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(More customer reviews)This book seems targeted at someone that is planning to help build a medium scale haunted house for a charity event. It does this very well, describing the essence of what is scary and why, as well as all the steps required to create a safe and profitable haunted house on schedule. The author focuses on how to do first rate effects on a third rate budget though the use of innovation and imagination (and most importantly, his experience, which he shares with you). Most haunted houses are just stupid, because the designers build something that sounds like it would be scary, but does not really scare people. This author understands that people going to a haunted house want to be scared and he describes the essence of the subtle differences that transform an effect from eliciting a yawn to invoking a scream.
I have been building haunted scenes in my home for (gulp) thirty years and have produced medium scale haunted houses for charities, but I still learned a number of things from this book. The books includes plans, instructions, parts, and suppliers. The author (I learned after reading the book) builds 'low' cost scary effects where are superior in scare and lowest in cost, of any I have seen. The book does not quite give enough specific information to build these for yourself, but it does cover a lot of other stuff. If you spend more then $150/year of scary stuff then you qualify as a Halloween nut and you should buy this book.
This book isn't (alas) for everyone. This is for true Halloween enthusiasts willing to spend tens of hours, days, or even months preparing for a scary event. If you want tips for making your home a hallmark Halloween showcase, this is not the book for you.
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All aspects of the successful haunted house are covered here. There is good information on site selection, design, security, budgeting, and volunteer management. This is followed by detailed, illustrated descriptions of inexpensive illusions for your haunted house. Floor plans, advertising flyers and design worksheets are some of the sample materials included.
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