Halloween firms scare up business

In the last couple of years, mask and prop maker Josh Randall couldn’t help noticing a resurgence in scare acting over big budget animatronics.

Randall, founder and owner of Kimbark Cemetery Productions Inc. in Longmont, saw large-scale animatronics gain hold in the early to mid-2000s as haunted attractions and theme parks brought them to their spooks and rides. Smaller amusement parks soon followed wanting to get into the haunts market to attract the crowds, he said.

Then in 2018 and again this year, Randall realized the market wants more of a live acting and…