Haunted House 2009 Pics

Some pictures from our Haunted House.

Bite Me

How do you like my Halloween costume? Mask from Amazon.com,overalls from Walmart, pitchfork from garage sale.

My Son's Sign

My 8 year old son made this sign all by himself. Very creative of him.

Outhouse

Here's the outhouse for the haunted house. It is designed to be portable (several sections assembled with bolts). It will be near the entrance and guests will have to walk through it- the back is open and has burlap streamers.

Moonshine Still

Here is the moonshine still that I made for our haunted house. The rusty can is an old gas can, which incidently pours much better than those modern red plastic ones. The cone at the top is just made from posterboard and has a funnel tip coming out of the top. The "copper tubing" is some micro sprinkler line that I painted. The big 5 gallon jug is a loaner from a friend.

Modified Chainsaw

I never got around to buying a fake chainsaw that I could use in my haunted house, so I modified my broken gas chainsaw. First I took the chain off, then I made an extended blade out of black foam core board, painted the teeth silver, then splattered red paint on the side. I used a light construction adhesive to put the fake blade on. For sounds effects, we are pumping some audio clips from a computer into a guitar amp. It can be as loud as a real chainsaw if we want.

The Three Little Pigs

I don't think we need to worry about the big bad wolf coming here.

My Homemade Banjo

I wanted to make a banjo prop for our Hillbilly Halloween Haunt this year. I managed to pull off a decent replica for a minimal cost. Some of the items, I already had on hand. The round part is made from a Christmas cookie tin that I had. I trimmed off some of the height to make the proportions a little more realistic.

The strings are actually electric guitar strings purchased from Target for around $6 or so. The tuning pegs are for an acustic guitar. I ordered them from ebay for $10 for 6. The metal bracket at the end is cut from a spatula/turner, around $4.29. The white dots are puffy stickers from Michaels craft store. The silver metal divider lines are cut from some kind of special coat hanger that someone gave me.

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Zombie Robots

Robots are being developed that can fuel themselves by devouring dead bodies.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532492,00.html?test=latestnews

HHN 2009

In case you have not heard, Universal Orlando has their Halloween Horror Nights 2009 page up. I plan on being there a few nights. This will be my second HHN.

http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/orlando/eventinfo.html

They don't really have any details yet, but I heard something about the SAW movies, which I have not seen. Guess I need to Netfilx them before Oct.

Zombie vs Shark

Who would win in this deadly faceoff?
See for yourself in this YouTube Clip!

hello world

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Please hang on...

I just got a new mask that I am planning on using this upcoming Halloween. I showed it to my bro-in-law, who is very much into masks. He liked it, but thought it could use his special touches. I think he did a great job and it turned out quite nice.

In researching the upcoming theme for Halloween 2009, I have stumbled upon an interesting site: http://www.trailerghost.com/

Happy New Year

I haven't blogged much lately.
Starting to think about Halloween 2009.
The theme this year will be something related to Rednecks.