How do I make a cool Haunted house? Please reply!?

Question

These people we know used to have a Haunted Hayride, but they stopped.

I'm having a Halloween party this year and I want a perfect haunted thing. We have a large lower yard with lots of trees, a sort of tractor with a trailer that will allow maybe three children or teenagers in it, and a $150 budget for decorations. Or, we could throw it inside.

We have a large garage, with two floors crowded with junk. It's unfinished, and it lends itself to a sort of spooky feeling.

Any ideas for a haunted house in this garage? I have two friends who are eager to help with the party, and I have another friend who I think would be happy to lend me some decorations.

This party is for children from maybe 10-18, so I need a wide range of decorations and scares.

I also need ideas for food, games, and things to do during the party. I was thinking of dancing, watching scary movies, and sorts of party games.

Halp?

Answer 1

okay lets see, deff get strobe lights and spider webz. then make a grave yard outside... u can get the stones for like 3 for 10bucks at party city and then put stobe lights in the bushes and mabee have some people with scary masks and costumes on and have them layin in the graveyard and pop up then get scary screams for outside and scary music for inside. if u go 2 some fleamarkets u can get old glass bottles and mabee recreate your basement as a mad lab or sumtin. then u shud then when people leave u should givem a little candy corn filled hand or sumtin

Answer 2

here some info i found..hope this helps:

Creating just the right atmosphere in your haunted house is half of the battle. This can be accomplished with special lighting, eerie sounds, and a couple other spooky effects.

Special Lighting

There are many great ways to deal with lighting your haunted house. Here are some things we have done that were successful:

The easiest way to get great lighting effects is to replace regular light bulbs with colored light bulbs and blacklights in the house.

For outside, we use portable shop lights to aim colored light where we wanted them.

Flashlights being held by a few helpers or placed strategically work well, but have a good supply of batteries on hand!

You can find fairly inexpensive, string Christmas-type lights. These days you can usually find them in special Halloween colors and designs.

We splurged a bit and bought yard torches for outside. We were lucky enough to find them on clearance in the fall. They looked great lining our yard!

We are lucky enough to have friends in the music industry, so we have access to strobe lights and an assortment of other great special effect lamps. Ask around! Someone you know might have a friend who has a friend who has one you could use! We have also purchased a strobe light for around $40.

Make sure there is enough light so people are safe walking around, but just enough light! A haunted yard or house that is too brightly lit isn't very scary.

Eerie Sounds

Once stores start putting out their Halloween supplies, you can usually find CDs or cassette tapes with spooky sound effects and music. They aren't too expensive, and are well worth the money spent for the atmosphere they create. Make sure you read the labels carefully to ensure you get exactly what you want.

Another option is to make your own tape of special sound effects. Although much more time consuming, you could record it all to fit your own style and haunted house. This would be especially handy if you are taking people on a guided tour. You could make up a narrative tape to play as you walk them around.

A Couple More Special Effects

Fog - There is nothing quite so creepy as a bit of fog rolling over your graveyard. We use a small fog machine we purchased for around $100. The cost was well worth it for us; during the rest of the year, we rented it out the fog machine to other people! Fog can also be achieved by using dry ice. I do not recommend this method, however, because I think having no fog at all is better than the chances you take with dry ice. You must make sure to never allow it be touched by bare skin - It can cause serious injury! It is also quite expensive!

Cover Boring Walls and Make New Walls - Create extra walls and rooms or just cover up your un-scary walls by using black, plastic sheeting. It is inexpensive and available at most large hardware/home improvement stores. You can also use material, large pieces of cardboard, or sheets of thin Styrofoam. These items are also good for covering windows so too much light doesn't come into your haunted house.

One year we covered the entire front side of our house with gray sheets. They were white sheets we got for free from a friend. We died them using black RIT dye which made them turn out gray. We used black spray paint and made brick outlines on the sheets. This effect made our house look like a stone mansion!

Enlist the help of your family, friends, and neighbors to assist with the planning, make the props, and play the role of all the creatures who will haunt your house and yard. Most will like the opportunity to get creative; but, even more so, they will love the opportunity to scare people!

They say two minds are better than one, and when it comes to planning, prop making, and decorating, this statement is very true. Plus, some people have access to certain items you might not know about. For example, one year a friend of a friend was happy to let us park his old hearse outside our haunted graveyard!

You can have all the special lighting, eerie sounds, and amazing props in the world, but the most successful and scariest haunted house features are real, live people! Recruit people to dress up in costume and become a part of your haunted house. No special skills or acting abilities are needed. One of the scariest effects is to simply have costumed 'actors' stand or sit motionless in amongst your props and dummies.

The 'actors' don't have to move or jump out at people for the best results. Try to blend in with any dummies you have stuffed and lying around. Visitors won't know what is real and not real. Making just slight moves also works well. Take a step when the person's back is turned or change positions a little bit. Slowly sneak up behind them. Don't touch them; just stand close. Hide behind black sheets, spider webs, coffins, tombstones, etc.

More Prop ideas

There are many other props and decorations you can use to give your house and yard a haunted feel. Here are some other easy things we have done:

Entry Way Fun - Cut a piece of a garbage bag big enough to fit your doorway and hang it up coving the entrance. Cut thin strips in the plastic from the bottom going up, stopping a few inches before you get to the top. People can now pass through your new doorway to get to the other room.

More Entry Way Fun - Hang black thread in a doorway. What you want this effect to accomplish is to make think they are walking into cobwebs. They should not be able to see the black thread, but should feel it rub against them when they walk through a doorway.

Boxes - Try to get your hands on some large appliance boxes. You can use these for a number of things. We used Exacto knifes and made a small crypt/chamber complete with windows and a barred door. You can use them to make coffins, tombstones, fake walls, or anything else you can dream up! Photo

Skeletons and Bones - We bought our full sized skeletons for around $10. Well worth it and you can do a lot with them. You can make your own skeleton bones using paper mache'! Photo

Monster Cage - We made an 8' x 8' cage using PVC pipe. Photo

Pumpkins - Every year, we have at least a dozen jack-o-lanterns scattered throughout our yard. What would Halloween be without them?

Bats - Cut bat shapes out of black paper hang them from your ceiling using black thread or fishing line. You can also try to fashion a larger bat out of a black garbage bag.

Signs - Make up fancy, spooky signs and hang them around your house. For example, make a sign that says "Victim Wanted, Apply Within" and put it on your coffin!

Maze - Use 2 x 4 or PVC pipe to build the frame of your maze. Cover the frame and black sheeting walls. Put spooky props in corners here and there.

Grave - Using tombstones, you can create what looks like a fresh grave by over turning the ground a little around it. If you really want to dig, make a hole big enough for someone to fit inside. Cover the hole with cardboard. Hide the cardboard under a pile of leaves or a light layer of dirt. An 'actor' can hide inside and pop out when needed!

Dinner Guests - We had a small dinner table set up. On the table we had a tin serving tray with a severed head (stuffed mask). We embellished the tray and sat a monster dummy at the table all ready for dinner! Photo

Spooky Pictures - Make picture frames out of wood and glass or buy cheap frames (leave the glass, but remove the back). Hang a piece of colorful fabric behind it. Hang on a fake wall in a spot were someone with a mask on can get behind it and stick their head into the picture frame.

Electric Chair - We created a simple electric chair one year that ended up being a great effect. We sat a dummy in a high-backed chair, put and old, metal noodle strainer on it's head, and ran wires off of that. What made the effect work those was the strobe light we used in this space.

Glow in the Dark - Glow in the dark paint is available at some craft stores. Get creative!

Rats - One year we attached a large, store bought rat to a radio control car and had him running around our yard. So much fun all the adults were begging for a chance to 'play' with him!

Witches - We have a friend who is a great actress. She played the roll of our witch wonderfully! She was hunched over and complete with rotting fake teeth, broom, and cauldren. We also made a 'crashed' witch (use a witch costume, hat, and broom attached to the side of a 4 x 4 or tree to make it look like the witch crashed into the tree). She introduced our crashed witch to everyone as her clumsey sister. Photo

The Unexpected - Hide props throughout the house where people won't expect them... Hang a dummy behind the bathroom door; place small rats or body parts in cupboards. Fill your medicine cabinet with ping-pong balls painted to look like eyeballs. Look for nooks and crannies where people can or items can be out of site until it is too late to turn back!

Body Parts - Use the techniques for making dummies, but stuff just certain items of clothing and have great body parts to scatter around your house and yard! Photo

Haunted House Fence - Find a creative wy to enclose your yard. One year we roped it off if police tape. Another year we made a spooky fence using lathe!

Things You’ll Need:

Spider Webbing

Wigs

Halloween Candles

Halloween Decorations

Halloween Light Sets

Black Lights

Cauldrons And Foggers

Fog Machines

Jack-o'-lanterns

Table Candelabras

Tombstones (prop)

Antibacterial Soaps

Hand Wipes

Masks

Halloween Sound Effects CD

Coffins

Step1Find a safe place large enough to accommodate all the things you plan to do. You can use your house, basement or yard--or if you really want to be extravagant, you can rent a large, vacant building.

Step2Draw up a plan. Using a diagram of the space available,