Thread: Love Halloween, some general questions...

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Last year we set up a graveyard. I mean it was a hit, I invested a few grand into it. Pumpkins. homemade zombies off of ebay. I was and am very happy with my halloween display last year. I'm hooked. I love the morbid and dislike the kiddy version of halloween. I even spent a few hundred last year for some after halloween shopping. I'd share pictures but I seem to have lost them in a computer format. I bought twitch and creepy cathy animatronic figures made by freaktronics. Btw, Cathy is aweslome! YouTube - CREEPY CATHY Animated Halloween Prop www.HauntedVentures.com

I used dark brown dyed wood chips for the dirt of the graves and had a bunch of zombies like 10. I used strafoam tombstones (those sucked) that the wind liked to take away. I bought a giant spider and a spidersilk wraped man for the tree. I put my lifesize replica seed of chucky chucky doll in the window with flashing strobes.


I am already thinking about next year and am going to buy an LED projector and have a moving eye on the garage.

I really want to outdue everything in every which way this year and really want some input on improvements.

I am very curious in how those really expensive air compressed halloween haunted house props work and wonder how hard they are to set up and if they can be used outdoors. Is there any fog machine that isn't for indoor use only?


This year I was thinking of an evil christmas theme with a black christmas tree and body parts hanging from it and a jack o latern as its star with evil children around it. Maybe a snowman made out of jack pumpkins and a jack o latern for the head? Is this too over the top?

I used green and white floodlights to light my display this year. I love halloween.

Great enthusiasm! I don't know much about pneumatics, but I can say that lighting and fog can really help set the scene. (I use all of my fog machines outdoors without concern. )

Also ambient sound can just add a level of "creepy". I hear that you have sound effects in the background but a simple ominous hum or ghost track can make everything feel so much more creepy. All of my props are static (no movement) and we still had kids afraid to walk by the house just because of the sounds.

Build a good fog chiller and pump your fog through it. I got lucky that we had little wind in our neighborhood last year and the fog just hung on. It was sweet.

Creepy Christmas sounds good. I'd love to see a Zombie Santa.

And you're doing the right thing by starting now.

You seem very ambitious and eager to grow your haunt. Sounds like to are headed in the right direction.

BTW... Welcome to the Forum!