Skulltronix Information

Skulltronix was founded by Jerry Jewell. Jerry's industry accollades include not only awards for the best haunt products in the industry but his work with the ScaryU program also earned Best Haunted House awards two years in a row. So he has been on both sides of the haunt industry. Jerry Jewell began designing haunted houses in 1991. For 10 years his haunt was, like many haunters, built in his front yard. But after expansion into the neighbor's yard resulted in over 1,000 people visiting on Halloween night it was time for a change of venue. At the time, Jerry was also active in trying to establish a teen performing arts center in Rancho Cordova and incorporated the program under the non-profit "The Jewell Performing Arts Center, Inc. Jerry then merged the haunted house efforts into the non-profit and established the world's first (and only?) haunted house school, "SCARY U". Scary U struck a deal with the local Park district and the Sacramento Valley Live Steamers to move the haunted house and Scary U program to Hagan Park. It has resided there for a number of years now. Scary U now provides 30 local teens per year with a free, two month leadership and teamwork program. In the program the teens build and run a commercial haunted house, building and all. While only occupying a 40x40 tent, the Scary U haunt has twice won national awards as "The Best Haunted House in the Country". During the 3rd year of the Scary U program Mike Fox joined as Creative Director and brought a level of professionalism to the animatronic voices, animation and sound tracks never before seen in the haunted house market. All would have stayed the same but during the build of the haunt in 1984 Jerry became ill and was bedridden for 6 months. The diagnosis: Lupus. The illness forced the sale of his computer retail store and web hosting business. Recovery was slow and Jerry needed to find a way to keep his mind and hands occupied. So he decided to take on the project of creating a professional level talking skull to replace the poorly ...