Halloween Discussion Forums, Costumes, Horror!

I try to keep the same theme but add on and subtract things and this year I am really trying to up the Anny by getting really cool props and homemade stuff I made. This Year I am doing the Haunted Graveyard scene.

There are so many different things my husband and I want to do, that we change themes.... every year and we alternate who picks which year so we both get our ideas in. Since we've only been together since 2006, that's how far back our themes have gone... eventually, we'll start recycling things... I'd really love to do the witch thing again.... or even use our mad science gurney...

2006 - Witch (I had kinda picked it out before I met him, so it was sorta one-sided)
2007 - Arabian Nights
2008 - Mad Science
2009 - PIRATES! ARRR!
2010 - "Old West" (I have the urge to make an 1860's walking dress with bustle... theme may change, though... if I find something I like better.)

That's really interesting changing the themes, I personally just in particular like the graveyard scene it just give you chills every time I think about it.

We haven't always been able to do a full on yard haunt like we want because for the past 6 years we've been renters with tiny yards. Hopefully that will change very soon. =)

Because of that, I always go overboard inside. Last year was probably my favorite and I'm not sure if we had a theme overall but each room of our house was decorated differently. Our living/dining room was a haunted forest with leaves, branches, a cave and a fog machine. Our kitchen was a witch's kitchen with potion bottles, poison apples, glow in the dark spells written on blacked out cabinets. Our guest bathroom was a total bloodbath murder scene. I had a dead body in the tub with a strobe light, bloody towels and walls, knives hanging from the ceiling and red lights. (We had to allow a couple friends to use our main bathroom during our party because the overall effect was so gruesome). Our backyard was a small cemetary with a big bonfire and we all carved pumpkins on the back deck. Hopefully our next place will allow us to do more outside stuff! =(

Let's see... I usually change themes each year but as much as possible I pull stuff from previous ones and recycle them into the new theme. Pretty soon I'll probably reuse one or more of the theme's I've done. Usually the theme is part of the decorating and the annual Halloween party. So far this is what I've done:
- Heaven, Hell, & Purgatory
- Mad Scientist
- Graveyard
- Pirates
- Prom Night (i.e. horror movie prom nights and zombies)

A haunted house with the family cemetery next to it.

I have three different yard themes going on this year scary Jack O' Lantern Patch Graveyard with Ghosts and a Giant Spiders Nest with a dozen or so giant spiders and the inside of my house has a sorta vampire theme with a few other things going on

this year i'm going with the beefed up serial killer theme, sort of like what zombie did to michael.. it should be epic

pumpkin is the classic halloween theme for me.

as far as my yard haunt goes. on one side i'm building this massive grave yard thats complete with an assortment of foggers and lights.. on the porch i have an animetronic michael myers coming to where i'll build a slaughter scene with him also in my immediate front yard i always place what some may say TOO MANY jack 0 lanterns but i say you can never have TOO MANY!!! lol plus other decor through out my other sides of the house and yard hahaha i have pretty big open space to use..

We've never really had a paticular theme either. My house was built in 1903 so needless to say it doesn't need much for he "creep-factor" and it helps that our driveway is about 150 feet long and in a forest so I have the perfect setting for some pretty awesome halloween stuff.

The sad part is, hallloween here isn't nearly as good as it used to be here. Ten years ago every house and store was decorated and it wasn't rare to have over 150 TOTers (keep in mind I live in a town of under a thousand people and we all own big acreages). Once my cousin opened up the local "Candy Walk and Haunted House plus Fireworks" in the center of town, the numbers dropped and last year we had NO TOTers So unfortunatly it's not worth going to weeks of trouble to have a huge yard haunt like we used to.

Anyways on a better note, I do always put effort in to make Halloween fun I always line pumpkins down our driveway, up our sidewalk along with wooden gravestones, and up to the house. Then on our front porch, I always had dried crunchy leaves on the floor and other odds and end decorations...oh and I can't forget the ton of fake spiderweb