Bishop's Dungeon - Halloween 2005

Year two of Bishop's Dungeon! This year there were many more things to gawk and gag at. It was a phenomenal success (as it was last year). This time around, my parents got to come over and see it, and my dad has volunteered to work with me next year to make it even better. We're talking pneumatic spooks and more electronic devices to do scary stuff.

This time around I took pictures in better lighting and with a better camera. I also home-brewed a few of the things on display. I have to give a lot of credit to MadHausCreative.com for some of the ideas (Eyeballs in a Jar and Skin Mask) although the my skin mask is much, much different from his. The intestines were wholy my idea and I must say they turned out so much better than I had anticipated.

The guts were made using expanding insulation foam that you can buy from your local hardware parts store. Be careful with this stuff. It's stickier than superglue as I found out when I had to scissor off some armhair to get it off me.

Yes, this did take me a while to do, so long in fact that I didn't even have time to get on my costume. I'll start earlier next year! You can also see Bishop's Dungeon 2004

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Waiting for the foam to dry	Doesn't look great now, but just wait!	Got tired of sitting and waiting for it to dry
Sticky stuff!	Cutting it off was the easiest to do	Starting the skin mask
Skin mask	Skin mask	Skin mask
Skin mask with chin	Skin mask cooling down	Flattened and making radial lines
All cooled down	From the backside	Base coats to get flesh tones
Base coat to get bloody tones	Looks like construction	All the goodies yet to be put in place
Almost done, looking good	Placed the hooks in the skin mask	Hanging skin mask
Ouch!	Drilled hole in top and ran a coathanger through	Coathanger poking hrough
Bending it down for sturdy shoulders	Used fabric for putting under gravel and rock	Closeup of fabric (it's even dirty)
Putting the fabric and skull together	Here he is!	Almost done, got the table with body parts
My oldest as a princess	My youngest as a bear cub	Isn't she cute?
Sasquatch spotted roaming in kitchen!	Finishing makeup touches	The finished product (see the hanging arm?)
Jessica and Jayden	Jessica and Jayden	Mike's wife and girls
She's such a cutie!	Lot's of smiles	Cool night-light!
Ashley's pumpkin	I wonder who died first?	Skin mask
Parts is parts!	The guts	From the street
My fog machine broke	Dry ice makes for cool cauldrons	More fog machine destruction
Body parts again	That chair just isn't scary enough	Guts again
The head... See the finger in his skull?	Spectre and somebody's arm	Cobra 1 - Human 0
Another spectre	The white wighead was cool in the dark	Final resting place with ghoul fingers
Body parts again!	Leftside of dungeon	Rightside of dungeon
The tombstone with barbed wire and a hand