Thread: How do you scare your ToTers?

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Ive been watching youtube videos and i saw one guy chasing people with a chainsaw and on in a trash can. Last year i scared 85% of the people that came to my garage haunt with my friends (i used a leaf blower to scare them, came from behide so they didnt expect ) So how do you guys scare your trick or treaters? What are yours plans for 2010 you might give people ideas

Since last year was my first real big year of doing the yard up I really wanted to make it a night people would not forget. So I enlisted the help of friends. We set up a standerd card table at the top of the walkway right before the front door. We put a table cloth over it so I hid under the table. As toters and there parents started to aproch the table I would start to slowley crawl out in a gorilla costume. ( They would be about 3 or 4 feet away from the table then I would start to crawl out. It scared every single person I did it to.

Some kids left without candy, some others cried ( 14 year old kid ran to his mom crying) scared a nice college couple. The best one was the father that brought his daughters up. They diden't seem as scared as he was.

lol that sounds like fun i think ill try that if i have the space and table :P

Last year was also my first year doing a big haunt, and I wanted to do it right. I had a farm theme, with corn stalks, farmers, etc. So I stood by the front door dressed in a scarecrow costume and stood still like a statue. I looked just like a prop. As kids walked up to the door, I would yell and move once they got ready to ring the doorbell. I scared almost everyone. Many people saw me move alittle as they walked up the driveway, and stopped and asked the people with them "did that thing just move" and someone would reply "don't be silly just go up" and then boom. I had two 13-14 year olds get to the porch and then walk away because they got two scared not knowing if I was real or not. Parents wanted to take pictures of me and all the decorations. It was a great night. I'm going to do something similiar this year again, but change it up alittle.

Last year, as Freddy, all I had to do was be there. At one time I had to run in and get a refill on the candy, leaving my brother outside by himself (dressed normally). I walked out backwards so that I could push the door open, and as I turned around people freaked out. I played on it, driopped the candy bowl, and did my "Freddy thing". lol Scared the crap out of them. 3 went running.

VERY CAREFULLY! lol! I try to change every year with different hidden areas to pop out from so they look at last years hiding spots and POW! gotcha from behind this time buddy! lol! Gets them every year!... even the scare-d-cats that push each other and say "You go first, no you go first!" haha, lmao!

This year is going to be hard to pull something like that off. People will be expecting the card table again. I'd do the whole scarecrow thing but my balance sucks. I don't really go for the chainsaw/leafblower because it's been done so manytimes.

What else could be done?

One year a down-the-street neighbor (props, if you are reading this!!!) posted signs saying, "Come see the Oracle," with their address. So, of course, we took a break from our door, and did! A hooded figure met us at the fence gate, and gestured with a finger to the lips. She led us down the basement steps, to a small room, with a table on the left, and a platform in front of us. A light shone on the platform, and a voice boomed,
"THIS is the Oracle! HAVE YOU BEEN GOOD?"
We laughed, "Yes!"
"HAVE YOU BEEN TRUE?"
"Yes!"
"YOU MAY TAKE your candy."
A light shone on the table. There was an overflowing bowl of candy, with a sign beside it that said, "The Oracle's Candy." Beside it was a bird cage, with an open door, and one tiny Tootsie Roll inside, with a sign that said, "Your Candy."
The first person in our group took the Tootsie Roll. Then second person giggled, and reached into the overflowing bowl. A HAND REACHED OUT FROM ITS DEPTHS, AND GRABBED HERS!!!!

Oracle, if you're out there, we miss you!!!

Originally Posted by halloweenrocks08

This year is going to be hard to pull something like that off. People will be expecting the card table again. I'd do the whole scarecrow thing but my balance sucks. I don't really go for the chainsaw/leafblower because it's been done so manytimes.

What else could be done?

You need a staff. I use a 5-foot length of pvc, painted black with a dragon-skeleton headpiece. It makes it easy to stand still, even for extended periods, and the headpiece, being exceptionally cool, is a real temptation for a closer look. I'm almost always mistaken for part of the display.

My favorite trick is to let 'em look and then quietly move a little closer to 'em after they've turned away to look at something else. Really fun when they turn around and there you are. You don't even have to say a word.

Last year, I was dressed as a psychotic mental patient for a Halloween party. You see, there was a room near the entrance which has a window for looking outside. I waited for some of the guests to enter (One was a group of maybe 6 people) and I jumped out at them, fake machete at hand, screaming like a maniac.

Needless to say, they joined in and ran away.

Normally, I let the atmosphere draw the people in and come in for the scare once they get a good look at the scenery. Like this year, I was thinking of going as an undead Jim Henson, carrying around a decayed Kermit the Frog puppet, so any zombie trope is fair game for me.