An Over Coffee® special-edition podcast!

“There’s so much more to haunting than just getting a startle,” says legendary haunter Shar Mayer.

“I want you to scream. I want you to cry. But I’m going to respect you as a human…I’m not into torturing people. I just want them to scream, and be scared.”

In this 2018 interview, recorded onsite at ScareLA, Shar, who is a haunt consultant, producer, scare actor and all-round “scary creative” (she mentors and teaches aspiring haunters and workshops) shares some of her favorite insights on creating an effective and fun Halloween “scare”.

And she even offers some low-cost tips on ghoulish makeup that could work for you today–and which uses ingredients you may have in your kitchen!

Happy Halloween, be safe and stay innovative!

On this edition of Over Coffee®, we cover:

• How haunting became Shar’s passion;

• Why she sees scaring someone as a “relationship” of sorts;

• A “how-to” mini-lesson on horror makeup–and some easy scary looks to create this Halloween;

• The techniques behind successful haunting;

• Shar’s advice to scare actors as they prepare to work in a haunt (including the number-one thing to do, to succeed!);

• The psychology and boundaries of professionalism in haunting;

• How to stay safe, as a haunter;

• The ways Shar has seen the haunt industry change, over her four decades as a haunter