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Videos built around the graveyard theme — pulled together so you can study how others bring this atmosphere to life.

404 videos

FGZ1208 Fence Grabber Zombie PoisonProps.com
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DIY Animatronics

FGZ1208 Fence Grabber Zombie PoisonProps.com

The FGZ1208 Fence Grabber Zombie from Poison Props is a commercial-grade pneumatic animatronic featuring a zombie character slumped over a fence that suddenly rises, reaches outward, and turns its head for a powerful startle scare. The unit ships as a complete plug-and-play package including the character, fence, pneumatics, programmed controller, and motion sensor. An optional audio package adds a digital player, powered speaker, and scream effect. Characters are interchangeable across Poison Props mechanisms, allowing theme flexibility.

POISON PROPS· 15,757 views
Creepy Halloween Prop Scenes | Distortions Alien Props, Animated Zombies, Kreepy Kids
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Prop Reviews

Creepy Halloween Prop Scenes | Distortions Alien Props, Animated Zombies, Kreepy Kids

Distortions Unlimited showcases a lineup of their Halloween props arranged in atmospheric scene setups, including Roswell-style alien figures, animated zombie props, graveyard tombstone arrangements, and their signature Kreepy Kids and Monster Kids characters. The video serves as a visual catalog and inspiration reel rather than a tutorial, highlighting the variety and quality of scenes achievable with their product range. With over four decades of American manufacturing behind them, Distortions Unlimited positions these props as suitable for everything from backyard haunts to professional haunted attractions.

DistortionsUnlimited· 15,616 views
I Created The Final Halloween Tombstone Decoration
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DIY PropsIntermediate$30–$70

I Created The Final Halloween Tombstone Decoration

VanOaksProps walks through the complete construction of a final Halloween tombstone, combining insulation foam and MDF to achieve a convincing stone-and-weathered-metal look. The build covers shaping and carving foam details, creating a custom faux metal plaque, and applying a multi-step paint finish that includes a masonry sealer base, hammered copper spray, patina effects, and aging washes. The result is a professional-quality graveyard prop suitable for yard haunts or haunted house displays. A thorough materials list with affiliate links accompanies the tutorial for easy replication.

VanOaksProps· 15,497 views
GBG1302 Ground Breaker Grabber PoisonProps.com
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DIY Animatronics

GBG1302 Ground Breaker Grabber PoisonProps.com

The GBG1302 Ground Breaker Grabber from Poison Props is a plug-and-play pneumatic animatronic designed to simulate a zombie rising from the grave and snatching at guests' ankles. The figure starts slumped, then rises, reaches out, and turns its head side to side when triggered by a built-in motion sensor. An optional audio package adds a digital player, powered speaker, and scream effect for a fully immersive scare. Characters are interchangeable across mechanisms, allowing the prop to be adapted to different haunt themes.

POISON PROPS· 15,388 views
DIY Halloween SFX Optical Illusion Prop & How-To | Two-Faced Bust
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DIY PropsBeginner

DIY Halloween SFX Optical Illusion Prop & How-To | Two-Faced Bust

This tutorial walks viewers through building a Two-Faced Bust Halloween prop that uses a special effects optical illusion to create an eerie, unsettling visual experience. The step-by-step format is designed to be accessible for DIY crafters and home haunters of all skill levels. The finished prop is suited for haunted house displays, graveyard yard haunts, or spooky outdoor decorations. The channel specializes in producing professional-looking Halloween effects using approachable, easy-to-follow instructions.

HALLOWEEN DIY & HOW-TO Props & Special Effects· 15,261 views
Six Flags FRIGHT FEST 2021 Fiesta Texas (New) Monsters & Props!
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Theme Park Halloween Events

Six Flags FRIGHT FEST 2021 Fiesta Texas (New) Monsters & Props!

A walkthrough-style tour of Six Flags Fiesta Texas's Fright Fest 2021 event, highlighting new monsters, props, and seasonal decorations spread throughout the park. The creator strolls the grounds on a Saturday night, capturing scare actors, themed zones like Fear Acres and Hell Valley Cemetery, and candid crowd interactions. The footage offers an on-the-ground feel for the event's atmosphere and scale.

SpookYouLaterz· 15,080 views
DIY Rocking Halloween Tombstone Prop
5:50
DIY AnimatronicsIntermediate

DIY Rocking Halloween Tombstone Prop

VanOaksProps walks through the build process for a motorized rocking tombstone prop suitable for yard haunts and Halloween displays. The project uses a low-RPM motor — with options ranging from a synchronous motor to a higher-torque wiper motor — to create a realistic, continuously rocking grave marker. The tutorial focuses on keeping the mechanism accessible for home haunters while delivering an eye-catching animated effect.

VanOaksProps· 14,909 views
Ghost Town Grave Marker / Wooden Cross for Halloween
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DIY PropsBeginnerunder $20

Ghost Town Grave Marker / Wooden Cross for Halloween

VanOaksProps walks through how to turn a standard 2x4 into a convincingly aged, sun-bleached wooden cross grave marker suited for ghost town or wild west themed haunts. The build relies on a wire wheel, torch, and craft paint to achieve a weathered, distressed look without expensive materials. The result is a low-cost prop that reads well in cemetery or frontier-style display settings.

VanOaksProps· 14,383 views
Part 2 DIY Graveyard Bust Spray Water, Wait 10 Mins! Workshop Secret REVEALED! #sculpture #Loctite
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DIY PropsIntermediate

Part 2 DIY Graveyard Bust Spray Water, Wait 10 Mins! Workshop Secret REVEALED! #sculpture #Loctite

StiltbeastStudios shares a quick workshop tip in this short-form video focused on building a DIY graveyard bust prop. The clip teases a specific spray-water technique and its timed waiting process as a key step in the sculpting workflow. It appears to be the second part of an ongoing series covering this cemetery-themed prop build.

StiltbeastStudios· 14,380 views
Building a Halloween Crypt - Part 4: Adding a Projection Effect feat. AAXA HP3 Projector
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Projection EffectsIntermediate

Building a Halloween Crypt - Part 4: Adding a Projection Effect feat. AAXA HP3 Projector

This fourth and final installment of VanOaksProps' Halloween crypt build series covers the finishing stages of the prop, including painting, brick mortar texturing, and weathering to achieve a realistic stone appearance. The episode's standout addition is the integration of the AAXA HP3 projector to cast a special projection effect onto or within the crypt structure. The video was produced in partnership with AAXA Technologies, who supplied the projector at no cost to the creator.

VanOaksProps· 14,363 views
Coffin Pop Up Halloween Prop
4:58
DIY PropsIntermediate

Coffin Pop Up Halloween Prop

This short Hauntcast video showcases a coffin pop-up prop built largely from reclaimed pallet wood, housing a store-bought skeleton that launches upright to startle guests. The pop-up mechanism draws from a published prop-building reference, and the whole system is tied together with a commercial prop controller and a break beam sensor for hands-free triggering. It's a tidy blend of low-cost materials and off-the-shelf electronics that delivers a reliable interactive scare.

Hauntcast· 14,325 views
Distortions 2020 Halloween Props, Haunt Animatronics, Decorations
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Prop Reviews

Distortions 2020 Halloween Props, Haunt Animatronics, Decorations

Distortions Unlimited previews a selection of their 2020 Halloween product lineup in this short compilation, showcasing animatronics, Frightronics, and decorative props including standout pieces like the Giant Blazing Pumpkin, Demon Rising, and Nosferatu. The video serves as a catalog-style overview rather than a build tutorial, highlighting the range and quality of their commercially manufactured offerings. Distortions Unlimited is a long-established American Halloween manufacturer supplying home haunters, professional haunted attractions, and theme parks alike.

DistortionsUnlimited· 14,323 views
Cemetery Columns Halloween Prop
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DIY PropsIntermediate

Cemetery Columns Halloween Prop

This short build video walks through the construction of decorative cemetery columns for the Village Mire Yard Haunt in South Yarmouth, MA. The columns are built using a simple wood frame of 2x3s, skinned with luan, and detailed with Foamular foam for a convincing stone-column look. The result is a sturdy, weather-suitable outdoor prop well suited for graveyard-themed yard displays.

Hauntcast· 14,114 views
Zombie Halloween Animatronic & Prop | Distortions Zombies
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Prop Reviews

Zombie Halloween Animatronic & Prop | Distortions Zombies

Distortions Unlimited showcases their lineup of zombie-themed Halloween animatronics and static props, spanning grave busters, shocktronics, frightronics, zombie dogs, crawling figures, standing zombies, and cemetery accessories. The video highlights the range and quality of their products, which are built for durability in professional haunted attractions as well as home yard haunts. Distortions Unlimited is an established name in the dark-attraction industry, having been featured on the Travel Channel series Making Monsters.

DistortionsUnlimited· 13,919 views
Halloween 2019 Graveyard Tour - Monster Tutorials Cemetery Tour
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Yard Haunts

Halloween 2019 Graveyard Tour - Monster Tutorials Cemetery Tour

Monster Tutorials offers a walkthrough tour of his 2019 home Halloween graveyard display, giving viewers an up-close look at how the full cemetery scene came together for the season. The video is framed as a personal showcase for the creator's fan community, known as the PropMob. It serves as both seasonal inspiration and a peek at the scale and style of a dedicated home haunter's outdoor setup.

Monster Tutorials· 13,750 views
Graveyard Ghoul Frightronic Animated Halloween Prop | Distortions Unlimited
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Prop Reviews

Graveyard Ghoul Frightronic Animated Halloween Prop | Distortions Unlimited

Distortions Unlimited showcases the Graveyard Ghoul, a zombie-rising animatronic from their 2020 Frightronics electric prop line. The prop depicts a ghoul emerging from a grave and is designed for use in yard haunts, home haunts, dark attractions, and theme park displays. As part of the Frightronics lineup, it represents the company's focus on durable, USA-made Halloween products with over four decades of manufacturing experience.

DistortionsUnlimited· 13,642 views
Building a Halloween Crypt - Part 3: Fake Brick Walls & Hard Coating
5:00
DIY PropsIntermediatelow–moderate (materials listed are widely available and budget-friendly)

Building a Halloween Crypt - Part 3: Fake Brick Walls & Hard Coating

Part 3 of VanOaksProps' ongoing Halloween crypt build focuses on crafting realistic fake brick panels from foam and attaching them to pre-built wall flats. The episode then walks through applying a brush-on hard coat — Flexbond tile mortar — to protect the finished surfaces for repeated seasonal use. Together these steps transform flat panels into durable, convincing crypt walls. The compact runtime keeps instruction tight and practical.

VanOaksProps· 13,315 views
Super Easy Faux Granite Paint
5:47
DIY PropsBeginnerunder $20

Super Easy Faux Granite Paint

VanOaksProps demonstrates a fast, beginner-friendly technique for achieving a convincing faux granite finish, applied here to create a Halloween grave marker. The method layers multiple FolkArt acrylic colors using spray bottles and a mesh strainer to mimic the speckled texture of real stone. A vinyl stencil cut on a Silhouette Cameo adds crisp lettering or imagery, and a Mod Podge Gloss topcoat ties the finish together. The result is an inexpensive, eye-catching cemetery prop that can be completed in well under an hour.

VanOaksProps· 13,209 views
Building a Halloween Crypt - Part 2: Building Wall Flats
6:29
Set DesignIntermediate

Building a Halloween Crypt - Part 2: Building Wall Flats

In this second installment of VanOaksProps' family crypt build series, the focus shifts to constructing wall flats — the foundational structural panels used to create convincing haunt environments. The tutorial walks through the process of framing and assembling flat wall sections using a pneumatic stapler, wood glue, and a palm router with a flush trim bit. This is a practical, repeatable technique drawn from theatrical set construction and adapted for home haunt use.

VanOaksProps· 13,009 views
HBT1210 Hanging By A Thread PoisonProps.com
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DIY Animatronics

HBT1210 Hanging By A Thread PoisonProps.com

Poison Props showcases the HBT1210 'Hanging By A Thread,' a pneumatic zombie animatronic that simulates a dismembered figure suspended by one chained arm. The prop activates to flex its elbow, lift and turn its head, and swing a free arm toward nearby guests — a classic startle-scare design. It ships as a plug-and-play unit complete with the character, chains, pneumatics, a pre-programmed controller, and a motion sensor. An optional audio package adds a digital player, powered speaker, and scream effects.

POISON PROPS· 12,791 views
I’m Making my Final Tombstone
9:40
DIY PropsBeginner

I’m Making my Final Tombstone

VanOaksProps walks viewers through the art of designing compelling, realistic tombstone epitaphs for DIY Halloween cemetery displays. The tutorial covers choosing carve-friendly fonts, balancing text layout, and incorporating decorative symbols to give each stone a story-driven, authentic feel. Free font resources are shared to help haunters get started quickly. The result is a polished, atmospheric graveyard prop that stands out in any home haunt or yard display.

VanOaksProps· 12,778 views
My Haunted Halloween Yard Display - Halloween 2020
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Yard Haunts

My Haunted Halloween Yard Display - Halloween 2020

Monster Tutorials shares a walkthrough of their evolving Halloween yard display for 2020, highlighting how the setup has grown incrementally each year. The centerpiece this season is a funeral hearse, complemented by custom LED lighting. The creator also teases an upcoming dedicated lighting tutorial for the LED work featured in the display.

Monster Tutorials· 12,538 views
ZOMBIE DOG Halloween Animatronic Prop for Pet Cemetery Haunt
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Prop Reviews

ZOMBIE DOG Halloween Animatronic Prop for Pet Cemetery Haunt

Distortions Unlimited showcases Rotten Rover, their zombie dog animatronic prop from their 2019 Halloween lineup. The fully electric frightronics figure is designed to anchor a pet cemetery scene and suits yard haunts, home haunters, and professional haunted attractions alike. Note that the audio heard in the video may differ from the audio package bundled with the actual prop.

DistortionsUnlimited· 12,478 views
Coffin Extender - Halloween Prop
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DIY Props

Coffin Extender - Halloween Prop

This short Hauntcast video covers a coffin extender Halloween prop, likely demonstrating how a standard coffin prop can be lengthened or modified for haunted attraction use. At just two minutes, it offers a focused look at a specific prop accessory. Hauntcast is a well-known resource in the professional and home haunt community.

Hauntcast· 12,340 views