Comments on: How to Make a Haunted House

on 10/20/2009 Imagine this, you are walking down a long dark hallway towards your own reflection in a mirror. When you finally come up on the mirror, your reflection fades away and is replaced by a horrible shrieking ghoul! I just barely finished building this effect. First I build a wardrobe sized box with a window on the face and a door in back. I wired the box to have 2 lights on the inside, controlled by a dimmer switch. Then I covered the window with an extremely reflective window tint (I found it at an auto tint shop). As long as there is light on the front (outside) of the box and completely pitch dark on the inside, the glass will act like a mirror on the outside. Once the actor inside the box (masked or wearing horribly disfiguring make-up) turns up the dimmer switch, the glass becomes transparent revealing the person inside. It's kind of a "Bloody Mary" effect. I've tested it ou...

on 10/3/2009 I think its better to make the decor at home... but great tips! =)

on 8/11/2009 This is great though i would rather make everything then have to buy it. Does anybody have any home-Ade ideas?

on 8/7/2009 I love your ideas! I will be using many of these.

on 5/14/2009 cool. look at my article on how to make a haunted house.

on 10/14/2008 Thanks for the tips! Making a haunted house or porch or barn is fun.

on 10/11/2008 this is not really long enough to actually help anyone!!

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.