Halloween window projection

Graveyard Front Yard

Tombstones, fog and a risen skeleton — the classic front-yard haunt.

Rising bone-cold fog covers the lawn. I did it for $80.

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As the street sees it

The clip plays the house at night first, then the loop that produces it. The projector sits inside the house; nobody on the pavement can see it.

Download the clean loop

Four steps. One evening.

Works in a rental, works on any size window, comes down in five minutes.

01

Hang the fabric

Pin a white sheer curtain or thin sheet across the window, on the inside. Keep it loose — wrinkles break the image.

02

Put the projector behind it

Aim the projector at the back of the fabric from inside the room. Nothing sits between the projector and the window.

03

Kill every other light

The projection competes with every lamp in the room. This step matters more than any projector spec.

04

Play it and go outside

Loop the file fullscreen, then walk to the kerb. If you can read it from there, it works.

The prompt that generated it

Paste this into a text-to-video tool to recreate or remix it at a different scale, speed or colour. 

Decorative Halloween projection animation on a black background: an old cemetery of crooked tombstones half-sunk in drifting fog, skeletal hands reaching up out of the ground and slowly sinking back. High-contrast luminous tones, bold silhouette shapes, clean composition centred in frame, no text, no borders, seamless looping motion.
Write your own instead of buying a loop. No subscription or stock licence needed. Hand this to Claude or ChatGPT, fill the brackets, and paste the result into a video tool: 
Write a text-to-video prompt for a Halloween window projection.
Subject: [WHAT IT IS, e.g. a skeletal pirate crew on a galleon]
Style: pure black background, high-contrast luminous silhouette, bold shapes
Motion: [SIMPLE MOTION, e.g. drifting slowly sideways through low fog]
Framing: centred, wide 16:9, nothing near the edges
Exclude: no text, no watermarks, no borders, no camera shake
Loop: the first and last frames must match so it repeats seamlessly
Give me the finished prompt only, ready to paste into a video tool.

One subject per clip — crowded scenes turn to mush through a curtain.

What this build uses

Projector, screen surface, and the atmosphere items that make the street stop walking. Brightness matters more than resolution once a porch light is on.

JOYIN 17" Foam RIP Graveyard Tombstones (5 Pack) with 12 Metal Stakes
5 foam headstones, 17in, 12 metal stakes, cemetery/lawn decor
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Halloween Outdoor Graveyard Tombstones 6ct Flat Yard Signs with Stakes
6 large 17in flat (NOT foam) waterproof gravestone signs + stakes
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6ct Large Tombstone Halloween Decor Yard Signs with Stakes
6 tombstones + 14 stakes; 4 at 16.5in, 2 at 15.6in
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AGPTEK Fog Machine, 400W 2000CFM with RGB LED + wireless/wired remote
400W smoke machine, RGB light effect, 2-3m fog throw, preheat indicator
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Low Lying Fog Machine 1200W Water Based Ground Fogger with Wireless Remote + DMX
1200W ground-hugging fog (no dry ice), remote/DMX, stays below knee height
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L LOHAS LED Halloween Purple Outdoor Lights, Dusk to Dawn
purple LED with photocell sensor, outdoor rated
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CREPOW Halloween Green LED Spot Lights Outdoor, 14 LED Landscape
green LED landscape spot light for uplighting tombstones
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AOGU Halloween Realistic Skeleton Stakes Outdoor
skeleton yard stakes for emerging-from-grave effect
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Questions about this build

Short answers on the projection, the loop, and doing it yourself.

What is the Graveyard Front Yard window projection?

Tombstones, fog and a risen skeleton — the classic front-yard haunt. It is a looping video you play through a projector aimed at a sheer curtain from inside the house, so the image shows through to the street.

Is the Graveyard Front Yard loop free to download?

Yes. The download button on this page gives you the clean looping MP4, free for your own display.

What projector do I need for this?

Brightness matters more than resolution here, because the projection competes with porch lights. The list below covers a budget tier and a higher-brightness tier — either works for a window.

Can I make this myself with AI instead of downloading it?

Yes. The prompt used to generate this loop is printed on this page, along with a reusable template you can hand to Claude or ChatGPT and then paste into a text-to-video tool.

How long does the setup take?

About an evening. Hang the fabric, aim the projector from inside, kill the room lights, then check it from the street. Four steps, no tools, nothing mounted outdoors.