When we used to go trick-or-treating, a badly carved pumpkin and a plastic skeleton from the supermarketwas about as scary as it got. But clearly, we just didn’t live in the rightneighbourhood.

These houses have taken Halloween to the extreme. Sometimes scary, sometimes funny, and always pretty clever, so much effort must have gone into these decorations, it would be a shame not to share them…

1. ‘Here lies Justin Bieber. He’s Dead’

2. Try sleeping with this outside your window.

3. The best chicken-wire ghost we’ve ever seen…

4. Maybe a little bit too realistic.

5. Eight Legged Freaks..

6. Would you be brave enough to go inside…?

7. Where do you even buy something like that?!

8. Killing those Walking Dead

9. The truth is out there.

10. This is ingenious

11. Basically something out of American Horror Story

12. Every child’s worst nightmare.

Do you have any to add to our list?

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