Halloween decoration inspired by movies and TV

If a living dead man with a pale face and bloody clothes knocks on your door, you run. Unless it happens in the next week or so! The zombie apocalypse has not yet arrived, you can let your guest through. But you need to make sure your home is up to the job of receiving them on the scariest day of the year.

Halloween is just around the corner and pumpkins, skeletons or cobwebs no longer scare even the most naive of children. So, we are going to give you some ideas to decorate your home in a more original way, inspired by some famous movies and series. 

The night of the dead in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

The holidays of Halloween and Christmas come together in this animated film by Tim Burton. If you want to recreate the world of Jack Skellington on the night of the dead, turn your house into a "real" graveyard, with handmade tombstones, skeletons or bones. You can even make Jack, the protagonist of the film, out of papier-mâché, paint, and fabric for his clothing. Pumpkins are a must, and if you are up to the challenge, carving them is the best option to turn your home into the Nightmare Before Christmas.

Make Jack Skellington your centrepiece this Halloween Bild aus „Nightmare Before Christmas“

The gloomy house of 'The Addams Family'

If you are not lucky enough to own a haunted house, you can recreate the iconic one from the Addams family series or movies. To achieve this, it is important that there is little light: light your home with candles or table lamps at most. The furniture should look antique , so if you don't have dark wood dressers, wicker chairs, or chandeliers, you can fill the house with vases full of faded flowers, black-and-white photos, and porcelain dolls.

For added realism, get each member of the family to dress up as one of the Addams. Cousin Itt can't be absent either, so one of you will have to wear a long brown wig or a pile of straw to recreate the hairiest member of the family! 

Which family member will you dress up as? Bild aus der Serie „Addams Family“

The coffins from the Dracula movies

There was a time when vampires were the most feared beings in horror: lurking in the dead of night to feed on your blood. To recreate the house of 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker or other films inspired by the world'smost famous vampire, lay out your older furniture, cover all the mirrors, and light the house with candles, chandeliers and red lights.

Also, if you have a large wooden box, paint it black to imitate the coffin. You could also turn one of the rooms into a safe space with garlic, crosses, stakes and lots of bottles of holy water in case one of your guests tries to bite you. 

You can't go wrong with a Dracula themed Halloween Creative commons

The chaos of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'

If the most boring moment of your day is cleaning the kitchen, you now have an excuse not to tidy up on Halloween: let it wreak havoc in your house. Take out all your cutlery and tools and spread them around the rooms. If children are coming home, do not use household utensils, but fake knives. Cover the furniture with plastic and stain everything with red paint to simulate the appearance of blood. Remember that the weapon used by Leatherface, the villain in the movie, is a chainsaw. Of corse we're not saying you leave a chainsaw lying around: make it out of cardboard instead!

Go full horror with a chainsaw massacre themed Halloween Bild aus „Blutgericht in Texas“

The darker side of Hogwarts

We know, the Harry Potter movies are not scary. In fact, the world of the young wizard created by JK Rowling is an ideal dream for most children. However, the school of magic and sorcery also harbors its own horrors. Let's not forget Harry facing the Dementors or fighting the Basilisk. To recreate the Hogwarts Great Hall in your home, follow this tutorial: with toilet paper rolls, white paint, threads and a few lights, you can pretend that you have real floating candles. In addition, you can also hang a few pumpkins from the ceiling too.

With DIY floting candles you can feel like you're in Hogwarts Bild aus „Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen“

'It' has returned

Pennywise, the creepiest clown in cinema, has returned to the popular conscience after many years, since his return to cinemas. And your Halloween will be a success if you decorate your house like a circus of horrors. The clown usually carries a characteristic red balloon with which he attracts his victims, so the first step will be to fill the house with balloons.

You can use red and white striped wallpaper for the walls or hang red and white striped curtains to look like the inside of a circus tent. And of course, put clown masks and scary dolls everywhere. 

Clowns really are not funny Creative commons

The zombies of 'The Walking Dead'

Place wooden boards or cardboard strips on doors and windows to block out the zombies. You must warn whoever enters your home of the dangers it contains, so, decorate some part of the house with the now iconic “Don't open. Dead inside”.

And it is important that you dress yourself as a walker: with old and torn clothes, a white and haggard face, and blood stains all over your body, you can scare any child who comes to your door asking for candy. 

What does "don't dead, open inside" mean? Bild aus der Serie „The Walking Dead“

The lights from 'Stranger Things'

'Stranger Things', the fiction that takes viewers back to the eighties, could not be missing from this compilation. To recreate the most famous scenes, put up a huge sheet of paper with the letters of the alphabet painted on it and hang colored lights like in Joyce Byers' living room. If you have an old and rickety chair, so much the better. Place it against the wall, below the painted letters.  

"What should I do?" Bild aus „Stranger Things“

The room of 'The Exorcist'

Do you have a bed with a large wooden headboard? Well, change the sheets for white ones and turn on only the lamp. The most important thing to make your house feel like something from 'The Exorcist' is that you participate, so paint your face in a sinister way (with white paint to highlight the paleness and fake blood on the cheeks and the corner of the lips) to make it look like you've been possessed by the devil himself.

If only you could swivel you head: it would really add to the effect Bild aus „Exorzist“

A house in the Hitchcock style

Buy a lot of black birds that you can stick down, and place them around the house to make your own tribute to 'The Birds', the famous Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Tippi Hedren. It is especially important that you place some birds on top of the lamps to get their shadows to be projected on the wall or ceiling. Thus, you will be able to create the tense atmosphere of the film that managed to make everyone fear these animals. 

If this doesn't make your guests shudder, they probably haven't seen the film Bild aus „Die Vögel“