Halloween Eyeball Doorbell Decoration with Horror Sound and Green Glow

A shield-shaped plaque about the size of a paperback, hung beside the front door, with a single eye set into the middle of it and a button underneath. The eye stays shut until somebody presses that button.

No wiring. No chime box indoors. Nobody crouched in the hall waiting to jump out. One press and it does the whole job on its own.

Everything else you hang up in October just sits there

A wreath, a sheet of cobweb, a plastic skull wired to the knocker. You put them up, they look right for about four seconds, and then they do nothing else for the rest of the evening. Whatever reaction you were actually after still has to come from you, standing in the dark hall with the lights off and listening for footsteps on the path.

This one waits instead. It hangs there looking like an old gold-trimmed doorplate with something badly wrong in the middle of it, and it stays completely inert until a hand reaches the button, which is precisely the moment you wanted something to happen.

The eye is shut until it is not

Left alone the socket reads as a plain dark dome, and at a glance it could be a lens, or a boss on some old fitting nobody has taken off the door yet. Then the button goes in and the lid lifts. What is underneath is a whole eyeball, pale and veined, with a yellow iris inside a green saw-tooth ring and a flat black pupil in the center of it, and it lights green, turns in the socket and plays a sound all at once.

It runs on batteries and they are not included, so sort that out before the thirty-first rather than on the night. There is nothing to wire and no cable to hide. It hangs from the wire loop at the top or from the holes in the back, on a door, a door frame, a porch wall or an inside wall in a hallway.

Black or white, and they are not the same plaque

The two are a bigger decision than the dropdown makes them look, because the finish changes as well as the color. Black is the plain one. A flat black face, a thin gold line following the edge, a bright gold ring around the eye and a gold button, so the only thing anybody looks at is the green. Against a dark front door it almost disappears until it goes off.

White is the aged one. The entire face carries a fine crackle finish, black cracks running through white paint and straight across the raised lettering, and the edge and the leaf crest are dark bronze instead of gold. The ring around the eye is black and so is the button. It reads as something prised off a derelict house, and it keeps its shape against a dark door or a stone wall, where the black one would vanish into the background.

Either way it comes down on the first of November and goes back in the same box, because there is nothing in it to burn down, melt or run out.

Specifications

Material: Plastic

Colors: Black with gold-toned trim, or white with a crackle finish and dark bronze trim

Eye: Molded eyeball behind a moving lid. It lights green and turns when the button is pressed

Sound: Plays when the button is pressed

Power: Battery powered, batteries not included

Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.3 x 3 in (18 x 11 x 7.5 cm), height by width by depth

Hanging: Wire loop at the top, and hanging holes in the back

Certification: CE and RoHS

Placement: Indoors or outdoors, on a door, a door frame or a wall

Intended use: Halloween and seasonal decoration

Package Includes

1x Halloween Eyeball Doorbell Decoration