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Horrifying Halloween Haunts for your Home

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Last updated: 24/10/11

Scary Halloween Settings

If your goal is to count screams this Halloween and have a very unique haunted house, 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, inflatables, 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 from your home..

Discover a few unique Halloween haunted house ideas, and feel free to share a few of your own spooktacular scares, if you dare:

20 Horrifying Haunts

Halloween Props and Spooky Ideas

How horrific you choose to haunt your home for Halloween is completely up to you - pick and choose a few ideas, or use them all to the best of your creepy abilities.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Go gruesome - sprinkle fake body parts along the path to your front door, or dangle them from the porch / roof.
  4. 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.
  5. 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!

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6. Display LED candles and dim eerie lighting, rather than bold strobe lights to create a more 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.

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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.

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16. Carve an extreme pumpkin, let it's guts hang out and give it scary Halloween props too!

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!!!

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Scare Factor

How scary do you think Halloween should be?

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Very scary - scare the pants off of me!

ScareYouDiva says:

It's a holiday celebrating the thin veil between life and death, and all things supernatural. It actually has religious roots as deep as Christmas. I find it offensive when people try to water it down to nothing more than kids mooching free candy off their neighbours

Posted September 12, 2011

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

A little scary...too many creepies gives me the jeebies.

lbrummer says:

I'm for the little scary Halloween. I scare easily. Love this lens, will feature it on my Halloween Treats in a Brown Paper Bag lens.

Posted September 22, 2011

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

 
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    WhiteOak50 Oct 2, 2011 @ 4:36 pm | delete
    Fantastic page!! Leaving you with a Spooky SquidAngel Blessing and featuring you at Spooky Angel Blessings
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    totalhealth Sep 24, 2010 @ 3:56 pm | delete
    love your lens. the kids are already looking forward for a scary halloween, thanks for the ideas.
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    Twmarsh Sep 14, 2010 @ 6:24 pm | delete
    I used a few of these tips last Halloween, but you have given me several new ideas for this year, Thanks!
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    gideon43 Oct 28, 2009 @ 7:27 am | delete
    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 Oct 27, 2009 @ 9:35 am | delete
    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 Oct 13, 2009 @ 1:46 pm | delete
    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 Oct 9, 2009 @ 4:22 am | delete
    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 Oct 8, 2009 @ 9:32 am | delete
    Love to be scared on Halloween! Nice lens! I will lensroll this into my SquidBOO lenses.
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    ArtByLinda Oct 8, 2009 @ 12:50 am | delete
    My son used to love to scare the trick or treaters. One year we raked all the leaves into long piles and put headstones at the end of them. When they would come up to the door, he would arise from one of those piles and scare them.

    Another year he dressed as a scare crow and sat slumped on the porch with a pumpkin on his lap, just as the kids would start to knock on the door, he would come to life and make them jump. Poor little kids! LOL

    He made sure to only scare the older kids, not the little ones though!
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    WhiteOak50 Oct 7, 2009 @ 1:30 pm | delete
    laughs wow, girlie girl your lens rocks! I always enjoy your work so much. Very good!!
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