What’s your most memorable Halloween experience?

Creating a haunted experience. Ok kiddies, you want candy? You need to work for it. A maze of creatures and horrors you must pass through if you want those full sized candy bars. I don’t know what is better, watching these brave kids go through the gauntlet or watching their parents try to prove to them it isn’t scary and then being the ones who turn and run screaming. One even tripped over their own child to get out of there.

Tell us why you would make it to the end of a horror movie.

I would make it because I AM the killer. The happy, all American Mom with a murderous streak. It has nothing to do with revenge…. It’s pure terror I want to see in their eyes. I think outside the box and fast on my feet. The first thing I ever do when walking into any situation is identify the exits, then the weapons I would use. I can read a room and see who is easy pickings and who would be a challenge to knock off. Just for kicks. I’m tenacious, cunning and have a twisted sense of humor.

What would you do with the unlucky $13,000?

I would take my parents on a family vacation, the three of us together. They are approaching retirement. They have always supported me in my crazy hare brained ideas, including appearing in my horror movie. They encouraged my love of horror, books, movies you name it, Mom and Dad were game. We have always been close, I want to bring them as much happiness as they have given me.

Who is your real-life hero who you would want to survive a horror movie with?

He’s not a stepdad, he’s the dad who stepped up. He came into my life in grade school and has been there ever since. He is talented, smart, wicked sense of humor. He taught me to work hard for what I wanted, don’t take no for an answer, stand up for what’s right, even when everyone says it’s wrong. He taught me to keep going, no matter what, a lesson he learned from his Dad, my Poppop. He taught me to be anything I want, so I became the female version of him.