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This is the facade for this year's haunt - the first that everyone was truly happy with. We achieved the look of cheesy carnival haunted castle perfectly! The castle walls are black plastic sheets stretched over a wood frame. We masked off the bricks and misted lightly with a paint sprayer to get a textured look. The door has cheap wallpaper on it that looks like wooden boards. The top of the castle is made of strips of plywood cut in the proper castle stone pattern. |
Here is the foyer entrance to the haunted castle. I finally got to use the frightening portraits that I did the year before. You see two of them in this shot along with a 'Haunted Mirror' from Walmart. More portraits to the right out of the shot. |
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One of my multitudes of friends named 'Mike'. He was normally in the Dot Room - this picture of him hanging out in the lab shows how simple his costume is - Garage Sale labels on black clothes. That's it! The labels are only $1.77 for about 500 from Walmart. |
My brother-in-law, who is not named Mike but instead is called Stewart, did a riff on the mad scientist this year. I put the costume together and he made a $20 fog chiller. The Lab itself turned out excellent this year! We let some of the kids in the family hide in the lab table and put their heads through a hole in it to scare people. |
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My own daughter was the mummy this year. She had a great time! |
Another picture of the lab - the walls were marble-ish wallpaper stapled to the wood frame. The table had random lab-like stuff on it with a kid in a mask sticking their head through a hole. |
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Another 'Mike' (from next door) as the skeleton this year. Everything worked out pretty well here as most people though he was just another cheap skeleton prop until he leaped out at them! You can see the fog chiller pipe exit behind the coffin. Sadly the fogger quit before we did. |
Here's the Dot Room itself. The flash ruins the effect, but you can see the construction easily here. We're still using the PVC pipe framework and we just stuck about a 1000 labels on the walls and a UV circline tube in the middle. People love this effect! The nice thing about a Dot Room is that the cheap labels make it dead-easy to do. The UV tube is cheap and everything else is already there. We waited until Halloween day to put on the labels so they stuck great all through the night. |
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Our Dot Room 'Mike' is shown here behind some of our hanging burlap. We really learned this year to divide the maze with hanging stuff. Burlap, cheesecloth webs, vines, black plastic strips - it really keeps people wondering what's coming. |
The haunted mine ....hey, as long as I have a crawlspace - I'm gonna use it for something! |
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Last year's Miner 49'er is this year's scarecrow! His costume is inspired by Dr. Syn. |
Another view. His wife did the witch again this year, but there was so much fog in her area the pictures didn't turn out. |
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Part of the graveyard. The tombstones little pretty good this year and we draped a 'Mucky' skeleton out of Mike's car. |
One of last year's tombstones that's been improved on and one of this year's $3 tombstones. |
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More tombstones and the exit of the haunt behind. |
Okay...I forgot to take a picture of the costume I worked on for months. My Ghost of Redbeard the Pirate costume! Arrr! This place reserved for a photo to come then.
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