By james art A family in Gillingham, Kent, opted for a ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ themed Halloween display featuring handmade and 3D printed characters from the Tim Burton film.
Daughter Lavinia Hedges, 27, told the PA news agency: “There’s always music playing. We have some smoke machine effects. We also have a scent that’s new this year, so you’ll smell like pumpkins. It’s just really magical.
“We work on it for months and months just to get it ready and then set it up.
Mrs Hedges said: “It probably took us about four or five days to get everything set up right and we were there until about two in the morning just to get it done.”
She added that the house decorations – led by mother Nicola – “bring the community together” as people come to see the house as a family tradition.
The family used the home for Halloween to raise money for local charity My Shining Star charity.
A body in a bathtub and fake blood dripping from the walls can be found at a home dubbed ‘The Scariest House in Suffolk’ in Woodbridge.
Laurie Thackeray, 31, told PA that every room in the house was decorated differently, explaining: “The living room looks like a creepy haunted house, the bathroom is a massacre and I’d say the kitchen is like a zombie den.”
The peer support worker explained that people were led through the house in groups of six before being taken into the garden where they would be chased with a chainsaw.
Dad has been decorating the house for Halloween for 10 years and expects more than 200 visitors this year.
Several houses lined up on Elgin Crescent in Notting Hill, west London, ready to welcome fraudsters on All Hallows’ Eve.
One house features a large black skeleton shrouded in a cloak standing over several tombstones, while another is decorated with large skulls surrounded by autumn leaves.
On Mierscourt Road in Rainham, Kent, a house was given a pirate theme, with a large ship covered in pirate flags and skulls situated in the front garden.
Meanwhile, lights illuminate the ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire to mark Halloween.
Visitors to the nightly exhibition at the English Heritage property, which was the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, can also touch the world of Victorian Gothic with the Time Will Tell theater group’s production of If These Stones Could Talk.