I remember when I was young some friends of mine and I would set up haunted houses on Halloween. Usually we'd use the standard stuff, peeled grapes in boxes marked "eyes", men in skelleton suits jumping out at people, big cauldrons of dry Ice, etc. etc. etc.

One Halloween we got together a bit of a budget and went all the way, full fledged dry wall carved into shapes, styrofoam, we even borrowed a fog generator from some friends in the movie industry. Instead of jack-o-landerns we got a few flashlights, put face shaped shades, and set them on a circut board, and hid them, pointing at walls, throughout the place, then set it to randomly power those flashlights so that every once in a while a face would randomly appear on the wall.

Instead of skelleton people, we had sound makers which would come from the shadows. Some of the rooms were seriously disturbing, with sounds coming out of pitch black corners.

The best, however, was the rain of eyes. We spent a bloody day peeling large red grapes, spent nearly $50 on them. Then we would randomly pour them on people who tried to walk out. Of course that only lasted a couple of trips, since we soon ran out of grapes.

The clean up was a serious pain in the ass, but it was worth it.

These days though, I never see these any more. Granted, I don't go trick or treating (Im a little old for it at this point), but those who I talk to agree, there just doesnt seem to be any haunted houses any more.

So what ever happened to these? Are there any cool haunted houses? Is anyone doing anything like this? If so, post pics. ;)