When Hinges Creak

When Hinges Creak Your Haunted Hardware Store. We make hundreds of resin cast decor pieces for haunted houses, theme parks & more. www.whenhingescreak.com

Supplier of Polytek Resins as well as Monster Makers sculpting supplies. Our products are all cast copies of hard-to-find and unusual parts. They are then finished to look right at home in your haunted attraction. We use the highest quality resins with no cheap fillers and our finishes are all done by hand. While not structural (they are purely decorative) we strive to make them as robust as we can, so they will hold up to many years of use and enjoyment. We have scoured the web, garage sales, flea markets, and antique shops to find hardware that we thought was unusual and neat-looking. We will be adding new items all the time, as we find them. We try to find items that are cool-looking and appropriate but that can also be made from our resin while maintaining their strength. We have several products that light up: gauges, electrical panels, vacuum tubes, etc. None utilize real glass but instead a clear resin, so there’s no shatter hazard. All are illuminated with 12-volt DC LEDs and can be run on 9 15-volt DC for safe and efficient use. You can even use a 9-volt battery for several days in a row of operation. LED lights last a long time, 50,000 hours is expected, though many go much longer than that.

09/13/2026

**SOLD!!! **

OOPS BUNDLE READY TO GO! Need some last minute decor to finish out a scene? We’ve got a batch of our non perfect pieces ready to go! 🏚️

💰$140 gets you the whole batch and that includes shipping! First to msg and pay gets the oops bundle

If you need perfect items, we have inventory ready to go AND pouring up orders as they come in!

Let me know what you need.

08/14/2026

Product Spotlight!
INSULATORS

If Alex was a professional wrestler who would he be and why is it Danhausen?

Many pieces that are cast have what’s called a blind back 🙈. Your pour them into a flat mold and the part that is mounted to your sets is “the back” and is never seen by customers.

360 ⭕️ degree casting is a bit different. This is where your item can be viewed at any angle you position it at and it will look finished from, you guessed it, 360 degrees.

One of our 360 degree products are our INSULATORS ⚡️! These are perfect for anything from a mad scientist lab 🧪 to a dystopian electric plant 🚧.

It’s got a several millimeter thick resin skin that is back filled with a lightweight foam. That way it looks like it’s real ceramic but it has the durability 🦾 of resin and the light weight of foam 🫧!

Pop on over to our website (🔗 in bio) and complete your mad scientist rooms today.

08/11/2026

Product Spotlight!
Our (SUPER SCARY) Scissors

Let’s play a game of Clue except it’s Alex in the car that doesn’t run with a plastic pair of shears.

Now. SCISSORS. ✂️
One of our absolute favorite props that we make are our large scissors.

Props are an integral part of any show and the scarier the better 😰! Everyone has a favorite weapon that, on the surface, was never meant to be terrifying and then people like us go their hands on them😈. But whenever you need a piece of “weaponry” or something that needs to look like it can harm someone, it’s always better to have the SAFE version than the unsafe version. 🦺

These are a single cast piece that are completely safe and non functional.
That’s why these are absolutely perfect. They look dangerous and they can be handled safely without the threat to your actors or your patrons.

Pop on over to our website (🔗 in bio) and grab one of the safest weapons around.

08/11/2026

Everyone needs to compliment Alex on his new glasses. Immediately! Tell him he looks great 🫣.

Now let’s talk MOLDS!

Many of the products that we make are the small finishes touches that help make your sets look authentically unnerving 😰. Things like nuts and bolts🔩, gears ⚙️, k***s 🖲️… The list is extensive.

Often times our fixed package amounts are great 📦! You get what you need and you can save any extras you have! But we also know that sometimes you don’t know how many you need except that it will be A WHOLE HECK OF A LOT 🪎 and buying numerous buckets 🪣 of products may be an absolute nightmare. But fear not 😱! We have your solution!

For dozens our resin pour projects we sell the molds as well! You can purchase the mold for the piece that you want and then create hundreds of those pieces for years, as long as you keep the wear and tear to the actual mold itself to a minimum. They are also super very easy to clean with some soap and warm water. You can pour in standard resin, fiber resin, you can even use hot glue. The world is your cracked oyster kid!

Pop on over to our website (🔗 in bio) and look through the various molds we have and find the ones that will make your black eyes twinkle.

08/09/2026

Guess what today is???? It’s shenanigan Sunday!!! Now please enjoy the many entrances of Alex Lohmann.

08/08/2026

Dear person on the other end of the screen,

The world can be a rough place sometimes. We know that and we want to make sure that everyone knows it’s a better place with you in it. It just is. Period. We’re all a little freaky deaky and we got to make sure we stick together.

With love, the Hinges Family.

08/04/2026

Today we are jumping 👣 right in!
Let’s talk about our UV products. 🧑🏼‍🎤👩🏽‍🎤

One of the most effective ways to give your customers a feeling of unease is by using products that make everything feel otherworldly 🛸. If objects or sets appear to have unnatural qualities or unexplained behaviors it helps add to the bizarre feeling of the environments. 😰

A common way to do this is through black light sets and black light reactive products. In specific lighting, this helps to give everything the appearance of an inner glow and helps add to the abnormality of it all. 🤯

UV or ultraviolet products is a perfect way you can add to the uncanny and alien feeling of your shows.

We offer almost all of our parts with a UV version. This is an additive that we apply into the resin that we pour that will ensure that these pieces will always have a reactive component that will never fade with age or wear and tear.

Pop over to our website (🔗 in bio) fulfill all your UV needs.

08/02/2026

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT!!!
The Embalming Machine

Now taking donations to upgrade Alex’s Darth mask to look a ✨bit✨ more…functional? 👀

The product of the day is our Embalming machine. This is what we like to refer to as a 3️⃣6️⃣0️⃣ degree product. You can position this in any direction you choose and it’s finished to, you guessed it, a 360 degree view.

Made in durable polyurethane resin and finished in either clean and unused or our used and abused grime you see here. It’s one solid piece including the reservoir at the top. And the neat thing about the top is that it comes with an option to add a bubbler 🫧 that runs on our standard 12V.

Now you may be thinking, “gee, that 🩸 looks pink.” That’s because it’s not 🩸! Functional embalming machines are filled with index fluid that is used in their daily functions that would actually stain the machine in this exact color, giving our machine an extra degree of authenticity.

If you’ve never been around one of these bad babies in action they are 😷 disgusting in all the wrong ways and have a truly terrifying odor 🤢. Ours is made of non-contaminated materials that are safe for your show and pose no health concerns to your patrons or staff.

What else could you possible need? 🧐

Pop over to our website (🔗 in bio) and grab yourself the holy grail of props in any medical or embalming scene.

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Waxahachie, TX
75165

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