Halloween Fun

Halloween was fun last night. My EL-wire suit worked really nicely. We blacked-in the front porch and replaced the porch light with a blacklight. We had skeletons, skulls, cobwebs and spiders all over the place to decorate it, as well as gravestones and a fog generator in the front garden. The gag was simple: Paula sat inside with the front door open and I hid in the blacked-out section. When the kids came to the door, I turned around, turned on the wire suit and used an upside-down can of compressed air to generate a loud "pssshhh" sound and a blast of cold air.
Brilliant !!!

Our next door neighbour was in his camo suit and jumping out at kids from between his ornamental trees, and our new neighbour Rick across the road had a similar gag - his wife sat outside to lure the kids in and he hid in a camo suit in a bunch of leaves so he could jump up and pull off the scare. Next to him, Sean had his full-on Scream outfit on as well as his compressed-air-powered ghost hooked up to his tree.

It was brilliant - all you could hear all up and down our street was kids screaming and running. We kept hearing parents and minders saying stuff like "we've heard this is a good block" or "do you want to go down there? It's the scariest street in the block." We also heard a lot of people had come in from quite a long way away because they'd heard we did some good scares. Which is good, because most of the streets around us are totally dead.

Here, then, some video of the wire suit. Listen to the audio in the background - you can hear kids screaming and stuff, and right at the end you can hear someone saying "look out for that guy laying there" - he's just seen Rick, across the street.

Next year? I think we're going to go with a huge blacklight dot-room built in the drive ....