The Halloween home in Yardley attracting queues of hundreds

As the sun sets on Hob Moor Road in Yardley, the monsters, skeletons, vampires and werewolves have woken up and a long queue has started to form.

Thrill seekers are all here to see Darren Mackenzie and Karen Pearce’s semi-detached home, which has been transformed into a Halloween haunted house.

Karen said it all started at last October when her partner, Darren, decorated the outside of their house, and “it’s gone crazy ever since”.

This year, the attraction fills their front driveway, garage, downstairs toilet and entire garden with dozens of spooky animatronics, decorations and live volunteer actors.

One of those is family friend, Mark Rotherham, who was dressed as Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street.

He said: “Darren asked if I’d come along, and I said ‘course I will!'”

Mark added most people think he is a statue and when they pose for a photograph, he comes alive and scares them.

“They want to be scared, but they don’t want to be petrified, so after I’ve scared them, I give them a fist pump so they leave happy.”