Thread: Little Dead Riding Hood

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For my twisted fairy tales haunted trail this year I want to have a Little Dead Riding Hood site. The trail goes through a very wooded area. I am having a hard time figuring out how to make this work with Little Dead in the woods. I was picturing the first thing they will see would be a sign that said, "This way to Grandmother's House..." but my mind can't figure how to make the scene work in the woods with no house. I would like to have Little Dead, Grandmother and a big ugly werewolf, any ideas? Thanks

I think making a path into the woods would be good. As you said, putting a sign that says Grandma's house next to the path. Or maybe make a cardboard house.

What is your idea for Little Dead Riding Hood. What does she look like?

Little DEAD Riding Hood..... I just love the concept and word play! How about this, make it a static display with tombstone, have her be Little Red's Sister, the one that wouldn't listen!
Good Luck and Please, please keep me posted on this one.

Back when I thought we were doing the haunt in the big garage, the room was going to be a bedroom scene. Little Dead is dressed in dress and red cape and she was going to have blind out contacts , she had killed her grandmother whose dead body would be in a rocking chair. (My Little Dead Red was going to be possessed.) As they left the room there would have been a bed made to look as if someone was in it, but a werewolf comes from under the bed and scares them into next area. The wolf is dressed in flannel night gown and bonnet. Do you think a bedroom scene can be made in the woods?

You can build a bed room in the woods for sure. I would get some plywood and some 2x4s, 2x2s, and/or 1x2s and build it how big you want it/can. Or if you can get some barn boards that would give the cabin look.
I really like your idea of doing it in the woods. I hope it works out for you!!!!

I'm not sure if its a haunted walking trail or more like a hayride your going for, but you can try doing a "picnic" scene. It'll look as if Little Red and granny's been kidnapped and eaten.

Have a picnic blanket laid out on the grass. Attach to a tree branch, Li'l Red's hood, so that it's flaps in the breeze (a fan blowing it). On the picnic blanket you would have an actor dressed as "grandma" appearing lifeless on the ground. (who will later scare the guests)

When guests arrive at the scene...they'll see a once peaceful picnic, that's been destroyed and terrorized by a wolf. For some added humor, you can: splatter some fake blood on a flipped-over picnic basket, have granny's tennis-ball-walker (bent as if the wolf was trying to eat it), and place a portable radio on the picnic blanket that plays "this" song in continuous loop. Just an idea.

YouTube- Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs -Little Red Riding Hood

Just thinking out loud. HAHA I was thinking that you could use pallets to build the house/room whatever. I don't know if you have access or not but around here lots of places give them away. For the walls, if you don't want the wood look, ask local home improvement stores for the black plastic that comes on lumber etc. Great concept, definitely go for it!

What I would do is build a two or three walled dwelling with an "open" scene... sort of like a Doll house, you know? A missing wall that allowed the viewer to look in at the interior.

I'd face one wall, with an exterior painted painted on it, in the direction of the the patrons as they walk the trail. So to them, it looks like the little cottage and doesn't yet reveal what is taking place 'inside'

The trail would take them to the side of the Cottage, which is open, and there they can see your bedroom scene.

Your guests would never actually leave the trail just stop to see what it taking place inside of the room. Presumably the Demonic Red and dead grandma.

Then maybe, from the wooded area behind the guests, who stopped to look on at the scene, you could have your Wolf pop out from behind and give the scare.

NiiiiCCCEEEE!!!!! Sounds great to me

Sounds like alot of great ideas fellow HF'ers! It should be a grand idea if all pans out for this years halloween! The best of luck!