Spooky home is ready for TV

A husband-and-wife decorating duo hope to claim the top prize with their haunted-house design in a reality-show special set to air on ABC on Tuesday.

Glendale residents Jeana and Chris Leslie have been decorating their house for Halloween for six years, and this time around, they channeled shows such as “Scooby Doo” and “The Addams Family” for their classic spooky look. They’ll pit their project against five others vying for $50,000 on “The Great Halloween Fright Fight.”

The “haunted house” is actually a façade the Leslies built in front of their home near Bette Davis Park. Jeana Leslie said with the growing popularity of the zombie genre in recent years, the inspiration came to do something a little more traditional.

“We really wanted to go back to the heart of old-school Hollywood and old ghost stories,” she said.

And the closer one steps toward the haunted house, the more frightful the experience becomes.

“There’s motion sensors so if a kid walks by, certain stuff is going to move and certain scares are going to happen,” Jeana Leslie said.

She and her husband are freelance set decorators by profession and manage a YouTube channel where they post do-it-yourself videos.

Those clips led the TV special’s producers to contact them about being on the show, Chris Leslie said.

Giving their home a Halloween makeover has gradually grown into a neighborhood tradition over the years.

It started with transforming their front lawn into a makeshift graveyard to the more recent intricate haunted-house designs. The goal was never to outshine any nearby residents, but to motivate neighbors to celebrate the fall holiday, the couple said.

“We really encourage everybody to get involved,” Chris Leslie said.

And while the decorations are up, one of the coffins on the lawn serves as a food drop-off bin benefiting the Burbank Temporary Aid Center, Jeana Leslie said.

The one-hour “The Great Halloween Fright Fight” special will air from 8 to 9 p.m. Tuesday on ABC.