Thread: looking for help with home haunt!!!

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Hey all, im new to this site... this year was my first year going big with halloween everythign was homeade turned out very well though... pretty expensive because i had no lighting...i had to buy lights... lol
anyways!!!
next year halloween 2011 i want to go big.. i was going to turn my front yard into a home haunt with plastic sheeting and fog machines and actors at the turn of every corner... i made a listing not to long ago on a haunted house website on long island so im hoping to get alot of people to go through and make donations and what not.

Basic rooms:
doll room
vortex light hallwats with fog machine.
graveyard through doll room window.
clown room
butcher shop
bug hallway

and a few lifesize zombies to be outside by the crowd waiting to enter!

I made a cool name: Chris's house of terror!

problem: What do a home haunt entitle! i need some experienced home haunters sharing whart they do when they start how they set up what props they made and how big their haunted house is also like where they have it and the amount of people that show. Just to get it proxcessed in my head what i need to do!

Any replys would be awesome and comments questions good ideas would spark my imagination dont be afraid to hollor!


Thanks all,
chris the begginer

a great way to start is to check out the threads here featuring peoples home haunts. yo uwill see things yo uwant to do and they can help guide you where to find the instructions.

I love your passion!!!

Welcome to the family here ! all i can say is 1st off, having reliable help on the big nite. If your doing it all yourself, well build it up. How many people do you get ? & If your taking donations / charging, we've discussed this & the legal stuff that goes with it. Liability is a big concern if you take money in any form including donations.

Check your local Salvation army & thrift stores, I've bought a lot of good stuff like lighting there for cheap. We've all started small & built things up over the years & experiences with it - including the lil technical last minute problems that always pop up...... Take you time & hang out here, look thru past posts & tutorials loads of stuff. Also at the top of this Props page is a thread I started on places to visit with prop building stuff for home haunters - hauntprojects.com, monsterlist, etc & other that have posted sites, it's all here for ya as we are. If ya need any sound effects, give me a "scream" LoL I have a lot you can use as do a few others on here.

dark lord your my man. im a begginer and have no idea what to use to ad sound effects to my props all the music i have it 2 hello kitty cd stereos i found....LOL.
and thanks!
i wont be charging people just accepting donations for my voulunterring i do!
Im doing alot of prop building at the moment between school and my job not much room but halloween will be 365 days a year this year cause im starting with nothing and im a big homeade kinda guy!

but if you can give me some tips on sound effects i would love some of your sound effects for my rooms and my props as well.... i am on a fixed budget though so nothing too expensive haha.

by the way dark lord and ladyathlea*** is there a way to add a freind or somthing soif i lose the thead i wont be able to keep in touch or ask for help i am new so help the newbies haha!

Thanks alot guys really....
loving halloween....!

i have several lil boom boxes & small cd players with seperate speakers for 5.00 on weekend specials at salvation army / thrift stores. mp3 players & pc power speakers
( also found cheap at Salvation army )

Music for your haunt theme in each area of your haunt. Something you'll have to feel out for yourself, your taste in music effect sounds, what kind of haunt your doing for whatever age group you expect....

heres some of the props im working on now all are homeade.. except for the skelteon prisoner i had to buy! but was on sale!....


i want to scare the living witts out of eaveryone haha...
but yes cd players i think is where im going to go but how would i get the sounds to loop through a cd on a regualar kids stereo like the one in my video..

Thanks alot!
Chris

Unfortunately those cd players nothing you can do but hit replay, I have a couple of those I have to do that to. I just try to burn the cd with repeating track to help.

Sometimes "old school" scare tactics work great too.....

Well from your vid your off to a great start ! Nothing wrong with an Hello kitty box if it gets the job done, you can turn it into a bad kitty hell box,..LoL

You've got a year, so lots of time to build.

haha i know lots of time im going to goodwill thursday to check on some clothing for my zombie and i listed some ofmy cheezy old props to get some money lol thanks man! ill let you know how it turns up and i will be using your sound effects most definiatly!
Thanks!

Will look forward to seeing an update post with progress on your props