Haunted Yard

[GraveDanger]

For the last couple years my friend and I have built a haunted house in my backyard and garage. It's kinda like a neighborhood tradition. Every year more people from my neighborhood and school ask me if i'm doing it again. Last year a guy in my neighborhood who used to own his own haunted house in Georgia came and worked in it, and told us that we did a really good job setting it up.

I don't know it's just really fun and i really like doing it each year.

[Luv2BScared]

Do you have any pics? Where is it at?

[haunt_master]

any pics, video, or other info would be great

[GraveDanger]

Well I don't really know how to upload pics onto here, but we do have a myspace with some basic pics on it. It doesn't really have much, just a couple of ones from this year and last year. myspace.com/gravedangerx
We're gonna take more pictures later and probably make a video of people getting scared inside the haunt. But I wouldn't have that untill after halloweenn

We live less then a mile north of Field of Corpses so it's in that general area. But uh i don't know what else you wanna know unless you want to know about some of the stuff we do inside it.

[Luv2BScared]

I wanna know!! I wanna know!! http://www.octoberlounge.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

[haunt_master]

any other info would be great!

[GraveDanger]

mmm well we always make something called a werewolf room. We have a room with fog and a strobe and we hang shredded bags or bodies from the ceiling. The people have to walk through it and it&#39;s very disorienting, especially with the werewolf guy we have in there who gets ride in their face and follows them.

Another thing we always do is make a star room where we just cover the walls with glow in the dark stars. We have a guy in all black with stars on him standing flat against the wall. He can pretty much hide wherever he wants. It&#39;s a really cool room and everyone gets scared in it.

We built a "stockaround" costume this year. It&#39;s like a big thing that you wear and it makes it look like a 9 foot tall monster with moving arms and head. Frightmare has 2 things similar to this (a clown, and a monster in a top hat)

For outdoors we always make areas with a bunch of dummies where some of them are real, just like everyone does. One thing I like to do though is to put newspaper sticking out of the sleeves or necks of the real people to make them look like they were stuffed with newspaper.

One last thing that we like to do just for decoration is make a spider victime trick or treater. We hang a dummy in a costume up in spider web, and he&#39;s holding a little pumpkin candy bucket. It&#39;s just kinda funny cause it looks like a little trick or treater kid caught caught in the web.

[Luv2BScared]

That sounds like fun!! I bet you guys have a blast with it! Any pics yet?

[haunt_master]

those are some great ideas



thanks for sharing

[GDzombie]

hey, i also help with this haunt, brock(gravedanger) provides the house to do it at and i do all the building and manual labor haha..naw brock helps too.

but yea we have a blast doing it! this year we have about 13 different actors and its going to be awesome, here is a little bit more descriptive write up of what we do


the first part of the haunt winds through the garage, we make our walls using rope as the frame and black plastic for the wall. it works well. The first room they go through is the star room where a disguised actor scares them, then they walk down a narrow closed in hallway which is very claustrophobic feeling and there is blood and white paint on the walls with a strobe flashing down the hall, then they come out into the werewolf room which is full of fog and torn up stuff hanging from the ceiling, there is also a strobe in this room, the werewolf pops out and gets in their faces and everything, then they walk by a cage that they have to walk very closely to and it has a gorilla in it that reaches through and trys to get the patrons. after that they open a door to go outside and are greeted by an insane person who follows them down the hill past the spider victim scene, they then enter a room we built under the deck, there are some cool scares in that room, then there is a scare by a shovel weilding zombie when they come out of that room. then they walk through a scene where a monster is feasting on bloody bodies that are everywhere, and there are some "dummies" leaning on the fence opposite the bloody scene, then they turn the corner and there is a chainsaw chase. then a graveyard scene with some scares, then they walk back up the hill and there are some scares and then thats it...
i kinda didnt want to give everything away, just incase any of you are able to make it out here for it. and we hope that you do!

its going to be ALOT of fun and its cheap.
plus if you dress up you could probably get away with some trick or treating around the neighborhood on halloween.

for directions and to see some pics from last year(which was kinda lame)
check out

www.myspace.com/gravedangerx

[SChaser783]

Be careful charging admission. I know its tempting, but several home haunts have been forced to close for this practice (in other states, haven&#39;t heard of any closing down in colorado).

[ghostofC]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tye @ Oct 22 2006, 11:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=1771)</div>
Be careful charging admission. I know its tempting, but several home haunts have been forced to close for this practice (in other states, haven&#39;t heard of any closing down in colorado).[/b]


thanks for the heads up, i had kinda been wondering if we should get some kind of permit or something... but the way we are charging is more like a suggested donation, especially on halloween where trick or treaters arent going to have money. But we have been handing out flyers at school that say to bring 2 dollars for admission, so if they have the money we will take it. but if not, it isnt a big deal.

[Scarica]

When I did my home haunt, I often wanted to charge, but then thought I&#39;d be seen as a commercial venture and that would bring all the unpleasantries that come along with that. The last year, we asked for donations and made about 5 bucks (and several bottles of liquor). We considered doing canned food donations, put we never pulled that one together...but it&#39;s a good idea. Also, we never handed out flyers, to "fly below the radar" so to speak. We just put up tons of signs on Halloween morning. Of course, we only did ours on Halloween, so it was basically for trick or treaters and the curious passerby.

We still got lots of people (about 100 people or so) and had lots of fun. Keeping it casual and free allowed us to pretty much do what we wanted (within reason of course).

Good luck! It sounds like it&#39;s pretty big and you have some good ideas. We&#39;ll wait for pictures!

[GraveDanger]

So we did our haunted house on Saturday and Halloween, and both days were a big success. We had a ton of people come and everyone had fun. We had a couple little kids cry, and two people pissed their pants. A bunch of people told us that they thought it was scarier then a some of real haunted houses they&#39;d been to.

The best thing is when some kid goes through who thinks he&#39;s a tough guy, and then you just make him jump 5 feet in the air around every turn, and asking us to stop scaring him.

Heres some pics:

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1011936.jpg
This is the 9 foot tall costume we built

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1011969.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1011968.jpg
This is the star room, in the dark it looks really cool

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1012058.jpg
Heres a bloody scene
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1012056.jpg
A real guy sits in the empty chair and acts like a dummy

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1012055.jpg
This is the butcher room

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1012053.jpg
Everyone sees that zombie guy and thinks its real, so they stay close to the wall where a guy pops out of the window, it&#39;s a good distraction

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1012052.jpg
That&#39;s the trick or treater spider victim

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1012080.jpg
That&#39;s my friend and I who made it all. He was a crazy guy who would follow people down the hill after coming out of the garage. And i&#39;m the "grave digger" zombie, I would jump out and drag my shovel against some rocks really loud, It made everyone jump.

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r69/gravedangerbc/P1012078.jpg
And this is all the actors on halloween

[SChaser783]

Looks awesome! Good work.

[WelchWitch]

Very cool. Awesome job. When I was a younger witch, I used to love to look for houses like this to go trick or treating to. Made it so much more fun and really get into the spirit. They werent as good as your though, but back million years ago it was just more black and white compared to all your color. Very Nice. Thanks for the pictures.

[Rev. Noch]

Am I just suffering from my lack of having any coffee or have the pics disappeared?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Grave Danger @ Nov 1 2006, 09:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=1858)</div>
Heres some pics:[/b]

EDIT: D&#39;OH, It&#39;s my stupid work&#39;s web filters blocking that site for some stupid reason (did I mention that they are stupid?). I&#39;m not sure how they think that I may be trying to view PRON with this, but o well. I&#39;ll have to check the pics out from home.

[WelchWitch]

Just gotta hold yer mouth right

[asylum22]

your homemade haunt looks very cool!!! my friend and i are making one next year up in evergreen, co.