What do you use for haunt lighting?

For our "Halloween House" we used a lot of different lighting techniques. Some picture examples are in the group gallery, but more examples are in my gallery, on my page.

Here are a few of the rooms and descriptions of the lighting used:

Outside we used some strings of cheap old Xmas lights on the fences that kept our guests in line, waiting to get in, a few stratigically places floodlights to highlight the tombstones, and some low wattage incandecent lights inside the curtained windows of our false front facade to produce the effect that there was someone home inside.

The "Greeter" room lighting consisted of a chandelier with flicker bulbs, a single red flood and a blacklight to highlight the Phantom's organ polished brass pipes and a light inside the coffin and a high mounted spotlight on the Greeter when he emerged (controlled by the PLC used for the Greeter animation).

The "Keeper" was highlighted by various low wattage "party bulbs with reflectors in different colors, from different angles, to produce the color on color effects. And LED pupils in his eyeballs to highlight his eyes.

The "Haunted Mirror" effect was lit with one downlight to show off the mirror's ornate frame and one bare blue party bulb to starkly light the side of the demon who appeared through the one-way glass, with a growl and movement, when the switch was thrown.

I have to go now. More rooms later.

Nightmares,

Vctr

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What do you use for haunt lighting?

Was reading the posts & the question kept coming back to me. What do haunters use? Yes, there are the typical blacklights but, what else?

I have a 1,500 sq. ft plus haunted maze that I build each year. It's housed in a domed metal machine shed, 37x82 with double doors at each end.
House lighting consists of 5 incandescent lights overhead.
3 sets of outside side mounted lantern lights (1 lg set, 2 sm sets) with either clear or flicker flame bulbs (clear bulbs dimmed & flicker by lighting fx controller)
antique circular chandlier w/ a dozen flicker flame bulbs
strobes-
4 sm compact
2 lg square
Black lights-
4 lg
5 sm

These are all powered by several 25 ft long heavy duty extension cords.

Haunty

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Lighting at Hazelhurst Manor

Greetings All,

For my yard haunt Hazelhurst Manor I used 12 100watt Par38 colored floods, 1 48" Blacklight, 4 mini strobes and some purple mini lights on the fence. For 2007 I am adding 1 1000watt DMX strobe light, 2 (maybe more)Chauvet Colorsplash Jr LED DMX Par Cans. The Color Splash fixtures are really nice because not only are they low power LEDs, but they can be DMX controlled so they can be almost any color and strobe! I have seen some on Ebay for $35 a piece (I paid $70 a piece for my first two) so I may pick up some more. I am also looking to pickup a 400watt metal halide black light bulb to use in a fixture I have.

The Caretaker
http://www.hazelhurstmanor.com

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In "The Haunted Courtyard"  we use 3 1000 watt strobes, 6-8 blacklights (different sizes ranging from 18" to 48") several spotlights and different styles of lighting depending on where it is inside. 

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Personally, I just like to use clamp lights from Home Depot, like the ones below, because they are cheap, simple, and good at illuminating large areas! I just put colored bulbs in them, and it looks awesome! Then I also add battery candles to add that eerie flickery glow without the hazard of real flames, or hot lightbulbs. It works quite nicely!