Halloween Haunted house

[coastakid]

If any one would like to be kind enough to give me ideas for my annual haunted house for this year!

[Damien666]

Hmm...let's see now,

 

Asylum,

twisted fairy tales,

clowns,

zombies,

genetic's lab,

dungeon.

 

Just ta' name a few.

I'm working on my high school's haunted house myself!

 

Try to think of anything and ask yourself, "Can I make this scary?" That has worked for me sometimes. Good Luck! 8)

[coastakid]

the last cople of years its been random scare spots but this year i have a theme, can you guess what it is?.............a haunted basement and i kind oh have everything that you said!!????

[Sir Clinksalot]

My uncle used to work for the studios. One year he worked on Childs Play 3 and there was a Haunted House scene. Well, he got the set, so we put it up in front of his house. BEST HAUNTED HOUSE EVER!!!

 

We scared the crap out of all of the kids. It was awesome.

[sfmmFREAK]

i have worked with professional haunted houses for a long time, so i know how to really get people's heart racing. first, you need lots of hanging obstacles for the people to walkthrough, (bodybags, skeletons, etc.). it all depends on how much expense you want to go through. you absolutely NEED music, i would recommend the soundtracks from signs, X-files, exorcist, anything that fits well with your theme. you should keep to one theme. have scare-actors where people are most vulnerable (where there is fog, strobes, and dark would be the most vulnerable place.). have a lot of corners, and curves, it is also important to have a long corridor as well. if, you have it go through your house, be sure to use the garage and backyard.

 

NEVER POINT STROBES DIRECTLY AT THE PATRONS. strobes go well in a foggy area. use fans, to make it cold. when people get cold, they become more vulnerable. hang wires from the ceiling, so when the people walk through them, they feel like spider webs. blacklights are good in small amounts (unless you are doing a 3D maze).

 

here is a trick i learned a few years back. lay a row of PVC Pipes on the ground, and lay boards on the pipes. (be sure to have a handrail) when people walk on the platform, the floor shifts.

 

this place will be of a lot of help:

http://www.dumptv.com/holidaze/halloween/hall-house.html

 

or if you are looking to pick up ideas from other people i would recommend this place:

http://www.deathndementia.com/category/halloween.html

[benzo41190]

Micheal Jackson is always scary

 

But a good thing to do is to have a wall of spandex and then you go on one side of it. When people walk through you push your face into the spandex. When you do this, people think there are ghost's comming out of the wall ( be sure to have a strobe light on).

 

Lay bubble wrap under the carpet so that the floor makes popping noises.