At Orlando’s AEO Studios, Alan Ostrander creates and sells the kind of special effects supplies that Spirit Halloween doesn’t stock
Oct 22, 2024
As Halloween season approaches its apex, Orlando's streets and stages are awash with uncanny creatures, and all those frightening fiends need somewhere to find their fangs and fur. For the past 28 years, AEO Studios (aeostudios.com) has been supplying pointy teeth, beastly brows and other prosthetic makeup effects for Central Florida's theatrical and film productions. But after spending nearly three decades bringing the undead to life from Church Street to China, owner Alan Ostrander is now facing down a monster even more terrifying than Art the Clown: the economy.