Last year on the day after Halloween I picked up a Home Accents 6 Ft. Animated Lab Monster animated prop for under $20. The creature sat in my garage for 11 months until I finally broke him out a few weeks ago to get him ready for Halloween 2017. For $20 I really…
Category: Making Bad Props Scary
Making a Bad Halloween Prop Scary: CVS Headless Horseman
A few years ago I picked up a Headless Horseman Halloween prop from CVS the day after Halloween. It’s supposed to move and talk but something happened to it and it doesn’t work. I paid $15 for it after it was reduced when the store was in a hurry to liquidate their unsold…
Making a Bad Halloween Prop Scary: Home Depot Butler
Last year I was walking through my local Home Depot on the day after Halloween checking out all the discounted merchandise when I stumbled across a 6′ Animated Standing Butler Holding a Candy Tray. The manager had marked him down to $20 to get rid of the prop to make room for some…
Making a Bad Halloween Prop Scary: Home Accents Angel of Death
Last year I picked up a Home Accents Angel of Death from Home Depot on the day after Halloween. The manager at Home Depot was eager to get rid of the leftover Halloween items to make room for all the new Christmas stuff he had in his backroom. For fifteen bucks I got…
Making a Bad Halloween Prop Scary: Home Depot Zombie
I love to go to big box retail stores the day after Halloween to look for deals. Last year I picked up the 72 in. Standing Zombie with Halloween Sound Effects at Home Depot the day after Halloween. The original retail price was $99.98. Home Depot had marked him down half price a…
Making a Bad Halloween Prop Scary: eBay Clown
Last summer I was trying to find some cool animated props to bring my Clown Tent to life. I looked online and found some really cool props. The problem was I had a budget and had burned through most of it when I bought some of the new 2016 props from Spirit Halloween….
Making a Bad Halloween Prop Scary: The Twitching Zombie
Waiting until the day after Halloween to buy discounted props is always a crap shoot. Most of the stuff is picked over and the good stuff is gone. Also, a line forms before the store opens and usually the store opens at a different time than it did before Halloween so you don’t…
Making a Bad Halloween Prop Scary: The Zombie
Two years ago on the day after Halloween I was walking around a CVS seeing what kinds of things that had marked down after the holiday. I found a cheesy Animated Vampire Skeleton for 20 bucks and thought at that price it would foolish not to get him. I knew I would never…
Making Bad Halloween Props Scary: Pigman
Every now and then you come across a prop online that is truly terrifying. Last summer I came across the 6′ Man Eater Zombie Prop on eBay and I wondered how on earth this really scary prop could be available for $60. This is the image from the prop that I bought on…
