Nightmare Before Christmas and a pirate ship: Families decorate Halloween homes
One family said they had spent ‘months and months’ on their house.
Pumpkins, skeletons and ghosts adorned homes across the UK for Halloween this year, with some families working for “months” to kit out their homes in spooky decor.
One family in Gillingham, Kent, opted for a Nightmare Before Christmas-themed Halloween display, including handmade and 3D-printed characters from the Tim Burton film.
“We’ve been working on it for months and months, just to get it all prepared and then to set up.
She added that the house decorations – led by mum Nicola – “bring the community together” as people come to see the house as a family tradition.
A body in a bath and fake blood dripping from the walls can be found at a home dubbed “Suffolk’s Scariest House” in Woodbridge.
The peer support worker explained that people are led through the house in groups of six before being brought into the garden where they will be chased with a chainsaw.
The dad has been decorating the house for Halloween for 10 years and is expecting more than 200 visitors to the house this year.
Several houses went all out on Elgin Crescent in Notting Hill, west London, ready to welcome trick-or-treaters on All Hallows’ Eve.
On Mierscourt Road in Rainham, Kent, one house went all out with a pirate-themed display, with a large ship covered in pirate flags and skulls sitting in the front garden.
Visitors to the nightly display at the English Heritage property, which was the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, can also experience the world of Victorian gothic with a production of If These Stones Could Talk from the Time Will Tell theatre group.
