If I were turning a room into a crypt, I would:

- Build a coffin and place on a 30" high box right in the center of the room. I'd paint the box to look like stone.
- Illuminate the room with a single green light shining down on the coffin from directly overhead.
- Drape black fabric from ceiling to floor in two opposite corners. Good hiding spots.
- Put up cobwebs all around the perimeter of the room especially throughout the corners.
- You could put urns on bookcases or tables around the perimeter of the room.
- There are no windows in crypts so if you have any windows or alternate doors in the room cover with black fabric from ceiling to floor. Grey would look good too and could be spray painted to look like stone walls.
- Get a roll of 4' x 50' fake stone wall border from Party Pig or The Party Store and use pushpins to cover the room walls.
- With the coffin in the center of the room, create a pathway for people to walk around the room in an intended direction. You can then hang motion or sound activated spiders and things like that in strategic locations.
- I wouldn't have the coffin do anything. People will expect it to be the focal point when it is really the distraction so you can hit them with scares from some other direction.

Just a couple of thoughts.


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