This week on Working the Fright Shift, we’re joined by special effects technician Jacob Larson, our featured Fear Architect whose mechanical mayhem and gruesome ingenuity have powered some of the most unforgettable scares in the industry. 

From home haunting to pneumatic terror, animatronic monstrosities, or blood rigs that erupt on cue, Jacob engineers the chaos that makes audiences scream, flinch, and come back for more. 

In our Horror Blueprint segment, we crack open the toolbox of fear.  Then, in Echoes of the Past, I trace the lineage of scare experiences, and how those screams shaped my own creative evolution. 

Buckle up and brace for impact…