Read This Before You Build Your Haunted House

Read This Before You Build Your Haunted House

Lighting and atmosphere is absolutely everything when it comes to crafting a memorable haunt experience. On the other hand, one of the most important details can also be the absence of light. Think about it - How scared will your guests be if everything is in plain sight with 100 watt bulbs beaming across every crevice? Designing your lighting in such a way to allows shadows that invoke mystery and curiosity is vital for producing the desired results: anticipation. fear. shock.

Here are some tips for lighting in your haunt.

Black Light

One of the most common lighting effects in haunted houses is the use of traditional black lights. These are lights that appear purple and throw a spooky sheen over everything in the room. They are also great for making fluorescents really pop! The "black" light is created via ultraviolet or infrared radiation, invisible to the human eye. Black lights can be found in a wide range of forms from light bulbs to tubes, and event huge wall panels.

Strobes

Another common practice is the use of strobe lights. These are lights that blink rapidly to create equal increments of both light and complete darkness in the viewer's eyes. It creates a slow-motion visual effect on everything in the room, and helps to disorient your guests and add to the fright of it all.

Spotlights

A spotlight is a large, bright light shining directly toward something that you want your guests to focus on, OR aimed directly at your guests, with no other lights on. This allows you to take focus away from whatever is happening in the darkness or shadows surrounding them. Just be sure to use lamps that won’t damage your guests’ eyes.

Red Light

Lighting carefully crafted with dark red hues will add an air of ominousness to your haunt, especially if the room is flooded completely with red, and absent of any other color. It makes your guests think of blood, as in a blood soaked room. SPOOKY.

String Lights/Festoons

Depending on the theme of the room, you may choose to use string lights or festoons for decor. Often these are programmable to a wide variety of colors and patterns to coincide with the mood of your design.

LED Lights

LED HEX bars and pars are great for uplighting and adding chilling color splashes to the rooms in your haunt. Programmable and linkable, you can flawlessly integrate these systems for absolute synchronicity in your entire production!

Can’t commit to buying the fixtures listed above? Why not rent!

We hope you’ve got some great insight now on how you’re lighting your haunted house or trail/maze this year; be sure you share your ideas and inspirations with us on Facebook!

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