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Holy smokes!

I check Haunted House Ratings today at http://www.hauntedhouseratings.com

My Yard Haunt (A Walk Through Bedlam www.walkthroughbedlam.com)is listed as 3rd best in Georgia!!! This...

I just put a bunch in large carboard boxes.

One of the boxes I use I got when I changed out a toilet in my house. The other when I bought a steam cleaner.

That keeps them pretty safe being...

Here is our Haunt Plan for this year. What do you think?

Room 1: Introduction Room
• Setup: A chair sits in the corner with mangled bodies and or dolls around. The guide sits reading from a...

Put it on about a 45 degree angle place on some chains and you have a torture wheel.

Can even put someone in a harness on it 'held' by the chains.

I am running my home haunt on Halloween Night so we could not do it that night. Though I bet you may get more people listening to you.

Here is another new article. We were on a local monring...

This year at our haunt we decided to try to drive more people to my home haunt by going out Halloween Scare-o-ling! We have made it into the news.
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This is too true, I now have a 10x14 shed almost full of nothing but Halloween stuff.
I have enough costuming to run a pro haunt probably. hahahaha

I was looking up zip lines and ran across this, which may help.

http://www.studiotekfx.com/shockdrop.html

Due to saftey you cannot really drop people, and unless you have a multi story house with an elevator the whole dropping part cannot be done with real movement.

The idea of the window with the...

How was everybodies attendance this year.

In the town I live in, everything was half... for yard haunts and the big haunts in town. Trick or treating went to next to nill.

The reason for it...

Becareful with dry ice.

If the ratio of water to dry ice gets too low (aka you put in too much dry ice) the water will freezer solid and stop the fog production. To ensure this does not happen...

What company do you guys recommend for insurance?

I need cheap insurance, since I am doing it all for charity, and have a budget of $0.00 so it is all coming out of my pocket.

Please list the...

I need them flexible, so the great stuff idea won't work sad to say.

In the past I have made them out of paper towels twisted up tea stained then covered in mold making compound covered in fake...

Personally, I like going to other haunts to learn.

You can learn what works and more importantly what does NOT work.

For instance you may think that in a scene when someone gets hacked up if...

make sure you can start the chainsaw in one pull. Practice this until you can.
Plus know how the kill switch works and were it is so you can find it with your eyes closed.

A chainsaw in good...

I am looking for an inexpensive way to make A LOT of guts. We want to reproduce the scene from Seven where they guy was nailed to the wall and his intestines were drapped all around him nailed to...

does anybody know the URLs to these two new insurance companies?

I am looking for one to cover my haunted yard/fundraiser for Make A Wish Foundation.

If anybody knows a good insurance company...

I need to make a lot of them.

We are wanting to reproduce the scene from Seven where the guy had his guts nailed to the wall to make them look like wings.

Any suggestions on how to make a lot...

Make-up Make-up Make-up!

Instead of masks, get someone who can do makeup...

clown makeup is not too hard, and if you mess it up, that is what you need, crazy evil looking clown makeup!

Do a...

Mortallus Inc. had some really good ideas and points.

Though I would strike one of them:
-Go to Home Depot and buy tiki torches. Spray paint them black, and line your driveway.

Open flame and...

Thanks for the advice... yeah we are not charging, just accepting donations. So hopefully when I got to the city they will say, "no the person on the phone told you wrong you do nto need a license"...

Your sign says you are only open from 6-9pm on halloween...

Do you have low traffic there? Just curious why only till 9pm?

I saw just post a sign that says "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."

Then when he shows up in line tell him, nope you may not go through we have had complaints on you in the past.

I am doing it for Make A Wish

I just spoke with the city, and they want me to have a business license, but I can get one free since it is for a non-profit...

argh