Thread: Scare Suggestions Needed

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After having to pospone my big haunt until 2010 bcause of son's surgery I am now able to start planning for this year. Decided on a previous theme I wasn't able to complete which is Scary Tales and am needing some advise on the scares. I am dividing each "tale" into sections or big rooms and have some ideas but need more on how to make the scare work. Just wanted to hear any ideas you guys have:

Malice in Wonderland- I am buying the big Peter Rottentail costume
Little Dead Riding Hood- I know I want a werewolf but how could I do this one?
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater-I have the Bad Seed mask and costume, not sure how to use
Mary "Had" a Little Lamb-going to use a little girl dressed as Mary with lamb on a shepperd's hook
Snow Fright- I have a Meat Eater mask with a Snow White costume
Hansel and Gretel-having little boy and girl in a dog crate in a gingerbread house with a witch

HELP!!!! Where would the scare come from with these things? Thank you!

A lot of what direction you choose would depend on what type of setting. Bloody? Ominous? Loud and flashy? Dark and foreboding?

Your list looks like it could be a mix of static displays and scares.

Malice in Wonderland- A famous line from the story is "Off with her head!" You could have many decapitaed heads, cards strewn about, as the rabbit comes at the tot's with a cleaver. An actor as Alice could have her back to the tot's, and when she turns, her face is actually all mangled up, front of the dress is dark and moldy, hands are clawed. "I can't wake up!" she pleads.

Little Dead Riding Hood- Red can be a small body on the ground, bloody and gored. The werewolf turns and growls/snaps at the tot's. If there's alive actor for Red, she can be pleading and screaming for help.

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater- This yells Punpkin Rot, grape vines, corn stalks. Maybe a thrashing body trapped in a pumpkin vine.

Mary "Had" a Little Lamb - Good idea. Maybe another lamb dangling from her belt. "I ate my lamb!", she can laugh. She can throw a bloody lamb at the tot's which stops just short (tied to a teather).

Snow Fright - Maybe add some of the dead dwarves strewn around.

Hansel and Gretel - Good place for a static display of the kids, oven, witch, potion bottles, giant candies and gingerbread, etc. I made giant gingerbread candyhouse facades for my garage last year.


Lighting, music, and color would be important. Popular icons are recognizable by their distinctive colors; blue and white dress for Alice, red cape for Little Red Riding Hood, short black hair with a red ribbon for Snow White, etc.

Music from the popular movies could be added, maybe tweaked in a music editing program to give it a "twisted" and off-key sound.

Do you have an idea on the layout and size of your haunt? Sounds exciting!

warrent, i love all your ideas. i did hansel and gretal last year, i had a forest they had to walk through. it got so dark in the forest noone could see. that's where the scares were. i had big ginger bread cookies cut out of cardboard and then light up skeletons in the middle of the cookies. snow fright could be very old and scary looking and the witch could be young and eating an apple. my camera wasn't good last year so my picture taking is lacking.

I will get the dimensions of the garage, it is a BIG one and a smaller shed next to it will be the gingerbread house. I want to create a haunt that is scary, small spaces, bad smells, things that come from behind and terrify! Thanks for the good ideas! Keep 'em coming!

For Mary Had a Little Lamb, you could actually create a butcher shop type set by having a maniacal Mary holding a bloody meat cleaver over some undiscernible bloody pieces and stems. On the wall you could have signs like in the butcher shop advertising the "specials" - lamb chops, veal cutlets, etc. On a spit, you could have a "lamb" roasting. That curly fleece looks very much like lamb's wool. Create the rest of the creepiness with candles.

I think the Hansel and Gretel set could be very cool. Lots to work with there, but I think I would probably try to have one of them already in a big roasting pan ready to go into the oven.

I love Warrant's idea for using the "off with her head" catch phrase for Malice in Wonderland. Rig up a guilliatine. You could even "chop" fruit in half for added shock value.

Along the same lines as Hansel and Gretel, you could do a lot with the old lady in the shoe, by using dolls as her "victims".

I think your vision is great and really has possibilities. Good luck!