Haunted Houses

Hi everyone,

Would those of you who are lucky enough to live in the US & are able to celebrate halloween to it's fullest please tell me about the haunted houses that I've heard some of you saying that you have got work at for this halloween. Are these just regular houses just decorated up for halloween or are they places of business that promote themselves as haunted all year round? I've never been to the US so I really have no idea. I remember Brian & Nick Wolfe saying they work at a haunted house too. Also if it's not too much to ask does anyone have any pics please.

Haunted houses in Canada are typically outdoors and banquet halls. Most of the amuzement parks totally transform the parks for Halloween. Some people actually decorate their houses on the outside. They look amazing. We walk the neighbourhood and look for houses that are decorated. I will try and get some pics for you.
The typical haunted houses in banquet halls or outside are transformed into a haunted nightmare for Halloween only. They hire people to dress up as creepy clowns, Horror movie characters and zombies. They hide in and around the areas. They jump out with pretend chainsaws, bloody knives, hatchets etc. and scare the heck outta you. Some places really do an amazing job. Those places will charge an entry fee or donation.
If and when we go this year, I will take pictures and send them to you. Maybe even try to get some videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1cOFrnQO1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guVGPiBYU-4&feature=channel

The one I am working at is set-up in an auditorium in a park pavilion. They build walls, etc. decorate, and create a "path" that the paying customers walk through and monsters and creatures populate the place scaring them. Lots of special lighting, scary music, howling, etc.

It is done every year and is a HUGE event. It is only held the one Saturday before Halloween as part of a citywide Halloween event. The Downown Association sponsors a Halloween walk, the kids walk through downtown starting at the Co-op and go trick or treating in their costumes to all the merchants, the walk ends at the Park where the haunted house is, as well as all sorts of family activities.

I did sfx make-up for the haunters last year (as a favour for my friend who was organizing it.) This year the park has hired me (full rate.)

glitterfly wrote:Haunted houses in Canada are typically outdoors and banquet halls. Most of the amuzement parks totally transform the parks for Halloween. Some people actually decorate their houses on the outside. They look amazing. We walk the neighbourhood and look for houses that are decorated. I will try and get some pics for you.
The typical haunted houses in banquet halls or outside are transformed into a haunted nightmare for Halloween only. They hire people to dress up as creepy clowns, Horror movie characters and zombies. They hide in and around the areas. They jump out with pretend chainsaws, bloody knives, hatchets etc. and scare the heck outta you. Some places really do an amazing job. Those places will charge an entry fee or donation.
If and when we go this year, I will take pictures and send them to you. Maybe even try to get some videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1cOFrnQO1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guVGPiBYU-4&feature=channel

Glitterfly you are so awesome, thanks so much for adding the links. I've just watched them & OMG it looks so much fun. I'm sure if I ever got to go I'd be a BIG SCREAMER & really get into the atmosphere.
If you do go (lucky you) I would so love to see some pics/vid's. That would be so cool. I wish we celebrated like that here


And Shannon thank you so much for sharing your info & how lucky you are also being involved & being paid for it. Will you paint/gore yourself up before you go? Have a great time won't you. Thanks again.

I won't be painting in public so no, I won't be painting myself. I will do the cast, the staff, then head home to appointments for the rest of the day - have a latex body painting booked as well as the usual faces, etc. for the clubbers.

Around Halloween a warehouse or closed storefront will be rented out & converted into a maze like set of rooms. They then hire actors & dress them like scary characters from movies or books. The haunted house I'm working at actually has 3 different attractions & is the brain child of a 16 yr old(he's going to have a great college fund). His parents told him if he did the leg work they'd fron the money. It's been going for 2 yrs & rund the entire month of October Thurs-Fri till the 31st.

Mandi go to scarehouse.com.. the wolf brother did a monster makeup class there..great haunted house.. I have worked in one in in wisconsin,, not nearly a good as the bigger cities.. you can also check out the cuttingedge in Ft Worth Texas.. the use an old warehouse for their haunted house.its rated one of the top ten in the us..

Wow Linda, that sounds great.

Thanks Barbb919 I will go & check it out.

Mandi,
I 've got a haunted house party on that night - after my daughters halloween party and another little girls birthday and a private booking for two zombies - I'm trying to get there before 10pm - we'll see how we go......
soooooooo fly over and come with us!

The haunted house I work with is just open through the holiday it is inside and has two different shows...it is in a regular business building that they use. I unfortunately will be outside painting...brrrr.

Wish we had haunted houses over here

Tash wrote:Mandi,
I 've got a haunted house party on that night - after my daughters halloween party and another little girls birthday and a private booking for two zombies - I'm trying to get there before 10pm - we'll see how we go......
soooooooo fly over and come with us!

Oh Tash I would so love to, if my money tree in the back yard was loaded I'd be there in a heart beat. Have the time of your life girl.

Here's the link to my favorite haunt . This is a local amusement park that really does it up right. 3 Haunted houses and a small kids section. All around the park there are characters walking around scaring the life out of people. They also run an Oktoberfest section in the park with live entertainment on their stage including an Ozzy Osburne look-a-like emcee and a Prince impersonator who is fantastic.
http://www.canobie.com/SCREEEMFEST/haunts.htm

My cousin is doing a Haunted Trail for the next 2 weekends and I will be painting there on Friday nights (already booked on Sat/Sun at the corn maze). She's put in a zip line and will have horseback riding, arts and crafts, face painting, food, bonfire, etc. as well as the hay ride through the haunted woods. Can't wait to see how it goes! This is her first year doing it.

I also did not paint when working at the haunted.. my hus band and I had our own room. I did my own make up.. latex the whole nine yard.. I have been doing that type of monster make up to my kids and my self for over 10 years.. I just got into face painting the past few years and love it.. but I do love working in the haunted houses scaring everyone that come thru..