home theater With October 31st on the way, many of us have already started to decorate our homes in a ghostly fashion. At my place the pumpkin is carved, cob webs placed and we are ready for tricks and treats. If we were to stay home on Halloween for trick or treaters I would buy a scary sounds album and crank it over the home theater system. My mom used to do this when she was handing out candy to add something scary for all the little neighborhood kids who came to our door for candy. The home theater is the perfect tool to bringing an extra dimension to a scary night. If the night is clear, moon shining, what could be scarier then the sounds of creaking doors, screams and footsteps over a home theater?

Last night we saw a scary movie in the theaters and just to freak out my roommates when the lights were out while everyone was trying to go to sleep, I crept over to the living room home theater system and played some howling sounds from an old sound effect album I made for high school video production class. They were quick to open their bedroom doors before I jumped out and had them screaming to high heaven.