Haunted House Decorating Ideas

Place skeletons skulls on the fence posts and create a grim entrance with a black reaper to greet guests. Once guests enter through your graveyard, decorate the room of your haunted house. Each room could have a different theme.

Here are some of our favorite haunted house decorating ideas for rooms at your Halloween Party:

• Scary Halloween Themes, including Zombies
• Scary Movie-Based Themes
• Scary Halloween Party Ideas, Scary Clowns and More
• Murder Mystery Theme
• Rats, Rodents, Roaches, Run!
• Purchase Halloween Costumes and Props
• Some of Our Favorite Haunted House Props
• Build a Haunted House
• Haunted House Ideas

Scary Movie Theme Halloween Themed Room

Select the scariest/funniest parts of the movie and decorate around that idea.

For example, in "Psycho", there's a famous murder scene that takes place in the shower. (Almost every scary movie seems to have this scene). Hang shower curtains with a few red paint splotches on them around the room.

Animated figures, animated props, or animatronics, create an element of surprise that's perfect for your scary movie Halloween theme.

These props pop-up, lift grave stones, and talk or moan at spontaneous times. Animated figures can be simple, like a flying bat, or very dramatic, such as a life-sized psycho granny. They're sure to get a flinching reaction!

Smaller animatronics aren't that expensive. Here are some other great animated props we've found that have been a big success at Halloween parties:

• for $99.99.
• for $9.99.
• for $39.99.

Play the music from the movie or have the movie playing on your television. And for really scary haunted house decorations, you can't get any creepier than the Bloody Weapons Garland we've found! Yikes! It's too creepy to show the picture! If you want to build a haunted house in your home, include this garland in the bathroom ... no one with be in there too long!

Haunted House Decorating Ideas: Murder Mystery Decorations

Start by putting around the door. You can also use tape on your floor to create a "chalk" outline of a body.

Drape your table in a . Place various "murder" weapons around the room.

Create the mysterious feel with a Skull Candelabra Prop. This candelabra comes with the light up candles and gets rave reviews. Everyone who doesn't get two of these wishes they did!

We've also found a similar less elaborate, less expensive 3 Skull Gothic Candelabra that you might prefer.

Finally, a little scary music in the background with an occasional scream thrown in really sets the mood! For other great murder mystery theme ideas including games and a murder mystery dinner menu, visit the mystery games pages.

Rats, Rodents, Roaches, Run!

What could be more gross than a room of rodents and other creepy critters?! It's a simple idea that'll make your guests' skin crawl! It's also very easy to do for a home Halloween haunted house or party, because it quite inexpensive.

Place your rats everywhere. You can even blend these repulsive rodents into your Halloween party snacks by creating dirty rat cupcakes!

If you have skulls, monsters, zombies or other room decorations, work the rats into that decoration. This works particularly well with a skeleton or skull Take any vacant orifice -- an eye, nose, ear -- and make it a dwelling place for a rat or any creepy crawler.

Display rats, roaches and spiders in a large cobwebs and create spider egg sacks for that extra creepy feel. We found a skeleton spider that's perfect for this idea!

For even more haunted house decorating ideas visit the build a haunted house page.

Top Picks For Haunted House Decorations

Here are some of our favorite haunted house decorating ideas. You'll find more on the build a haunted house page and on several other Halloween pages on the site.

Don't stop here. We have more Halloween decorating ideas for every room of the house!.

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