Scary Halloween Settings
If your goal is to count screams this year for a very haunted Halloween, you need a yard full of horrific haunts and scary Halloween decorations to create an authentic spooky setting.
However, you can't just rely on spooky decorations and Halloween props to do the job for you. It takes a little extra creativity and few haunting ideas to ensure that your tricks will send the treaters running far away...
20 Horrifying Haunts
- Ensure that you have help from friends to provide a few extra bodies during Halloween night - you'll need them to raise from the dead, jump out of coffins, and hide behind bushes.
- Dig holes in your backyard and drop in the bones - before Halloween to get the party started. Make sure they can be seen from the front yard.
- Go gruesome - sprinkle fake body parts along the path to your front door, or dangle them from the porch / roof.
- Use trees in your yard to your advantage. Dangle spooky creatures from the branches and string animated Halloween props from them to fly into your unsuspecting guests.
- Use antique garden props to create a realistic haunted setting. Distress old wood with spider webs, creepy cloth, and spooky fabric. Don't forget the wooden fences!
Halloween Bones, Body Parts, and Fabric
More Halloween Haunts
6. Use LED candles and dim lighting rather than strobe lights to create a natural haunted Halloween setting.7. Everything should serve a purpose and not look out of place. Arrange Halloween props so that they are grouped together in several areas by scare factor.
8. Give your Halloween props more props. Skeletons have hands - make them hold something. Jaw bones can eat things, and creatures should be doing what creepy creatures do best...
9. Use fake blood on windows, doors, and curtains after you test to see if it's washable on those areas first. :-)
10. Dark classical music is more authentic that just screams and spooky sounds. Include an even mix of many types of scary Halloween music.
SkeleFlamingos
Skeleton Flamingo pair
Amazon Price: $17.25 (as of 12/19/2009)
These skeleflamingos are perfect for Halloween! Replace your pretty-in-pink ones with the x-ray version instead...their sure to be the topic of the town. ;-)
The Haunts Continue
11. Group things together, but randomness is also a necessity. A raven with a fake finger left stranded is pretty scary...12. Store leftover bones and body parts in boxes and crates on the lawn. Make it look like you've been collecting for quite a while.
13. Cardboard can be used as fake shutters and flooring on your porch. Anything you want to spill, chop, and pour all over won't leave your home a yucky mess. Completely removable, temporary, and stores well for next year.
14. Arrange the specimen jars in plain sight. Use shelves, plant hangers, and benches for extra space.
15. Creatures make the kill - line up the spiders, hang the bats, and bring out your rubber rat friends.
Animated Creepy Props
Last Haunts of the Season...
17. Fangs and accessories should be realistic. Visit VampFangs.com for several great options.
18. Be creative with props such as graveyards, tombstones, and gates. Stab creatures with wrought iron points, drip things all over, and use floral moss in front of graves to make them look freshly dug up.
19. Watch a few horror movies for new ideas. Some of the classics are forgotten with each new generation.
20. Cast your faces and paint them. Then glue on an appropriate wig to look like you. No one will know who's actually serving the candy, if YOUR "heads" are the ones hanging from the porch. :-) Mwahahaha!!!
Watch where you step...
Rubies Costume Halloween Decoration Cemetery Club, Graveyard Kit
Amazon Price: (as of 12/19/2009)
The full kit includes a rubber bat, spider web with spider, 2 tombstones, and 3 pieces of cemetery wall in a reusable storage chest. Gate has wooden and PVC pipes for strength...measures 18"x12"x12".
Spooky Inflatables
Scare Factor
How scary do you think Halloween should be?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byVery scary - scare the pants off of me!
liv says:
the scariest i can be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted October 12, 2009
aj2008 says:
I'd love to make Halloween scary enough so the kids DONT knock on my door - he he!!
Posted October 09, 2009
Noise Electric says:
All out, baby.
Moderation tends to have a polarizing effect - people either become jaded or paranoid. We need to become more extreme in our creepiness so the jaded can enjoy a good scare and the paranoid can grow a spine.
Playing it safe often means not playing at all. Let's put some fun back into it, eh? ;)
Posted September 26, 2009
Lady Valkyrie says:
Over the top with 'scariness'. OMG I can't wait to do it again this year. It's my favorite.
Posted September 20, 2009
WebSpinstress says:
The scarier, the better! It takes a lot to scare me, and I can appreciate a good adrenaline rush. Too many horror movies over the years, I guess. ;-)
Posted September 16, 2009
A little scary...too many creepies gives me the jeebies.
Pastiche says:
I wish we had more local visitors to our home at Halloween - we're artists and love to create a scary scene in our yard to frighten the bold and brazen ...
Posted October 27, 2009
Dark Halloween Music
Grimm Tales
Amazon Price: $13.99 (as of 12/19/2009)
Grimm Tales by Nox Arcana. Perfectly dark and classical...
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Leave a note, and scare me with your ideas... :-)
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- gideon43 gideon43 Oct 28, 2009 @ 7:27 am
- Great Lens.
We don`t seem to celebrate Halloween as much in the UK as they do in the States but I think we are catching up.
Kids love to be scared (mine do anyway) and I would be quite happy if we made Halloween a week long festival.
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- Pastiche Pastiche Oct 27, 2009 @ 9:35 am
- Love the fright night side of Halloween, but I do try not to scare the littlest ones ... lensrolled to my Halloween decorating lenses.
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- debnet debnet Oct 13, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
- The shops over here are gradually getting more and more Halloween decorations each year. It's so exciting fro children. I like the use of colours and the layout you've used here.
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- aj2008 aj2008 Oct 9, 2009 @ 4:22 am
- Call me miserable but given that we have a dog that does her job very well - goes beserk if anyone comes up the path - you can imagine that Treat or Treat gets a tad wearing after the third or fourth visit! So I am all for some discouragement!
Nice ideas on the lens!
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- sandyspider sandyspider Oct 8, 2009 @ 9:32 am
- Love to be scared on Halloween! Nice lens! I will lensroll this into my SquidBOO lenses.
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