Haunted House? What scares you?

Question

I am building a haunted house. I have a few ideas, but i need more. I want to scare the living crud out of people (not that there is living crud in people) but I need some help. 1) I need a theme. I was thinking about doing Jack the Ripper and have all this mangled body parts ever where and have the people walking through the haunted us while a person dressed like Jack would walk behind them with "clicky" shoes so they could hear him chasing them. But that's just an idea. 2) I need decoration and prop ideas. Blood and gore is A-ok with me so bring it on. and 3) I need costume and makeup ideas or how tos.

If you could answer one out of the three than I would be soooo greatful. I just want some insight and I think there's some sick people like me out there who could help me.

Thank you!

Answer 1

it scares me wen its dark and a person jumps out screaming at u randomly. i say u should pake ur haunted house have a fog machine or better yet dry ice(cus itll make it colder) then get lights that flash super fast. itll look sooooooooooooooooooo cool.  dress up as a vampire or sumthin. wear a long gown. paint ur face,and arms, and any other part of ur skin that sum1 can see white. then get red lipstick for ur lips. then get sumthin red and put it on ur face so it looks like bloooood. >=]  im guessing ur a girl so yea. if ur a dude dress up like dracula... >.>

Answer 2

you can have a fake grave yeard and have a frend dress up as a mummy(or you) and her come out of a tomb and scare people.

Answer 3

Ok, I'll be frank. I was going to have a haunted house this year, but I didn't make it that far due to lack of support. What I did, and this will help you with #1, was I created my own character and story and as prep for the rest of the haunted house, I created a news story (an original video explaining the story), so that they would know kind of what to expect when they got in, so as to have less chickens once inside, and to set the mood (I would have played this video at the beginning, before they entered). This is a copy of the script and it also has the story of the character hidden inside (Nick and James and Mark and Michael are my friends):

[We start with James and Mark using blue screen effects to create a news story setting]

Voiceover: Friday, October 31, 2008. This is WMAD News. [music]

James: Hello, this is Allen Greene-

Mark: and Justin Millard-

J: and tonight's top story on WMAD is about a man whose name, after 20 years, still has a bad reputation today.

M: We know this man best as Jonathan Caster. We'll go live to Mr. Jimmy Chase and Mr. Jon Fumin for the whole story.

J: Jimmy? Jon?

[we cut to the next video, Michael is on already]

Michael: Hello and Happy Halloween. This is Jimmy Chase reporting live from 140 Ames Street, Sharon, Massachusetts. As you could probably guess, there is no electricity here, so we’ll have to deal with the spotlight from our news van in the driveway. On a different note, Why am I here? [start Caster Instrumental music for effect and atmosphere] In the 80s, many people went missing on Halloween and many of the losses were associated with this house. This was home to a one Jonathan Caster, and he was the only local serial killer recorded during his time. He was also one of the most gruesome men in the state of Massachusetts. Caster would lure victims to his house with signs that read, “Candy inside, take as much as you like,” which I actually saw when I walked in here. Then, he would lock the door once they were in and strangle whoever was trapped with him. And last, he would drag the victims to the basement, and incinerate their bodies in his furnace. [footsteps, he turns away, the lights go out, and we play a trap door/gong noise with dramatic music, we cut back to the scene and he is gone]

Tony: (Jon the other news reporter) [thinking that Jimmy is just playing a joke] On October 31st, 1988 police went to his home and shot him. This is the 20th anniversary of his assassination, [footsteps, he turns away] but some believe that his spirit and those of his victims are still responsible for the latest disturbances and disappearances in this area. [footsteps, he makes a larger turn away] No one is certain of why this house has been left standing, but a theory could be that most think that if someone demolished it, or walked through it, or stood by it, that Jonathan’s and his victims’ spirits would be disturbed and let loose. This story kind of reminds me of that Michael Jackson song. What was it? [footsteps] Hang on a second, Stephen. Stephen’s our camera man. [walk over to see what it is and come back] I really must be hearing things. [footsteps, he turns away, the lights go out, and we play a trap door/gong noise with dramatic music, we cut back to the scene and he is gone]

Nick: (Stephen the camera man) [comes out from the right side and goes to investigate with Jon] Jimmy? Jon? Where are you?

[we cut back to Mark and James]

M: Uhh, I think something bad is happening over there.

J: I'll say. Oh, wait they're coming back in.

(we cut back to the scene)

[N walks backwards with a frozen look on his face, we cut to black, and we play a trap door/gong noise with dramatic music, Nick comes outside in a ripped bloody shirt] 

N: I’m just a simple camera man! I don’t know why you guys are here, but whatever you do, don’t go in that house!!!

After I played the video, I was going to have my friends and I do choreography for a song I wrote with the tune of Thriller which you can listen to here: http://web.mac.com/tsimo7/Nightmare_on_A... Wait for the Quicktime file to load.

That's all I've gotten so far and I won't go further until I get some support next year. Just too bad my friends didn't want to do it, because it would have been awesome. Since I'm giving this to you, it's not stealing so go crazy with it. Hope I helped! Best answer please!!!!!!!!