Converting your home
or front yard into a place of Halloween
dread can be a difficult and expensive ordeal. Check out our articles on Special Effect
and Prop plans you can make and use.
Dark Decorations
Create your own creepy decorations for Halloween night.
Hardcopy Showcase
Reviews of Halloween
related videos, books, zines and music.
Tricks and Treats
Check out our growing
cookbook of Halloween
recipes.
GIANT SPIDER WEB
Itsy bitsy spider, Not!
Without a doubt most people are afraid of
spiders and their sticky webs. For your Halloween haunt or party, a well made and
positioned spider web will terrify your visitors. Below is how we created our giant web
and scared a lot of people.
GIANT
SPIDER WEB The Spooky Hallow company makes a 10 foot
by 10 foot web made of black rope (distributed by Jo-Ann Fabric Stores). This thing is huge and
the price was great at only ten dollars. The location for the web has to be large
enough to accommodate the size of the web stretched out, but it also needs to be located
where Trick or Treaters will have to pass by or underneath it. Black cord can be used to
tie off all of the ends of the web to your house, carport, garage, trees, etc.
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FLUORESCENT
SPRAY We wanted our web to glow menacingly
under a black light. With some searching and experimentation we
found a product that works very well.
Black Light Hair Spray from Fun World
sprayed over the front surface of the web really shows up under the black light. We found
that spraying the web in the dark with the black light on works the best. You'll need two
cans. This product can be found just about everywhere during the Halloween season.
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LARGE
SPIDER What would a spider web be without a
big, scary spider hanging in it, poised to attack anyone that dare
to approach! Spiders of various styles and sizes can be found at many
retailers during the Halloween season. For only five dollars we picked a
huge two foot by two foot spider at Big Lots, a dollar store chain.
The
spider can easily be attached to the web using either black twist-ties or string.
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BLACK
LIGHT Use a four foot black light or a couple
of two foot black lights like those from Light F/X to illuminate the fluorescent paint on
web. You will want to position the black light unit so the it's light is directed onto the
surface of the web, but where your visitors cannot see the black light unit its self.
Conceal the cord both for safety and effect.
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COB WEB
SPINNER (optional)
As a final touch to this creepy effect,
we like to highlight our spiders web with small spun-on cob webs using our cob-web
shooter. If you own or have access to a cob web spinner this will add to the overall
effect and raise the fright level. Don't over do it though, just a light frosting of thin
webs is all it needs. For more information on Cob Web Spinners check out the contents page
for the
Special FX & Props section.
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Unfortunately, we don't have a
picture of the finished product. Things illuminated with a black light
and digital camera use
don't mix every well. The camera just can't take a good picture in complete darkness with only
fluorescent light. But you can visualize what a
creepy effect this is if you dare!
