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Since I was pretty young I have always had a certain love of halloween. Whether it was picking out a costume, trick-or-treating or decorating the house it is definitely my favorite holiday. I starting putting out dummies and spiderwebs in middle school and each year the house decorations got bigger and bigger. Now that I am off at college not all of them make it out every year, but they are still sitting up in the garage so that when I graduate I will begin decorating my own house. |
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| The first thing you need for any haunted house is a cemetary. Lots of gravestones with iron crosses painted gray, white and black. Throw in a corpse sticking out of the ground that looks like he is coming to life and a realistic coffin and some kids may not even make it past the front yard. | ||||||||||||||||
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| You need a bad ass fence that surrounds the cemetary to make it look really dangerous. For a couple years I just used a premade picket fence and added a couple posts in the middle to look like an entrance. That fence was put to shame when I made my realistic looking cemetary entrance way and posts. I used a bunch of columns from a previous Annie production we did in high school and made some large ones for the middle gate. I made a archway out of styrofoam, painted it black, and added gold painted foam cut out letters that ended up looking realistic as hell. The lights are fully functional with flicker flame lights which look like they are really just candles. I bought a couple of latex gargoyles and had my dad fill them wth foam and they looked really awesome. I added LED lights to the gargoyles eyes so that they were glaring red. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Another vital part of the haunted house is the old school torture/execution device section. I built a hangman's noose (but never hung even a dummy from it because my mom wouldn't let me). I built a set of racks- one for the shorter person and one for the taller so that if anyone needed to be publicly humiliated they could do it in the front yard. I finally made a full size guillotine that looked pretty reallistic. I would have made it working, but again the mom thing. My sister has this weird looking head that she can practice braiding hair on that i threw in a basket below the head slot. | ||||||||||||||||
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Updated 1/2005