver, Colorado. The experience follows a roughly mile-long path through a cornfield that leads into Raven's Gulch, a fictional ghost town with its own dark lore. The haunt's narrative centers on the sinister Wells twins and a powerful witch named Dumitra, who vie for control of the town alongside an array of monsters and creatures. The video showcases why this attraction is considered one of Colorado's premier Halloween destinations.
