-What is a haunted house?
If you're not fortunate enough to have Hollywood
giving you millions of dollars, what do you do?
You turn to Halloween.
You can put all of those nightmares you had
when you were a kid into three dimensions.
-Haunted-housing is just growing at an unbelievable rate.
They're popping up everywhere.
-This is all across the country, you know.
They're all over the place.
When people find out that this is, like, my passion,
they think it's cool that we do it for free
and maybe even a little bit weird.
-A lot of times, people think I worship the devil.
That's not true at all.
I mean, I was raised really well,
in a good Christian background.
-I show them my haunt, and they're like,
"I had no idea you were into this kind of bloody stuff."
-Moving around in high school -- You know, it's difficult.
And, like, I guess a good way to deal with it and, you know,
doing the home haunts and stuff,
the yard displays, getting really into that.
I've always loved art.
Like, I've always loved to draw.
And this is, like, how you really bring it
into the next dimension.
-He's always been very artistic.
-I think they were a little reticent to want to
let us use their driveway.
That's why we did it on the yard the first year,
which was also kind of a surprise
because we killed the lawn.
-No, it's not a hassle having the haunted house.
It makes us feel good that he's doing that,
instead of what he could be doing or, you know --
-What other kids his age are doing.
-My relationship with Trevor -- That started in high school.
We realized that this was, like, a similar passion.
-We're best friends. We've been friends for a long time.
I'd say probably about nine years.
-Creating something with your friend, I mean,
that's -- That's a whole nother level.
Me and Trevor definitely have our own strengths.
-It starts with Brandon.
He's very good with doing the blueprints.
-He's great with math, lighting, and dimensions and stuff.
-He's got all the crazy imagination --
You know, all those ideas.
-Usually, we detail and modify props.
We do them -- you know, this from scratch.
I did the wound out of air-dried clay, liquid latex.
And we had this idea where we would take, like,
a tie for his thing.
You do a tie, and we were gonna make a flesh tie.
-We're waking up at 7:00 in the morning on our days off
and going to bed at 2:00 in the morning.
It's a completely free maze, and we do it for fun.
We're not doing it to make any money off of it.
-Definitely one of the ways we get around it
is doing the donations.
If they're giving cardboard, you know, we can use that.
We can turn that into something great.
We did, like, close to half the maze last year in cardboard.
-That's when the creativity comes out.
That's when you can really tell how creative someone is
if, for such a limited budget,
they can pull some amazing stuff off.
I don't think I could imagine myself doing anything else.
No matter what I did, it always drew me back to this.
I remember spending an entire year
just saving every little dime
that I had so I can get that fog machine.
-His haunts, when he first started --
They were in the garage.
And then they went from the garage to the driveway,
and then to the front yard.
They just kept getting bigger and bigger.
[ Chuckles ] So every year, it was something new.
-My family and my dad -- They've all been very supportive
of everything I've done, from 15 years old, you know,
all the way to now.
-I come over here periodically to help him
when I know he's really busting time.
-Sometimes I'll arrive here and he's already here
and he's just happened to decide to come in
and clean and work and...
-Jeff is just so creative.
When I came home from work one day,
I pulled in the driveway and he had the garage door up
and he was making fountains with a head
with blood running out of it and it would re-circulate into it.
I said, "What are you doing?"
He said, "I just sold 40 of these."
[ Laughs ] I think I'll never forget that.
[ Chuckles ]
-People that are doing haunted attractions
are really trying to immerse people
in that movie experience and bring
that motion-picture experience to life.
-[ Screams ]
-Anybody can go into a comedy club and laugh,
but to go into every single haunt
and have it be such a different experience each time is just --
It's amazing. It's mind-blowing.
[ Chain saw buzzing ]
-We've had people hyperventilate.
We've had people soil themselves.
You know, they get scared.
Their heart's beating. Then they start laughing.
-[ Laughs ]
-We created a room where you would actually go in
and have to physically do something to escape the room.
And the reaction to that
was the biggest and best reaction we've ever had.
-Yeah, like all years, we're already planning for next year.
We want to get an even bigger facade, you know,
bigger -- want to go even farther into the yard.
Maybe we'll do the lawn and the driveway
so you can't even get into my house.
-I plan on being a haunter my whole life.
It's completely worth it.
-Just to see those expressions on people's faces
when they come out -- I mean, that's what it's all about.
That's why I do this.