Every year I make an at home haunted house. This year however I'm finding it difficult to come up with something new to add. Remember this is at home so money is a problem. I can't wait to see all your answers!
2006-09-21 05:35:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
I am a huge fan of fishing line hanging from the ceiling to brush across faces in low light. It help if you have 7-8 people working with you you can do theme rooms Mad Dr. with an open patient spaghetti falling out for guts works nice also the guillotine ,though that takes some craft skills to pull of but nothing needs to fall if you hit the lights at the right time and make a good thud. If you have a back or even front yard you have some great options there. Mazes in basement done with sheets or cardboard boxes cut and taped together. And my personal favorite which I am sure you have done is the fake scarecrow person inside. Also check out a Halloween express stores will have some ideas that you might pull off on a limited budget, and think back on some that you have been to and I am sure you will come up with some ideas that you can recreate on your own. Have a great time and celebrate with STYLE.
2006-09-21 06:09:28 · answer #1 · answered by Casca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I *LIKE* Unique's thinking on the chain saw and "former guests" LOL! Take the chain off and make sure that the house is WELL ventilated. After the kids get their treats start it up and coming screaming out of nowhere in a hockey mask. Prepare to deal with the police however, some parents may find it a bit strange. :/
I saw a neat idea once, the people made a hallway of old sheeets (hit a thrift shop in a cheap part of town) that they had spray painted randomly in orange and black which hung down from staples in the ceiling like this /\ and stapled to the walls. At the end was a table draped in black with orange candles and fake skulls and bones and stuff. The wife welcomed them in black robes and beckoned them down the hall and the husband was behind the table in a black robe and mask silently handing out
the candy. They played JS Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D minor every time someone came to the door, the sheets were dimly lit from behind somehow, and there was a dim spotlight on the table facing up to highlght the guy's face. Oh, and pieces of twine stapled to and hanging from the sheets, some up high, all with plastic bats or spiders or worms to weigh them down, but others that would brush a kid's head or shoulders. Random, so no one got tangled and pulled it down, but creepy. Excellently spooky! A cauldron on the table with dry ice or a dry ice machine would be excellent. These people had a long hall, but you could do sheets stapled or sewn together and tacked to the ceiling then stapled inside a frame of lathing. You can probably even scrounge wood from construction sites if you ask nicely and explain that you just want to thrill some kids. Hallway doesn't have to be long, 3 or 4 sheets if you have enough room, and it could even make a surprise turn at the end so you could have the table hidden until
they're up on it. Hey whatever you end up doing, HAVE FUN! ;D
2006-09-21 10:59:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One year, I turned my garage into a freaky surgeons room with cobb webs and spiders and a gurney, operating table, creepy surgery tools and torture weapons al over the place. And the fake blood was every where. I had some help from friends who were willing to scare kids, and when the trick or treaters went in there, they'd scare the crap out of them. My husbands costume was so fake looking that he blended in with all the decor. It was so scary, that kids were telling other kids not to go into our haunted house. Do you have any ideas yet?
2006-09-21 05:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by crazy.kuzco 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lots of the cheap spider webs scare people when you hand spiders in them at a level they'll brush into. I scare my husband with those every year, and he sees me put them up! We also put other insects in the webs too.
Have friends dress up and "act" in the haunted house. Have them jump out from behind fake walls, or be still untill people come to life. I was an actor once, and I wore all black in a black hall way, and when people walked past me I would scream. They would scream too!
A quick way to cover up walls is with black trash bags. Cut them open and tape them up. You can shred them too to make streamers for entrances.
Get gourds or other "creepy" objects and hang them from the ceiling.
2006-09-21 15:55:23 · answer #4 · answered by Mrs. Pears 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All you need is a chain saw, some red jello, cooked cold spaghetti, and dem lights.
Plug up the chain saw, turn it on, and annouce that Texas chainsaw massacre is in the house. Put the red jello and spagetti in a bowl and say this is what left of the other guess. And then tell them to enter at there own risk.
2006-09-21 05:37:14 · answer #5 · answered by Unique 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Make the house all dusty with fake snow an turn down the lights
to a lower level.
2006-09-21 07:36:11 · answer #6 · answered by Burnett B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One year I bought a roll of black craft paper, taped it up in the hallway, then painted it with glow in the dark paint, and put a black light bulb in the fixture.
2006-09-21 05:37:46 · answer #7 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
find a copy of the original quake video game. play it's soundtrack to increase the spook factor!
2006-09-21 05:43:58 · answer #8 · answered by lurk02productions 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was this one time when I felt cold hard boiled eggs and thought they were eyes. And macaroni was brains. It was creepy. You can use my ideas if you want. For free. But don't sue me if someone gets freaked out by them.
2006-09-21 06:14:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hang dummys from your ceilling with fake blood all over them.
2006-09-21 05:37:55 · answer #10 · answered by Spaceman spiff 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋