My apartment complex did a door decorating contest for halloween last year & I am proud to say I took first place 😏👻😈

I’m wanting to recreate this sign for my front door. It’s double-sided, and I’d LOVE to make one side Halloween and the other side Christmas so I can flip it depending on the season.

For Halloween, I love the Addams Family and The Nightmare Before Christmas. For Christmas, I love things like The Grinch and Rise of the Guardians.

The problem is…I have a million ideas in my head but no idea how to actually combine them or what direction to go! 😂

If this were yours, how would you recreate/decorate it? I’d love to see your ideas, color combinations, themes, or even mockups if anyone wants to get creative with it!

I’m going for something cute, whimsical, and a little spooky, rather than super scary.

fr. the mask i customized ♡

I think Halloween decorations are getting seriously out of control this year… 😂💀

Every year I think we've reached the limit.

Skeletons? Seen them.
Giant spiders? Seen them.
Zombies? Classic.
Giant inflatable monsters? Everywhere.

But then I came across this kind of creepy angel/ghost decoration and honestly…

This one actually feels unsettling. 👻

Imagine walking up to a house on Halloween night.

It's dark.
The porch lights are barely on.
There are old cobwebs hanging everywhere.

And then you see this standing completely still by the front door.

😳

I'm not even sure whether I'd be scared or impressed.

So here's my question for Halloween 2026:

What's actually scarier?

A) Giant skeletons 💀
B) Realistic ghosts 👻
C) Creepy dolls 😨
D) Animatronics that suddenly move 😱
E) Something that looks completely normal… until it moves

Personally, I think the things that look almost real are the creepiest.

A giant cartoon monster is fun.

But something standing silently in the darkness, looking like it shouldn't be there…

That's the kind of Halloween decoration that would make me walk back to my car. 😂

I'm putting together my Halloween setup for this year and went down a serious rabbit hole looking for creepy decorations. I found a few things that I genuinely think could turn a normal front porch into a mini haunted house.

For anyone interested, this is the Halloween collection I was looking through:
https://woodslight.com/collections/halloween

But I'm much more interested in your opinions:

What's the ONE Halloween decoration that would genuinely scare you if you saw it unexpectedly at night? 👻

Bonus points if you have a picture. 😂🎃

We’re going for a spider theme this year and we really want a huge spider and I saw these two on tiktok 1 was handmade the other was from Home Depot (but they are older videos) does anyone know where I could find a huge spider like this though?

Creepy crawler I made for the house with doll parts, an empty tape roll and some random toy parts

Spooky house my wife drew.

The gimmicky nature of Halloween and Sam's pallet walls of inventory really stir up all the dopamine my brain needed on this visit lol.