Halloween Room Themes and Scenes
If you are doing a house party, it makes sense to organize rooms around themes or to feature scenes within them.  If you've ever been to a party where the docorations are just sort of randomly put out, it just doesn't work cohesively together.
Even though we just have an assortment of decorations, we've found oursives moving increasingly in this direction.  For example, all the spider decorations and webs and whatnot have ended up in the kitchen, sometimes to the point that they exclude all else... which is a good thing, really.  The bathroom started out as a crime scene, but then we started adding crime scene photos on top of that as well.
Haunted mansion: dust covers on furniture, old family portraits, candleabras, cobwebs, dust

Crime scene: police tape, body outline on floor, blood splatter, knife or saw (i.e., murder weapon)

Exorcism: demon girl in floating bed, pea soup, bible, crosses (or rosaries), and holy water

Ancient Egypt: mummy, sarcophagus, heiroglyphs, etc.

Frankenstein's lab: jars of body parts, test tubes and beakers with dry ice, Jacob's ladder, knife switches

Pirate ship: treasure chest, skeletal pirates, telescope, nautical navigation instruments, ship's wheel, rope

UFO: grey aliens, computers, blinking lights (xmas lights work), computer screens (black lights are good too)

Retro sci-fi: '50s ray guns, astronauts, vinyl suits, robots

Graveyard: decomposed bodies, gravestones/crypt, shovel(s), dead flowers

Execution: electric chair, noose/gallows, rack, chains, executioner's hood/costume, giant axe, guillotine

Dracula's castle: vampire's coffin, bats, goblets of blood, cobwebs, fog, candleabras, castle paper (i.e., faux bricks)

Hell: Satan, demons, snakes, fire and flames

Living dead: zombies, chemical barrels with harazdous waste/biohazard signs

Witches: cauldron, children in cages, black cats, brooms,

Pumpkin patch: carved jack-o-lanterns, scarecrows

Kingdom of the spiders: webs, coocconed flies and other things

Carnival/side show: freaks (bearded lady, lobster man), forture teller with crystal ball

Dungeon/torture chamber (à la Hellraiser): Chains, rack, whips, castle paper (i.e., faux bricks)

Odds are you already have some props to put together the beginnings of at least a few of these scenes.  If this helps organize your thinking about what to turn a room into, then you now have shopping list to tell you what you need in order to finish it off.
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