2011 Haunted House with help from instructables posters

Halloween is our favorite time of the year, we are already planning for our 2012 Haunt ! We begin the actual build of our Haunted House in September, a couple of hours each night and a lot of long weekends and fast food meals later we get the thrill of scaring hordes of people. We started over 15years ago when my kids felt they were to old to trick or treat, so we had a party for the teens and they came out to scare the trick or treaters. Each year after that we added more and more props, adding portable carports to enlarge our fun areas until this year where we have somewhere around 3000 square feet and 20+ actors.

A lot of this years Haunt was built with used privacy fence for walls and roofing (a green haunt!) and of course my piles of possibilium, the rest is built from carports and plastic like you can see in my previous haunted house posts.

 Throughout this "ible" I will refer to halls and tunnels, in this case the two words are interchangeable.

Step 1 The entrance

BEHOLD the Portal ! You may have seen my Wall teaser "ible" if not here's the link, http://www.instructables.com/id/halloween-wall-teaser/ , the finished piece is blacklight reactive and looks eerie when lit. The drawbridge/portal gate is a prop originally inspired by another "ible", over the years we used a battery powered winch but this year we recycled an old garage door opener and it works FANTASTIC. In front of the gates sits my "throne"  an electric chair my son and his father in law built several years ago, my book of the undead stands next to me on a podium, which does double duty through the year as an easel in my studio. The flying vampire is a life size barbie I found several years ago on the curb

Comments

[hauntedworkshop]

That looks amazing! I love it. If I had the property and resources, I'd love to build one half as cool as that. I had a small display set up. Nothing like I wanted (because of the 19 inches of snow!), but I still got some trick-or-treaters that loved it. I have had a lawnmower man running over a bloody pair of legs on my front lawn for the past few Halloweens. This year he was using a snow blower.
Thanks for sharing this amazing haunt! I have more inspiration for next year now.

[l8nite]

Thank you for commenting, we had a great time, all 4 nights was packed with screaming people. We're fortunate that our yard lends itself so well to a full yard Haunt but you have to realize we started out with a small front yard setup 15 years ago or so and its grown (some say out of control) to what we did this year. Haunting can be very addictive, we had 4 virgins this year who caught the bug and will be back next year !

[C1hrisin123]

Im just like that im on my 4th year (this year) It started off as a simple porch decoration then Whole front gargen scare zone then a full horror maze. this year I plan for it to be bigger, better and more extreme. Like yours!

[ChrysN]

It looks amazing!