Thread: Costumes? Haunted House? What is scariest?

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Do you find it is easier to go purchase a costume or to look around your house to create a costume?

Another question, what is some good paint for face painting?


Also, has anyone done a haunted house before? If so, what are the best things you did that scared the most people? And what are the things that sucked?

Thank you for the Replies,


-TS

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Hi!
In general, I find it much more fun to use stuff around the house or thrift stores. The "off-the shelf" stuff is just too cheesy for my tastes. I use "the scream team" for prosthetics and build from there. There is just soooooo much you can do with the foam appliances!

Dude you have too many ?s in one shot. Yeah it's easier to buy one, but they tend to look crappy. I have just purchased a prosthetic mask also. I finally got my buddy away from his fake looking mask and into something from the ScreamTeam. If you really want to scare people it's fairly easy. You need a dark location , scary sounds , maybe some fog , and a light source. Then you just hide behind something and jump out at people. I like chasing people with a chainsaw. My costume of choice is the ever popular evil clown. Hope that helps.

I like to mix and match. We had a big Zombie-themed haunted yard a couple of years ago, and we all had thrift-store clothes with nice zombie masks. It was awesome.

The year before we did an alien theme and again wore masks with black clothes with misc. stuff pained silver and strapped to the costume. We had several black lights, a fog machine, and played X-Files music. It was super creepy.

I like to make my own costume but sometimes I have to go to a retail store for accesories. never did a whole haunted house but decorate whole house in and out with a few scares here and there. a good one to start with might be a trash can trauma kinda simple to build, good quick scare. but you could do alot of other stuff and get the same effect. sometimes just a creepy look is enough,right lighting, sound and a couple of decorations

Can everyone help me out with planning a great haunted house?

I can help you with any ideas that come to mind, however, I need to know what ur theme is and how much of ur house/yard ur using for the event.

if u buy a costume u have to spend big bucks so it does not look cheap (i went too far this year and spent $850!!)...not too creative or skilled in develping my own from scratch...

if u wanna deck out your house u need the following essentials;

1) good props, some animated

2) spider webbing (i just bought a web gun to help me with this)

3) special lighting (black lights/glow markers, strobes and spots)

4) good tunes (set up little ghetto blasters around the place with halloweeen tunes and dont be afraid to thow in party music that everyone can get into)

5) have em all in costumes

6) fog machines (not too much and if possible throw in a ground fogger for cooler effects)

7) try and set different themes (like a mad scientist display one area and a graveyard in another, etc)

good luck!

Planning a haunted house is a big task and, unless you already have a ton of props or a ton of money, probably isn't going to happen for you this year.

If you're new to the haunt community you'll be overwhelmed by the amount of cool things you can make with the help of us and others. After 3 years of researching and building I still have a lot of projects I want to try.

For starters check out http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/ to see just what kind of stuff you can do.

It might be best to start small this year and then expand as you learn. A lot of haunters start out with a graveyard which lets you work on tombstones, fog chillers, lighting, music, lightning machines and maybe pop-ups and pneumatics. From there you can expand to creating other type scenes for a haunted house and all the different kinds of props you could incorporate.

Just some advice.

Have fun!!

DW