Well, this idea came about when I went to our local spook shop, The Asylum. i thought that i should make a home haunt! anyhoo, this is not for this year, but i want to get ideas for next year's haunt.
here we go!
THEME- mental asylum
WHERE- in a tent in our cul-de-sac
HOW LONG- i have no idea.
GORY- in some parts, but mostly not.
WHY SHOULD WE HELP YOU- because i have no where else to go to.

anyway, i need ideas for rooms/scares/anything you can think of.
IDEAS:
-hidden corners,
-dark spaces,
-2' high tunnel (may be slippery, maybe not)
-bug hallway
-the "butcher" room
-many, many crazy people (lol)
-chainsaw chase through the "bayou"
-candy at the end for trick-or-treaters on halloween

I recently went to Halloween Horror Nights (google it).

One of the haunted houses was set up like so

every room was separated by thick black plastic sheets you could spread away, almost exactly like the clear plastic sheets found on loading docks only solid black. That way you can't see into the next room. the scariest room was pitch black, huge, and had about 20 zombies in it, and a strobe light that went off every 10 seconds or so as your only light source the zombies would brush up against you and all turn towards you as you entered the room (they were all actors, not animatronics) EDIT: and you had to find your way out of that room by the way, there wasn't a clear exit out of there... >_<

you'd go down some pitch black hallways where theres nothing set up, but some black streamers hung from the ceiling at head level, so as you're feeling around the hallway you hit your head on the streamers and in your paranoid state it feels like several people trying to grab you from above, only hitting you with their fingertips. Another cool thing was a hallway just as before but it had one of those little spring arms at chest level (padded, not just bare spring) that as you walked through it feels like someone is clawing at your chest.

There were alot of hidden corners in the shadows where people would hide and pop out just after you pass them so you see them lunge at you in the corner of your eye.

One thing that was cool that I doubt is in your budget was a narrow hallway, pitch black (again, I know) but they had an inflatable cylinder taking up a larger portion of the hallway so you have to push through to a very tiny space, in order to pass through, it gives you claustrophobia even if you don't have it >_<


I know it doesn't really fit what you're after but it was scary as hell none the less...

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I recently went to Halloween Horror Nights (google it).

One of the haunted houses was set up like so

every room was separated by thick black plastic sheets you could spread away, almost exactly like the clear plastic sheets found on loading docks only solid black. That way you can't see into the next room. the scariest room was pitch black, huge, and had about 20 zombies in it, and a strobe light that went off every 10 seconds or so as your only light source the zombies would brush up against you and all turn towards you as you entered the room (they were all actors, not animatronics) EDIT: and you had to find your way out of that room by the way, there wasn't a clear exit out of there... >_<

you'd go down some pitch black hallways where theres nothing set up, but some black streamers hung from the ceiling at head level, so as you're feeling around the hallway you hit your head on the streamers and in your paranoid state it feels like several people trying to grab you from above, only hitting you with their fingertips. Another cool thing was a hallway just as before but it had one of those little spring arms at chest level (padded, not just bare spring) that as you walked through it feels like someone is clawing at your chest.

There were alot of hidden corners in the shadows where people would hide and pop out just after you pass them so you see them lunge at you in the corner of your eye.

One thing that was cool that I doubt is in your budget was a narrow hallway, pitch black (again, I know) but they had an inflatable cylinder taking up a larger portion of the hallway so you have to push through to a very tiny space, in order to pass through, it gives you claustrophobia even if you don't have it >_<


I know it doesn't really fit what you're after but it was scary as hell none the less...

this was at the asylum, but there were two airbags.
it was creepy as hell because our group stopped in the middle. >_<
well, I think we were gonna have a hallway about 20" to about 2' high.

"There were alot of hidden corners in the shadows where people would hide and pop out just after you pass them so you see them lunge at you in the corner of your eye."

this is going to be most of the haunt, even though there will be a "bug hallway" someone is going to bang on the wall and scream "DON'T STEP ON MY FRIENDS! THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES I HAVE!" but when you walk in, there will be a strobe going off. you will feel popping under your feet, and in reality, they will be rubber/plastic cockroaches. they will be all over the walls, the ceiling, the floor, everywhere.

UPDATE!!1!1 this halloween, i am going to make a "stalkaround" costume. these are much like puppets, but are about, oh, seven feet tall or so. afterward, i will make more if possible, and they will be the centerpiece of the outside of the haunt. they will be dressed up in straitjackets if possible, and there will be one inside who will chase our victims.

My school carnival.. the haunted house was crap.

The whole time. It was just pitch black. Don't do that.

I suggest you splitting them up. 2 people in two rows.

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My school carnival.. the haunted house was crap.

The whole time. It was just pitch black. Don't do that.

I suggest you splitting them up. 2 people in two rows.

uh, i'll try to make sense of what you said.
no, it won't be pitch black, not all of it anyway. instead of complete darkness, we will use subtle lighting techniques, such as a video of a fireplace. maybe hidden lights. i don't know.
in some parts though, we need pitch black in order to scare and creep our customers out. and for the splitting up line, what the **** you saying? it makes no sense.

UPDATE, BITCHES!!!
I am starting to get the ball rolling on this project, and i need ideas for the name.
all i have is:
-Hospital of horror(s)
-insanitorium
-purgatorium

HALP

reminds me of an actual mental hospital that made a haunted house that my dad went to,

Why an asylum? Asylums are stereotypically all white with padded walls. Nobody's gonna buy the whole dark with strobe lights thing for a mental asylum.

but your mental, how will you tell the difference?

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Why an asylum? Asylums are stereotypically all white with padded walls. Nobody's gonna buy the whole dark with strobe lights thing for a mental asylum.

I know that asylums are all white, but there will be different rooms, a "locker room" and generally dark spaces. white can be black with no lights.

quit asking us for help with your haunted house.

www.Hauntedprops.com

Google can help you, especially with ideas, look at the props and
shit that they have on here then you'll know.

http://www.hauntedprops.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=226

The full house rooms get ideas from this.

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Try floor lifters.
Put something on the floor, and a rope to the tiles or whatever, so a hidden person can pull the rope, and the floor will seem to lift with a wave.
Or marbles on the ground.

Not a bad idea, mate!

I have a few suggestions, myself:

1. Dead body in a closet. Simply make a life-like doll and put it in a pantry closet or something.
2. Try a FAKE murder scene between 2 people. Use filled cap guns or toy knives. Don't hold the cap guns at peoples heads and don't injure anyone.

Go to my website:
mitchsstuff.synthasite.com
and in the pranks page, I have a couple of Halloween pranks which might help.:Happy:

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quit asking us for help with your haunted house.

www.Hauntedprops.com

Google can help you, especially with ideas, look at the props and
shit that they have on here then you'll know.

http://www.hauntedprops.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=226

The full house rooms get ideas from this.

Some people might want to help though...



Some people have good ideas...



We can help if we want.:Happy:






Put up with it.:Dope:

And some people don't double post.