CREATING A HAUNTED HOUSE
Adults can be treated to even more horror and then you best perfect creating an illusion. With their sophisticated tastes, they will want more realism and more fright in their night. Monsters need great makeup jobs and wonderful props. There must be more surprise and movement in your haunted house, definitely more scares. These are the guests who will love your lifeless body that suddenly grabs their leg, the thing that pops out of an old trunk, the swinging ghost that suddenly is in their face, and the various body parts they find themselves holding. For a great example of the art of makeup, check out the photo of the Ghostly Friend at the Lombard Jaycees Haunted House at http://www.outfitters.com/~mhughes/haunt....
Here are a few basics to get you going. Your haunted house can contain many rooms as in an actual house, it can be outside scenes created on your lawn, a basement maze of corridors lined by hanging walls of black trash bags. It can turn a back yard into a cemetery or a bathroom into a laboratory. Each room can have its own scene/location such as one being another planet, another room being the dungeon, still another the scene of a hanging. Remember, not all of these would be appropriate for children.
Scenery outside can take advantage of old trees, rocks, weird houses, moons, and of course graves and gravestones. People have lots of fun with those gravestones and write witty sayings on them. Mounds of leaves, and dirt with bodies sticking out add realism. Create anything that isn't there naturally with imagination and things you can find around the house.
Monsters and bodies start with clothes stuffed and propped into position. Add masks for great faces. Don't forget to add ghostly beings, skeletons, and other forms of horror. Eerie music sets the mood.
Inside could be old fashioned like a haunted house of the movies. Add cobwebs of thread, a candelabra, a coffin here or there, various torturous looking apparatus and don't forget the fake blood. Many props are available to purchase or create your own. Mad scientist labs can contain everyday clear bottles with colored water. Doors could be opened to squeaking sounds, taped previously and don't forget those blood-curdling screams. Stepping on what appears to be a corpse is what haunted houses are all about. Having someone jump out from behind something or seeing a real ghost suddenly appear are all part
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