Edwards know Halloween parties inside and out. Here’s our favourite tricks, that work a treat (geddit?)
Halloween Lighting/Effects
Lighting and special effects are indispensable for getting ghoulish! Here's some easy ways to send shivers down people's spines:
- Single colour lights inside your house are simple but can create the stuff of nightmares. Alternatively use an outdoor space such as a porch or deck. See photos below.
- Use uplighting to highlight your spooky decorations – skulls, spiders and spectres
- Low lying fog creates atmosphere and makes for great photos – a smoke machine is a must have!
- Use the haze or smoke in walkways and entrance ways too so guests can’t see what comes next – feed the fear!
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| (Images: James Barker/House Logic) |
Projection and Halloween
- Project a ghost onto an obscure/frosted window
- Play a slasher movie in the background
- Use a webcam to make a video of your eyeballs rolling and looking generally evil and project onto the outside of your house
- Set your laptop up with a Halloween app that adds scary filters to people when they look in the camera/webcam. Link your laptop to the projector, point it at a wall and your guests will have hours of fun projecting their freaky faces and spooking people out…
- Mount the projector pointing down to the floor and create some terrifying obstacles – lava pits, boiling acid, bottomless caverns…you can find it all on YouTube!
- Make sure you hide your projector in bushes or under a table or cloth
Sound
Don’t forget the sound effects – spine tingling screams, rattling chains, evil laughs, howling wolves and creaking doors. Make your own or find free resources online and put them on a loop. When the party hots up, switch to music and a bit of strobe lighting and your ghosts and ghouls can start grooving.
Remember you’ll also need a mic to announce the winner of ‘best costume’!
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