Tag: halloween

This year we ventured deep into the bayou for a cursed voodoo shrine.

Just a normal looking castle on a suburban street in Essex on Halloween night… what could go wrong? .. oh.

Horror… in SPAAAAAAACE

We created a toxic ooze factory theme this time, and by handing out Chromadepth glasses to the kids all the crazy colours we used appeared to go a bit loopy in 3D depth. It took us months to paint all the scenic and props, and LOTS of luminous paint. Our garage was left looking a bit weird.

The whole thing was an intense impact on the sense, with industrial alarms going of, a ton of strobe lights and disorientating 3D effects. Fun for all!

We also collected for Cancer Research this year and found everybody really keen to donate, so a huge thank you for everybody who came along and dug deep.

This year we got spooky, and creepy, and witchy, and then had a massive skeleton head jump scare at the end.

As is always the case, we decided to up our game a bit for the Trick or Treaters this Halloween so we built a proper haunted house walk through maze in the front garden. I doubt any of the kids got the story of a journey through an old haunted mansion, out through the graveyard, a brief encounter with the ghostly family that haunt the place, and then into the secret hidden dungeon out the back (watch out for the mad monk!), but they seemed to enjoy it anyway. Except for the kids that either ran away or burst into tears – the sign of a job well done right?.
Halloween seems to have become a bit of a thing in our town of Collier Row, with families driving from all over to wander the streets in costumes looking for the many houses that make a real effort, and even build small haunts like ours. We had over 400 kids come through our doors alone.
Now… what to do next year?








A few more photos here.

 
We upped our game a bit for this year’s Halloween Trick-or-Treaters. We put a canopy over the whole front garden which allowed us to create a spookier atmosphere with some new lighting and projection effects, added a load of new props and Dad parked the car on a Zombie.
 
People seemed to be really getting into it this year with packs of kids roaming the streets all in great costumes and lots of other houses in the neighbourhood putting on little haunts and effects. It actually felt like that scene from E.T. that I always wanted Halloween to feel like.
 
By counting the sweets mum gave out, we must have seen 340 kids, and at least 3 of them left in tears… our work here is done.

 

This Halloween we threw together a quick home haunt for the local trick or treating kids… there may have been a few nightmares.

 

Here’s some photos, with a few shots of the competition as well, we’re actually starting to get a little bit of a Halloween scene going on in our neighbourhood!