Comments on: How to Make a Haunted House

on 10/1/2008 Oh a few more... place mini strobe lights INSIDE your home on your window sills facing the street. From the outside, your home appears to be storming Inside and has a science lab effect. Car riders will give your home a 2nd look. ALso, don't forget to cover your furniture and windows with old white sheets and smear your bloody hands down using any red washable paint.Put roaches EVERYWHERE. Replace light bulbs with orange, put rats by trash and in closets. Use small fans to make zombie cloaks sway. Add broken mirrors through out house, hallway, bath etc. Cut out bugs or bats in black paper and add inside lamp shade. Cut out silouette of person and put in windows for that "is someone there" feeling. I have more but I'm tired.
happy halloween

on 10/1/2008 To continue my comment....place a zombie or skeleton behind bath door or corner of bathroom. Must place heads or body parts in a bathroom closet to startle. In the bedroom, place a corpse or ghoul in your bed, partly under the sheets. At first glance, its someone napping. Write REDRUM on mirror using dry erase markers.My favorite idea is printing ugly, disgusting pics of death, corpses, deformed faces etc and putting them in cheap frames throughout the house. Remove your family photos and replace with Charles Manson, Frankenstein, Freddie Kruegar, a murdered victim etc.Its disgusting but has an eerie effect to the rest of your home.

on 10/1/2008 I'd like to add some ideas for the rooms not normally decorated during halloween or for your Nosey guests!Some ideas are hanging thread or fishing wire from the hall ceilings or door entry.Its invisible & feels like spider web. Add baby oil and that 1 strand feels gross. Fill your pantry,closets or drawers with roaches,rats and spiders. Its unexpected and scares easily! After using a can of corn,peas etc, clean out and stick a rat inside it with its tail hanging out in corners of rooms or beside the trash cans. In the bath,keep a body or skeleton in the bathtub. Fill with water and red food coloring. Have the shower dripping for sound effect or hang a body from a noose from the shower head. Keep roaches,eyeballs,spiders,fingers, etc in the medicine cabinet or drawers of the bathroom. I once shoved pingpong balls as eyeballs in the med.cabinet and could hear them fall into the sink!the no

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on 9/23/2007 our haunted house is great!!!it takes brialee campgrounds only a few weekends to complete this great house.we darken the place with blacklights and set up big blag bags up on the walls...then we think up a theme so that the guests can understand whatis actually going on in the haunted house...each year we give our guests a fright and their always glad to come up to ashford the next yr again to c our haunted house...and its run by TEENAGERS!

on 9/17/2006 You know those candy bowls with moving hands in them? Get two of those and bury just the bowl around the hand with it sticking up and have guests go and shake his hand, or if there motion detectors, have them go and read his grave and they should move. Cover the hands with a little bit of dirt and makeup to really make a scary "rise from the dead" look.

on 10/1/2007 We bought all black clothing and a mask. We stuffed the dummy with newspaper and put him on a bench. We covered him in cobwebs to make him look like a prop. We put a bowl of candy next to him.

on 8/28/2006 First, put up some signs on light posts telling about your haunted house. Make your haunted house in a garage, basement, front yard, etc. Make sure the space is big enough. And get some help from your friends. Make it scary, don't just have all these dummies sitting there, use real people.

Use some familiar killers, Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, Freddy Krueger, Scream.

on 8/16/2006 Construct a dead end hallway with a hidden door at the end. Visitors enter from other end and walk along a darkened hallway to a dead end. At starting, a worker rushes out from a concealed area with a shopping cart that has been rigged with a car battery, headlights, horn and switches. He rushes down the hallway toward visitors with the headlights on and a horn blaring. Another worker then opens the hidden door to allow visitors into the next room. Blood on the walls at end would add a nice touch.

on 8/8/2006 I think it is better to ware black, it is then harder for a person to see you. Every year I make a haunted house. I always make sure that Im coverd in black, head to toe.

on 8/8/2006 A bathroom with bloody handprints on the walls and a bathtub in the center. One of the swimmers from our high school didn't mind practicing holding her breath in the heated tub of "blood" then popping out and screaming. But we suggest doing this with a ultraviolet light (black light) and just having normal water but the tub interior being painted red because our actress was stained till Thanksgiving.

Another room was when people walked in we had a guy strapped to the wall and had this crazy girl come in and drill holes in his legs, (which were fake, the real legs were bent inside the wall, and the guy had a pump in his hand which squirted blood out from same wounds every time, (we rigged a pump up underneath the floor back into the wall and out again) also the same pump pressurized spray bottles hidden in the floor with red water in them, which sprayed on the guests slightly enough for them to feel it while he screamed. We had a few people start crying and one passed out so be careful with this, it was also done in poor lighting with bursts of strobe every now and then to look like faulty wiring. - note this room was created before the movie "HOSTEL" came out.

When you were young things out of the ordinary scared you. Witches, werewolves, vampires. etc. These very things taken to the gory extreme will bring those fears back. For instance we had a vampire eating a baby in one of our rooms (we regret this now because it was a school function and had angry parents) we also had werewolves - with good makeup, will look corny with bad and will ruin the whole house- holding my son and daughter "captive" in a room, and when they made the patrons leave they would go into the next room and see "security cameras" footage on TVs of the kids being ripped to shreds. And the witch scene was my favorite: we got an old women from our town to do it, the room began with one door leading to a small hallway with paintings that fall, then lead the other with the witch. so the cats that were all around her in the room couldn't escape. We built a small room for them to pee and eat and sleep behind the wall, but most seemed to like the company when people came into the room to pet them, then turn the corner to see an old witch eating one of them!

Another thing- contacts contacts contacts! especially for the story teller and the people in normal light. We got a deal when we bought 4 pairs of plain white ones. Also, we paid them off the first night so you won't be sorry if you have a good enough attraction.

Remember, makeup is only scary if it looks professional, but people always notice your eyes before your teeth hair or face!

Chainsaws are all fun and dandy but every house has them now so try:

Big meat cleavers
drills
bats with nails in them
sickles
body parts to wave in their faces
buzz saws
machine guns


Our haunted house lead to the garden then to a corn maze.

For the garden we had our werewolves (see above) and water cannons in the overgrown waterfall fountain.
The corn maze of course is where we put our chainsaw guys. We also had scarecrows that chased you with those corn sickle things and a small shed in the middle which lead underground - not good for claustrophobics to put on your disclaimer- the stairs did lead down but the shed had a basement which we made look like you were in a dirt tunnel that could collapse at any moment. The finale of our experience was a final room which had this guy at the end of this foggy hallway so you couldn't see him to good, but you could tell he was there. We had the light shining at the guests from behind him- the people were so occupied with him that they fell down a hole - they were in a hayloft - and into some nice soft hay piles. - Warning: a girl had an allergic reaction so announce this as a precaution!

on 8/8/2006 You don't need a lot of people to work with you in a haunted house. When constructing one, make sure there is a way for employees only to travel through without being seen; they can jump out in different places, and no one will know how they got there so quickly. In the same place as the element of surprise, my personal favorite way to scare is sneaking up. Make sure wherever a character jumps out is not a visible place to customers; keep it hidden, along with the character. But make sure you have good decorations, or the haunted house will get boring. And make sure a lot of stuff happens during the haunted house.

on 10/1/2007
* Bring in some of the most notorious movie killers (Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, etc.) and have them do do their stuff, just like in the movies!

* If you selected the idea above, put two characters in the last room and have them in a combined battle (a big favorite is Michael Vs. Jason).

* For a real chainsaw, use bicycle chain.

* We have a room of spandex and faces where you press against it to perform Face in Wall. Use real people for that effect and have them say stuff like "Help Me!" and "You're Gonna Die!"

* Have actors mixed in with groups and give them characteristics. They run off and are found later dead by group.

* Besides scary music, try and find other music that's funky and weird (Like "Joy" from Death to Smoochy).

* If you run out of room ideas, watch horror movies for inspiration.

on 7/21/2006 Always remember the little ones. Have an area where the little kids can play games, get candies, etc. Sometimes the teenagers like this area too!

on 7/13/2006 In a completely dark room, cover the walls with the fluorescent sticks or polka dots like they use at garage sales. Additionally, get two or three people to dress completely in black and place the same dots all over their clothes. Illuminate the room with a black light, and the people are nearly invisible.