Scary Halloween Music, Sound Effects

The sound effects you use for your Halloween home haunt will be just as important as the lighting effects. Sound sets atmosphere and you will want to have your sound effects and scary Halloween music to match your home haunt.
Unless you have a sophisticated computer sound setup, you will probably want to use little battery operated stereos in the different locations that you need sound. Hide the stereo in a strategic location, such as beneath a table that is covered with a cloth, behind a large prop, etc.
You can either buy the sound effects that you need or make your own. Each area will have different types of sound that will be needed. For example, in the cemetery you will want tolling funeral bells, moaning ghosts, etc. In your alien room you’ll want blips, beeps and high technology type sounds.
I usually have a parlor where the guests enter; here I have some scary organ music playing, and one year we made a cave with bats, here we had footsteps, the sound of dripping water, bats, and screams.

How To Make Your Own Tombstone Halloween Props

If you want to really dress up your home for Halloween, you need a graveyard, and every graveyard needs lots of Tombstones. Here is how you can make those Halloween Prop Tombstones yourself.

Halloween Props: Alien Autopsy Room

In one of our home haunt rooms we usually make an alien autopsy room. To begin with I create a frame for the Alien prop, and dress is with a costume. The walls of the room can be left as they are, or you can dress up the walls with sheets of tinfoil that cover the entire surface of the wall.
Lighting effects in the alien autopsy room can include colored lights, as well as a strobe light.

You will need a long folding table for the autopsy table, as well as a body or corpse prop to place on it. For this prop I simply stuffed some clothes with a little newspaper, added some foam insulation in some areas and let it dry, then painted it. You can use a foam head, and mask for the head, cover with a white cloth or sheet in the areas that you don’t want seen.
You’ll want some extra props, such as body parts and blood. This same setup can work for any type of Halloween autopsy room; just replace the alien with a mad scientist or mortician. It is also a good idea to replace the prop with an actor in costume.

Grave Crawler Halloween Prop

Here is a video of a homemade Halloween prop. The animated singing grave crawler would make a great addition to a home haunt.




Another nice prop for the graveyard

Stay Safe Halloween Lighting

Last year there was a major launch of a line of battery operated Halloween lighting products. With fire being such a threat on Halloween this is a great alternative to candles. Home haunters may find some good uses for this type of lighting as fire hazard are a special concern for home haunters.



Some Halloween lighting products