Halloween Season is here. It’s time to put up decorations and turn your boring, everyday house into a spectacular, seasonal haunted house. Skeletons, gravestones, and giant spiders crawling out of the attic and basement all help create a creepy atmosphere. But if you really want to lift your Halloween spirits, you need to add lights, sounds, and eerie projections.
We are going to show you how your tech devices can deliver more chills and thrills. When you’re done trick-or-treating and the party's over, settle in with scary video games, horror movies, or spooky board games.
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The right lighting creates mystery and tension in scary movies, and it can do the same for your Halloween decor. With a well-placed flashlight or spotlight, a simple card cutout can become a shadowy, outsize silhouette. You can also place lights at the base of your best decorations to enhance the creepy factor.
If you have smart light bulbs, you can dim them and introduce different colors. But you should also check your app. Anyone with smart light strips, bulbs, or the Flow Pro light bars from Govee should keep an eye out for seasonal light effects in the next few weeks. For example, if you have Philips Hue lights, there’s a Halloween scene in Hue Labs that turns your lights purple, green, and orange. The Blood Moon preset scene would also work.
If you want truly spooky lighting effects, I recommend springing for the HueDynamic app (Android or iOS). The app offers animated experiences, which are scenes that emulate events like stormy lightning and candlelight. The Halloween options are even better and include spooky atmospheres, undead pulsing, and even a passing ghost effect.
