Just a Little Sinister...but she is next her artistic dream

By Brigid Morrissey



Robert Louis Stevenson was all likewise familiar amongst the human psyche. When he wrote The Strange Case of medico Jekyll in addition to Mr. Hyde, he captured the concept of the divided self amongst deadly accuracy, the might for 1 somebody to teach unlike in addition to sometimes opposing personas. As a legal secretarial assistant at a police push clit theatre yesteryear twenty-four hours in addition to a macabre creative somebody yesteryear night, Kristen Warf accepts each persona amongst a dignified understanding. Kristen’s twenty-four hours undertaking pays the bills, only her business office equally mask maker, actor, makeup artist, in addition to full general director of Haunted Hotel in Louisville is where her truthful passion lies.



Kristen started feeding her alteration ego at a immature age. “I was an fine art shaver growing up. I was raised inwards an artistic household. I never idea I could practise anything career-oriented amongst it, only I kept myself doing creative things.” In 2008, an chance to nourish her creative side arose when she started working at the King’s Island Haunted House near Cincinnati, only it was completely unleashed when she was hired equally an thespian in addition to exceptional effects makeup creative somebody at Wolf Creek Haunted Forest inwards Shepherdsville the adjacent year. “Halloween was ever my favorite holiday. I didn’t aid for phase acting; I wanted to practise improv. With the haunt industry, I had to a greater extent than creative freedom, in addition to it’s proficient therapy to scare the crap out of people.”

Photos yesteryear Sunni Wigginton 


With her willingness in addition to might to elbow grease novel things, Kristen was able to perfect her arts and crafts in addition to uncovering her niche inwards the haunted community. She in addition to Kevin Stich, possessor of Haunted Hotel, started Sinister FX inwards 2012 to sell her handmade masks in addition to other retail items such equally suits, skins, in addition to blood. “It takes most 10 hours to brand each mask. Sometimes existent blood, sweat, in addition to tears teach into my work, in addition to thence when I post a mask, there’s a slice of me that I’m sending amongst it.” Kristen draws inspiration from a broad make of experiences, images formed inwards her head, in addition to picayune trinkets she collects inwards her spare time, similar a rusty zipper or a burlap post away from a local feed store. “I grew upwardly on a farm, in addition to thence I tend to describe from my organic roots.” She fifty-fifty uses her ain fears to create her terrifying characters. Her most pop masks, BoStrangles, Gags, in addition to Babbles, for instance, resulted from her fearfulness of clowns.

Kristen says her clown masks are inwards high demand. 


Each mask is customizable, in addition to Kristen encourages customers to teach creative. “I teach bored making the same matter over in addition to over again. And since they’re handmade anyway, it doesn’t convey long for me to customize it.” She creates roughly xv novel masks a year. Cranking out that many products has spurred Kristen to commencement seeking additional help.

Kristen is stitching the details into these masks which takes several hours to consummate
but adds to their forcefulness in addition to character. 


Her destination is to ain her ain haunted theatre 1 day, in addition to amongst 250 mask requests each twelvemonth in addition to enough of sense inwards the scare industry, she is good on her way. “I ever wanted to come upwardly up amongst a means to last artistic for a living. Don’t halt existence creative in addition to uncovering or in addition to thence means to pursue a creative outlet. Keep existence creative. Never surrender an chance because you lot don’t ever know where your passion lies.”

And if you lot aren’t notwithstanding witting of your passion, commencement yesteryear asking your other self.
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