Thread: help with haunted walk thru

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Help please!!! This is our second year doing a halloween party for our teenagers. Our theme this year is a haunted carnival type of deal...haven't thought of a name for it yet. I am running seriously behind. We would like to make a haunted walk thru in our driveway using ez-ups and maybe black plastic sheeting hanging down. Does anyone have any good ideas for the little hallways that you would walk thru? I was thinking of trying to find some black checkered sheeting for one hallway and maybe trying to find a friend to dress up as a clown in checkered clothes and blend into the wall and scare them as they walk by. But seeing as I am not that creative I need more ideas. What better place to come to than the most imaginative site on the web??

TIA

why dont you use black fabric for one of your hallways, use black light paint to paint polka dots on the walls then hav your actor dressed in the same fabric so the color matches and paint him or her with the polka dots..put up a black light turn it on and watch in amazement as the person dissapears...hav them jump out at people...its an easy scare and if the lighting is right, really hard to see.

Spirit has a whole section this year on carnival stuff. You should take a look. Also if you are looking for names .... Cirque De Spook, CarnEvil, Carnivale De Mystique. Use skeletons as the carnival workers. Make aged carnival attraction signs, etc. So much comes to mind with this one.

Other names you could consider could be- Carnival of Carnage, or Psycho Circus. As for idea's, i always think actors can preform some of the best scares. Ask around your friends/family for volenteers. Have one of them be the main ring leader. You could have one scene be "the freak show" and have "freaks" in cages and such and have one girl being tied up with a derranged clown trying to make her one of the freaks. Have her scream "I'm not a freak!" Over and over. You could also have creepy circus music playing

Thanks so much for all the wonderful ideas.

Creepy music is a must. Midnight Circus put out an album a few years ago that might work for you:
Amazon.com: Midnight Circus: Michael Hedstrom: Music

Also, the whole soundtrack from Killer Clowns from Outer Space is on You Tube. I'm not suggesting you can download it for free, but I hear such things are possible.