Eric Garay

I stopped by a few of the local stores this week and saw far more robotic props than ever. For $30, you could a torso that crawls around the floor and is smart enough to pick new directions once it can’t go further. For $50, you can get a prop that rises up and down while shrieking. For $60, one could buy a few demonic looking infants with glowing eyes and moving arms.

If you shell out about $200, you get a life size, free standing witch or a Michael Meyers who chops through the air with this rubber knife. With a little extra padding, he looked very real. I can just imagine a walk way with 6 or 8 of these with a couple real people in between just to make someone wet themselves. Ironically, something kept blurring out the camera while he was active…hmmm.