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Ok, I've hinted towards this on a couple of other threads, but I thought I'd make a proper place for this!

Halloween is almost here and I'm sure many users of this forum will be called upon to provide some sort of spooky magic, be it gross-out, comedy or "serious". I'd like to encourage people to share tricks/effects on this thread that would particularly go down well (also any fire magic for bonfire night...?), giving folk a chance to buy and practice in plenty of time if it's something they'd like to add to their repertoire for the 31st!

I'll start off (and hopefully not exhaust everyone's ideas in one fell swoop!):
Ghost Vision by Andrew Mayne - capture a shadowy figure on someone else's phone!
Voodoo Doll trick (or "Okitodoll") - a (fairly) examinable straw doll rises spookily on your palm
and finally, I reckon SAW by Sean Fields - could be put into some sort of grim story, or on it's own!

Any others? If you've been talking about stuff elsewhere on the forum, feel free to mention it again here, incase people didn't see those other threads.

Have performed a couple of gigs on Halloween in the past performing some spooky (and not so spooky) illusions.

Some of my favourites are :

The WEB. I have had more screams from this effect than any other trick I’ve performed.

Signed Card in heart - a great effect (good if you have a colleague, but can be performed solo) where there chosen card (signed if desired) vanishes, then using a knife you cut out your (or your assistants) heart with their card inside. Very gory, very messy and very effective.

Needle Thru Arm can be fun - especially if you are confident enough to let a spectator touch the needle when its through your skin…

STIGMATA can be adapted to get a great reaction too.

For a few ideas, I recommend “Shock FX” by Andrew Mayne. Some of them are more practical than others, but is certainly worth a watch.


Mark

how about weeja from black hart, you could use a peak device and scare the devil out of them.
how about some freaky tricks like chewing broken glass and thins like that. i use banacheks pen effect where it . falls on its own as a ghost story, and sniff out shivers book as plenty of ideas in that using IT, hapy halloween to all

I havn't got an okito doll [but i do have a little voodoo doll, wander if i could do something with this?]

I think that the haunted key would be a great effect for halloween! You could tlak of the spirits trying to unlock the door to freedom. That with the door locked they cannot access their full powers but when the door is opened, all havoc breaks loose.

I'm wandering what to do after the spirits have opened the door though. I suppose you could then go into ghost vision or you could maybe give the spec an electric shock or get friend to flicker the lights and run. lol

Any tips for what to dafter the haunted key?

hmmmmm how about the golden key where you move the teeth of the key around or do a living and dead test

living and dead test?

i don't think that i'll be able to buy any new stuff i ntime for halloween. i think I'm just going round a friends house with some other mates and watching like as many horror films as possible. Lol

There is a simple living or dead test in 13 steps to mentalisim.
Well i got two things on the way from The Black Hart. Cognition and Name in the flame. But you can do verious effects with a deck wraped in silk rather then in the card case and you can give it some about the tarot and gypsys etc. Use a ghost deck for added omph.

What i would do is the old card through the silk
using a ghostly presntation.
A four ace assmbley except the aces are spirit cards.
Haunted key
Name in the flame by the black hart.
Close to death by the black hart.

Just added thought any Pk type effect or a small mentalsim thing. Build up the atmosphere.

A book test using the Necromincon, that would be good for the time of year.

Somewhere I saw a Crowley deck too.

Delude, a great way to finish the haunted key effect if going for the whole spooky theme would be to make it vanish!

Raven

Im getting dressed up as Santa Claus and going to a halloween party in a rock club in Wolverhampton! So im thinking Ghost deck, a few Ghost Gaffs, and altering my presentation slightly to giv everything a spooky feel to it!

Im sure if given the right presentation, Deep Astonishment could creep some people out!

not really a magic trick but a good fun little thing to do during a trick is to try and build up the tension and make them a bit nervous, and just suddenly just shout at them to make them jump. its a hillarious thing to do in front of a group of people and i think magic is perfectly designed to do this, with the tension it naturally creates during the trick

if you have a pk ring, i found i can hold-out quite a large old key...

then you simply hold some tissue paper out as you make the key appear bit by bit, and because of the semi-transparent quality of the tissue paper, people can see a key slowly appear...

then you can go into your haunted key storyline...

How about banacheks Psychokinetic Touches but then combine that with Ghost Vision.
So not only is you volunteer touched by a spirit but then you are able to photograph the ghost that touched them. Just an idea

ah...i posted that a little while ago in one of the secret areas...

a ghostvision/pk touches combo...so...

SNAP!

AAAAHHHHH but did you think of doing it wearing a tutu with a shrew down the tights?