Thread: 37th year running!

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Whats up guys! New guy here. I help operate maybe the oldest spookhouse around. This year we have 9 different rooms in our haunt. Yeah, you guessed it, I have one room that a certain guy "took over" and now he's left us hanging without any ideas. The room is about 8' by 8'. It's the first room of the haunt, so that factors in also. We've got 2 diff clown rooms, a living room, a white sheet room (really really crazy) and some other different stuff, but I'm stuck on what to do with this small room. As much as i hate to, i may have to result to a Saw scene, but that's a last resort. We've got some pretty good props on hand (bath tub, refrigerator, operating table ect) but I'm totally stumped. I had thought about a baby room, but that was just brainstorming. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the forum.

Well, what age group do you target?

Will there be actors? Is it guided or just walk through? Can we get pics?


If there's not a greeter outside, it would be a perfect place to have a greeter to welcome guests/explain the rules, etc.

Other simple things for such a small space are spiders or bugs (if you have one of those projectors you can project bugs on the floor), moving walls/floors work well in such a confined space as well.

yes, we have actors. We take pretty much anyone whos willing to come through the door. It's pretty bad, so we tend to knock it back a bit for the younger ones. It's actually the second room, but the first one is our transformation room. It's kind of our trade mark, and we have the lighting and mirrors set up to where you slowly turn a certain light on and switches from one guy to some kind of spook. (I'll tell you more about it if you would like to know) Thats usually where the guide meets up with them and tells some kind of story to set the mood. I can post some pics of the building but im not sure if i have a pic of the particular room downloaded. Most of the rooms have some sort of game involved to get the visitors involved and to take their minds off of the spooking...kind of soften them up a bit before the scare.

here are som pics from two years ago. It will kind of give you an idea of what Im working with






this is the actual room that im working on








this is the transformation room i was telling you about.

the "bath room" room is totally gutted out. Nothing but white sheets hanging as of now.

Dot room? Black walls, lots of florescent dots all over with a black light to make them glow, and someone in there in all black (maybe even dots on the costume so they blend in) and can start moving and really freak people out?

How about a meat locker....lots of hooks, utensils, hanging body parts and of course lots and lots of blood....maybe put a portable AC unit somewhere to make the room cool.

Originally Posted by Frankie's Girl

Dot room? Black walls, lots of florescent dots all over with a black light to make them glow, and someone in there in all black (maybe even dots on the costume so they blend in) and can start moving and really freak people out?

I've been in this room...it is very cool. Made me jump back when the actor moved.

I have witches on my mind this year, so maybe a witch scene, a witches kitchen?.

How about a room full of dead bodies in bags hanging from the ceiling? Then everyone will have to push through them to get out of the room. Have a strobe in the room as well so it's more disorienting.

Wow. That looks so scary. The location of it alone... the desolation.... I don't think I would have the guts to go in.

Best of luck completing it!