Every October, neighbors already know that these Halloween-decorated facades will be spectacular.
If you’re more of a Day of the Dead person, don’t miss the most amazing ofrendas of the season.
It’s true that you’ll have to go out of town to enjoy them, but we promise you that the trip will be worth it.
If you’re already looking for your costume this year, we hope you find a very creepy one.
Decorated Halloween facades in Naucalpan, Edomex
The first of our proposals in Naucalpan is located at 📍 Avenida de Ailes, Jardines de San Mateo. They put so many lights on it, you’ll recognize it from miles away.
We discovered it in 2023, when they paid homage to Stranger Things. In one corner they put the entrance to the upside down, as well as the alphabet with lights used by Joyce to communicate with Will on a wall, or a creepy Vecna hanging between two trees.
Special mention for the body (😰) of Max suspended in the air above the terrace… wow, they even had Kate Bush’ s “Running Up That Hill” as the mood music! It was insane.
Last year, they were inspired by The Nightmare before Christmas (or Jack’s Strange World), which, as you can see in our video, also looked great:
Closer to CDMX, in the Pastores neighborhood, there is another spectacular facade that last year set the bar very high. The decoration included minisets with legendary scenes from The Exorcist, Friday the 13th, The Shining, or A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The most surprising thing was to see Freddy Krueger, Jason or Regan MacNeil move and make sounds.
You can find it at 📍 colonia Colón Echegaray and they usually finish decorating it on October 31st, a day that last year they even distributed popcorn among the people who attended.
It is already a tradition among the locals, although people from other places know that it is worth a visit.
In 2023 they dedicated their façade to Jurassic Park and even had a giant pterodactyl suspended in the air. Another year, we also saw one dedicated to Ghostbusters, with huge scale figures of the Empire State Building, the Chrysler and other famous New York skyscrapers.
In both cases, the best thing to do is to take a tour during the last days of October, starting on the 27th, when the facades are already complete.