Thread: Haunted House Ideas?

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We are making our haunted house bigger this year and now have to come up with some more and new ideas. We are having a brain block and can't think of anything.

We are using our garage and basement room and going out the back into the backyard around to the front of the house.*(our garage is built into the house so the basement room is our front door) We want to make the two rooms and backyard into separate areas so each room is different. We want to try and make everything needed and only buy the things we can't make.

Any ideas would be great. Also any ideas on things we can make would be awesome as well. I am looking through this forum and i am seeing that everyone is sooo creative. Hopefully someone can help me spark my creativeness as well. I think i just need that spark to help me come up with ideas again.

thanks everyone!

crazyman is making a HELLEVATOR. It's a great way to transitions two diffrent rooms. You don't needt to make it move like he want to, but with some light and some air blown through it could be very cool. I posted a design moving the wall out side of the elevator so when you re-open the door the scene has changed. (Just an option.)

make each room a theme:
Spider room
Dracula room lots of candles
3 witches with a cauldron and have some potions, misters and lighting
Zombie room, corpse skeletons

kool, thanks for the ideas guys!

@OctoberDream where is this post about crazyman is making a HELLEVATOR? that would be interesting.

Keep the music going at multiple spots. Hide the players, but background music and effects make the atmosphere. We usually had a CD in the garage as people entered on the front porch (Midnight Syndicate), music upstairs throughout the night (A Night in a Haunted House), and TVs with horror movies or Halloween specials playing like The Ghoul Log.

Use flickering candles to the max...Safe and completely mobile. I place them behind smaller props and knick-knacks for added effect. Try some wall effects. We have a vintage "spooky shadows" projector which we bought from K-mart years ago. E-bay you can find them for around $10. Buy enough dry ice to last the night. I put some in cauldrons all around the house. The coolest is in a large one with a vintage Motionette witch hovering over it. We also have some with LED lights which create fog, like a skeleton with green lighting. Place your drinks in Halloween inflatable coolers. These are inexpensive and have become popular the past few years.

Make sure you leave some candy dishes all around. It's a generous offering to have them filled for your guests, and they always get snatched. You can find a ton of them in stores soon or online for cheap.

Post some pictures as you make progress. Remember, Halloween actually starts September 1st!

Paul.

It is under Props. Title "HELLEVATOR needs lifting?!?! "